01 Sep 1989
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1989
Page
1
A KCRG TV photographer to face wrestler Andre Roussimoff in court. Almost 1,000 bridge players descend on Cedar Rapids for a regional tournament this weekend. A local police officer faces disciplinary action for failing to file a drunk driving charge.
An insurer challenges a jury verdict awarding 1.8 million dollars to a Central City family. The appeal seeks to overturn damages and scrutinize trial rulings. In related county actions, Johnson County supervisors approve funding to repair Sandy Beach Road in Shueyville.
The Springfield Cardinals earned a 5-2 victory over the Cedar Rapids Reds in a key early season matchup. The game highlighted offensive consistency and strong pitching from the Cardinals, sealing the win with late-inning scoring.
A brief witticism contrasts optimism pessimism and cynicism about letting a son use the new car on a date. The joke implies optimism allows the act, pessimism forbids, and cynicism has already happened.
State officials plan to announce a beefed up anti-drug program using the Iowa National Guard without direct law enforcement. Governor Branstad said the public mood requires action and noted Guard involvement in recon flights for marijuana plots and aerial surveillance for a county drug bust in Marion County.
Barton Ray Crandall 25 of Cedar Rapids was arrested on two counts of bank robbery and two counts of using a gun in violent crime. He allegedly robbed Atkins Savings Bank in Cedar Rapids for about 9915 and Norwest Bank in Newhall for 11632 with a ski mask and sawed off shotgun. He faces potential 25 year terms on each gun and robbery charge. He appeared in U S Magistrate Court and remained jailed without bond.
Cedar Rapids native Stanislaw Zajaczkowski, 31, recalled the 1939 German invasion of Poland from his cavalry brigade position, describing bombs as rain and sharing memories that haunted him. He served in an 11 horse artillery unit during the early clashes before the Allied victory.
The Cedar Rapids teenager Jeffrey Hass faces a first degree murder trial in Davenport on October 9 for the strangling of Leah Wara a 17 year old from Hiawatha. His defense team says they will pursue an insanity and diminished capacity defense and seek a mental examination. Hass fled to South Carolina where he was arrested May 9 after his body was found in his Cedar Rapids apartment May 8. His lawyers also moved to suppress confessional statements to South Dakota authorities claiming rights violations.
State Climatologist Harry Hillaker cautions against declaring end to the long drought despite wetter August in Cedar Rapids and parts of southern Iowa. He notes 4.57 inches at Cedar Rapids airport by Thursday with statewide August rainfall below normal, while river and groundwater remain dry.
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