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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1966
Page
4
Gary Moore and Pat Weaver discuss a new Sunday night variety show with lean toward comedy, unknown young talent, and live feeling without big-name guests. They aim for topical, flexible material taped before air, stressing quick audience response and high ratings.
Fragmented OCR notes show a mixed schedule with wrestling, talk shows, soap operas, and game shows. Items include 3-Wrestling 11:00 7-Tonight and 2-As World Turns followed by 7-Let's Make Deal. The text is incomplete and contains misreads.
Thirty-seven 4-H and FFA teams totaling 164 contestants competed at the All-Iowa fair. Phil Specht of Monticello FFA led individuals with 294 of 300. Bremer county 4-H won the team title with 1,023 points. Webster county 4-H and Monticello FFA followed.
Nicholas Piantanida, 33, remains in a coma at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda after his oxygen system failed during a balloon altitude attempt. The Brick Township, New Jersey resident has not regained consciousness since June 18 and is listed as critically ill. Doctors continue to study his case, with the oxygen loss believed to occur at 57,000 feet during a bid to reach 124,000 feet.
A driverless cement truck rolled into the Better Homes furniture store in Maquoketa, causing about 6000 in damage. Rene Lundgren of Muscatine, away at a restaurant, faced a ticket for a defective hand brake as the truck’s damage was about 1500 with no injuries reported.
North English Iowa Monday night Republican Schwen gel charged Congressman John Schmidhauser with evading simple questions the people of the First district deserve answered He said Schmidhauser voted for high spending while opposing the debt limit increase defended Johnson administration ties and failed to curb costs He urged voters to scrutinize deeds over words and warned against va cillation by the candidate in a town county Republican gathering.
By Seneny Hatk the First district people refuse Schmidhauser’s bid to be all things to all people, signaling skepticism toward the broad appeal strategy and a push for clearer positions.
John Montgomery of the Des Moines public school system was named project coordinator Monday by the Iowa joint committee for educational television. He will serve half time as the committee weighs a statewide educational television network plan with six month terms and possible extension through 1967. The panel seeks a $15 million appropriation and four production centers with 12 transmitter sites, tied to KDPS where Montgomery has worked.
DES MOINES UP I Towa farmers focused on hay making as the major activity in the past week per the Towa crop and livestock reporting service. Second alfalfa cutting was 91 percent complete and clover 65 percent, with corn and soybeans in good to excellent condition. Most of the corn had silked, about 59 percent in the dough stage and 17 percent dented, ahead of last year, with southwest and central regions more advanced.
Gov. Hughes names Murray Underwood 44 of Spencer to the 14th judicial district seat finishing Judge Fred Hudsons term. Underwood, a former Clay County attorney and Spencer city attorney since 1960, must seek retention in 1968. The 14th District includes Buena Vista, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Humboldt, Kossuth, Palo Alto and Pocahontas counties.
The New York Herald Tribune ceased publication 114 days after its last appearance in print. World Journal Tribune, Inc. announced the death at a news conference led by president Matt Meyer, following a merger of the Morning Tribune, Journal American, World Telegram and The Sun.
The Herald Tribune will cease publication after over three months of failed talks with unions. Meyers said the decision ends a long, difficult effort to publish amid labor disputes while other NYC papers continue. The move would cost about 800 jobs and marks a major shift in the city’s newspaper landscape.
AP reports the Soviet government expelled an Israeli diplomat on espionage charges. David Gavish and his wife and two children departed by plane from Moscow as announced by the Israeli embassy.
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