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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1981
Page
15
Weather report shows trace snowfall Friday and no significant precipitation. Normal October totals and a forecast call for a warming trend with highs in the 50s to 60s and lows in the 30s to low 40s through midweek.
The report shows a low of 4 degrees at Baker Montana and a high of 96 degrees at Thermal California. It highlights the broad temperature spread across the nation and notes the unusual heat in Southern California.
A high pressure system kept skies clear and temperatures in the 40s from Kansas to Kentucky. Freeze warnings span the deep south to Tennessee and Arkansas while snow falls across Montana and western North Dakota with up to 3 inches forecast for North Dakota and northwest Minnesota. Snow showers hit the upper Great Lakes as a front moves east, and rain moves through the Carolinas to New England with notable rainfall totals reported in New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Vermont, New Jersey and Maryland.
The Conference Board says consumer spending will rise as millions born in the 1950s form families. Household numbers earning over 20 000 a year grow from 28 million to over 43 million in the 1980s, boosting demand for homes and furnishings.
Kirkwood Community College offers three sessions on single life and personal investments. One Is Enough Living Single runs Wednesday and Nov 4 at Washington High School. Kick The Guilt Habit is a Nov 5 single evening session at Iowa Hall. Tuition ranges from 8 to 10 dollars. Registration by telephone at 398-5412 with section numbers X40975 X40923 and X40924.
Forty area volunteers join a three day training session in Rochester Minnesota as part of the Eastern Iowa Youth for Christ expansion. The group notes its first professional director for Johnson County UFC and its first credentialed director in Fayette County this year.
The notice records births in Oct including Ivy and Veryl Stevers at 312 28th St. Drive SE a son and several other births with names and addresses. It also lists multiple Cedar Rapids residents and couples, followed by a series of local alarms and emergencies from Friday morning including a car backfire, a hot pad incident, dryer belt break, and a medical emergency. The entry notes Moss Hart’s birth on this date in 1904.
A grand jury extends charges against Solon resident John D. Viggos 39 accusing him of defrauding five persons by taking money for insurance policies without providing them. The second-degree theft indictment covers amounts over 500 but not over 5,000 with up to five years in prison.
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