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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1983
Page
3
S week recess ends as lawmakers resume on Monday with a packed docket. They plan a resolution condemning the Soviet Union for shooting down a Korean airliner and debate on the controversial sod buster bill. Iowan concerns loom amid national issues.
Bill Hasek completed a new covered bridge last month in Jones County. Farm residents praise the structure as a practical shelter for trucks during rain and a pleasing addition to the landscape as Hasek notes its aesthetic appeal.
Mayor Don Canney warns Iowa faces a $90 million shortfall that will reduce Cedar Rapids funding by $190 000, signaling broader harm to city finances. Farmers State Bank of Marion opens a small branch at the Farm Progress Show to aid food stand operators program salesmen and others in handling change.
The American Stock Exchange lags NYSE and OTC in growth but aims to attract small quality firms and diversify into new products such as options. Wall Street has not written Amex off and the exchange plans strategic moves to revive momentum.
CRST trucks promote highway safety with a toll free line for public praise or complaints about drivers. An executive says they welcome reports of courteous or unprofessional driving to improve safety and service. Health notes also reference free Preferred Patient Cards from St. Luke's Hospital containing microfiche medical data.
The artists in residence at Brucemore will present a concert of 19th century music next Sunday evening. Guitarist John Dowdall notes that popular music then often sprang from opera as composers and publishers rushed out selections of hit tunes.
Christian Tiemeyer, conductor of the Cedar Rapids Symphony, led the South African Broadcasting Corp Orchestra in South Africa last month and likened the countryside to Oregon. An elderly man in Washington, DC, asked a Soviet airline guard to take him to a Russian, quipping he wanted to beat one up.
John Vorster, longtime Afrikaner leader and former South African prime minister, died Saturday night at Tygerburg Hospital after a lung infection and later a blood clot. Born 1915 near Jamestown, he led apartheid policy, faced a 70 million dollar propaganda scandal, and resigned in 1978 before briefly serving as ceremonial president.
Washington officials say President Reagan approved new concessions to Paul H. Nitze at Geneva on medium range missiles. The aim is progress without a breakthrough, amid the Korean airliner tragedy and shifting European views. Nitze may drop global equality for deployed missiles, seeking parity in Europe at about 300 warheads each side. The plan includes counting aircraft separately and freezing totals, with Moscow resisting some aircraft types.
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