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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1971
Page
16
A fragmented OCR listing various cartoon teams and programs such as Heckle and Jeckle entries with numbers, plus scattered baseball references to St. Louis Cincinnati Windom's Way and American Challenges. Also notes titles Money or Life and 13 Ghosts alongside 40 Rifleman and The Herdy Boys.
Television critic Cynthia Lowry notes NBC plans to remove the peacock from prime evening slots as color TV becomes universal. The change aims to reduce clutter in program beginnings and ends, cut one sentence sponsor spots, and limit opening and closing credits while keeping makeup and wardrobe credits mandatory.
New York actress Geraldine Brooks with Emmy and Tony nominations joins the CBS daytime drama Love of Life as Arden Delacorte marking her daytime television debut. She previously earned Emmy nominations for The Defenders and Hilda Crane. In the current season she has guest roles on To Rome With Love Marcus Welby Dan August and Bonanza.
The House backed a 3.4 billion NASA authorization for the next fiscal year, defeating attempts to cut 300 million for Apollo 16 and 17 and 125 million to start the space shuttle. Debate centered on extending the lunar program versus pushing Skylab readiness and future space transport plans.
The FCC approves the sale of KVFD Fort Dodge Iowa to Fort Dodge Broadcasting Inc for 450000. Northwest Broadcasting Co will keep KVFD-TV. New corporation led by Ed Breen and Max Landes includes C Ross Martin Glenn Christians Glen Stanley Albert Rutledge and E Wayne Cooley with Des Moines ties. Felix asks Oscar to pose for a photo layout advertising a new men's cologne but Oscar declines during THE ODD COUPLE on Channel 9 at 8:30 PM Friday.
The Iowa Senate approved a bill to appropriate 420000 for county fairs over two years, rejecting an amendment to cut the funds. The measure passed 41 to 4 after 38 to 9 against the amendment, with Sens. Tapscott and Doderer voting for the bill. Backers stressed county fairs as vital to agriculture and youth, while critics highlighted other needed programs in corrections and social services. The bill allocates 70000 annually to the State Fair Board and 210000 yearly for county fairs.
The Supreme Court issued an unsigned ruling saying federal court decrees on election laws in the South need not be submitted to the attorney general or a Washington court for approval. The Mississippi case held such decrees fall outside the Voting Rights Act. The court also ordered a Jackson district court to craft a new apportionment plan.
New York Quakers urged President Nixon to stop linking his Quaker faith to his military policies. The New York Yearly Meeting called the tie a source of sorrow and asked him to separate membership in the Society of Friends from defense of Vietnam. A vigil for peace stretched from Monday to Sunday at Lafayette Park near the White House.
The Senate Rules Committee, with two Democrats absent, approved a 4 to 3 vote to raise radio and television ad ceilings for campaigns to 13.9 million for presidential races in 1972. The move doubles the 6.9 million baseline proposed and could boost TV and radio spending across parties, while keeping a 60 day pre election rate advantage in place. Democrats later signaled aims to restore earlier ceilings on broadcast spending.
Sheriff's deputies found a 24th body in the same general area where 23 others were exhumed between May 20 and May 29 in Yuba City. An automatic pistol and 20 shells from the Jack Sullivan ranch were sent to state crime laboratories in Sacramento for ballistics tests.
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