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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1978
Page
2
President Carter urged 13 farm and food processing leaders to back a compromise natural gas bill. He warned defeat would harm the nation and cited the sector’s reliance on gas, noting peanut farmers and cotton ginners in Georgia use it heavily. The session followed similar White House appeals to other groups.
In Washington the Postal Service and unions began 15 days of talks with mediator James J. Healy as the parties seek to avert a nationwide mail strike. The effort comes as Carter proposes a 5.5 percent pay raise cap for federal workers. Hurricane Ella threatens the Outer Banks with a watch issued for the North Carolina coast. Prime Minister Begin says Israel would consider a mutual defense pact but rejects foreign troops on the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The Washington Post reports federal investigators found corruption in 27 of 30 Washington area GSA stores. About 37.6 million dollars a year paid for supplies like pencils and waste baskets, with only about half the value reaching the stores. The stores serve government offices in DC, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
FDA commissioner Donald Kennedy argues a rapid ban on nitrite is unwise because it protects against botulism in processed meats like hot dogs and bacon. He says alternative methods exist but gradual adoption is needed while emphasizing botulism risk.
Energy Department spokesman Bill Webb says an internal draft memo forecasting a possible gasoline shortage in 1980 was not intentionally kept from the public. He notes the projection existed in a staff draft of the Economic Regulatory Administration and was not signed by the administrator. The department’s official 1980 outlook remains incomplete.
Thomas E F McNamara 42 of Ashland NH, a former Plymouth State College curator and Frost expert, pleaded guilty to mail fraud over forged holographs and manuscripts attributed to eight poets including Millay Nash Whitman. He was sentenced to one year in federal prison by Judge Hugh Bownes. Some forged items sold for as much as 800 dollars.
U.S. Rep. Leon Panetta says the Federal Elections Commission will be asked to rule on the legality of firing union farmworkers who refuse to pay into a United Farm Workers political fund. Panetta spoke on behalf of Cervando Perez of Watsonville, California.
Hollywood AP Kim Basinger takes the role of a small town girl who turns to prostitution for respectability in NBC six hour miniseries From Here to Eternity. Donna Reed won best supporting actress in 1953. Basinger finished The Beauty Dream and was a regular on Dog and Cat.
Highs in the low eighties and lows in the fifties to sixties. Overnight precipitation near zero. Winds around 14 mph from the south. Saturday sunrise at 6 33 and sunset at 7 39. River stage readings for LaCrosse Clinton Dubuque and Keokuk show minor rises with several inches. Generally fair and mild through Tuesday.
Kansas City residents see Archie Bunker appear on General Hospital and Another World during a five minute broadcast scramble. Officials cite AT&T transmission fault between Chicago and New York as the source of mixed signals across three network affiliates.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette provides pricing for carrier and mail subscriptions, with afternoon and Sunday editions, 7 issues weekly for May, and annual rates. The paper emphasizes exclusivity of AP news republication and service areas including Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Hollywood AP reports eight guest stars joined the two part adaptation of Howard Fast's The Immigrants. John Saxon Richard Anderson Michele Marsh Kathleen Nolan Aharon Spaie Barry Sullivan Pernell Roberts Ina Balin join the Universal filmed project for Operation Prime.
In Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas, birth announcements list a son for Mr. and Mrs. James McArthur and others including Mr. and Mrs. Michael Woodruff and a daughter for Mr. and Mrs. Michael Morrow with multiple couples named. Also recorded are several police and fire call notes with times from Thursday into today, including a ragin motor compartment crash on 11th Street and C Avenue NW and a gas-related incident at Sixth Street and First Avenue East.
AFL-CIO President George Meany accuses big business of resurrecting a propaganda campaign to destroy unions in pursuit of unlimited profits while the National Association of Manufacturers lauds workers as indispensable to a private enterprise economy.
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