Local Cedar Rapids amateur theater thrives on unseen labor
Cedar Rapids and Marion boast a growing theater scene driven by volunteers. Joe Sax, managing director of Cedar Rapids Community Theater, says local talent outpaces expectations despite less formal training. Pam Gearhart, a CRCT founder, shifted from acting to backstage work, contributing majorly to technical setups and production support.
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Cedar Rapids
Marion
Joe Sax
St. Paul
Twin Cities
America
Pam Gearhart
Twenty-ninth Street Drive
CRCT
Blanche du Bais
Doug Anderson
Weather outlook with cooler start and sunny weekend
Mostly cloudy and cooler today with highs in the low 50s and partly cloudy tonight with mid 30s lows. Sunday mostly sunny with highs in the 50s colors the weekend forecast.
Sixty-six Dutch apple pies bake up community event
Postville men hosted a Mother-Daughter banquet featuring Dutch apple pie as dessert. The piece notes a revival in handmade knives with a prominent Southern owner, plus a look at amateurs in theatre who describe their craft as labor of love and social lifeblood.
Goldwater urges tighter intel watch over agencies
Sen. Barry Goldwater says the Senate needs a permanent committee to oversee U S intelligence agencies about as much as the nation needs more inflation. He mocks the idea and suggests spies and leakers be prosecuted.
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Washington
Senate
U.S
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Botswana President Urges Rhodesians to Fight
Sir Seretse Khama of Botswana told blacks in Rhodesia that the fight is theirs to overthrow the white minority government led by Prime Minister Ian Smith. Rhodesia's regime started an air mail publicity push claiming Rhodesians have much to be thankful for.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Seretse Khama
Botswana
Rhodesia
Ian Smith
Index notes rise in car insurance for young single men
The index shows higher rates for young single men, and the joke asks why a 50 year old who is reckless would not marry, implying a stereotype about risk and marital status.
Washington High School Students Walk Home Near Tracks
Connie Hatch and Kelly Meier, sophomores at Washington High School, were photographed walking home Friday afternoon along Milwaukee Road railroad tracks about a block east of Arthur School, at 741 and 834 Twenty-seventh Street NE.
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Connie Hatch
Twenty-seventh Street
Kelly Meier
Washington High School
Arthur School
Tentative Settlement For 130000 Teamsters
Labor Secretary W J Usery announced a partial settlement in the nationwide truckers strike. About 60 to 65 percent of the 400000 Teamsters are now employed by firms settled, with 130000 workers affected by the tentative deal. Auto makers cut production or laid off workers due to parts shortages tied to the strike.
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San Francisco
Teamsters
Arlington Heights
Ill
W.J. Usery, Jr
Frank Fitzsimmons
The
Auto
White House
Usery
Motor Carriers Labor Advisory Council
Roy Lane
Teamsters Local 200
Milwaukee
Trucking Employers Inc
Ford
American Motors Corp
General Motors Corp
Soviet commentator blasts loudmouths over detente tone
Moscow based Georgi Arbatov, head of the Institute of the USA and Canada, cautioned President Ford against listening to right wing loud mouths and old horses in the Cold War. He praised potential for easing tensions and arms accords with the United States while condemning unrestrained arms races and risky concessions.
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Moscow
UPL
Ford
Georgi Arbatov
Institute of the
USA
Canada
United States
Arbatov
Washington
Communist Party
Pravda
U.S
Peking
Motorgate case yields three to five year term
Former auto service manager George Edgerly of Butler Chevrolet Lowell faces a three to five year prison sentence after a Middlesex superior court conviction for larceny over 100 dollars in a sweeping fraud scheme called Motorgate. The fraud involved false warranty claims to General Motors from 1967 to 1974, contributing to substantial GM losses and triggering a broader probe across Northeastern dealerships.
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Lowell, Mass
Henry Chmielinski
General Motors
George Edgerly
Middlesex
Edgerly
Butler Chevrolet
Chevrolet
Frank Smith
Danvers
New York City
Boston
Detroit
Motorgate
Salary Cut Approved by Cedar Rapids Library Board
Cedar Rapids public library board voted to reduce staff salaries by 920,000 due to a severe next-year budget shortfall. The decision will likely shorten hours, cut personnel, and prompts director Tom Carney to prepare specific recommendations by month’s end.
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Cedar Rapids
Carney
Europe Fails On Economic and Voting Issues
A West European summit in Luxembourg failed to agree on plans for electing a European Parliament or coordinating economic policy. Leaders from France West Germany Britain and other EC members issued a brief statement deploring Rhodesia events and endorsed a British proposal to end the African crisis.
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Luxembourg
Poiduy
Valery Gascard W.estaing
France
Helmut Schmidt
West Germany
Harold W
Britain
James O.laghan
Wilson
Ieaders
Rhodesia
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Pippin
Tom Fruebling
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Joe DiMaggio
Sax
CBCT
Postville Project
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Conveigm
John
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Ronald Reagan
George Wallace
Middlesex County House of Correction
Chmielinski
Tom Fruehlin
Europe
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