Cedar Rapids Focus Roundup Highlights Day Camp and Eagle Scout
Focus roundup notes a day camp, a workshop, and a new Eagle Scout. Other items include graduation activities at LaSalle High School, overdue book returns for Cedar Rapids Community Schools, and a housing code rewrite controversy. The page also mentions Wendy Boivin at 16 weeks, Scenes guide, and a lawsuit filed by a former Iowa assistant coach.
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Tiny Wendy Boivin
Ken
Judy
Cedar Rapids
LaSalle High School
University of Iowa
Change of Mind Quote Sits On Executive Desk
An index card on an executive desk bears the note Its too late to agree with me. Ive already changed my mind. The caption attributes the quip to Copyright notice.
Telex chief Roger Wheeler gunned down at Tulsa country club
Investigators hunted suspects after the Telex Corp chairman was shot in the face at a Tulsa country club. Witnesses described a two-car getaway, with a partial license tag guiding the probe. Wheeler, 55, founder of Telex, also owned jai alai businesses in Florida and Connecticut.
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Tulsa
Okla
UPI
Telex Corp
Roger Wheeler
Wheeler
Florida
Connecticut
Kermit Horn
Horn
Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation
Telex
FBI
Miami
Jack Bailey
Bailey
IBM
Leading indicators inch higher as April shows gains
The Commerce Department reports the leading indicators index rose 0.4 percent in April after a 1.8 percent March gain driven by higher raw materials prices and increased money supply. Chase Manhattan Bank cut its prime rate to 20 percent, the first drop since March, amid evolving loan-cost pressures.
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Gazette Wire Services
Washington
Commerce Department
Department
Chase Manhattan Bank
Chase
Reagan
Teen stabbed to death in Iowa City store shooting tragedy
Steven White a 16 year old resident of a sheltered youth home died from stab wounds after an unknown man attacked him and another boy Blaine Evans 15 in a Quik Trip Iowa City. The suspect David Oppelt 23 was arrested at a laundromat charged with first degree murder and held after witnesses identified him. Evans remained in fair condition.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Steven “Scott” White
Ronalds St
Blaine Evans
Parnell
QuikTrip
S. Gilbert St
White
Evans
Burlington Street
University Hospitals
David Oppelt
Lakeside
Duane Rohovit
University of Iowa
Oppelt
Johnson
Joseph Thornton
Ron Evans
Johnson County
Blaine Owen Evans
David Carl Oppelt
Thatcher visits Belfast amid sectarian tension in Northern Ireland
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher arrived for a surprise one day trip to Belfast, walking a shop area with police in bulletproof vests. Crowds hailed her while others jeered as violence and hunger strikes loom. A plainclothes soldier shot and killed two men in Londonderry during a car stop, deepening unrest.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPI
Margaret Thatcher
Irish Republican Army
Brendan Mclaughlin
Maze
Londonderry
Maggie
Reagan Eyes Bipartisan Tax Policy On Cuts
Washington AP report says congressional tax committee chairmen and Treasury Secretary Regan moved toward a substitute for Reagan's three year 30 percent personal tax rate cut. Reagan told officials he hopes a bipartisan plan can be put forward soon, while timing disputes linger among Regan Dole and Rosternkowski. Page 2A Taxes.
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Washington
Congressional Tax Committees
Treasury
Donald Regan
Reagan
Regan
Treasury Department
Bob Dole
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Abby
Metro
Robert Redford
Paul Newman
IRS
Robert Wagman
Iowa
John Saxon
Marion
Lance
Thatcher
North Ireland
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