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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1982
Page
3
Reports say Israeli jets bombed Syrian and Palestinian positions in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley killing about 30 soldiers and guerrillas. The strikes raise the risk of a broader clash between Israeli and Syrian forces in Lebanon.
Queen orders Capt Mark Phillips to accompany Princess Anne on an official Africa visit amid marriage rumors. Also notes a Waterloo Police plan to create a Community Relations Section and Professional Standards Division to address morale, plus Cedar Rapids Regis leads UPIs 3A football poll.
The weekly auction shows three month bills down and six month bills up. Savers will see some rates rise and others fall with one rate staying unchanged. The note appears in Money page 50.
Jere Wissink of Holiday Wrecker and Crane Service entered a 750 Kenworth wrecker in the Illinois Annual Convention of Professional Towing and Recovery Operators in Pekin. He earned second place in the over 15,000 pound category as competitors from around the country judged trucks on setup and maintenance.
Col. Edward J. Dickinson will retire as chief of the Iowa State Patrol after seven years in the post. He will remain with the Department of Public Safety as a peace officer in the fire marshal's office. Dickinson, 55, has 31 years with the patrol and will start a new assignment focusing on fire inspections.
Northestern Bell reports a Des Moines based computer outage disrupted operator assisted long distance calls in area codes 515 and 319 from 7 to 8:30 a.m. and again 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Direct dial calls remained usable as crews fixed the system by 4:30 p.m. Radio stations were asked to tell customers to dial direct to avoid overloading the system. Ed Mattix said the failure was isolated and not previously seen.
In Manchester Georgia the state's star witness testified there is no proof former Sheriff Bert Elledge Jr. forged a fingerprint and sent it to the Iowa crime lab. Darwin Chapman said Elledge could only have touched the evidence to leave the ink print. The trial's fourth day featured extensive fingerprint analysis and cross examination.
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