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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1972
Page
2
Hugo Zacchini the last human cannonball reflects on 16 years in the act plus prior circus work. He notes aging, risk of injury, and the need for precise net placement and mechanical safety. He holds degrees in mechanical and industrial engineering but treats the cannon as his lifelong profession.
Cedar Rapids exhibitors led with 18 blue ribbons in the All Iowa fair horticulture show. David Novak captured top honors with multiple firsts in onions, apples, grapes, berries, and pears. Everhart led with many firsts in vegetables, while Susan Watson and A G Mitchell also earned multiple blue ribbons. Other winners included Mrs Cottrell and Scheetz Brothers with assorted fruits and vegetables. entries judged by Mrs Louis Wallace and Charles Cottrell as show superintendent.
Eighteen-year-old women now must have parental permission to obtain a marriage license under a new law granting majority rights to 19-year-olds. The Linn clerk's office notes little publicity for this provision and says it has caused confusion at the office. Before July 1 women could marry at 18 without consent and men at 21. the new law sets the age at 19 for both.
Mrs Charles Rohlena of Victoria Drive SW led with ten blue ribbons and a dried arrangement award at the All Iowa fair flower show. Other top winners included Karen Frantz of Palo with seven firsts and Mrs Herb Richardson of Ely with six first places plus a niche award. Eligible entrants for the third division were invited to submit by Friday with Hawkeye Downs serving as entry help from 7:30 to 11 a.m. Final show includes specimens art designs niches and two age group competitions.
Secret testimony in the My Lai probe shows 72 soldiers who took part were inadequately trained in handling civilians or prisoners. The Daily Oklahoman reports the list appears in Lt. William L. Calley’s appeal records from the 1968 massacre, detailing names and units and noting no prior listing of such untrained personnel.
Wellington AP says a public opinion poll shows 61 percent oppose Sunday advertising. The New Zealand Broadcasting Authority reports the stance will keep radio and television free of ads on Sundays.
In Copenhagen the Rev. Paul A. Lindstrom, national chairman of the Remember the Pueblo Committee, claimed positive information that American war prisoners have been moved from North Vietnam to China. He cited transfers by boat since April 20 and nine pilots moved by June 4, accusing Kissinger of failing to secure their release.
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Lindstrom said a brigade of 150 men was ready to liberate war prisoners in North Vietnam, North Cambodia, and North Laos. The raids were planned to target these areas but were denied per mission by Washington.
Three men died when their light plane involved in flag-raising ceremonies crashed about 400 yards from a crowd of 3,000 during an annual suburban Franklin observance. The craft, set to drop a cargo of poppies for a civic club event, veered at Leg end park and spiraled to the ground in a low-speed turn.
George N. Schuster, winner of the 1908 around-the-world auto race, dies at 99 in Springville New York after a heart attack. His 169 day trek began in New York City with a Thomas Flyer built in Buffalo and finished in Paris, amid delays and rail travel across Russia. Survived by a son and a daughter, private graveside services planned.
An American B17 found intact in a swamp near POPONDETTA New Guinea after a wartime crash. In Tahiti Papeete a Canadian ketch Greenpeace III, damaged entering Mururoa Atoll, is repaired free by the French navy and remains near the test zone as explosions continue.
Washington reports the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews says Gavriel Shapiro, 27, was freed June 30 after emerging from hiding to marry Judy Silver of Cincinnati. Best man Mark Nashpitz, 25, remains jailed. both men face draft law violations and were to be tried, date unsettled.
Warren M. Cameron was upset when a car collided with his on Ohio Route 7 near Parkerburg. The other driver, his wife, was hospitalized with minor injuries and charged with improper use of a traffic lane.
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