30 Dec 1987
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1987
Page
1
A jumble of notes from Page 3A mentions futurists predicting blimps returning along with 1 000 story skyscrapers. In East Iowa a station report recalls someone spending the night in a railroad boxcar, a blaze started as the car was moved. Jerry Meis becomes Iowa City Chamber of Commerce president and looks ahead.
A humorous line noting that in every person a playful inner child exists and sometimes breaks free, delivering a lighthearted quip about human nature and self-restraint.
Depositors of MorAmerica Financial Corp and Morris Plan Co of Iowa face a setback after the Federal Home Loan Bank Board denied federal account insurance for the planned successor thrift United Security Savings Bank. Officials plan to meet with FHLBB in Washington to resolve objections and possible remedies. About 18,000 depositors have had funds frozen since Aug 30, 1985, amid a bankruptcy plan approved in 1986.
In Russellville area, 16 neighbors were slain after a downtown shooting spree. Victims include relatives and former co workers of R Gene Simmons Sr. as police uncover nine bodies in a grave and abandoned cars near a rural home. Authorities call it one of the decade s worst mass killings.
NASA postponed the planned June liftoff of the space shuttle STS-26 after a nozzle component showed an anomaly during a test firing of the redesigned booster rocket. The delay extends the grounding of the U S manned space flight program amid a related fatal MX missile incident nearby and comes as a Soviet cosmonaut returns from an 11 month orbit. The exact length of the delay remains unclear while investigations continue.
Cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko ends a 326 day spaceflight with a return to Earth in Kazakhstan aboard Soyuz TM 3. He says he feels excellent and is glad to be back among friends as ground crews assist the crew from the capsule.
Donna Lee Olson reports drivers in Iowa rely on informal grapevine tips and official road reports as a winter storm brings hazardous conditions. The statewide advisory system notes roads remain potentially dangerous, with a new winter storm warning for northern Iowa. Gary Stevens of the DPS emphasizes road reports are advisory indicators and motorists must decide whether to travel.
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