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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1985
Page
5
In Muscatine, father Murray Estabrook accuses the high school wrestling program of pressuring his son Lee Estabrook to cut weight. Lee, an 18 year old senior, died after collapsing at a softball game. autopsy suggests a heart muscle failure.
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad signed a measure requiring registration of underground storage tanks with state environmental officials. Owners pay 5 per tank with registration by July 1986. monitoring rules start in 1988. The bill aims to curb leaks from about 240,000 tanks statewide, including 40,000 service station tanks.
A hearing will decide if 44 year old former Iowa man Kent A. Malcolm is mentally fit to stand trial for the December library shooting deaths of Kathleen Bowman and wounding of Judith Scott and Lilay-Dasa Vindavan. Jury selection began in the aggravated murder and attempted murder counts.
Authorities search for three inmates missing after a routine head count at 9 15 p m from the Riverview Release Center. The men Brett L Angel 20 Patrick M Shaw 22 and Tom Drollinger 21 are serving 10 year terms and were near final release at the minimum security facility.
Gov. Terry Branstad named a 12 member blue ribbon panel to study Iowa unemployment and workers compensation. The group includes four lawmakers as ex-officio members and leaders Willard Hansen and Robert Fulton to head the two subpanels. The task force will report in November with recommendations for lawmakers.
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