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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1982
Page
7
In October my daughter endured a three hour terror attack that left bruises and trauma. The attacker faced about 48 hours in jail and was released. four months later we await court action while she slowly recovers from nightmares and emotional scars.
The Hall family expresses gratitude to police, ambulance staff, Mercy Hospital, 911 responders, The Gazette, the Street Department for snow removal, and friends for gifts and prayers after Scott Hall’s death. Sincere thanks from the families of Maynard Hall, Michael Tschiggfrie, M. Lee Hall, Roger Hall, Robert Fults and Amanda, and Michael Burhite.
A reader criticizes Mayor Canney and the council for recurring budget problems. They urge pay cuts, halting out of town trips, and reduced seminars to save taxpayer money. They question outside consultants, snowplow costs, and the Five Seasons Center losses while noting the delayed welcome to the Iowa State Womens Bowling Tournament and its local economic impact.
A citizen urges taxpayers to treat Senators and Representatives as employers and to write to them about the 1983 Reagan budget. He argues the budget affects education and defense and asks people to express views before congressional votes. He emphasizes the impact on families and children.
In response to a prior letter, the writer praises modern mail carriers for dedication and heroism. They endure extreme cold, wind, rain, ice, dogs, and unsafe sidewalks while delivering all mail, including junk circulars, and express gratitude for a job done above and beyond the call of duty.
Reader defends DeVere Hirt in The Gazette against a minister's complaint about his Outlooks column. The letter praises Hirt's humane outlook, questions religious credentialism, and celebrates his long career at modest pay. It closes with a plea not to remove him from Coralville publication.
The author acknowledges a misstatement that the guest in Judges 19 was a Levite, when the host was a Benjamite. The letter defends Bible stories as moral tests and notes complex attitudes to sex, murder, and war in Old Testament narratives.
In his Feb 4 column Joseph Sobran mocks the Voice of America as bland and biased yet endorses a free press as quintessentially American. The piece argues VOA’s objectivity earns global respect comparable to BBC World Service, while criticizing Sobran for wanting to silence the messenger.
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