11 May 1991
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1991
Page
1
Washington High and Harding Middle schools in Cedar Rapids are among 220 secondary schools cited by the U S Department of Education for excellence. Washington marks its second win as page 1B details follow.
About 6000 fans at the Five Seasons Center surged onto the stage during a Randy Travis and Alan Jackson concert. The energetic moment followed strong vocal performances and drew immediate crowd reaction into a brief pause in the country music act.
United Fire & Casualty Co. of Cedar Rapids reported a 1990–1991 first quarter loss of 2,267,000 dollars. President Scott McIntyre Jr. cites higher corporate taxes and February storms in Louisiana as factors. Details on page 60.
A light joke wonders if fat cats with nine lives should be sent to fight wars, poking fun at serious conflict with playful hyperbole. The line suggests a tongue in cheek critique of powerful figures and wartime duty.
Legislators in Des Moines push to wrap a $3.3 billion fiscal 1992 budget, a new redistricting plan, and several other bills before adjournment. The Senate approved a $212 million portion of the budget and backed the redistricting plan as a Friday session concluded with pay raises for some union members and print and negotiation delays.
Senate President Joe Welsh denounced bonuses paid to three top labor negotiators after they helped secure two year contract raises for unions. The group received 1200 to 1500 as a 5 percent performance bonus, amid arbitration awards of 9 to 19 percent.
North Carolina businessman Stanley K. Tanger opened his 14th center Tanger Outlet Center near Williamsburg after persevering through banker skepticism in 1981. He shifted from shirt manufacturing to factory outlet malls to serve garment makers seeking profitable outlets.
The Iowa Senate approved Senate File 546 39-10, creating 20 new districts and setting up a 1992 contest between Northeast Iowa congressmen. Backers call the map fair and reflective of 1990 census shifts, while critics note dilution of urban Eastern Iowa influence. The House plans to act before adjournment, with Rep. Jim Nussle optimistic about representing Northeast Iowa under the new layout.
Seventy seven workers lose jobs at Tama Meat Packing Corp due to ownership transfer from Elders IXL Ltd to Gibbon Packing Inc. Gibbon requests 303 applicants for new posts. plant shifts to lower value cattle and processed carcasses. Separately Rockwell Graphic Systems Cedar Rapids laid off 20 machinists due to slow business, and Sea Galley near Westdale Mall closed May 2 with about 40 workers affected. Sea Galley gift certificates will be honored by Capones.
Labor Secretary Lynn Martin says the federal rule requiring minimum wage for work therapy clients will not be enforced. Senator Grassley welcomed the decision, saying the Salvation Army's adult rehabilitation programs would not be hindered. The ruling had threatened 117 Salvation Army centers nationwide.
Bertram Harper of Loomis California collapses in a Detroit courtroom after a jury acquits him of second degree murder in the suffocation death of his cancer-stricken wife. The verdict ends a high profile case spotlighting a husband accused of lethal harm against his spouse.
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