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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1977
Page
10
Television guide dense with station codes and programs for Cedar Rapids Davenport and Quad Cities. Notes prime time lineups from 6 to 12:45 featuring News News Shows soaps sports and cinema across channels 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 32 with titles like Hillbillies Gunsmoke Jeffersons Mork and Murdock and NBC Movie Hearts of West.
The 1977 Golden Globes awarded A Star Is Born and Network top honors as Hollywood mourned two late stars Peter Finch and Freddie Prinze. Henry Winkler paid tribute to Prinze, while Katharine Ross and Laurence Olivier won supporting acting Globes. ABC dominated TV with seven wins including Rich Man Poor Man and Happy Days.
Andrew Young was sworn in as U S ambassador to the United Nations by Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in the White House East Room. The former Georgia civil rights leader will depart Feb 1 for a 10 day trip to Tanzania and Nigeria.
Curtis King of 1209 Ninth Street NW was elected president of the Cedar Rapids Hearing Society at its Sunday Marion meeting. Ann Bukacek was named first vice president, Ruth Frazier second vice president, Edna Weber secretary, and Pauline Bowers treasurer.
Peru completed a new arms agreement with Russia boosting Soviet military advisers in the country. Gen. Victor Velasquez helped secure missiles radar and six helicopters, with 36 SU-22 fighters to follow. Additional Soviet technicians will train Peruvian forces as foreign bids favored Russia over Israel and France.
The Salt Lake Tribune cites a three day trial costing between fifteen and twenty thousand dollars and notes total costs of over sixty thousand for imprisoning and executing Gary Gilmore. Prison housing and medical center charges bring the sum to eighteen thousand plus. The firing squad received seven hundred twenty five dollars and guard turnout was high on execution day.
A 30 year old report reveals wartime malaria research in Illinois where 445 convicts volunteered to be infected to test a cure. The program aimed to speed treatments and public health knowledge during the period, with results reported in the era.
Road reports list telephone lines for up to date highway conditions in multiple cities including Cedar Rapids Atlantic Belmond Cedar Falls Davenport Des Moines Fort Dodge Maquoketa Mason City Storm Lake Storm Lake and Des Moines. The numbers provide region specific call options for travelers seeking current road status.
Fourteen cattle escaped after a truck tipped over at about 8 30 p m Monday while avoiding a collision at Sixteenth avenue and Eighteenth street SW. Police and Wilson employees rounded up the cattle bound for Wilson and Co. No injuries were reported. The animals were later seen in the yard at 1147 Twenty-first avenue SW.
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