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16 Apr 1988
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Cedar Rapids Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1988
Page
1
Iowa boy's plea for quarters nets $1,000
Ten year old Tony Brack from Oxford raised about $1,000 in two weeks by appealing to readers in New York and across the United States to send quarters for his medical school education. He plans to cure diabetes that afflicted his grandmother and worries his grandfather.
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Oxford
United States
West Germany
Tony
New York Daily News
Dianna
Associated Press
First big dose of inflation hits wholesale prices
The Labor Department reports a 0.6 percent rise in the producer price index for March, the largest monthly increase since April 1987, lifting the annual inflation rate to about seven percent. Energy and food costs climbed, impacting markets already troubled by the trade deficit.
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Washington
U.S
Labor Department
Health care costs may triple by 2000
A 1966 Iowa per capita health expenditure was 196 dollars rising to 1877 today. The Iowa Health Data Commission projects 1990 at 2206 and 2000 national health spending over 1.5 trillion, 15 percent of GNP. Four cost factors are general inflation, medical charges, population, and another factor.
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Iowa Health Data Commission
Four Teens Stabbed to Death in San Antonio Home
A former boyfriend, Leo Narvaiz, 20, was charged with four counts of capital murder after four siblings Shannon Mann 17, Jennifer 19, Martha 14, and Ernest 13 were found fatally stabbed in their mobile home. Narvaiz, wounded, was jailed on $4.05 million bail while police investigate whether one or more assailants were involved.
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Robert Grego
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Gazette wins four first place awards at Iowa convention
The Gazette in Des Moines earned four first place honors from the Iowa Newspaper Association including general excellence and community service. Awards recognized Best Page One and Education Coverage as well as the transplant and literacy projects that boosted statewide organ donation awareness. Publisher Joe Hladky III was named Master Editor Publisher during the convention.
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Lyon County
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