07 Sep 1979
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1979
Page
1
August brought a 6.0 percent unemployment rate the highest since mid-1978 with 300 000 jobs lost pushing total employment down. wholesale prices rose 1.2 percent driven by energy and food costs signaling further inflation pressure into 1980.
The Iowa State Bar Ethics Committee and attorney John Randall Sr. discuss Randall’s disbarment case pending before the Iowa Supreme Court. Also noted is an airplane found at Marion Airport, believed tied to a drug operation, with weather and insect season remarks peppering the page.
A light column catches up an old friend on events across the nation and world from summer. The writer's familiar tone links personal anecdotes with notable developments, offering a breezy travel through recent headlines and longtime perspectives.
The Gazette reports large fishing activity at Hannen Lake with fish hauled in by the wash tubs and enough remaining to fill a dump truck. The piece notes the Cedar Rapids Salem United Methodist Church will mark its centennial in October and reflects on long name and denomination history.
President Carter announced a $33 billion deployment of 200 MX mobile missiles on protected racetrack courses in Utah and Nevada. The plan aims for survivable, verifiable, affordable deployment with 23 buried shelters per racetrack and transporters weighing 700 000 pounds.
Kurdish nationalists hijack an Alitalia DC-8 from Tehran to Rome with 186 aboard. They divert to Cuba for a non aligned nations conference, land in Rome for fuel, release 141 passengers, and remain under negotiations with Italian officials. authorities report no injuries.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette won first in general excellence for newspapers over 12,000 in circulation and earned second in sports and third in editorials. LeMars Daily Sentinel captured the under 12,000 prize and a community service award for its substance abuse series.
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