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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1983
Page
4
Fourteen Grinnell College students in the Freeze and Disarm group were detained Sunday at the main gate of Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska during an anti-nuclear demonstration. They were released and returned to Grinnell last night.
An 84-year-old professor Fritz Lipmann faced eviction but was spared after the landlord learned Lipmann won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Medicine. The item also notes a separate fashion milestone tied to Prince William at 16 months.
John Hinckley Sr says a newspaper report accusing his oil firm of being harassed by the government is false and learned of it only last night. He calls the claim without knowledge or consent and says the family is upset and embarrassed.
In employee benefits and tax matters, caution is raised that relying on the present Social Security structure for long-term financial planning is likely misguided. The discussion appears on Money, page 5B.
The Right Stuff opened at the Kennedy Center with Walter Cronkite and Charlton Heston hosting. John Glenn, then pursuing the Democratic nomination, did not attend. Chuck Yeager led a P-51 air display as Mercury astronauts and film cast mingled with 200 AFI guests.
In Marion Ohio Starry Elementary runs a Buddy Program pairing small first graders with larger fifth graders. Weekly sessions let them work and socialize under teachers guidance to foster responsibility and reduce taunting while building unexpected friendships.
Linn County MADD with a $1000 National Safety Council grant will mail information to persons arrested on drunk driving charges. The Home mailings include alcohol abuse statistics and questions to flag drinking problems. MADD will track rearrests to assess impact nationwide roughly 60 percent recur.
The Gazette reports three people died in weekend crashes in Eastern Iowa. Paul Cirksena 31 of Cedar Falls died in a single vehicle crash near Mark and North Union roads. A Florida couple Conrad and Cleo Friedrich died in a two car crash on Interstate 80 near the Highway 218 interchange. Larry Johnson 34 and his mother Elaine 56 were injured. several Johnson family members were treated and released from area hospitals.
Massive Arctic ice crushed and sank one Soviet freighter the Nina Sagaidak as 45 ships remain trapped in the East Siberian and Chukchi seas near the Bering Strait. Tass says five ships were freed but winds hinder rescue efforts while officials debate causes and weather-driven obstacles.
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