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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1978
Page
19
Steamboat Geyser in Yellowstone National Park erupted March 28 ending a nine year dormancy. The giant vent shot boiling water 300 to 400 feet high for about 15 minutes. Additional smaller eruptions were noted March 30. Steamboat is three to four times the size of Old Faithful and last erupted in 1969.
An amusing UPI report notes joggers meet unsolicited guidance from motorists pedestrians and even strangers. It highlights Jim Fixx a devoted runner who logs long miles and defies social expectations by jogging in crepe-soled shoes between meetings.
A federal judge ruled President Carter can withhold documents on halting $885,000 for a Texas Chicano community action program. Zavala County Economic Development Corp sought the papers for a civil suit alleging political pressure influenced the funding cut. Gesell denied the request, upholding the privilege.
About 300 Panamanian youths protested the canal treaties in Panama City. They burned an effigy of President Carter as national guardsmen watched, then marched to a park where slogans denounced U.S. intervention and demanded a second plebiscite.
Cuba denounces British Foreign Secretary David Owen as deceitful for his estimate that 37 000 Soviet and Cuban troops are in Africa and for warning of a potential East West crisis. Havana Radio calls his claim a violation of protocol and accuses Britain of neo colonialism.
A rare 15th century Gutenberg Bible fetched 2 million dollars at Christie’s in New York, a new record for a printed book. West Germany’s Baden Wuerttemberg culture ministry bought the two volume leather bound work for Stuttgart’s state library, with officials stating they could spend up to 5 million marks. The buyer paid a 10 percent premium bringing total to 2.2 million.
The Ekofisk Hotel, a 106 room offshore complex on stilts in the North Sea, serves workers from six Norwegian oil fields. It features a two story cinema, hospital, gym, chapel, and helicopter shuttle service for 1,200 men per day. Construction cost reached $100 million with full development estimates at $5 billion.
A dense listing of services and jobs for women including auto tune ups and repairs, lawn care, cleaning, remodeling, roofing, guttering, carpentry, electrical and hauling. Also babysitting offers with locations and contact numbers across multiple streets and areas.
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