24 Aug 1997
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1997
Page
1
A feature on professional waitresses highlighting their skill, discipline, and work ethic in service roles. The piece profiles several servers, detailing training, multitasking, and customer interactions that define a successful dining room career.
Jay Shaw plans to lobby Iowa lawmakers to remove criminal police cases from county attorneys and require independent investigations. He argues the DCI cannot handle such inquiries and urges a special mechanism to avoid police ties, while legislators doubt broad changes will pass, noting local prosecutors remain accountable to voters.
Congressional witnesses debated alleged manipulation of crime statistics at colleges as a House subcommittee studies compliance with the Student Right to Know and Campus Security Act. At Cornell College in Mount Vernon assistant dean Joan Claar defended integrity, while Mount Mercy College's Bob Nicholson rejected any deception claims.
DES MOINES AP Mary Louise Smith the first woman to chair a major party's national committee died at 82 from lung cancer in a Des Moines hospital. Smith led the Republican National Committee from 1974 to 1977 and organized the 1976 National Convention, defying gender expectations and urging smoking education.
Joanne Zywicki hopes to reopen her daughter Tammy Zywicki case five years after the Grinnell College student's disappearance and deaths in Missouri and Illinois. She plans to publicize the case again, possibly on Unsolved Mysteries, to spur new leads and media attention.
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