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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1992
Page
1
Hy-Vee Food Stores opens its second seven million dollar superstore in the Cedar Rapids area and announces plans to expand the Lindale Mall location. Details on page 5D.
Gov. Terry Branstad told legislators on Monday they would face a summer budget session unless a deficit-reduction plan meeting his approval is produced. Details on page 7A.
Acie Earl of Iowa set the Big Ten season record for blocks and was named Defensive Player of the Year by conference coaches. The award recognizes his shot blocking and impact for the Hawkeyes this season.
An investigator on Monday asserted proof that aviator Amelia Earhart reached a remote Pacific island in 1937 and died there. The claim surfaces on the back page in section 12D.
Ed Folsom of the University of Iowa English department and editor of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review said he heard a tape recording alleged to be Whitman from 1890 made at Edison’s urging. He believes the recording authentic, likely from a radio broadcast, and notes a wax cylinder with Whitman’s voice and a recitation of lines from a lesser known poem.
Today’s chuckle notes a quip that TV shows called sit coms arise from audiences sitting and becoming comatose. The joke plays on the double meaning of sitting and becoming numb to laughter.
Deb Carlson Wood, a Coe College administrator, describes her early life in foster homes and homes for teenage girls without anger or bitterness. Neighbors in Wednesday's Gazette report her perspective.
FBI in Kansas seeks Don Heiar after a Wichita bank robbery. Cedar Rapids police and sheriff’s detectives arrest the fugitive at Lindale Mall parking lot with no gunfire. Heiar, 27, allegedly demanded cash and threatened a teller.
Federal prosecutors review whether current or former House members wrote checks with insufficient funds in the informal House Bank setting. Officials consider possible violations of mail and wire fraud while noting overdrafts were not part of taxpayer funds and the overdraft policy was informal. White House reviews whether administration officials connected to the House may have written bad checks.
Rep. Jim Lightfoot said he is a victim of poor bookkeeping by a defunct House bank and that he did not bounce checks in the period cited. He warned rivals not to smear him as a GAO report looms and spoke at Iowa news conferences to explain his position.
Curtain of 1981 case may lift as cutting edge DNA testing targets semen samples from a rape murder of Independence native Vicki Klotzbach. Iowa investigators led by J D Smith and Barry Bedford pursue a match from fresh blood or hair samples to identify the killer. Bedford, Coralville police chief, holds a rape kit with semen traces, offering a path to new charges if a DNA match is found.
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