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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1978
Page
4
Three day junior rodeo indoors at Hawkeye Downs drew about 140 riders aged 7 to 16 sponsored by Ely Jaycees. Events ranged from peewee bull riding to senior bareback and girls goat tying with trophy buckles awarded in each category.
In Worthington Minnesota researchers warn the short-eared owl, a wide ranging prairie hunter, is declining over the past decade. Biologists like Bog Janssen and Bud Tordoff note habitat loss and shooting threaten its numbers as wetlands drain and fields expand across the Upper Midwest.
The Cedar Rapids Bass Masters Club raised funds for the Dennis Healy Memorial Scholarship at Iowa State University by selling over a thousand $5 tickets for its third annual fishing seminar at Teamsters Hall featuring Al Lindner. About 900 attended a 3.5 hour program with films like Bigmouth. proceeds go to the Healy scholarship. Lindner urged that successful fishing starts in the head and can be learned.
A report covers a trout stamps guide at Quider Section and two classrooms at Kennedy High School with an eight week course starting April 13 led by Bill Krejca. A separate fish tale recounts Ed Lawrence's encounter with two men offering over the legal catch of walleye and a citation. plus a Hawkeye Fly Fishing workshop in Marion and a National Wildlife Federation poll on Carter’s environmental record.
Judith Volo, children's librarian in Boulder Colorado, placed a live mouse among books to lure a five foot bull snake back into captivity after it escaped from a reptile exhibit. A $5 reward was posted for anyone who spots the snake and guides staff to its hiding place.
Mount Etna in Sicily rose by 65 feet during recent eruptions as 131 feet of debris piled at the northeast crater reaching 10,990 feet, taller than the central crater. A three hour blowoff removed the excess material, restoring the volcano to its prior size.
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