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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1973
Page
18
NBC TV plans a two hour Today special on Vietnam POWs eight years later. The piece surveys shifts in video including news tone, documentary styles, advertising, and programming toward edgier humor, urban audiences, and greater minority representation.
Regional TV listings include KCRG Cedar Rapids WMT Cedar Rapids KWWL Waterloo KTVO Ottumwa WHBE Rock Island WOC Davenport WKBT La Crosse KROC Rochester WHO Des Moines KDUB Dubuque and 13 News Weather reports. The page notes dating game segments and soap operas with stations and times.
In Des Moines Republican House members weigh ending the diversion of 10 percent of the first two cents of the sales tax into the road use tax fund. A caucus show of hands: 29 favor repeal, 22 oppose, five absent. Majority also backs a one cent gas tax hike to boost road construction. Reversing the diversion would reduce the general fund by 28 to 38 million for the next biennium.
The Senate adopted a nonbinding sense resolution 60 to 15 urging continued government loans on stored 1971 and 1972 crop grains to ease a boxcar shortage. A proposed grain disposal moratorium was dropped amid New England pressure, with debate over effects on prices and regional farmers.
CTK reported 66 people killed and 34 survived when the Aeroflot TU-154 crashed on approach to Prague airport after a Moscow to Prague flight. The dead included 37 Russian passengers, 17 Czechoslovaks, 5 Cubans, 1 Pole, 1 East German, and 1 Romanian.
Advertisement claims Odrinex tablets aid weight loss without dieting or exercise. It promises a money back guarantee if ugly fat is not lost and lists pricing for the Plan and economy sizes, noting usage by thousands nationwide over 14 years.
The FDA announced recalls of four Stouffer’s frozen products potentially containing contaminated mushrooms from United Canning. A separate Michigan recall targeted Pappa Fabbrini pizzas distributed within 100 miles of Ossineke. Officials urged return of items purchased since Feb 7. tests confirmed toxin in four mushroom lots and warned others may be contaminated.
A 24 foot tall neon peace sign atop the Prune Yard Tower in San Jose will shine nightly until all American prisoners of war return. The sign, lit during Christmas and darkened until the cease fire, has been on every night since Jan. 23.
Mrs Grace Hoffman of Allentown Pennsylvania shares relief after using Oxipor VHC for psoriasis claiming rapid improvement in three weeks. Doctors note seven of ten patients improved and Oxipor reportedly outperforms the leading product in reducing scales crusts and red patches.
CBS president from 1946 to 1971 Frank Stanton will be named by President Nixon as principal officer of the American National Red Cross. He will serve as board member and chief officer, succeeding E. Roland Harriman who resigns effective March 31.
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