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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1982
Page
10
Sharon and Bob, waiting for a spot job from Job Services, describe days without food and hope for a full time position. She lacks a diploma while he is older, yet they credit the employment workshop for restoring dignity. They rely on faith and each other to endure the trial.
Riot police with tanks used tear gas water cannons and flares to disperse about 2 000 demonstrators in Nowa Huta Krakow and 10 000 in Gdansk as Solidarity slogans and banners filled the streets. A State Department spokesman urged restoring basic human rights and ending martial law.
Heavy rains across Nebraska and Missouri trigger record floods. Falls City reports 7.3 inches. Kansas City metro sees 8 to 15 inches, with hundreds evacuated, dozens of homes damaged, and at least two deaths. Emergency shelters opened by Red Cross and Salvation Army. power outages spike. Authorities warn rescue efforts continue as waters recede.
A former Rotary Club president in North Myrtle Beach tried to rob Conway National Bank with five tellers in a vault. Wayne Temples arrived during the hold up, prompting the robber Davis Stevens to hide and then shoot himself as police closed in. Stevens, deeply in debt over a $100000 home, died at New Hanover County Memorial Hospital, leaving a wife and two daughters.
A 14 year old boy was jailed in the shooting death of Sharon Turnbull, a 33 year old junior high teacher in Lyle. Investigators say the youth confessed to the murder, with a .22 rifle found at his home. He faces first degree murder charges as authorities weigh trying him as an adult.
Parachutist Charlotte Wiesman jumped from 1500 meters near Triengen Switzerland and landed in high voltage cables. After 2 percent hours trapped rescuers from Swiss Air Rescue used a helicopter to untangle and lower her safely to the ground. She had departed from the Flying Ranch Parachute School and the cables were dry.
Readings for the 24 hours ending 7 p.m. Friday show high near 87 and low around 70. Wind SE at 4 mph, humidity 73 percent, barometer 30.05 rising, sunset 8 09, sunrise 6 14. Extended forecast calls for a chance of showers or thunderstorms Monday and Wednesday with highs in the 80s and lows in the 60s.
Coralville Lae-1.665. 703.45 falling Cedar River at C R 13 3.90 steady Cedar River Waterloo 15 5.80 falling Showers and storms hit Searchlight Nevada Castle Valley heavy rain and 40 mph gusts Bullhead City flooding cars wet. Forecasts call scattered thunderstorms central plains Mississippi Valley Gulf Coast showers Pacific Northwest Maine sunshine Ohio Valley mid Atlantic and southwest. Highs near 100 in Oklahoma Texas, 70s in north, 90s south. Desert Southwest 100 to 110.
Readings at or above 100 degrees dotted Oklahoma and northern Texas on Friday with Oklahoma City Tulsa and Abilene at 100 degrees and Enid reaching 105. Thunderstorms formed from the Gulf Coast to the central Rockies while heavy rains drenched Memphis and Charleston with near inch totals elsewhere.
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