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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1983
Page
4
Two inmates James C. Danis and George C. Strable Jr. climbed a fence Sunday to escape from the Iowa County Jail. Witnesses reported they were later picked up in a Lincoln Continental as authorities continued to investigate the incident.
Three U S senators introduced legislation to ban sex based actuarial tables for insurance pricing. The bill, dubbed the unisex bill, aims to prevent rate differences based on gender.
The state warns rumors of a falling rate on Guaranteed Student Loans are unfounded. Students delaying applications risk missing fall term processing as deadlines loom.
The First National Bank of Marion adopts the name Norwest Marion and selects 39 year old Larry Hansen as president and chief executive officer. Hansen engages in broad outreach across Marion and Cedar Rapids to establish the bank’s new identity.
Farm columnist Doris Engstrom recounts a talk with a veterinarian who suggests slimming the sow herd to protect profits if hog prices fall. The idea is to free capital for expenses such as a vacation, illustrating a pragmatic farm management thought.
The sick kids case in Toronto involves as many as 28 infant deaths at the Hospital for Sick Children over three years. The Ontario attorney general's office faces criticism for its handling of the investigation and public disclosures.
Hundreds of ethnic Chinese are expelled from Mongolia with armed police and troops guiding them onto trains to China from Ulan Bator. The source notes multiple weekly departures and cites Western observers on page 9B.
The 32 year old shooting victim was laid to rest in a pauper's grave with at least 13 aliases used across Texas and California. University Park police report she was known as Maranda Sanderson Raven Lashbrook Andrew Jackson Spencer III Shawnee Star Lashbrook Shaun Madison Cherriaine Simmons and others. Authorities seek identity amid multiple aliases and pending murder charges against two suspects. The case includes incidents of methamphetamine manufacture and a coma of the suspected accomplice James Perry Sewell.
Despite rain and wind, commencement exercises continued on the grounds outside King Chapel at Cornell College in Mount Vernon. Graduate Michael Koknas of Chicago waves to his parents as faculty members including Jesse Evans Bill Dobbins Hardie Park and Geneva Meers stand under umbrellas during the invocation.
Clayton Carver aged 37 was found dead in his Muscatine area home with authorities saying no foul play is suspected. An autopsy was performed but results were not released immediately as investigators from the county attorney's office and Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation participate.
The Reagan administration urges NATO allies to add about 1 billion dollars to the 1984-85 military construction program in Brussels, as Defense Secretary Weinberger hosts ministers. Allies eye a 40 to 70 percent rise in infrastructure funding to bases and shelters, amid talks on deploying Pershing 2 and cruise missiles if Geneva talks fail.
Federal sources say John Fedders, enforcement chief at the SEC, is a subject in a New York grand jury probe tied to irregularities leading to Southland Corp. indictments for bribery and cover up. He previously advised Southland as outside counsel in 1978 and declined comment citing privilege.
A panel of more than a dozen scientists argues in Global 2000 Revised that by 2000 the world will be less crowded and less polluted, with stable ecologies and fewer resource shocks. They oppose government environmental controls and funding for new agencies, contrasting with the earlier Global 2000 study.
The JI PEO club will meet Monday June 6 correcting Sunday's Gazette error. The correction clarifies the intended date for members and readers.
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