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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1990
Page
2
A humorous essay argues men avoid discussing pain in front of women, who equal childbirth to extreme agony. The narrator recalls encounters where women challenge male pain anecdotes and insists childbirth defines true suffering, prompting a comic clash over who endures greater pain.
Five Iowans died in highway crashes over the weekend. Montezuma resident Todd William Hess, 27, was trapped in a burning car and pronounced dead on arrival at Grinnell General Hospital after the 1 am Sunday crash on Montezuma County Road V-16. The incident remains under investigation. In Rock Valley another wreck killed 32 year old James A. Strubbe as the car went off a county road Saturday night. passengers MicheLe Vonk, 19, and Shelley Voss, 23, were thrown from the vehicle.
Rev Dr Robert Reid Jr the editor of the Christian Recorder reflected on being labeled temporarily white in 1975 during a South Africa visit and expressed optimism about Nelson Mandela. He warned apartheid could erupt if unaddressed but hoped peaceful reform would advance in South Africa while urging continued US efforts against racism and economic inequality for blacks.
Prairie High School voters face a 4.9 million referendum February 27 to fund an auditorium, a power mechanics classroom, and a new gymnasium with remodeling of the Little Theater into music facilities. A broad information campaign includes videos, calls, door to door outreach, meetings, and booster involvement to persuade undecided residents. The plan would cost 90 cents per thousand and follows a prior near miss on a related bond. campaign activity paused after a student’s Feb. 7 death.
New York columnist Liz Smith cites unnamed sources claiming Donald and Ivana Trump are headed for divorce after 12 years of marriage and business partnership. Forbes lists Trump’s fortune around 1.7 billion dollars.
Actor Tony Curtis has lived off and on at the Bel-Air Hotel in Los Angeles for 25 years citing clean sheets and a spotless bathroom as essential comforts. He notes steady service, daily bed making, and the TV clicker as valued perks with rooms from 245 dollars a night.
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