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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1982
Page
12
Community notices list preschool stops on Wednesday date and times. Local businesses promote window treatments, painting, fur services, and home repairs. Other items include a dance contest, library story hours, sewer talk, yard sales, and cultural events.
Federal consultant David Voorhies of the National Institute of Corrections backed a regional jail for Black Hawk County to replace the county and Waterloo facilities. The institute provides free technical aid to the county supervisors and a citizens committee assessing improvements. Voorhies called the county an ideal site with space and design issues in the county jail and under utilization of the city jail.
AFL-CIO targets about 60 U S cities including Cedar Rapids in a program to mobilize trade unionists for the November 2 elections. Labor plans leaflet distribution Oct 19 at plant sites to influence close congressional races with Iowa's six districts likely touched. Rex Hardesty notes plans may expand to major Iowa cities. Lane Kirkland cites low past turnout and aims to safeguard workers interests. Eugene Glover of the IAM expected to lead in Cedar Rapids.
A 19 year old Donnellson man, Robert Charles Fraise, died when his truck pulling construction machinery crashed into a freight train on Milwaukee tracks eight miles north of Agency in Wapello County. Dense fog reduced visibility to 150 to 200 feet, the truck burned, and Fraise was trapped in the cab. Damaged assets were about 55 000 dollars.
Marshall County deputies say Kristine Rossow 24 died last weekend from a skull fracture after a moving pickup incident near Haverhill Iowa Investigators note conflicting statements and rumors Terry Meimann 36 who lived with Rossow is driver of the pickup and may be asked to explain what happened Sheriff Gonzales says a thorough probe will continue and may involve the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.
City sessions at 8 30 a m and Linn Supervisors at 10 a m mark a busy day with multiple official gatherings. Health Center Board noon and Plumbing Board of Appeals 1 30 p m follow, plus a 2 30 p m Building Board of Appeals event and a fall fashion program at Paramount Theatre.
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