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Cedar Rapids Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Apr 04, 1983

Page

10

Old Goat on Motorcycle Serves Nevada Justice

In Searchlight, Justice of the Peace Jack Strong, 77, rides a motorcycle to and from duties at an abandoned gas-station courthouse. He recalls 700 marriages in 12 years and $76,000 in fines last year as locals note his colorful, plain-spoken approach to law in the desert town of 500.

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Dear Abby Readers Urged to Read Aloud to Children

A reader praises the poem I Had a Mother Who Read to Me and urges mothers to read to their children to foster literacy and thinking. She warns that many children in affluent homes lack books and exposure to reading, risking an illiterate generation. The reply recommends The Read-Aloud Handbook and suggests library resources.

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