Cedar Rapids Named A Travel Holiday Hot Spot
Travel Holiday magazine lists Cedar Rapids among top summer vacation spots alongside Vienna and Buenos Aires. The July issue features The Globetrotter's Indispensable Index with hotel and dinner prices weather events and a city personality to watch. Mayor Don Canney is noted as the local newsmaker.
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Travel Holiday
Cedar Rapids
Vienna
Buenos Aires
Globetrotter
Katryna O’neill
Quad Cities
Don Canney
Dow tops record as index climbs to new high
The Dow Jones Average of 30 blue chips rose 37.13 points to close at 2,969.80, surpassing its prior peak of 2,935.89 set on June 15. Details on page 6B.
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Dow
Wettest June Recorded in 10 Iowa Counties
State Climatologist Harry Hillaker reports June as the wettest month on record across 10 counties including Linn and Benton Cedar Clinton and Iowa in the east central crop district. The district averaged 11.43 inches, surpassing 1924’s 10.47 inches.
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Des Moines
Linn
Harry Hillaker
Benton
Cedar
Clinton
Iowa
Trucker Jamboree At Iowa 80 Truckstop Kicks Off
Truckers flaunt their rigs at the 11th annual Truckers Jamboree begun Thursday and running through today at the Iowa 80 Truckstop near the Walcott exit on I 80. Details on page 16B.
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Walcott
Interstate 80
Today’s Chuckle Laugh Line on Ore and Matter
A light joke ponders future after mining the earth. The quip: we will have minned over matter, a tongue in cheek play on words about ore and material leftover.
Jell O wrestlers thrill Cedar County Fair crowd
Eastern Iowa report details The Wildcats wrestling act at Cedar County Fair drawing 500 plus spectators. The routine features female performers in black leotards sliding through gelatin on a mat while volunteers join in. Protests cite sexism but attendees call it family entertainment.
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Jaze
Eastern
Iowa
Tipton
Wildcats
Cedar County Fair
Cedar County
Tom Walsh
Walsh
Linda Licht
London
Jeff
Tasmanian Sweetheart
University of
Wapsi park expands with 140-acre farm purchase
Anamosa's Wapsipinicon State Park gains a one third increase after the Iowa Natural Resource commissioners approve buying 140 acres of riverfront farmland adjoining the park. The $133,200 sale to Dallas and Patricia Olers includes cropland, timber, and pasture with the current owners to continue cropland work this year and retain house and outbuildings for a year.
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Jim Mayer Razette
Anamosa
Wapsipinicon State Park
Iowa Natural Resource Commissioners
Estherville
Andy McKean
Aanamosa
the Gazette
McKean
Department of Natural Resources
Iowa
DNR
Wapsipinicon River
Doctor says toddler died from shaking
Linn County prosecutors described the death of 18 month old Jade Horkheimer in November 1989. Dr Gary Gray testified the brain hemorrhage causing death likely resulted from head shaking during abuse, with witnesses detailing injuries and medical efforts to save the child.
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Dick Hogan
Jazette
Linn District Court
Jade Horkheimer
Sheriff's
Darren Farmer
Horkheimer
Angie Cummings
Hazleton
Christian clowns say thank you with laughs
About 100 people gathered at Cedar Rapids Ground Transportation Center to watch the Fellowship of Christian Magicians clown delegation and Mercy Medical Center clown perform a noon act. The show served as a thank you to Cedar Rapids for hosting the FCM convention, with balloon animals, face painting, hugs, and playful jokes for children and families.
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Marietta Neilson
Mr. Mercy
Nichole
Ground Transportation Center
GTC
Fellowship of Christian Magicians
FCM
Mercy Medical Center
Lacy Daisy
Slick
Kinder- Care Learning Center
Cedar Rapids
Bush administration proposes sweeping food labeling rules
The proposal would require nutrition labeling for almost all packaged foods and for fresh produce and seafood with new standards. It envisions calories from fat saturated fat cholesterol and total fiber on labels and standard serving sizes across 159 categories while allowing point of purchase nutrition for some items. The plan also outlines cholesterol content claims and reductions with 30 and 120 day comment periods, and a national uniformity debate.
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Washington
Bush Administration
Health and Human Services
Louis Sullivan
Federal Register
Food and Drug Administration
Sullivan
Yeltsin quits party signaling Soviet split
Boris Yeltsin resigned from the Communist Party during the party congress, prompting radical Dem Platform leaders to also plan a rival left wing party. The move aimed to reshape Soviet politics as Gorbachev defeated Ligachev and Yeltsin cited obedience to the people over party discipline.
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Washington Post
Moscow
Boris Yeltsin
Communist Party
Soviet Union
Yeltsin
Radical Democratic Platform
Mikhail Gorbachev
Yegor Ligachev
Gorbachev
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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