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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1971
Page
5
A reader questions a “beautiful” extramarital pattern and a second laments spoiling a magazine page. A third shares thoughts of a spouse’s death and property plans, asking for Abby’s view. Abby urges medical consultation if such thoughts threaten health.
Washington activist Ella Harllee leads Education for the Various Religions in urging objective Bible study in public schools. She cites NEA findings that religion can be taught as literature and history, including Catholic Protestant Jewish Moslem and Buddhist traditions, without indoctrination.
Thyra Thomson, secretary of state for Cheyenne, says her staff approved a bold repaint featuring 3-foot-wide horizon orange and yellow stripes in the Capitol suite. The idea aims to brighten the space inexpensively after initial skepticism faded following a painter’s sample in a dark room.
In Newkirk Oklahoma a woman reporter Beth Lilley of the Arkansas City Kan Daily Traveler was barred from covering a murder trial after being told she could not enter the district court in a pantsuit. The judge cited courtroom standards and said dresses are required for dignity.
Two women fired by Insana Construction Co for resisting gender bias claim they performed sewer work as well as men. Mrs Denk and Mrs Miller, both with families, say foreman said they could not do the job as well as men. Officials reported no arrests as Thatcher faced student protest in London.
A fragmented account outlines courtship in diverse species. It notes male spiders courting females with claw holds, fireflies drawing mates with periodic flashes, birds using chirps and gifts, hoverbirds' berry displays near homes, and moths using pheromones. Snakes and gopher lizards perform neck moves and head bobbing as mating signals.
AP report from St Louis details Bakersfield widow Catherine Sichau offering to send life-insurance proceeds to a fund aiding the family of narcotics detective Melvin Wilmoth and his wife and two sons. Dennis McMahon, 22, and Wilmoth, 28, died February 23 in the West Side raid. The fund has reached 526,080.
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