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04 Aug 1988
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Cedar Rapids Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1988
Page
1
Time is Right to Do Business in Iowa Ad Brings Responses
Inside Iowa reports a $260000 advertising supplement in Business NEWS Week promoting Iowa business with nearly 1000 responses since June 6. Page 2A. Cornell College Mount Vernon offers a taste of college to kids. Page 7A. U of I Hospitals maintains commitment to double lung transplants despite first patient dying in OR. Page 10A. A fund to send Barry Davis’s parents to the Olympics next month supports the wrestling gold bid. Page 1B.
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Iowa
Business News Week
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
U of I
Barry Davis
Davis
Today’s Chuckle Interruption Teases Short Story Trick
A light joke notes the quickest path to a long tale is to cut it off midstream. The quip frames storytelling as a playful contest between length and abrupt interruption.
C&NW, union reach delay to avert midnight rail strike
A planned 12:01 a.m. strike by United Transportation Union against Chicago & North Western was postponed after C&NW agreed to delay layoffs of 1,156 brakemen until 9 a.m. Thursday. Politicians pressured a cooling off period, aiming to limit disruption to about 40,000 Iowa and Chicago-area commuters.
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Washington
Chicago & North Western Transportation Co
United Transporation Union
Illinois
Chicago
House
C&nw
U.S
Terry Bruce
D. Ill
Simon
Trade bill sent to president after Senate approval
The omni bus trade bill cleared the Senate 85 to 11 and now awaits the President's signature. It bolsters retaliation powers against unfair imports and funds unemployment relief and job training for workers displaced by trade. The House approved a companion bill 376 to 45 earlier. Reagan aims to sign.
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Senate
Reagan
House
John Danforth
Missouri
America
Phil Gramm
Texas
Ted Stevens
Alaska
Japan
West Germany
South Korea
Taiwan
United States
Water use in Cedar Rapids hits new high despite lawn ban
Cedar Rapids water usage surged to records as residents curb lawn watering. Officials report 40 million gallons pumped on Tuesday with a projected 43 million on Wednesday, far above July 1988 daily averages of about 31.6 million gallons.
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Heather Sloman Wood
Gazette City Hall
Cedar Rapids
Tomon
12 ways to make it rain
A humorous column by Kurt Rogahn outlines quirky, impractical steps to induce rain in Eastern Iowa. The list suggests washing and waxing a car, buying a convertible with the top down, hosting outdoor gatherings, camping with kids, and drying laundry outside, framed as desperate times calling for desperate action.
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Kurt Rogahn
Iowa
Eleven-year-old dies in Swisher house fire
Eleven-year-old Zachary Velvick perished in a rural Swisher apartment fire Wednesday afternoon. Firefighters faced 100 degree heat as the blaze engulfed the home before crews arrived. Zachary’s mother Penny Velvick, employed at Square D Co. in Cedar Rapids, reacted after the incident drew attention from the community.
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Rick Smith
Zachary
Swisher House
Penny Velvick
Square D Co
Cedar Rapids
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