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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1990
Page
2
The Pest Shop of Plano Texas invites readers to send in the largest roach they can find for its COMBAT Quest prize. The top roach wins 1000 dollars and 500 dollars for the best presentation. Entries must be dead and unsquashed with full sender details.
Big Ten students meeting over the weekend failed to discuss the military homosexuality ban and disbanded the Big Ten Student Association. Nine schools joined Net 10, with Northwestern joining by telephone and Michigan invited but absent. The new group drafted a constitution and set a next meeting for October 12 at Michigan State University.
Martin Luther King III told about 150 at the Iowa State Capitol steps that civil rights have been gutted by limited enforcement, voting-rights harassment, and funding gaps. He urged Congress and the president to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1990 to protect workers from discrimination and advance economic justice.
A Missouri man, Terry Beautte of Elmer, was injured when his drifting parachute tangled with low power lines during the World's Biggest Beach Party five miles south of Williamsburg. Witnesses and organizers described it as a minor, freak accident. Beautte received emergency medical care and was reported in good condition after hospital evaluation. The other jumpers, Bobby Reid and Steve McAnulty, completed landings.
Creston Manor Care Center will inform patients and families about its policy barring resuscitation during cardiopulmonary arrest. Officials say the change follows a federal review noting admissions did not disclose the policy, and a hospital next door supports outside emergency response. Experts debate the approach as unusual and potentially restrictive.
A simulated 6.8 earthquake will trigger the first nationwide National Disaster Medical System drill. About 2,200 mock fatalities and 28,000 total injuries are planned as federal, state, and local agencies test responses across a wide area from Marked Tree Arkansas to Davenport Iowa and Columbia South Carolina.
Two people were killed in a collision involving a car and a truck eight miles north of Burlington on Highway 61 at 4 03 a m. One victim died at the scene and the other died at Burlington Medical Center. The Des Moines County Sheriff’s Department furnished few details.
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