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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1976
Page
10
A Burlington Stars Club contest awards Sidney Boyum of Madison the World’s Champion Liar title for a bizarre night crawler fur coat theft tale. Other entries include a mosquito net camping yarn and a smoked-fish river fire story.
In Murray Utah a Siamese cat named Mama Rat answered the phone prompting a neighbor to call police. Officer Calvin Dahl found no one inside and the cat nearby purring with the phone off the hook. Owner Leon Robertson says the cat paws at the mouthpiece when the line rings.
Amin Hilmy II, an Arab League observer visiting the Southwest, calls oil and product prices a vicious circle. He says Arab nations need US oil products but cannot afford them without higher income and urges blocs to cooperate on a solution.
David Kendall a former Republican national committee member and a special White House counsel and assistant secretary of the treasury under Eisenhower died Monday in a nursing home after a stroke. He was 73.
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