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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1983
Page
3
Todd, a 14 year old, and Art Fine, a 57 year old bachelor from Des Moines, are matched through Boys Acres in a unique program uniting minority foster families. The relationship highlights the challenges of living in a foster home environment.
The English musical Cats, based on T S Eliot's poetry, won seven awards at the 37th Tony Awards, including best musical. Two Tonys were awarded to Eliot posthumously. he died in 1965.
Yannick Noah becomes the first Frenchman since 1959 to win the French Open marking a historic tennis achievement. The victory highlights France’s return to the sport’s pinnacle and caps a storied career at Roland Garros.
Cedar Rapids Community Schools Superintendent Harold Guthrie will propose a reorganization of the central office shifting lines of command creating a new position and naming Newell Lash as deputy superintendent. A separate weekend conference on racial prejudice is planned at Coe College sponsored by the local Baha i chapter.
For nearly 500 million years the chambered nautilus has survived virtually unchanged in the Western Pacific depths. No newborn seen despite a century of study, prompting continued fascination and research. The Chicago Cubs beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3 1 in a fifth straight win.
The North Pacific Grain Growers of Portland Oregon and Grain Terminal Association of Falcon Heights Minnesota merge to create Harvest States Cooperatives. The merger makes it the nation’s fourth largest co op and possibly the world’s largest grain cooperative.
American poultry producers say subsidies to foreign competitors, particularly in the Middle East, hurt their overseas sales. growers urge policy steps to restore market access and level the playing field.
Nuclear protesters clashed with riot gear police as they broke up an illegal sit in near the Shoreham plant in New York. More than 100 demonstrators were arrested including a woman nursing her 14 month old son and several people wearing clerk style clothing.
Report notes women abused over small dowries face deadly harassment by husbands and in laws. Authorities tally sixteen women killed by burns last week and about 260 in the capital last year. World, page 9B.
United Auto Workers members at 11 Deere & Co. locals ratified a new pact sending about 17 000 employees back to work. Voters in Dubuque and Waterloo approved by large margins while the tentative agreement runs to June 1 1986 and includes a 3 9 percent immediate cost of living increase, profit sharing and an employee stock ownership plan.
Police in riot gear respond to a street blockade by about 100 striking workers at Wilson Foods on 14th Avenue and Third Street SE. The clash lasts 15 minutes with rocks, a Molotov thrown, no injuries, and an unmarked Wilson truck leaving amid jeers. Don Weatherwax, a striker, says both he and his wife work there.
Palm Beach hosts an eight day camp for 50 children focusing on table manners etiquette and telephone protocol costing 960 dollars. Joan Coles a 35 year old etiquette instructor leads classes in two age groups with Manhattan style guidance and Golden Rule philosophy. Elizabeth Post collects royalties for use of the Emily Post name and title rights totaling 1000 dollars.
A woman posing as a nurse took 3 day old Vergial Tramaud Williams from his mother Carmen Williams at University Hospital Augusta and fled. Police seek public help to identify the 22 to 25 year old suspect who wore a nursery scrub smock.
In Baton Rouge, David Matson and Deborah Hale, once abandoned as infants in a coin laundry, met their mother Ruby Lamb at a reunion in Metropolitan Airport. Lamb recalled the morning they were left June. the trio spoke of past hardship as Lamb acknowledged the pain and expressed desire to move forward.
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