12 Mar 1990
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1990
Page
1
News briefs note Iowa women receive a first round bye in the NCAA tournament and will face the Vanderbilt Rutgers winner on Saturday. UNI tangles with Missouri in NCAA first-round action Friday.
The Gazette champions sustainable printing using soybean ink and recycled newsprint. Readers are urged to drop newspapers into recycling boxes at City Carton on 4250 Sixth St SW and at the former fire station at 42nd and Council NE.
A light joke notes that obesity is humorously the mother of invention in diet circles. It frames dieting efforts as a result of high obesity awareness inspiring new solutions. The line plays on the idea of clever fixes arising from weight concerns.
Albert Lea workers vote 62 percent in favor of 4.6 million in benefit concessions as Farmstead aims to restore normal production and recall 450 to 500 laid off employees. Cedar Rapids plant union leader doubts optimistic outlook, alleging a staged concession plan to pressure workers.
In Vilnius, Lithuania votes 124 to 0 with six abstentions to end ties with the U S S R and restore independence after 50 years of annexation. Moscow offers no immediate recognition and negotiators warn full independence will come only after protracted talks with Kremlin leaders.
Census workers in 13 Iowa counties will count people in shelters and on streets during a March night. The effort aims to protect entitlement funding for cities like Iowa City, which relies on the 50 000 population threshold for $600 000 yearly in federal grants. City officials alert the risk of dropping below the cutoff.
A Sunday conference on affordable housing in Cedar Rapids drew about 50 attendees and featured officials and property owners arguing government funding versus policy causes. Panelists cited a two year public housing wait list, HACAP's 471 person Transitional Housing queue, and a net loss of about 16,000 homes statewide from 1980 to 1987 due to demolitions.
Eastern Iowa endures summerlike warmth with scattered morning showers and potential 1 to 2 inches of rain amid a flash flood watch for northeast Iowa. Cedar Rapids and other cities logged near to bankfull rivers as weekend rains saturated the ground. highs reached the upper 60s to mid 70s across the region.
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