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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1983
Page
5
The Hiawatha City Council last night approved adding nearly twenty five thousand dollars to a Cedar Rapids firm contract for work on the Hiawatha City Hall and Library complex. The action appears on Metro page 5A.
Karl Henize, age 56, may be the first senior citizen in space aboard Spacelab II during a March 1985 mission. He and five other astronauts, including Tony England, train in Iowa City on the Plasma Diagnostics Package built at the University of Iowa. The project could see returning hardware if NASA approves a 10 to 15 million dollar redesign for in-space recovery.
Iowans react to the IDOT decision to place the slogan A State of Minds on 1985 license plates. Public opposition runs high in calls and polls, while officials defend the motto as a national publicity boost and a driver for Iowa high tech promotion.
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