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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1987
Page
2
A columnist blasts Congress for not tackling key airline problems. He targets carry-on overload and crowded bathrooms, urges rules to cap overhead space and require parents traveling with children to post a bond for earplugs or booze. He also lampoons disruptive children and proposes an emergency exit unrelated measures.
A 27 ton Army artillery tank nicknamed Clyde was stolen from Fort Carson and driven about 70 miles toward Denver before running out of fuel. Two men, a young soldier and a civilian, were arrested as Colorado State Patrol escorted the vehicle through Denver. The $758000 tank carried no ammunition and was left stranded at an intersection near a residential area.
Vanessa Inenon reports that area residents will pick up food monthly rather than weekly starting December as Second Harvest redistribution alters donations. HACAP will add federal surplus items to balance losses while maintaining access to about 9,500 households via 70 agencies in several counties.
Galeata and Bonsall flew to Hawaii for a real estate convention. They accidentally left their 1987 Oldsmobile 98 running in the Des Moines airport loading zone with lights heater radio on trunk open and doors unlocked. A Des Moines salesman found the car three hours later undamaged and untouched.
The visit by King Olave to Decorah on November 28 includes a luncheon hosted by Westerheim Museum Decorah city and Luther College. The king reportedly prefers tea over coffee and has an Oxford education. Local committee members Marge and Frank Barth coordinate the event with a tea friendly menu including chicken breast stuffed with crab meat and wild rice.
Mahaska County Attorney Ken Martens said prosecutors plan to file papers today to show probable cause for first degree murder and first degree burglary against four Mahaska County men in the November 1 murder of a Ladora man. Bond set at $500 000 for each suspect.
Fragmentary text appears to cite a 1545 expulsion in Caen and a local notice on a street in 500 The Aver SE with a frequent monetary figure. Other lines reference a weekly period and multiple numbers, but the meaning remains obscured.
Fragmentary OCR notes refer to Cedar Rapids Gazette distribution terms in 2008. Mentions subscriptions and postal rates with scattered words like postmaster and Cedar Rapids. Content is garbled with nonsensical phrases and lacks coherent event or dates.
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