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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1967
Page
5
Television critic John Horn reviews the color documentary Robert Scott and the Race for the South Pole. He notes director John Hughes and producer Robert Secondari weigh Scott versus Amundsen, contrasting preparations, ethics, and endurance. The piece highlights Ponting’s footage and the IGY link, plus a note on Twiggy’s ABC specials.
A fragmented news page lists film names and weather updates with brief notices scattered through the afternoon schedule. It mentions Run for Your Life and Big Valley alongside news and weather segments and camera reports.
Members of Plaistad Arctic expedition cut through a massive ice ridge Sunday afternoon about 190 miles north of base camp on Ellesmere Island Canada. Led by Ralph Plaistad, the party, first overland toward the Pole in over 50 years, coordinates with Collins Radio Co. crew in Cedar Rapids. An airplane scouted ahead, noting five pressure ridges north but viable paths through or around them.
Volunteers at St Luke's hospital will be honored in two afternoon and evening programs in the student nurses lounge. Russell F Knapp, board director and building committee chair, will present awards to those who logged 100 or more hours in 1966.
Procter & Gamble remained television's top advertiser in 1966, spending a record 179,156,960 for spot and network commercials. Bristol-Myers Co. ranked second with 93,602,370 and General Foods Corp. third with 93,131,130.
Susan Harapot, president of Jefferson High School FBLA Klub, was chosen as Miss Iowa Future Leader at the state convention in Cedar Falls. She will compete for the national Miss Future Business Leader title in June. Harapot is the daughter of Mr and Mrs John Harapot of 225 Wesley Drive NW.
Don Mossman son of Mr and Mrs Clayton Mossman 129 Nineteenth street NE has been selected as a regional semifinalist in the first annual Book of the Month club writing fellowship program. Mossman a senior at the University of Iowa is one of five semifinalists chosen in the region including Colorado Idaho Iowa Kansas Minnesota Missouri Montana Nebraska North Dakota South Dakota Utah Washington and Wyoming.
A south region quake left 37 dead and 51 injured last week. A board of national judges will review entries to choose two winners from each of seven regions for a $3,000 grant. The program is run by the College English Association under Antara News Agency.
Astronaut Scott Carpenter, 41, says he will not fly in space again after an operation to restore rotation in his left arm failed to improve his flight status. The Mercury veteran fractured his elbow in 1984, and doctors found a callous blocked rotation. Carpenter plans to stay with the program in nonflight roles while remaining active in aquanaut work and future mission planning.
SAIGON AP Former Vice president Nixon accuses Sen Mansfield and Sen Kennedy of prolonging the war. Mark H Baxter of First National Bank of Chicago will address a meeting of the National Association of Accountants at the Roosevelt hotel at 6 30 p m Tuesday. Baxter, who earned an MBA from Harvard Business School, is a former Navy test pilot and Mercury astronaut.
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