Cedar Rapids considers auxiliary police and safety questions
The Gazette discusses Cedar Rapids potential auxiliary police to assist the regular force. It weighs arming deputies, liability, pension, work comp, medical costs, collective bargaining, appointment methods, and arrest powers. It notes armed or unarmed models, deployment for disasters, and the need for legislative refinement. It ends with a tongue in cheek note about the rock group KISS and a concert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Department of Public Safety
Cedar Rapids
C.R
Letter linking Kiss fans to communism and drugs
A reader accuses Kiss fans and rock music of spreading communism and drugs in America. The missive cites Beatles songs as pro peace with the USSR and references drug imagery in Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and White Rabbit. It denounces free love and indecency as promoted by rock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
KISS
America
U.S.S.R
Soviet Russia
Russia
Phil Ochs
Jefferson Airplane
KISS Fans Targeted Over Satanic Fear and Bible Views
A letter responds to recent criticism of KISS, arguing fans and performers cannot serve both God and Satan. The writer defends the band against claims of satanic influence, cites Romans 3:23 and Romans 10:9, and notes Gene Simmons’ comments about fantasy and makeup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Cooper
God
Satan
KISS
Gene Simmons
What Will Make Teddy Kennedy Say Yes to Ford
An ironic meditation on how time shifts opinions and age changes from revered to needing support, noting political pressures and pension realities as factors shaping stances by leading figures like Teddy Kennedy and Gerald Ford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teddy Kennedy
Gerald Ford
Towering taxflation analysis on rising tax loads
Don Graff argues taxes federal state and local have risen faster than consumer prices. In 1978 taxes rose 13.2 percent vs CPI 7.6 percent, 1968-78 tax take up 155.3 percent while prices rose 87.5 percent. Social insurance taxes surged 249 percent in 10 years and 1978 tax total exceeded the 1963 GDP. Newspaper Enterprise Association.
Veto and the legislative veto in U S government
The piece critiques the legislative veto as a dangerous bypass of presidential power, arguing it undermines the separation of powers. It traces its history from 1933, notes federal and state experiments, and cites recent FTC actions against the American Dental Association as signs of bureaucratic overreach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Senate
Benjamin R. Civiletti
Carter
FTC
American Dental Association
ADA
Dental
What are loins in modern fiction explained
A New York Times Service essay questions the existence and depiction of loins in modern literature. The narrator recalls teaching a child about loins, then realizes he never fully understands them, noting writers avoid the term and instead describe other body parts. He suggests loins may no longer exist as a literary device.
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J. F. Hladky, Jr
Art Heusinkveld
John Donnelly
John Robertson
Linn County
Orlie Workman
Workman
Police
Linn County Special Deputies Association
Five Seasons Center
Knights In Satan
The
Gazette
Chicago
Editorial
Alice
Rod Stewart
Hell
Tim and
Sharon Booker
Mosswood Lane
William Aucoin
Mr. Aucoin
the Gazette
Sammy
Oo Education
Dept. OF Education
Etta Hulme
Carl Riblet Jr
InterOcean Press Syndicate
Don Graff
Industry Week Magazine
Industry Week
Newspaper Enterprise Association
By James J. Kilpatrick
House of Congress
Civiletti
Congress
Executive
Federal Trade Commission
Wisconsin
Universal Press Syndicate
By Russell Baker
Achilles
Hector
Homer
New York Times Service
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