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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1983
Page
6
A history professor cites a diary by a naval intelligence officer to allege President Hoover ordered a 1930 break in at a New York Democratic Party office. The diary fragments were found by Jeffrey Dorwart of Rutgers University and discussed in Nation magazine.
After months of dispute, Iowa City attorney Jay C. Oehler returned 257000 dollars in cash to the Wagner Murphy Foundation, a charitable trust alleged to have been mismanaged and left assetless. The matter spanned five months of legal wrangling among multiple lawyers.
Legislation to align Iowa income tax with the federal Internal Revenue Code faces a Senate debate next week amid intra caucus strife led by Senate Majority Leader Lowell Jenkins. The report also notes an out-of-court agreement involving Roger Schlegel, a former Coe College coach fired for alleged improprieties.
Federal authorities report that new jobless benefits claims have fallen five of the last six weeks. Job Service of Iowa confirms a drop in claims last week across six Eastern Iowa counties.
Critics of the Farmers Home Administration praised a House subcommittee vote approving a bill to restrict county supervisors powers. Reagan officials warned the measure could trigger more court challenges against FmHA. Farm page 8C
Iowa Rep. Sue Mullins asserts lingering sexual bias in a Department of Agriculture booklet on farm products, despite the slogan being dropped. The controversy centers on gender and regional stereotypes reflected in the material circulated to farmers.
President Reagan hailed easing oil prices as good for the world economy while acknowledging short term pain for some oil exporters. He predicted long term recovery and freed resources from energy, as Saudi Arabia and Libya discuss a price cut amid possible OPEC discord.
Iowa parole board in Mitchellville refused early release for April M. Johnson 32 who turned herself in after nine years on the run. Johnson pleaded guilty in 1972 to false use of a financial instrument and served at Rockwell City. She had lived under an assumed name while employed with a carnival family in Alabama.
Three major Southwest cultures the Hohokam Mogollon and Anasazi flourished roughly from the early Christian era to the late 13th century. Pottery became their most prolific artistic legacy with forms and designs that identify time and place of origin.
A man wearing a black samurai costume and veil entered a Des Moines McDonalds on a Wednesday night and chopped at ads and a hanging plant with a four foot sword. He uttered Hei hei during each strike before driving away in a nearby van. Police wonder if it was a prank or mental episode as customers fled and unfinished meals remained.
Lt. Gov. Robert Anderson urged an attorney general ruling on Iowa moratorium law to curb a possible foreclosure crisis. The measure permits the governor to declare an emergency granting mortgage extensions for those hit by natural disasters or economic downturn. More than 10,000 Dubuque County signatures urged a disaster declaration, but Branstad aides doubt the need.
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