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Cedar Rapids Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

10 Jul 1980

Page 11

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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jul 10, 1980

Page

11

Oven-cleaning prompts doomsday musings in quirky diary

A reader recalls finding a 1980s newspaper dated April 29 and reflects on front-page items from Walter Cronkite to the Ford quarterly loss, Doomsday bunkers in Montana, and a casual domestic scene with a collapsing world-ending joke among neighbors and a couple debating end times and errands.

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Walter Cronkite John Anderson NFL Ford Charlie Brown Snoopy ABC Angel Big City Trisha Rosy Fort Romeo France Montana
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Left Handed Nation Gains Ground In Portland Stores

Portland shopkeeper June Peterson selling left handed products from The Southpaw and Lefthanders International promote a lighthearted rights theme. The Bill of Lefts declares independence for left handers and praises left handed salutes and handshakes as group members cite pride in being left handed.

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Portland Ore Texas Bill Hobby Peter
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Court orders naked court appearance for derelict detainee

In Missoula Montana Donald Ladd 23 from Seattle tore his clothes in a city jail cell and Municipal Judge Wallace Clark ordered him to attend court stark naked. The judge set bond at 1500 and had him taken to the county jail for coveralls while remaining in the same building. Also noted is the death of Arthur Fiedler at age 84, former Boston Pops conductor, on this date in 1979.

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Missoula Mont Donald Ladd Wallace Clark Clark Ladd Seattle Arthur Fiedler Boston Pops
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