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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1983
Page
3
Statistics from the Iowa Department of Transportation show arrests rising under the new DUI regime while deaths fell by 27 compared with last year in the first year of enforcement. The report appears on page 4A.
Quaker Oats remains sole bidder as Pillsbury pulls out of the Stokely-Van Camp takeover battle. The report notes that Quaker Oats currently leads the offer, while Money column discusses alimony tax deductions and applicable exceptions.
Iowa Rep. Cooper Evans leads six grain-state congressmen in a telephone blitz to the office of Special Trade Representative William Brock to head off efforts by textile interests to cancel Monday's U S trade talks with China in Geneva Switzerland. Farm page 8B
Prices for corn and soybeans rose toward contract highs on the Chicago Board of Trade on Tuesday while farmers held their newly released reserve corn. Farm page 8B.
Hal Farrier, longtime head of the division of adult corrections in the Iowa Department of Social Services since 1979, is appointed acting director of Iowa’s new Department of Corrections after a state agency restructuring.
Cedar Rapids baked in heat as the official high reached 90 at the airport with city gauges climbing into the mid to high 90s. Residents sought cooling at pools theaters and malls while vendors reported brisk sales of shakes ice cream and cold drinks. The forecast called for continued humidity and near 100 degrees.
Mercy Care North and Mercy Trauma Center report several heat related illnesses during the heat wave. An elderly woman with a temperature around 109 was admitted at St. Luke's, while St. Luke's had no heat related cases. Experts advise shade water rest and cool environments to prevent heat exhaustion or heat stroke.
Extended heat and humidity with isolated thunderstorms forecast Friday through Sunday. Highs 85 to 95, lows 65 to 75. Tuesday record temps include 36 at West Yellowstone and 115 at Gila Bend. A cluster of severe storms roared across the upper Missouri Valley with near hurricane winds and a tornado near Minot Air Force Base.
St Louis officials declared a heat emergency with 19 shelters open to cool rooms as triple digit heat spreads across the Midwest and East. At least six people nationwide have died from heat or heat related causes, including a man near LaGrange North Carolina.
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