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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1982
Page
39
Nations eye Reagan trip as a 24 hour visit sparks regional passions. Officials foresee the visit's impact hinges on how Central Americans interpret Reagan's motives amid a highly polarized region.
Passage of a local hotel motel tax in Coralville and Iowa City on November 2 may raise the Iowa City Coralville Convention Bureau budget from 20,000 to 143,500 in 1983. A committee will be appointed this week to advise city councils on spending the larger allocation.
The Iowa State guide surveys campus life with data on rape reports child care availability and female leadership. It evaluates how women balance academics and campus life and highlights gender representation in colleges nationwide.
Richard M. Ringoen, president of Ball Corp., notes some ventures are dirty while others are clean and stresses the firm avoids dirty businesses as it grew into an $815 million company. The piece appears in Money on page 68.
Tourists at Arlington National Cemetery found a badly burned man’s body near President Kennedy’s grave three feet from the eternal flame. The 25 to 30 year old male had no ID, clothing largely burned, and autopsy planned to determine time and cause of death.
Four children in Chicago area apartments died in early fires blamed on careless smoking and a faulty electrical outlet. In Evanston, 6 year old Cynthia Young died from smoke in her home. Twin sisters Veronica and Kerenia Brown aged 11 and their brother Larry aged 4 perished in a South Side blaze after a bedroom door was breached by firefighters.
At the National League of Cities gathering in Los Angeles 4000 delegates from over 1000 cities pressed President Reagan to back a robust public works program and continued revenue sharing to repair decaying infrastructure and blunt a deepening recession. Mayors warned of unemployment rising and finances strained while praising limited federal action and urging longer term federal support.
The note recalls Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden dying in 1632 at a battle with Austrian forces and mentions the assassination of Greek King George I in 1913. It highlights two historical monarchs and their abrupt ends in conflict.
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