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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1996
Page
1
Mount Pleasant memories haunt safety debates as Mayor Edd King’s slaying is recalled. Police Chief Perry Sammons now attends meetings in uniform with a handgun. Council member Art Hamm has a concealed carry permit but vows not to bring a gun into City Hall.
In Mount Pleasant Iowa a small group of seven permit holders, including councilman Art Hamm, consider keeping guns at home after the 1986 Davis shooting that left Mayor King dead and two others wounded. Hamm, a university official, says he would not carry in City Hall citing potential trouble, while noting added security since the incident.
Senate Republican leader Don Nickles and welfare expert Daniel Patrick Moynihan urged the White House not to overhaul the welfare law. They projected only technical corrections this year and opposed first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton taking a leading role in the welfare debate.
Waddington's Games sought Anthony Pratt to mark Clue's 50th anniversary and offered a reward. A Bromsgrove cemetery headstone confirms Pratt died in April 1994 at age 90, buried in Birmingham. Pratt, who conceived Cluedo during WWII in Leeds, died after a life as a pianist.
Harvard physician Dennis Kasper leads development of a vaccine aimed at pregnant women to passively protect newborns from Group B streptococcus infection. NIH plans late next year trials to test safety and efficacy for broad use.
Tiny Tim died of heart failure during a benefit for the Woman's Club of Minneapolis while performing his signature song Tiptoe Thru the Tulips. The obituary notes his ukulele falsetto and childlike persona as defining traits.
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