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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1962
Page
3
Broadway faces sharp ticket declines as the nationwide newspaper strike curtails printed advertising. Producers, managers, and restaurateurs report reduced sales and dampened promotional reach, with only big hits and off Broadway shows managing minor gains during the holiday slump.
Doris Day and Warren Beatty were named the year’s most uncooperative stars by the Hollywood Women’s Press Club at its Christmas party. Connie Stevens and Dick Chamberlain won Golden Apples as the most cooperative male and female performers of 1962, while Day and Beatty topped the sour Apple list over Ann Margret Natalie Wood Yvette Mimieux James Garner Vince Edwards and James Drury.
New York AP reports Meredith Willson's third musical Here's Love based on The Miracle on 34th Street is set for a fall opening. Willson, Iowa born creator of The Music Man and The Unsinkable Molly Brown, wrote the script and crafted the music and lyrics.
John Wayne and Maureen O Hara star in McLintock a comic Western with a staged mud fight. Two tons of bentonite were imported to create mud for the scene as director Andy McLaglen sought a photogenic effect. Bentonite is noted as an additive used in chocolate syrup.
Paramount presents It s Only Money with showtimes at 1 20 3 25 5 30 7 35 9 45 plus shorts at 2 45 4 50 6 55 9 00 RKO Iowa features Lover Come Back at 1 35 5 30 9 25 Come September at 3 30 7 25 World screens Three Stooges in Orbit at 1 4 7 10 Two Tick Itets to Paris at 2 40 5 40 8 45 Times offers Two Women at 1 48 5 28 9 48 Summer and Smoke at 3 17 7 17 Marion shows Tales of Terror at 6 30 9 35 The Man and the Sergeant at 8 20.
The FAA will bar sightseeing and other nonessential flights over disaster areas starting March 20. Nonessential flights are banned below 2,000 feet and within five miles of designated disaster zones, except for search and rescue, news media, or official disaster business flights.
The Washington Post Office department said there is no connection between drinking at the Washington post office and a 7 percent raise for postal workers. James Kelleher, special assistant to Postmaster General, stated the claim.
The text notes that early humans learned from nature to dry seeds as they mature. It explains that dehydration is one of the oldest methods of preserving foods by reducing moisture content using sun and heat from fire.
After A. E. Newton blamed higher pay for more on the job drinking officials noted 400 empty liquor bottles found at the Washington post office. The department largely had no trouble with permanent staff, but about 5,000 temporary Christmas workers may have ignored drinking regulations.
United Nations Secretary-General U Thant won approval from the General Assembly Budgetary Committee to continue funding Congo peacekeeping at up to 10 million dollars monthly and Middle East operations at up to 1.58 million dollars monthly through June 30.
TEZPUR India. An Indian Red Cross convoy returned with 368 sick or wounded Indian prisoners released by Chinese Communists. The convoy also brought back 11 Indian soldiers killed in Chinese custody. China admits capturing 1,131 Indians in fights on the northeast frontier and Ladakh since the October invasion. They have handed over 607.
A U S air force KB 50 tanker crashed into a farmer's home in Kadena Okinawa while attempting to land. Seven people died including five American crewmen and two Okinawans on the ground. Two air force survivors were hospitalized. Six relatives injured. The plane lost an engine after being waved off and hit the dwelling.
An Alaska Air Command report says a fire damaged a section of Cape Lisburne Air Force Station on the Arctic Ocean on Wednesday night. No injuries were announced and the extent of damage was not detailed.
The eight day Jewish holiday Chanukah, Festival of Lights, starts at sundown Friday. Temple Judah Cedar Rapids schedules include a Sabbath service Friday at 8 p.m. with Rabbi Isaac Neuman preaching and a Sunday Chanukah party and talent show at 10 a.m. The observance recalls Judah Maccabee and his followers fighting Syrian King Antiochus.
In Rome, about 330000 public school teachers walked out on a report card strike delaying grades and Christmas reports. Unions demanded cost of living allowances and warned exams would not be graded before New Year’s Day, extending an earlier two day stoppage that gave nine million students a holiday.
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