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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1985
Page
3
Field report on the Hawkeye Area Council Jubilee Celebration held Saturday at Camp Wakonda near Waubeek with Scouts from Kalona led by 8 year old Jeffrey Driscol, and Anamosa Troop 99 attempting a blindfolded tent setup in eight minutes under verbal guidance.
Iowa broadcasters filed a formal protest with the Iowa Lottery over a ban on filming the weekly jackpot show. Lottery Commissioner Ed Stanek defended the rule as protecting the show's entertainment value while weighing a possible compromise with the Iowa Broadcast News Association.
The State Department proposes a five year five point five billion dollar program to strengthen security at embassies and counter Soviet bloc espionage. It includes replacing over 300 foreign staff with American workers and renovating facilities abroad.
A two vehicle collision on Highway 18 four miles west of Clermont killed Lester Crain 74 and his wife Lila 70 who were in the westbound car. Pickup driver Mark S Tracy 23 Tripoli was in serious condition. Details were not known. A separate crash after midnight left John Peterson 21 uninjured but his car totaled after he struck a fire hydrant and storefront in Clermont.
Ramon Green, 58, superintendent of the Starmont Community School District for 17 years, died Saturday at the high school from carbon monoxide poisoning. Green, of Arlington, was found about noon in the shop room at the school. Fayette County sheriff's deputies said he took his life.
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