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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1982
Page
3
Benjamin Sasway received a 30 month prison term from a federal judge in San Diego for failing to register with the Selective Service System, the first American jailed since the Vietnam era for this offense.
Two Cedar Rapids veterans court a political clash as Wally Horn and Robert M. L. Johnson square off for the 25th District Senate seat in a race that could end one of their legislative careers. The contest shapes up with the January legislature session approaching.
Talks between the National Football League players and management continue amid renewed backtracking as actions stall progress.
Gazette Farm Editor Al Swegle interviews Frank and Mae Novotny who hold 50 years of 4-H leadership in Linn County the longest tenure on record. Mrs Novotny will end the tradition with her retirement this year.
Iowa State Patrol officials seek to redefine truck speeding as corporate crime rather than a personal offense to curb chronic speeding by drivers for specific trucking firms. Transportation Regulation Board spokesmen cite legal obstacles, while industry controllers support targeting the individual driver rather than the firm.
Gerald Eugene Stano, 31, already serving three life terms for three Florida slayings, confessed to murdering 22 other women and hinted at more. Investigators link him to additional unsolved cases in Florida and possibly New Jersey and Pennsylvania, with details and timing spanning 1969 to 1973.
In a California prison interview Sara Jane Moore expresses regret about firing at President Ford in 1975. She says she missed by five feet due to a faulty gun sight and reflects on dissent, violence, and her failed FBI ties.
On this date in 1918 the German Hindenburg Line was breached as World War I neared its conclusion. The Allied advance signaled a pivotal shift in the conflict and foreshadowed the approaching Armistice.
Linn County deputy James Neagle will resume detective bureau duties at 8 a.m. Wednesday Sheriff Don Buzz Sawyer announced. Neagle had been moved to jail duty July 29 and appealed the transfer to the Civil Service Commission which found partial disciplinary action and reversed the transfer while preserving future reassignment rights. Sawyer will decide Neagle’s future duties after his return.
The Iowa Natural Resources Council approved a 144 berth marina near Lansing in Allamakee County but urged the Conservation Commission to reexamine. The plan costs at least 2.5 million dollars and may exceed 540 thousand dollars for excavation, with environmental impacts including threatened water horse tail and spring peeper habitats and potential river otter habitat. Dredging about 200000 cubic yards of murky material adds to the cost and disruption.
Warrant affidavits in Pushmataha County Oklahoma name Robert Whiteing 29 and William Whiteing 21 as suspects in the fatal shootings of James Bowers 54 and Reverend Weldon Lasater 65 during a fishing trip near Sobol. Robbery suspected. authorities seek a 1951 rust red GMC camper equipped pickup. One suspect had lived in Honeygrove Texas. the other is a former Marine.
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