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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1985
Page
3
Astronauts cleaned space cages with a vacuum Thursday and proceeded with experiments including two on crystal growth. Ground researchers delighted by the results as U S World covers the update on page 4A.
Diana Lee Moss 33 formerly of Iowa City now in the Quad Cities pleaded guilty to conspiracy in stealing 65 checks totaling about $150,000 from the University of Iowa financial aid office. She faces up to five years in prison and a $7500 fine at sentencing June 11 in Des Moines. Several co defendants await trials in Des Moines and Chicago on related charges.
Berke Breathed, creator of Bloom County, will depart Iowa City later this month to relocate to Albuquerque New Mexico where a woman friend and doctor will begin a medical residency at the University of New Mexico Medical Center.
Daily Iowan reports its computer system was sabotaged Wednesday night. Publisher Bill Casey says all data and formats were lost but formats were recovered. sports and features staff work to rewrite stories. A new system to be installed later this month aims to prevent similar access. Suspects are being investigated.
The 1984 fiscal year saw a record 19 1960000 government documents stamped secret to protect national security a 9 percent rise from the prior year The Defense Department accounted for 84 7 percent of these classifications while the CIA held 13 percent and other agencies including the State Department NASA and the Treasury divided the rest
Cedar Rapids trucker Roger Heins, 34, pulled a burning driver from a Delta 88 after a 4th car swerved into his lane on an Elk Grove Village expressway. Heins broke a window with a fire extinguisher, and the rescued man Richard Vettellara, 34, of Roselle, received hospital treatment for minor injuries. Heins, under Heartland Express contract, escaped with bruises and singed arm hair.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette established in 1883 by The Gazette Company prints daily and Sunday editions. Subscriptions listed include carrier at $2.25 weekly and mail pricing for Morning Editions and Sunday issues with 7 issues at $10.40 for 4 weeks and $110 for 52 weeks, plus other states at $140 for 52 weeks.
The Cedar Rapids police auction will sell 150 abandoned cars trucks and cycles Saturday at Miller's Towing Service storage lot on 32nd Street Drive SE Gates open at 11 a.m. auction starts at 1 p.m. A correction notes the Gazette mislisted an address and will publish clarifications in this space.
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