Should Linn County jail cells get phones
Linn County officials debate equipping new jail cellblocks with telephones. Sheriff's personnel say current jail cells already have phones due to a lawsuit, but this is contested. Church head visits Oelwein dedicates RS church. President Wallace Smith, Independence Missouri, great-grandson of the church founder, leads the ceremony. Collections of local metro briefs follow.
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Oelwein
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Wallace Smith
Independence
Cafe de Klos
Second Ave
Moe Richardson
Metro
Senators clash over King holiday vote
Iowa senators Grassley and Jepsen kept a low profile as emotional debate on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday unfolded. both ultimately voted against the holiday amid conservative pressure.
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Iowa
Charles Grassley
Roger Jepsen
Volkswagen and GM recall about two million cars
Volkswagen will fix about 1.5 million cars across several nameplates while General Motors recalls around 500 thousand cars of multiple makes. The notices appear on money and farm pages with brief summaries of the actions.
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Volkswagen
General Motors
Judge in Wheelchair Shoots Judge and Lawyer in Chicago Court
A former police officer in a wheelchair shot and killed Cook County Circuit Judge Henry Gentile and the ex-wife’s attorney Jim Piszczer during a property division hearing at the Daley Center in Chicago. Hutchie Moore, 55, was arrested at the scene after witnesses described the rapid gunfire and ensuing chaos.
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Hutchie Moore
Chicago
Gazette Wire Services
Robert Casey
Moore
Cook County
Henry Gentile
Jim Piszczer
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Daley Center
Loop
Jay Schroeder
Dorothy Moore
Jerome Anderson
Michael
Paula Darcy
Michael Moore
NAACP Official Questions North Racism Rise
NAACP religious affairs director Rev. Julius C. Hope says Northern whites now resemble Southern racists of old though subtler. He urges Black voters to organize in Cedar Rapids and notes Black spending of 150 to 200 billion annually. He discusses Reagan records, Jesse Jackson, and MLK Day as unifying progress.
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Mary Burke Azette
North
South
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Julius C. Hope
NAACP
Hope
New Grace Missionary Baptist Church
Detroit
Cedar Rapids
Freedom Fund
Stouffer
Five Seasons Hotel
Mississippi
Gazette
Stouffer's
Sun Belt
Alabama
Georgia
Ronald Reagan
Association
Reagan
Jesse Jackson
King
Reason
Correction adds dates to Iowa campus music events
The Gazette notes corrections to two Friday reports on campus concerts. Violinist Don Haines will join the Hawkeye marching band for the Iowa Indiana game on Oct. 29. The Old Gold Singers perform Friday and Saturday Oct. 28 and 29 at 8 p.m. in Clapp Recital Hall.
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Gazette
University of Iowa
Don Haines
Hawkeye
Old Gold Singers
Clapp Recital Hall
TV News Overhaul Aims to Boost Late-Night Ratings
KGAN-TV Cedar Rapids enacts a extended investigative style for 10 p.m. news with three to four minute in depth social and topical reports plus a new title Two Action News Iowa Tonight and expanded staff. KCRG-TV updates sets and scheduling ahead of Nielsen-Arbitron ratings survey running Nov 3 to 30. KWWL leads Eastern Iowa while KGAN and KCRG trail.
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Craig Maurer
Alan Oldfield
KGAN
CBS
Cedar Rapids
Action News
Iowa
Oldfield
KCRG
Doug Krile
Nielsen Station Index and Arbitron Ratings Bureau
Kwwl-Tv
NBC
Waterloo
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