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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1982
Page
12
Ricky Wright, 22, of 1200 Meadowview Drive, Marion, shot himself in the stomach after an officer ordered him to drop a pistol. Wright called the station at 12:58 a.m. to report the self infliction and was taken to St. Luke's Hospital, where conditions were not released per family request.
Marion officials and citizen committee members used an empty public forum to plan future outreach. They will sponsor Sunday open houses at the current station while residents decide in the November 2 election on a $650,000 bond to fund a new station near Highway 151 east of 35th Street, land donated by Henry and Bert Katz.
Marion briefs announce Boyd Potter for Linn County Recorder reception October 14 from 4 to 6 PM at Bohemian Savings and Loan. The Senior Citizens No 2 meet Friday at 7 PM at Farmers State Bank. Diamond Squares holds a workshop at 7:30 PM and dance at 8 PM Saturday at the Marion Community Center.
On this date in 1944 British and Greek troops freed Athens, ending three years of German occupation during World War II.
A 26 year old Kentucky man, Douglas M. Howard, told Cedar Rapids police he was assaulted with a baseball bat and his car damaged in Stage IV Theatres parking lot near 2727 16th Ave SW. He identified attackers as pickets from Millwrights union protesting non union labor at the National Oats plant.
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