Red Pagoda Dining Review Noted for Quick Cantonese Choices
Gazette staffer Ken Sullivan samples Red Pagoda at 3501 First Ave SE. With 113 items mostly Cantonese, the compact 80-seat room serves prompt entrees like Sweet and Sour Pork, Beef and Pea Pods, and Chow Har Row. Three meals plus drinks come in under 14 dollars, highlighting value amid a hurried dining mood.
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Red Pagoda
First Ave
Center Point Road
42Nd Street
Gazette
Firebombed home of Pat Nixon razed in Cerritos
A bulldozer demolishes the former Pat Nixon residence in Cerritos California where she lived 17 years. The house was firebombed in 1974 and again in January 1978 leaving only a brick chimney and front flower beds.
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Pat Nixon
Cerritos
Calif
Swab Installed As Toastmistress Council 7 President
Patricia Swab was installed as president of Council 7 of International Toastmistress Clubs at the Sheraton Inn. Officers include Marcia Jones first vice president Connie Howsare second vice president Sandra Adolphson secretary and Helen Howard treasurer. Installation was by regional president Inez Love with clubs from Clinton Davenport Moline Rock Island and Cedar Rapids participating.
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Patricia Swab
Dairydale Court SE
Council 7
International Toastmistress
Sheraton Inn
Marcia Jones
Bettendorf
Connie Howsare
Cedar Rapids
Sandra Adolphson
Davenport
Helen Howard
Rock Island
Inez Love
Ill
Clinton
Moline
Carpet cleaning plan touted by Racine firm
Mark Dukes outlines HOST Dry Cleaning for Carpets of Racine Wisconsin. The 20 day maintenance schedule, repeating 13 times a year, aims to keep residential and commercial carpets cleaner using a vacuum, spot remover, dry cleaning machine and absorbent compound. Dry cleaning costs about three cents per square foot versus five for hot water extraction, and is claimed to be faster and easier.
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Racine
Wis
Harry D. Rench
Rockwell City
J.F. “Fritz
Iowa
Fritz Rench
Cedar Rapids
Beach
Taylor earns Scout award for World Conservation
Taylor, son of Mr and Mrs Richard Taylor of 3200 Rosewood Court NE, earned the World Conservation Award from the World Wildlife Fund through the Boy Scouts of America. Scout Executive Les Marquart noted the award highlights global interdependence of nations through natural resources. Taylor of Troop 42 sponsored by Garfield School earned conservation and environmental skill badges in environmental science soil and water conservation fish and wildlife management and citizenship in the world.
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Mark Taylor
Richard Taylor
Rosewood Court
World Wildlife Fund of
Washington, D.C
Boy Scouts of America
Scout
Les Marquart
Taylor
Garfield School
Bobcats: Medieval Returnees Bring Trained Cats to Europe
The 14th century saw returning Crusaders introduce trained cheetahs to Europe where they hunted and were kept as palace pets. Bobcats, with sharp claws and powerful legs, could kill adult deer and sheep and fearlessly faced porcupines.
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Europe
Monkeys and Kidnapping Mentioned in Brief History
A UPI item notes Col A M Hass named the town of Bunkie Louisiana after his daughter's monkey. A past news snippet recalls an ex convict admitting a plot to kidnap Bing Crosby twenty years ago.
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United Press International
Col. A.M. Hass
Bunkie, la
Monkey
Bing Crosby
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Patricia
Mark Dukes
Simmons
Childline
Newport
Smulekoff
Quasar 7
B&w TV
Marion TV & Records
7Th Ave
Marion
Boyson
American Gem Society
Bruce and
Robert Boyson
3Rd Ave
Ence
Soil and Water Conservation
Fish and Wildlife
Ateliffs
Women’s and Teen Apparel
Mt. Vernon Rd
E. Vernon Village Shopping Center
Pier 1
Sue
Philippines
1St Ave
Town & Country Shopping Center
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