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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1981
Page
3
Nation reports the death of young Kelly Keen last month after a coyote attack. Officials warn coyotes may prey on humans as curbs on church activism coexist with a surge of religious revival in Czechoslovakia. Page references indicate broader regional concerns.
The city aims to add 471 residents as part of extending its borders while opponents resist absorption. Readers are directed to page 28A for details on the annexation controversy.
A Cedar Rapids native and former executive editor of the National Enquirer announces a new tabloid due this month. The publication promises a full course of torrid romance and unrelenting passion.
A Lester Brown report from the Worldwatch Institute warns topsoil loss in the United States and other nations could trigger food shortages in the 1980s. It cites severe erosion in Tennessee Missouri and Mississippi and notes urbanization and poor farming practices threaten cropland while fertilizer offers only a temporary fix.
University of Iowa names king Joe Kolar from Muscatine and queen Sandy Orton of Dubuque during a Saturday homecoming celebration drawing exuberant Hawkeye fans in Iowa City. Cedar Rapids reports Coe College naming Dubuque resident Terry Green as homecoming queen with escort Dave Fellinger of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
More than 3,000 attendees at the American Writers Congress in New York debated forming a union amid rising conservatism. Norman Mailer Kurt Vonnegut and E L Doctorow attended as Victor Navasky urged collective action against centralization of publishing and censorship in schools and libraries.
Bruce Laingen, once U.S. chargé d affaires in Iran, is eyeing a run for the U.S. Senate, according to Maryland Republican leaders. He would need to build a statewide campaign apparatus, facing incumbent Democrat Paul Sarbanes and Maryland’s strong Democratic turnout centered in Baltimore.
Roscoe Davis and Georgia game wardens tracked and shot a 275 to 300 pound wild hog that had gored about a dozen farm animals in Richmond County and prompted parental warnings. The hunt began at dawn and ended by 11 with the hog killed by Davis.
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