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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1983
Page
21
Round the Town notes in Wellman Advance praise the vivid fall blooms after a hot season. The Belle Plaine Union highlights Barbara McClintock, Nobel laureate in medicine for transposable genes, as a timeless role model, urging children to trust their inner voice and persist despite crowd pressure.
G Alan Sieve, editor at the Williamsburg Journal Tribune, is noted for a running feud with a Norwalk couple. A birthday rhyme sent to him mocks spending on gas and his Mustang. The exchange includes lines about printing the paper and squealing tires, with a light jest about two Nord birthdays and an anniversary.
Jim Magdefray unveils his weekly Belle Plaine Union contribution titled Sour Grapes. The piece, inspired by a John Prine song, captures a dry grouchy mood as the author notes he writes with that attitude.
A chronology from February to October 1983 tracks PIK developments in Iowa. Key figures include Dean Kleckner critiquing outdated “proven yields” data and Block predicting a 6 billion bushel corn crop. Entries cover signup figures, crop idle acres, unemployment effects, dealer entitlements, grazing requests, surplus grain access, and ASCS office enrollments.
Anamosa area resident Dale A. Van Amburg 50 pleaded guilty to fifth degree theft after being charged with removing 146 ginseng plants from Wapsipinicon State Park near Anamosa on Oct 4. He was fined 100 dollars. initial charge of removing plants from a state park was dismissed.
Wayne Neuzil, a Iowa City resident and Hawkeyes fan, records a nostalgic Hawkeye song album to fund a return to Austria for opera opportunities. He trained in Salzburg after college, auditioned for an opera company, and plans to earn about 1000 records in sales while juggling construction jobs and performances. He cherishes Hawkeye memory and misses family and college sports while pursuing a budding operatic career.
Charles A. Hale, history professor and Latin American Studies coordinator at the University of Iowa, was awarded Mexico’s Order of the Aztec Eagle on September 23 in Mexico City for his scholarship on Mexican political ideas and contributions to Mexican American scholarly relations. He has taught at Iowa since 1966 and authored Mexican Liberalism in the Age of Mora 1821–1853. He was named a corresponding member of the Mexican Academy of History.
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