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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1977
Page
11
Mulberry Square presents For Love of Benji with Benji cast Ed Nelson Patsy Garrett and Art Vasil. Rated G for general audiences. Screenings at Eastown Cinema I.
The new Benji, son of the original canine star, travels to Athens amid espionage intrigue. Ed Nelson plays a phony agent chasing the pup while Greek officials solve a missing scientists case. The film aims for light family fun with affectionate animalantics.
Newark AP reports Thomas Epstein a 19 year old Toronto-born Princeton freshman wrote The Princeton Trivia Quiz Book tallying 2 297 questions across presidents the Bible entertainment and sports He dedicates it to Jeff Blumenfeld and recalls breaking a finger boxing leading to his trivia career He questions factual accuracy and notes modest sales with a playful miscue about the press as the third estate.
Precocious teen Heather Stubble organized Sour Dock Hybrid Seed Corn Co. detasselers into Cass township’s first labor union. She demanded 20 more workers as each detasseler now pulls 100 fewer tassels per hour. Two days later a further 20 tassels per hour cut required five more workers to keep 60,000 per hour.
Fairfax city council denied Ken Selzer's request to rezone two R-1 lots to R-3 for multifamily housing. About 30 residents opposed the plan saying they did not want spot zoning in the town.
The Saturday theater page lists showings for Iowa venues including A Bridge Too Far and The Rescuers, Airport 1977, Star Wars, The Sorcerer, The Other Side of Midnight, Rocky, Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, For the Love of Benji, The Deep, The Car Hops, State Line Motel, School Girls, The Empire of the Ants, The Food of the Gods, Arnold, The Shadow of the Hawk, For Pete's Sake, and local features at Eastown Collins Twin West Twin East Marion with multiple matinees and evening times indicated.
In Burbank California AP reports Don Knotts will lead Disney's new comedy western Bloodshy playing the Denver Kid a deputy sheriff in Bloodshy frontier town. The cast also includes Jim Dale Karen Valentine Darren McGavin and Jack Elam.
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