29 Jul 2003
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 2003
Page
1
Bob Hope performed at the Five Seasons Center in Cedar Rapids on September 9, 1979. Other sections note Inside Photos on 5A and an Iowa memory feature on 1B and a champion for golf on 4C.
The master of laughter Bob Hope died Sunday at his Toluca Lake home at age 100 from pneumonia. Publicist Ward Grant disclosed the death with Hope’s family at his bedside. He entertained U.S. troops from World War II through the Persian Gulf with quick one liners and broad good humor.
Linda Maxson bars teaching in Room 300 for next fall citing heat and obstructed blackboard from pillars. Chemistry Department chair David Wiemer recalls 1922 origins of the oldest Chemistry Building section as students recall early campus days.
Marion City Council members are expected to urge Bluestem at today's 1:30 p.m. hearing in Cedar Rapids to reject expanding Landfill Site 2 by 140 acres on County Home Road and Highway 13. The move aims to protect Marion's future growth while weighing waste transfer and costs.
Police investigate the death of a single mother of three in Hiawatha as a possible homicide. Officers seek a light blue Plymouth Sundance missing from 78 Northwood Dr after the victim’s body was found. A male friend, named as suspect, may no longer be a suspect hours later.
Rebels captured Buchanan Liberia the refugee crowded city 60 miles from Monrovia defeating President Charles Taylors embattled forces on a new front Gen Benjamin Yeaten confirmed the fall of the city to the Movement for Democracy in Liberia with government troops pushed to the outskirts and planning a counterattack.
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