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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1975
Page
2
TV critic Jay Sharbutt says ABC’s AM America opened as a nervous, cheerful mix of trivia and shallow interviews, competing with NBC’s Today. Tuesday’s show showed slight improvement with more news and longer interviews, though many guests delivered noncommittal or clichés.
A dense telecast grid shows CBS News 6100, weather, talk shows, soaps, game shows, and movie hours across Cedar Rapids Davenport Moline Waterloo Rochester Ottumwa La Crosse Rock Island. Includes Tonight's lineups for news, sports, music, and children's programs with stations KCR O TV WOC TV WMT TY WKO T La Crosse KWWL KV etc.
Richard Tucker, renowned Metropolitan Opera tenor, died of a heart attack at age 60 in Kalamazoo Michigan where he was billed to perform with Bartone and Robert Merrill. Tributes from colleagues describe him as a great American icon and a major artist of three decades at the Met. Services planned for Lincoln Center.
CENTERVILLE AP Police say they have no leads about vandals who caused an estimated $5,000 in damage at Lakeview elementary school Wednesday. A car crashed into the building breaking windows and dots, authorities said.
British critics in London say the conferring of knighthoods and royal honors is outdated and corrupt. They note late-life awards to Charlie Chaplin and P. G. Wodehouse sparkted debate about merit vs age and the influence of politics and the prime minister in selecting honorees.
Former Army Lt. William L. Calley, guilty in the My Lai massacre, told ABC AM America that he regards the American public as the greatest victims of the Vietnam War and that he also sees himself as a casualty of U.S. military presence, while denying fear of being compared to a Nazi war criminal.
Major Eugene Adney announced a daily after school gym program at the Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Open after school until 6 pm on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for elementary students, and on Tuesday and Thursday for junior high students. Nonmembers may participate. Mike Wallace directs activities including basketball and other games at 1000 C Avenue SW.
Four Davenport police officers were suspended and another reprimanded after a departmental inquiry into conduct on December 21. The suspensions, of varying lengths, relate to allegations that some officers drank while on special assignment overtime duty.
Howard Junior Sampson was extradited from Gettysburg Pennsylvania to Linn County jail Tuesday. The 30 year old Cedar Rapids man was wanted for failure to appear on May 28 for a trial on a charge of breaking and entering. He was to be tried for allegedly breaking into a southeast Cedar Rapids residence on Feb 20.
Thomas McGuire of Pennington New Jersey faced a Philadelphia wage tax claim for 3400 dollars tied to his father an air traffic controller at Philadelphia International Airport. Mercer County Court dismissed the suit noting a total mixup and McGuire's income was only occasional pocket change.
Officials said four men were killed in two days of clashes between police and striking workers at Vaal Reefs gold mine, about 100 miles south of Johannesburg.
West Germany's gross national product rose by 0.4 percent in 1974, compared with 0.3 percent the prior year, the government statistics office reported. Incomes of employees rose 9.5 percent, while self employed personal incomes stagnated.
A man armed with a small caliber pistol robbed Tip Top Distributing Co. employee Lawrence R. Anfinson of $46 at about 5 p.m. in an office at 1204 Ninth Street SW. The suspect, a white male about 22, 6 feet tall, 145 pounds, wore blue jeans and a blue jean jacket.
Twenty years ago a pioneering educational television network began operations in Alabama marking a milestone in public broadcasting history. Educational leaders and state officials celebrated the launch as a step forward for school programming and community access to learning through television.
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