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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1983
Page
3
Eight children injured in a August 26 propane blast on the Santee Indian Reservation in northeast Nebraska stay hospitalized in Sioux City Iowa. Their conditions have improved to good or fair. Two adults were also injured but are no longer in the hospital.
Late Night with David Letterman flunked the ratings test in Baton Rouge Louisiana and was dropped from the air. The station owner said Letterman would return if all 3 500 college students who requested its return finish the semester with a C average.
An Iowa City couple seeks to recover five years of back taxes after learning their assumed home is actually a mobile unit on an illegal foundation. The bank says the purchase was of a mobile home not a house, shifting liability and legal strategy. About 200 attended a feminist rally in Des Moines Saturday night amid a string of eight rapes reported over the summer in the neighborhood.
Iowa reports show a drop in alcohol sales with 200000 fewer gallons of wines and liquor and 300000 fewer gallons of beer in the last fiscal year. In sports, Iowa State’s coach Jim Criner debated late minutes after Vanderbilt’s 29-26 comeback win over the Cyclones in Nashville.
Walter Payton threw two touchdowns to lead Chicago in a dramatic 34-31 overtime defeat to New Orleans. The Saints secured the win despite Payton's magical performance.
Ed Sanger of Waterloo won his first late model stock car race in four years by holding off Lisbon’s Roger Dolan in the 100 lap Yankee Dirt Track Classic at Hawkeye Downs. First prize was $3,500.
The Agriculture Department reports Americans will continue to devote more food dollars to dining out through the 1980s. Increased restaurant competition aims to capture consumer appetite and money, according to Money section page 5B.
Agriculture Department officials say export demand will be met and the United States will fulfill food aid commitments in the coming year. They note the worst drought in 50 years is reducing surplus corn and soybeans, easing burdens on farmers.
Jim Mollenhauer one of the hosts for the 1983 Farm Progress Show hopes activities will draw city residents. He aims to bridge the rural urban communication gap as part of his hosting duties. Farm, page 6B.
Weather related events have driven roughly 867 million dollars in costs for the federal government this year. Officials say it will be months before full toll from the summer heat and drought is known. Fourteen of fifteen presidentially declared disasters in 1983 relate to weather.
Three people died in two Iowa highway crashes Sunday. Marion, Iowa resident Thomas B. Aronson, 23, was killed when his motorcycle crossed the center line and slid under a westbound car on Highway 22 in Muscatine County. In Lee County near Fort Madison, four Western Illinois University students from Chicago Heights were involved in a crash on Highway 61 that killed Kimberly Wilson, 19, and Raye Ann Corradetti, 21, with driver Anthony Dalie, 22, in guarded condition and passenger Paul Petrarca, 21, in stable condition.
Lech Walesa withdraws approval of an underground CDN article that quoted him urging Solidarity supporters to drop the Solidarity banner and form regional groups. He says he did not grant the interview and that the piece misrepresented his views, noting he did not discuss these themes with any church representative.
The Congressional Research Service warned the United States will rely more on Persian Gulf oil in the 1980s as Reagan policies favor market forces and military options. A disruption could trigger sharp price spikes, reduced demand, and higher unemployment, with U.S. GNP losses potentially 4–29 percent in 1982 scenarios. Senator Levin called policies inadequate and urged broader nonmilitary measures.
A national survey of 500 cocaine users from 42 states confirms addiction and that about a quarter admit stealing to support their habit. Free base users show higher addiction, with many unable to resist, preferring the drug over basic needs and facing withdrawal.
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