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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1971
Page
6
Lynne Buffington, 20, of Columbus Junction, stopped a 106 hour water bed endurance feat begun Friday at noon in Lindale Plaza. She slept, read, watched TV, and played cards while the 200 gallon Sing-sized bed, weighing 1500 pounds when full, kept her buoyant.
New York City board of education adopts emergency cuts including layoff of 6500 teachers and staff, suspends substitute hiring of 10,000, halts after school programs, freezes repairs, and stops reduced fare passes as a $40 million shortfall hits a system of 1.1 million pupils. Governor Rockefeller and Mayor Lindsay cite no new funds.
Washington UPI Nixon designated May as Law Day and urged suitable public ceremonies to reaffirm dedication to our form of government and the supremacy of law in our lives.
An American missionary couple, Rev Milo Thornberry and Judith Thornberry, are ordered to leave Formosa within 48 hours amid fears of dissidents. They had contacts with people opposed to the Nationalist regime and have been detained under house arrest since Tuesday. The U S embassy notes they are the first Americans reported to be deported from the island.
The Italian constitutional court declared it can invalidate provisions of the Vatican concordat, delivering a blow to Catholic Church backed efforts to void Daly's new divorce law as unconstitutional.
Thieves broke into the U8.9? army equipment support center in Dachau Germany and stole 40 pistols and five rifles. The Army reported the theft occurred Friday and was announced on Wednesday.
Cedar Rapids planning panel discussed allowing on premises beer and liquor sales as a permitted B-2 use, instead of current rezoning from B-1 to B-2. Members questioned benefits, tabled proposal for further study, and addressed related zoning and development items.
In southwestern Kansas a snowstorm stranded about 100000 head of cattle. Operation Haylift dropped over 11000 bales of hay by 11 air cargo planes across nearly 4000 square miles. Gov. Robert Docking announced the mission ended as cattle now have enough hay.
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