11 Jun 1990
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1990
Page
1
Cedar Rapids Jefferson senior Heidi Butz pursues a final high school season goal as she leads her team toward a spot in the state softball tournament. The season builds to a state bid in the coming weeks.
London AP reports John Evans a former coal miner living in Swansea Wales died in his sleep age 112. He was listed in the Guinness Book as the world’s oldest living man though not the oldest person overall. Carrie C White a 115 year old woman in Palatka Florida holds that title.
Battle Creek, Michigan fed 38,753 diners to reclaim the breakfast title in a contest with Springfield, Massachusetts, which served 37,380 earlier. The event, dubbed the Cereal City breakfast, featured cereal, doughnut holes and Pop Tarts as key offerings.
Memories of school days went to auction in Coggan on Saturday. The event drew local residents eager for a look back at school life as old photos and details appeared on page 12B Back Page.
The Gazette highlights its commitment to the future by using soybean ink and recycled newsprint. It urges readers to recycle newspapers by dropping them in boxes at City Carton on Sixth Street SW and at Noelridge pool parking lot near 42nd and Council streets NE.
A light gloss on style contrasts saying looking good depends on the bold choice to look foolish if needed. The quip frames fashion as a personal stance: presentation blends risk, wit, and self expression.
Lawsuits claim private insurers including Provident Life and Accident Insurance Co bilked billions from the elderly by paying only 20 percent of medical bills and shifting the rest to Medicare. Miami attorney Luis Bustamante says the 1982 revisions aimed to ease Medicare costs and faces Senate hearings next month as the Justice Department intervenes.
In Stone City at the 18th Annual Grant Wood Art Festival two men vied for the look-alike title. Bob Walderbach and Bob Eppard shared the win and each received $50 savings bonds. Walderbach has previously portrayed Grant Wood at the festival.
DC Mayor Marion Barry on trial for perjury and drug charges plans not to seek re election sources say He hopes this move will break plea bargaining deadlock with U S Attorney demanding a felony plea while Barry seeks a misdemeanor option Jury selection continues and Barry weighs the decision to quit the race he has held since 1979
London AP report says a British Airways captain Tim Lancaster was sucked partway through a cockpit windshield at 24000 feet Sunday. Crew members held him as the co pilot executed an emergency landing. Lancaster was hospitalized with serious injuries but expected to survive. eight passengers were treated for shock. A passenger described seeing a body hanging from the window with others clinging to him.
Coralville inventor Cretzmeyer III unveils the Chill Wizzard a device cooling a beer or soda can in two minutes. After six years of work he enters the international market with two prior business sales funding his dream of a new Coralville firm. His first shipment nears as finances thin.
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