29 Apr 1988
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1988
Page
1
Steven R. Hadley is charged with stealing 1.1 million from a Waterloo credit union in 1983. His second wife, who says she is 100 percent behind him, will accompany him to the Texas courtroom for his arraignment.
A light humor item notes a writer’s block as a burdensome object perched on a writer’s shoulders. The caption plays on the familiar phrase while riffing on creative struggle and comic gadgets.
An explosion tore open a Boeing 737 as it neared Kahului Hawaii injuring at least 59. The jet with 89 passengers and five crew made an emergency landing at Kahului Airport. One person reportedly sucked out and missing. authorities and FAA probe possible bomb link.
Iowa employers ramp up for spring boosting payrolls to a March record of 1,365,800 employed. Unemployment dips from 6.6 to 5.7 percent statewide, Linn County also improves, with first-quarter average at 6.4 percent the lowest since 1980.
A car tore through a playground at Cyrus H. McCormick Elementary in Chicago, killing a 4 year old girl and a woman and injuring eight others. Witnesses say the vehicle, owned by Reuben Fuentes’ family, plowed through a fence and into a crowd before the driver Isabel Fuentes left the scene.
The American Red Cross will begin testing donated blood for HTLV-1 after FDA antibody tests are licensed. A new study estimates about 0.025 percent of donors carry the virus, translating to roughly 2,800 potential carriers among 4 million yearly transfusions. Risk per unit is about 1 in 4,286, though shifts with large transfusion volumes.
Armstrong's Department Store in Cedar Rapids will undergo more than 3 million dollars of renovation in four phases from now to fall 1990. Phase one on the lower floor costs about 750 thousand and rebuilding begins Monday, with the restaurant kept intact.
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