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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1982
Page
3
Tourists to the Amana Colonies will be greeted by new enterprises unregulated by the Amana Society. The update appears in Metro-lowa on page 19A as part of the year’s local business developments.
Brainy students at Linn-Mar Junior High show a hot streak in creative thinking. School officials may run out of room as future problem solving teams propose solutions to a growing trophy case, with the students themselves ready to tackle the dilemma.
Robert N. Parker, 60, stands trial in Rockford for 157 counts of felony theft alleging he stole over 600000 from the University of Illinois. He admits theft and claims insanity as defense while prosecutors present testimony of lavish gifts and sexual favors as part of a fantasy lifestyle.
A 10 year old girl Rhonda Horton survived 10 hours clinging to a hull as winds of 40 mph sank her family one by one near Hood Canal Washington. Sheriff deputies and Coast Guard recovered the bodies of Carroll Horton Sheldon and Donald Simpson while Rhonda was treated in Shelton hospital.
United Auto Workers Local 75 ratified a contract proposal in Milwaukee with 89 percent backing among about 400 voters. The plan allocates roughly 150 million dollars to AMC's product development fund, repayable with 10 percent annual interest starting 1985, while pay is frozen.
Mary Stevens, 28, of Winona, who had been comatose since November, died Friday night at Methodist Hospital Rochester. Her baby son Adam, delivered by Caesarean section on March 27 at four months gestation, survives. Tests are underway to determine the cause of death and what caused the coma. Mrs Stevens collapsed on November 7 while talking on the phone.
The AP reports Wisconsin Governor Lee S. Dreyfus and four other Midwest Republicans will not seek re election. Democrats say Reaganomics fuels the retirements while GOP leaders urge caution. Iowa Governor Robert Ray Michigan’s William Milliken and Ohio’s James Rhodes also step down after long terms. Unemployment rates cited and Minnesota’s Quie faces trouble after tax cuts.
Vice President George Bush warned of grave concern if China downgrades ties but said U.S.-China relations are fundamental and not broken. He noted Beijing invited him to visit and that a trip would be logistics driven, while noting China’s arms sales objections do not endanger a major rift.
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