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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1983
Page
12
The grand jury spent six months interviewing 190 witnesses and reviewing thousands of pages, finding no indictments against Menke or staff. It detailed inmate hostility and a deadly riot on Sept. 2, 1981, with $1.2 million in damages and hostage seizures. It rejects claims Menke planned the riot and involved in murder or record destruction.
The grand jury found claims that prison security chief Menke started the riot to hide alleged kickbacks or drug dealing were baseless hearsay. It said only kitchen-made weapons were used, denied bribes for cell assignments, and urged prison improvements and better staff inmate communication.
Wind from the west at 6 mph. Midnight conditions. Sun sets at 6:22 p.m. Sunrise Thursday at 6:04 a.m. Yesterday had a high of 56 and a low of 27 with no precipitation. Record high 87 in 1910 and record low 1 in 1912. Forecast calls for below normal temperatures Friday to Sunday with no precipitation. highs in the 30s and lows in the teens to low 20s. Travel advisory: remain indoors tonight.
The program offers free surplus wheat corn sorghum rice and cotton in exchange for reduced plantings. Farmers who cut 20 percent may idle 10 to 30 percent more and receive 80 to 95 percent of normal harvest in surplus goods. Total idled land could reach 83.3 million acres, the most in federal crop history.
At a White House strategy session Reagan pressed GOP leaders as a withholding amendment stalled action on a major jobs bill. Senator Dole recalled Reagan’s frustration and the White House welcomed the Senate’s rejection of the withholding bid to advance Social Security legislation.
George Lucas 36 of Leslie Michigan was jailed in Linn County after a traffic stop revealed two arrest warrants from 1974 and 1975. He had probation tied to a 1975 suspended 30 day sentence and faces revocation charges plus child support arrears totaling about 18000 dollars. He previously faced felony and misdemeanor assault charges from 1974 and 1975. His mother’s surgery brought him to town.
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