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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1973
Page
1
A tasty meat and biscuit pie combines ground beef with onion garlic salt pepper corn tomato paste oregano and egg. Refrigerated buttermilk biscuits form a crust in a 9 inch pie pan. Bake at 375 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes until crust is deep golden brown.
Sharpsburg Maryland officials vote 3-2 to keep 16564 dollars miscalculated revenue sharing funds rather than return them to the treasury. Mayor and council justify by saying money is committed and used for a library fund while a dissenting pair urge timely repayment.
New York AP reports the Museum of Modern Art increased admission by 25 cents to two dollars, a move viewed as the highest major museum charge in the country.
Balloonist Bob Sparks 37 from Pennsylvania says he will attempt to reach Europe by balloon next summer. He was forced to abort off Newfoundland when a thunderstorm formed around him after lifting from Bar Harbor, Maine, riding at 3000 feet. Sparks, holder of the world hot air balloon duration record, was rescued after ditching in the ocean and expects to try again in 1974 to become the first to fly a balloon to Europe.
AP reports researchers at the Desert Research Institute created what may be the largest plastic cast of an underground ant colony. The 40 inch deep by 98 inch long nest housed an estimated 50,000 ants and required a gallon of plastic to fill. Dr Frits Went notes no other nest this size has been excavated. Jeanette Wheeler leads the team.
SANTIAGO Chile AP President Salvador Allende linked rightwing extremists to the dynamiting of a power line that caused a major blackout across central and northern Chile during a radio address. Unidentified saboteurs targeted a high voltage tower on a line from a hydro plant 35 miles southwest. The outage disrupted Santiago Valparaiso and others, as Allende asserted the Fatherland and Liberty movement may have carried out the act.
A long, ad-laden piece extols Haiti as progressive under 22-year-old Jean-Claude Duvalier, recounting colonial history, the Duvalier family, and political tensions. It notes Kidnaping incidents involving U.S. officials, praise for Baby Doc’s crackdown on corruption, and Haiti’s low per capita income amid vibrant culture and hospitality.
Eight masked men robbed the Chartered Bank of 39000 dollars in Hong Kong on Tuesday. They shot and killed a Chinese policeman and wounded a passerby during the getaway, officials said.
Twenty years ago two British trains collided atop an 80 foot viaduct over the River Irk in Manchester. Ten passengers were killed and fifty were injured in the crash, prompting investigations and renewed rail safety scrutiny.
In Yorba Linda California the Watergate scandal reaches Nixon's birthplace guest register. Comments range from I’m peach him to I believe in you Dick. Mrs. Vince Ellingson recalls moving there eight years ago and says she avoids the topic and radio coverage.
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