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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1976
Page
13
Create thoughtful gifts for Mother with a back to back two sided bookmark from a tongue depressor, a flower cut from paper, and attached on the stick. Make a sachet from doilies with perfumed cotton, bows, and a 6 inch doily over a 4 inch one. Craft a pencil holder from clay using an old pencil and paint it, then dry and shellac. Build a hot pad by winding rope on a cardboard disc and decorating with soakable paint, avoiding shellac.
Commodore Geoffrey Marr, former Queen Elizabeth captain, works as second mate aboard the banana boat Manzanares arriving at Port of Albany with a banana cargo. Marr, 50 years at sea, says the work keeps him young while retired at Wiltshire, England. King Carl XVI Gustaf winds down a 27 day U.S. bicentennial visit before an expected June wedding in Stockholm.
The FTC says Benton & Bowles produced Post Grape Nuts commercials touting wild plants as safe for eating. Campaigns featured Evell Gibbons and urged natural eating, which violated safety guidelines by implying raw wild plants are edible. The consent order bars similar pitches and imposes up to 10000 per offense for violations.
The Bank of England says it is investigating charges that officials participated in large scale illegal foreign exchange deals. The Daily Telegraph reported false deposit claims tied to money sent abroad for investment, heightening talk of a major financial scandal in London.
A government funded report recommends requiring college degrees for police chiefs at state county and municipal levels. Only about 20 percent of 1665 chiefs surveyed held degrees and a quarter had only high school diplomas. The study urges non political qualifications and standardized selection to stabilize departments.
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