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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1992
Page
5
Billionaire Ross Perot contributed nearly 850000 to promote his independent White House bid. Through April the Perot Petition Committee spent about 1.03 million to qualify him for the November ballot in all 50 states. The group ended April with 621000 in unpaid bills and 127000 in bank lines of credit.
Joseph La Pan, a 48 year old inmate from Bay City Michigan, sues Warren County Jail after officials seized his left artificial arm with a two pronged hook following his February arrest for kidnapping and sexual assault. He says he needs the prosthesis for medical reasons to prevent painful swelling and that prescribed pain medication is ineffective. He disputes the warden Leonard McGhee claim that the arm poses a security risk.
Robert Black, 45, was executed by injection in Huntsville after admitting to hiring a hit man to kill his wife Sandra on February 21, 1985. He greeted reporters and recited High Flight as lethal drugs flowed, then gasped and stopped breathing. Black was the 50th Texas execution since 1982 and the third in the nation that week.
In Kalispell Montana Dixon Rice a mortician at Weatherford Funeral Home was charged with theft for allegedly recycling caskets and in one case delivering the wrong cremated remains. He was arrested Wednesday and released on a 20000 dollar bond. The accusations include promising to cremate the deceased but instead removing bodies and returning the caskets to inventory.
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