10 Dec 1988
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1988
Page
1
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service bands ducks to collect information from hunters. A Cedar Rapids man earned $200 in a reward program after a mallard drake was banded.
John Wilson attended a Silver Bullets game and won 1848 dollars in Iowa Lottery scratch-offs after sinking a 22 foot three point shot during a Dec 3 game. The piece notes state lottery winnings and related pages.
A light note jokes that once a checkbook is opened it is hard to stop until the balance is settled, playing on the pull of spending and accounting.
Israeli jets bombed a guerrilla camp near Naameh Lebanon rescuing four trapped commandos from a perilous nine hour assault. The offensive, deepest into Lebanon since 1982 83, left at least one Israeli officer dead and dozens of fighters wounded with casualties on both sides.
A Galesburg, Illinois man James L. Baker, 30, died when his semi tipped on Highway 6 and slid into an oncoming truck driven by Stanley Edward Brown, 40, of Knoxville. Brown was listed in fair condition at the University of Iowa Hospitals. Lifeguard air ambulance ferried him to the hospital after the crash near the Johnson County line between Iowa City and West Branch. The curve has a history of accidents, but Friday’s crash was notably severe.
Survivors pulled from debris as Armenia quake toll rises with reports of up to 80 000 dead. Western relief planes bring doctors and supplies while President Gorbachev returns to Moscow to oversee aid efforts.
Iowa prison inmates may read porn magazines in supervised reading rooms and in cells for non obscene material under a 7-0 Board of Corrections vote. The policy follows a judge ruling on First Amendment rights and limits access to obscene material and certain offenders.
The obituary notes Dr. Edward Gann laid to rest in 1983 in Sigourney cemetery. His wife Jeanne recalls his joke about heaven and Acapulco on his granite crypt marker. She says the couple vacationed in Mexico since the 1950s and still traveled there annually.
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