Iowa unemployment falls to 4.8 percent in September
Iowa Job Service reports a 4.8 percent unemployment rate for September with 69 200 jobless workers, down from August but up 32 500 from September 1979. Employment rose 16 000 to 1 386 700, yet remains over 50 000 below year-ago levels amid broader industry declines and seasonal shifts.
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ERA rally planned in Cedar Rapids by local supporters
TEE ERA backers including Roxanne Conlin U S district attorney Robin Gilmore and Charles Gifford will attend a pro ERA rally at Greene Square Park Cedar Rapids Saturday at 10 a m The event is part of the ERA Bandwagon urging Iowans to ratify the amendment before Tuesday Conlin will spend the day promoting the ERA with lunches and talks at Cornell College Mount Vernon Jane Boyd Community House Meth-Wick Manor and Edgewood Manor Then a champagne reception is planned at the Clancey home Additional remarks target misinformation about marriage licenses tied to a 1975 Boulder County Colorado case cited by opponents Monica McFadden said the claim is misrepresented by LaPorte with a 1975 Colorado legal opinion upheld by courts
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Des Moines
Robin Gilmore
Charles Gifford
United Auto Workers
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Mount Vernon
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Meth-Wick Manor
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Iowa Era Coalition
Grassley says he would have turned the other cheek
In Des Moines Republican Charles Grassley argued he might have turned the other cheek if faced with an irate heckler during a campaign stop. He commented after an incident at the University of Northern Iowa where independent Garry DeYoung was ejected for grabbing a professor introducing Culver.
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Des Moines
Charles Grassley
Grassley
John Culver
University of Northern Iowa
Garry DeYoung
Culver
de Young
Leach urges reconsideration of Iowa 218 route for nuclear waste
Rep. Jim Leach of Iowa asks the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to reroute nuclear waste shipments away from U S Highway 218 between Iowa City and Coralville. He warns the road has six bridges below average, two with low load limits for such cargo, and is curvy and narrow.
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Jim Leach
Iowa
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
U.S
Washington
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