20 Dec 1997
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1997
Page
1
Judy Sampson wraps Christmas gifts for seventy local seniors as attention turns to holiday charity. East Iowa employers survey notes no layoffs planned for Q1 1998, per Cambridge Staffing Center. A Lutheran pastor discusses Christmas origins with Decorah students as the McCaughey septuplets’ hospital stay continues with homecoming plans.
The opening of the epic film Titanic prompts a Cedar Rapids resident to recall the original ship disaster. Details, 4B.
Three Eastern Iowa women share how methamphetamines wreck their lives and families. The feature notes Amelia and Gene Warner’s rural Solon home reflecting a snowy landscape and appears in the Sun day's Gazette Home & Real Estate section.
A partial OCR fragment shows index-like codes 16C 3E 5B 146A and a date or code ASA 6-78. The readable text is minimal and provides no clear event or names.
Seamstress moms led by Kathy Thomas update uniforms for Cedar Rapids Jefferson band. Earle Dickinson says 80 more students join the parade on New Year’s Day while aged suits and size gaps are addressed to fit freshmen near growth spurts.
Ames police charged 19 year old Matthew Nels Bergman of Arthur and 19 year old Timothy Hedden of Odebolt with reckless use of a firearm and aggravated assault for arranging an attack on an unidentified woman in a park. Bergman was charged with filing a false report and held in Story County Jail. Hedden posted bond in Sac County.
Noahs Ark director laments lenient sentence for Chad Lamansky and Daniel Myers who broke into the Fairfield shelter on March 8 killed 17 cats and injured six. A Davis County jury found them guilty of offenses against an animal shelter and criminal trespass. They receive 23 days with credit time served, plus a suspended four year sentence and three year Youthful Offenders Program. The case drew national attention and threats were reported to the defendants.
The nearly empty C R building once housed Ohlman & Sons Co and various manufacturers from crackers to yeast. Quaker Oats will raze the site for parking while historic items like a Fairbanks scale and Howe Weightor remain, drawing Smithsonian interest but likely deemed too young.
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