06 Apr 1987
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1987
Page
1
Feature on how toy industry firms push real product innovation despite the lure of screen related trends. Profiles executives and designers, highlighting strategies to balance entertainment value with educational play. Notes market shifts, consumer demand, and emerging lines aimed at lasting kid engagement.
Tax season reveals personality types with researchers noting some taxpayers push every law, while others are tax wimps. Oral Roberts says he felt death during prayer while seeking 8.7 million for a scholarship fund. A New Orleans suit seeks donations return and federal limits on evangelism. Branstad reshapes Board of Regents to spur state economic goals. Garagiola and Scully return as NBC’s top broadcast team. an interstate bridge collapsed blocking traffic.
A wry one liner defines civilization as the condition where one generation shoulders the debts of the last by issuing bonds for the next generation to pay.
Julie Joan Vosmek, 20, was killed by stabbing in her Linn County apartment. John Le Grand, 23, of Robins, is charged with first degree murder and held in Linn County Jail. An arraignment is set as police complete autopsy findings.
Pipeline officials hoped to extinguish a giant vapor fire at a 350000 barrel underground storage cavern near Iowa City using a nitrogen suppressant after a weekend blast. About 130000 barrels of ethane propane mix were at risk. evacuations were lifted as authorities monitored pressure in remaining domes and warned the fire could flare if containment failed.
Iowa lawmakers face a possibly prolonged session as House Speaker Donald Avenson warns there may be six weeks left after May begin due to heavy work remaining. The Senate negotiates with Gov Branstad over appointments and tax reform while budgets and major packages, including teacher pay, groundwater cleanup, and IRC updates, need digesting before adjournment.
A consolidated summary of Iowa policy items shows income tax coupling under study, plus a $97.5 million teacher pay plan with $18,000 minimum salaries and $3,000 raises on average. Groundwater cleanup funds, a $2.4 billion state budget, and a 4 cent gas tax hike seek approval. Branstad cigarette tax proposal and Regents bonding face division, while lottery profits fund economic development as the House advances its Iowa Plan version.
Nellie Obendorf 65 and Orville 70 of Nampa Idaho endured 13 days trapped in their car amid six foot drifts six miles west of Norton Kansas. A Kansas National Guard helicopter search and hay drops aided by a farmer Gayle Schultz ended the peril. They survived with cookies blankets prayers and a Good Housekeeping magazine.
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