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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1989
Page
1
The piece highlights a growing interest among baby boomers in sabbaticals and solitary contentment, featuring author Susan Sontag and the idea that it is acceptable to enjoy solitude. The trend is framed as empowering and reflective, inviting readers to rethink work life and personal time.
Cedar Rapids honors Barney Morrison and his wife Ethel for lifelong support of youth sports. A city owned house on a storm water project is repurposed as temporary housing for four Hawkeye Area Community Action Program women. Page 9A and 20.
A campaign message warns that promises of lofty plans amount to pie in the sky and political rhetoric may mislead voters about real costs and outcomes.
Doran Zumbach, a Grain Belt farmer from southern Delaware County, endures good natured jokes after becoming a regional star in farm chemical ads. The commercials feature a Punxutawney Phil gag as Zumbach calls into a groundhog hole, with local hardware store ambushes adding to the joke.
House Speaker Jim Wright plans a Thursday vote on a partial rollback of the 51 percent pay raise set to take effect next Wednesday. The proposal would set congressional salaries at 116350 and apply to senior officials but not judges, whose pay cannot be cut. The move follows pressure from members and a private survey testing support for a vote on the raise.
Defense Secretary-designate John Tower told the Senate Armed Services Committee he has no drinking problem and can perform his duties, amid questions about past ties to military contractors. Chairman Sam Nunn indicated the panel would vote to recommend Tower's confirmation.
Harold Tenney emerges as the standout in a Cedar Rapids Silver Bullets promotion where fans threw paper planes toward a mid court car. Promoters Nordstrom and McGrath restricted winners to limited chances, prompting Tenney's complaint that rules changed mid flight while he held multiple qualifying rounds.
A blaze at a Wilton residence killed five year old Steven Kelling and seven year old Lisa Kelling while their mother Paula Goodrich 25 was hospitalized in fair condition. Firefighters arrived minutes after calls around 9 50 p m Tuesday extinguishing the downstairs flames but the two story home was a total loss. The medical examiner ruled smoke inhalation as the cause for both children with the mother later dying from injuries after transfer to University Hospitals Iowa City. The father Victor was at work at the time.
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