03 Feb 1979
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1979
Page
1
A Coe College student and the student’s two pets Earl and Kimo will soon become parents. The couple met at Christmas, and the note appears in a Page 7A Picture Page item.
Mississippi Valley and Upper Mississippi games highlighted wins for Marion over Monquoketa 71 50 and Amana over St. John 100 71. Other results include Vinton 70 Monticello 59 Tipton 69 Anamosa 67 West Delaware 67 Independence 1, Guttenberg 70 over Mor Mac 72, Lansing 74 North Winn 30. Lost Nation 69 Wheatland 53 and Olin 73 Lincoln Stanwood 56.
Variable cloudiness with a chance of flurries and teens for highs. Clearing and colder tonight and Sunday. Tonight Lows 5 to 10 below zero and Sunday highs 5 to 10 above.
A elderly woman reflects on how service station workers position their pumps to optimize gas flow. The remark captures everyday observations of roadside commerce and public convenience.
Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping faced a tense scene in Houston as an unarmed Ku Klux Klan member, identified as Louis Beam, lunged within eight feet of him in a hotel garage before being subdued by eight Secret Service agents. Teng toured Johnson Space Center and attended a Simon ton barbecue and rodeo, enjoying local barbecue fare amid a muddy parking lot and sawdust-sprinkled red carpet.
Soviet officials warn Washington of a dangerous game with Teng Hsiao-ping and say the joint communique on his Beijing trip clouds prospects for a Carter Brezhnev SALT II summit. Dobrynin conveyed the note while Arbatov criticizes U S stance and China for destabilizing the talks.
Ayatollah Khomeini announced a provisional government and a drafted constitution to form an Islamic republic. He said a general referendum will ratify the new constitution while new government leaders will be named soon. He urged the army to abandon foreign control and join the people as Tehran faced flight from civil war.
Mrs. Charles Fels of rural West Union reported she became a Groundhog Day believer after a farm event. A Punxsutawney groundhog reportedly showed a shadow, predicting six more weeks of winter, as Fels observed a lively but sleepy creature in a mailbox den.
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