Iowans Press Carter for Taft-Hartley Halt on Longshore Strike
Iowa congressmen urge President Carter to invoke Taft-Hartley to pause the New Orleans longshoremen strike for 80 days to protect grain shipments. The measure, signed by Reps Harkin Blouin Leach Grassley, cites 1000 barges waiting and 1200 en route stalled upstream, risking farm prices and export markets.
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James Leach
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Charles Grassley
White House
Heating delays leave Cedar Rapids police cold in December
The Cedar Rapids police department faces delays as the new heating system is not expected until December 15. Engineers cite delivery issues for boilers burners and heating elements from Chandler Co Des Moines Winfield Kan and Trane Co. Bowker and Sons won the bid for a combined heating and cooling system at 93938. An earlier coastal storm in 1943 killed 46 people in northern California and the Pacific Northwest.
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TV judge Voltaire Perkins dies at 80 in Los Angeles
Los Angeles AP reports Voltaire Perkins a lawyer known for portraying a judge on Divorce Court died Monday at age 80. He was a familiar face on the long running courtroom series and remained a prominent legal figure in television.
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Cedar Rapids Gazette subscription rates and details
The Cedar Rapids Gazette, established 1883, lists pricing for carrier and mail subscriptions, including 1.15 per week by carrier, 5.17 per week by mail, and longer terms with 52 week rates. It states no mail subscriptions in areas served by Gazette carriers and notes AP rights for local news and dispatches.
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Overweight officers face suspensions in Iowa
DES MOINES AP The State Fire Marshal and several Iowa Highway Patrol members face three day suspensions without pay for being overweight. Deputy Public Safety Commissioner Robert Holtz said 33 were notified, 23 filed appeals, and 10 let the deadline pass. Fire Marshal Wilbur Johnson weighs 234 pounds at 6 foot 2, now 224. Capt. Lyle Dickinson at 6 foot 4 weighed 249 to 250. Jerry Felhafer, Cedar Rapids trooper, among those threatened, rescued a driver from a burning car Monday.
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Dyersville Public Hearing Deliberates Freeway Route
About 100 residents spoke Tuesday at an Iowa Department of Transportation hearing in Dyersville urging Interstate 520 to bypass the town to avoid dividing it and reducing traffic. IDOT pledged to consider public wishes as construction aims for 1982 or 1983 completion. 20 years ago Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visited Ottawa as monarchs.
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Trumbo script Ishi to be NBC three hour movie
NBC plans a three hour presentation of the Trumbo script Ishi about North America’s last wild Indian. Academy Award winner Dalton Trumbo wrote the first two hours before his death last year and the play was finished by his son.
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Ishi
North America
NBC
Dalton Trumbo
Simpson College student named to college choir
The Gazette corrects an earlier listing: Gary Goodlove of rural Palo was misnamed. The student named to the college choir is Jeffery, son of Gary Goodlove.
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Simpson College
Gary Goodlove
Palo
Jeffery
Union activity cited in Keegan suit against University of Iowa
Joseph Dean Keegan appeals to the Iowa Supreme Court after a Johnson County magistrate denied his Small Claims Court suit alleging job denial due to labor union activity. He seeks 999 dollars in damages and marks the first Johnson County appeal of this type.
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Iowa City
Joseph Dean Keegan
State Supreme Court
University of Iowa
Keegan
Johnson County
Births and marriages listed in vital statistics
Birth announcements from Mercy and St. Luke's hospitals list several newborns, with out of town births noted in Tulsa. A series of marriage licenses are recorded for Cedar Rapids and nearby towns, followed by dissolutions and a 20 years ago note on Eisenhower era satellite pressures.
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