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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 12, 1968

Page

5

Oregon primary ballot names draw mixed reactions in Salem

Oregon Secretary of State Clay Myers listed eight candidates on the presidential primary ballot including Nelson Rockefeller Nixon Reagan Kennedy McCarthy and Wallace. Rockefeller weighs withdrawal amid backers pushing a draft movement while Wallace hints at third party plans and critics call the move a political trick.

Salem Oregon Nelson Rockefeller Rockefeller New York Clay Myers Richard Nixon Charles Percy Illinois Ronald Reagan California Myers Johnson Robert Kennedy Ekuyne McCarthy Minnesota George Wallace Alabama Percy Washington, D.C Reagan Nixon McCarthy Wallace Montgomery Ed Fadeley Oregon Democratic Party

Apollo 6 Saturn V launch delayed to March 28

Cape Kennedy AP reports delays in preparing the Apollo 6 spacecraft push the Saturn V second launch from March 25 to March 28 moving the schedule for NASA test flight.

Cape Kennedy

U of Religion Director To Be Lenten Speaker

Dr George W Forell director and professor of the School of Religion at the University of Iowa will speak at the third Men s Lenten Luncheon. The event is co sponsored by the YMCA Roman Catholic Laymen and Cedar Rapids Marion Area Council of Churches at the Roosevelt hotel each Friday noon during Lent.

George W. Forcil School of Religion University of Iowa YMCA Cedar Rapids- Marion Area Germany Austria Lutheran Theological Seminary Philadelphia Princeton Seminary Union Seminary Forell Gustavus Adolphus College Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary Hamburg All-Africa Theological Seminar East Africa University School of Religion

Fireman Freed After Peterborough Train Wreck

In Peterborough England a diesel engine rear ended a freight train leaving two engineers dead. Fireman Aubrey Dolman was trapped for 10 hours with legs pinned under wreckage before being freed and later briefly injured. He thanked rescuers and noted he was grateful for the help.

Peterborough England Aubrey Dolman

Long Haired Postman Back Ruling Pending

San Francisco postman Bob Barnum 25 was reinstated after a two week lay off while Washington reviews whether his long hair violates appearance rules. Barnum, with two years on the job, was moved to an inside desk job during the delay. Postmaster Lim Lee sent Barnum’s photo to Richard Murphy who noted surprising looks of some postmen on a January San Francisco visit. New rules last week bar bells beads and bangles but set no exact hair length, saying it must be kept reasonable by community standards.

San Francisco Bob Barnum Washington Barnum Lim Lee Richard Murphy

Win at Bridge Squeeze Play in Souths Down Four Debacle

In a Bridge article by Oswald and James Jacoby a reader learns that a two no trump rebid by South was poor and a squeeze by declarer led to down four. The hand features distribution problems, a heart finesse miss, and a sequence ending with South dropping the seven of diamonds.

Declarer South North East West

Local OCR Fragment Highlights Chess-Like Notation

We read a fragmented text with coded game-like markings such as K5 and Q1092 across west east south positions AJIYE KAITES and other alphanumeric tokens. No coherent event or individuals emerge from the fragment.

Ajiye Kaites

Endgame squeeze seals win in club led hand

West with king of clubs marked, leads a low club. East cashes ace jack, South squeezed to two cards. He discards a diamond while West rakes two last tricks with a small spade and ace jack of diamonds.

West East South

Rescuer of Dog Falls In, Is Rescued In Turn

Patrolman James Ledwell 34 of the Metropolitan District police rescued a German shepherd from the Mystic River after it fell through ice. He then fell in himself and was pulled out by his partner with a rope. The dog shook off the water and scampered away.

Somerville Mass James Ledwell Metropolitan District Police Mystic River

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