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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1968
Page
8
Hollywood critic Rick DuBrow muses on TV irony and culture noting how modern programs shape viewers. He parodies industry figures and cites writers and critics while lampooning political media dynamics and the gap between propaganda and art.
The House approved a 100 million dollar annual increase to fund free or reduced price school lunches for about four million needy children. A second measure to shield recipients’ identities passed 352 to 0.
A nationwide three day strike by seamen ended as an arbitrator granted the National Maritime Union a five percent wage hike and 15 extra vacation days. The agreement followed hours of talks with NMU, shippers, and mediator Theodore Kheel.
Lois Morrissey Holman, wife of Airman 1/C Robert Holman, was aboard a chartered DC-8 forced down in Russian territory Sunday while en route to Vietnam. Holman had recently left Monticello to report for duty, and his wife had come to stay with her parents, the James Morrisseys.
The cartoon caption jokes about the never ending household task of taking out the garbage. It presents a playful view of domestic life and the daily struggle to get the husband to handle chores.
A long list of municipal court judgments names plaintiffs and defendants with amounts due, including King Finance Co vs Glenn M and Jacqueline R Dighton for 594.93, Northern Credit Co Inc vs LaVerne E and Mary Eschen for 1718.72, Sears Roebuck Co vs Richard Damon for 436.34, St Luke's Hospital vs Lynn A and Lois Ricklefs for 32, and Mercy Hospital vs Larry O and Marjorie Robbins for 35.40. The docket also includes hospital and clinic cases such as Anamosa Community Hospital vs Faye R Sills for 41.33 and The Iroquois Hospital vs Larry and Judy Sills for 320.74, among many others.
Ohio Governor James Rhodes said his state's 58 member delegation would stay uncommitted until the Republican convention. He spoke at a Midwest Governors Conference in Milwaukee, as Texas Senator Tower endorsement of Nixon shifts support and threatens remaining neutral blocs.
The senate judiciary committee scheduled a public hearing for July 11 on President Johnson's nominations of Abe Fortas for chief justice and Homer Thornberry for associate justice of the Supreme Court.
In Kansas City, two boxcars rolled downgrade after detaching from a switch engine, striking four autos in a busy south side district near Country Club Plaza. One woman, Mary Whan, 53, died. Earl Matthews, 19, and Juanita Greathouse, 53, were injured. Special officer Charles Kemp stopped the cars. the engineer said air brakes were released by two youths who fled.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk will take a lengthy break over the Fourth of July holiday on doctors orders. He has a low grade fever of unknown origin and will rest during the period.
The Cedar Rapids urban renewal board votes to add blocks to the Civic Center renewal area to include the planned police and fire department headquarters. Two other boundary additions are proposed for riverfront improvements and a new municipal parking lot.
Iowa's corn crop is in good to excellent condition and nearly finished being laid by, with only 5 percent in less than good shape. Oats and soybeans show strong yields. alfalfa and clover have advanced ahead of last year with early cuttings completed.
MEMPHIS Tenn AP A key witness in the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr is on a fishing trip in a resort area the Commercial Appeal reported The paper also quoted a reliable source that the FBI knows where the man Charles Q Stephens is Memphis reporters could not locate Stephens last week when he was cited as a witness in the King case during extradition proceedings in London for James Earl Ray. Stephens was quoted by a barrister as saying he saw a man run from a bathroom at a boarding house from which police said the fatal shot was fired.
Washington AP report shows consumer debt reaching a historic 100.3 billion by end of May, driven by the largest installment credit increase in over a year. Total includes auto purchases, home repairs, personal loans, charge accounts and more. excludes real estate mortgages and insurance policy loans.
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