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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1996
Page
2
Deborah Mathis reflects on adapting from a manual typewriter to electric machines and eventually to word processors. She recalls starting in 1964, learning typing from her mother, editing a high school paper, and balancing nostalgia for the past with the efficiency and flexibility of modern technology.
Panasonic and NBC plan a 34 by 26 foot Astrovision display in Times Square to broadcast NBC Newsday programming for a decade. The $5 million screen will replace the Sony Jumbo Tron and show news, sitcoms and sports from WNBC CNBC MSNBC and more. It aims to debut between Thanksgiving and Christmas to coincide with New Year’s Eve ball drop.
Linn County Sheriff Don Zeller defends jail staff after federal prisoner Edward Woods received four of nine prescribed doses. He says the remaining five were issued later and that timing followed policy. A separate correction notes Cedar Rapids owns Ellis Boat Harbor and spaces rented by the city.
In Kalamazoo Michigan plans to open two of the four blocks of its downtown pedestrian mall to cars next year. Business owners and urban planners debate the move citing changing shopping habits and safety, while some merchants fear reduced lunch traffic. The 1959 mall once drew 50 000 people and a Miss Downtown Kalamazoo.
A Los Angeles Times financial analysis notes public judgment on out of wedlock births hinges on a woman's resources. A 1995 Newsweek poll shows 52 percent find it not morally wrong for a capable nonteen mother to conceive, 41 percent oppose. Seventy four percent deem it morally wrong for a financially unable teenager to conceive outside marriage.
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