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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1994
Page
11
Cedar Rapids police trace beige paint from five graffiti tagged cars to a storage closet at 1600 Second Ave SE. Timothy Sprous, 18, of 2920 First Ave NE, was found hiding among paint cans and jailed on misdemeanor criminal mischief and graffiti ordinance charges.
The Waterloo jury selection continued for a second day in the first degree murder case of Ruthann Veal a 15 year old from Mason City accused of stabbing 66 year old Catherine Haynes at Haynes home on Waterloo west side in June Black Hawk County Attorney Tom Ferguson and defense counsel Alfredo Parrish questioned jurors on knowledge of the slaying and media coverage Final jurors expected to be seated today with opening arguments to follow Motions to try as juvenile and to move trial outside Black Hawk County denied.
Charity McMurrin, aged 2, was released from Peoples Memorial Hospital in Independence after her mother Tamara McMurrin saved her life with CPR when Charity stopped breathing after falling into a creek near their home. The child remained under observation overnight.
The Mississippi Valley Girl Scout Council partners with the Bettendorf Children’s Museum and Cedar Rapids Science Station in a joint science program for girls aged 6 to 11. A $1000 grant from the national Girl Scouts supports informal, hands on learning as part of the 13 new National Science Partnership sites. Over 2000 Girl Scouts are expected to participate across 15 Iowa Illinois counties including Johnson Linn Muscatine Washington and nearby Illinois counties.
Cedar Rapids Efficiency and Reform Committee urged the City Council to respond to each of its 52 recommendations for a leaner budget and 150 job cuts. At Franklin Middle School the panel warned against council inaction and announced upcoming meetings at Roosevelt Middle School and Beems Auditorium.
The Cedar Rapids City Council granted a 90 day extension on Ledenbach's site approval for a 280 ton per day waste to energy incinerator at 1193 Ingleside Dr SW. Public input may be added and a Supreme Court ruling on ash handling may affect diligence and testing standards.
Cedar Rapids housing officials propose halting new rental assistance applications until 1600 current applications in the Leased Housing program can be serviced. With 47 subsidized certificates unused, turnover suggests a two to four year backlog. HUD limits a one year backlog, and Cedar Rapids is authorized for 850 units with 733 leased.
Gazette staff writer recalls Richard Heffernan of Manchester who restored a tilted barn near Independence after a contractor quoted five thousand dollars. He charged fifty dollars and, in half an hour, rehung the structure onto its foundation, proving straightening a barn is an art. Heffernan, 58, has run his carpentry business since 1966 and is famed for saving tilting barns across Eastern Iowa.
Cedar Rapids Community School District spent about 31 633 to hire a new superintendent, with 16 000 paid to the consultant Plath Nielsen Rodgers Associates. The process included 47 applicants and a two day Denver trip costing 2434 45. Interim co superintendents received 1 000 monthly supplements.
Iowa City may get a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital to replace the 209th Medical Company if the National Guard deactivates the unit. Adjutant General Warren Lawson said success is not guaranteed and deactivation could occur by 1999, with about 400 of roughly 8,000 Iowa National Guard soldiers at risk.
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