25 Sep 1977
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1977
Page
1
The Gazette surveys ten judges in Iowa's Sixth District, exploring how backgrounds, temperaments, and philosophies influence sentencing and decisions. Lawyers rating professional competence accompany judge interviews as debates on retention vs appointment echo public accountability. Please Turn to Page 10.
City final in Eastern Iowa reports top local news with emphasis on daily events and community updates. Readers see concise headlines and briefs covering civic matters, markets, weather, and notable happenings across the region.
President Carter warned he would veto the energy bill if it hurts the public as he denounced big oil for trying to push at least twenty billion dollars in extra natural gas costs. He endorsed Henry Howell at a Norfolk rally and urged keeping big business in check amid Washington concerns. Senate moves to scale deregulation costs by making industries bear more, while a final vote was delayed. Byrd called for a middle ground, signaling possible compromise on price controls and deregulation.
Gwen Gillick of 1027 Tenth Street NW discovered her edible giant bean seeds grew unusually large after spring planting. The beans overtook a fence following August hail storms, with one 53 inch specimen left to mature on the vine while others became tough and hard to cut.
A reader guide outlines Crime and Justice Part III on Page 1B asking if organized crime is now an American way of life and whether it operates in Iowa. It notes a Civil War attic discovery about nine Spring Grove soldiers from Troy Mills who died in 1861s Pea Ridge campaign and a later piece on small business success and failure on pages 1F and 3F. Weather calls for highs in the mid to upper 70s.
CIA operatives conducted social drinking research across the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. Subproject 63 of the MKULTRA program used bartenders, portable devices, and bugged venues to observe why people drink and how drunken behavior forms. Documents totaling 2,532 pages, released Friday, reveal a vast, decades-long effort starting in 1956.
The Senate Human Resources Committee prepares to answer business and academic employer complaints as it weighs a House passed bill to raise the mandatory retirement age from 65 to 70 for private employers with 20 or more workers. It would end mandatory retirement for federal workers and allow exemptions after a 90 day study period with possible labor secretary waivers.
Brake failure sent a gasoline tank truck down a hill into Beattyville main street. The 8200 gallon cargo exploded, destroying businesses and killing at least six people with one more missing. The driver William E. Wilson survived and said brakes failed earlier. Eight thousand two hundred gallons of gasoline spread fire as emergency crews searched rubble through the night.
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