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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1972
Page
4
Hollywood reports a drop in audience for major late night talk shows as NBCs Johnny Carson remains the exception. Carson shifts his Tonight show to Burbank, California, signaling a more entertainment oriented format anchored in Hollywood guests and show business topics.
Hollywood welcomes Johnny Carson and the Tonight Show cast as NBC moves from New York to the West Coast. The Los Angeles city council passed a resolution and declared Monday Johnny Carson Day. The opening guests included Nancy Reagan Shelly Winters Don Rickles Bob Newhart and Carol Wayne.
Fragmented OCR listing multiple TV stations such as WOC TV Des Moines WHO TV Rochester and KDUB Dubuque. Mentions Tuesday night schedules with 6:00 and 2:00 time slots, general hospital and weather segments, and other program notes. Lacks coherent narrative or complete items.
General Motors and Ford were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiring to restrain competition in the fleet market. The two counts were filed with a companion civil suit in Detroit. Also named were National Automobile Dealers Assn Peterson Howell & Heather Inc and unnamed others. The fleet market accounted for about 12 percent of new car registrations in 1969. GM and Ford together held roughly 75 percent of that market.
New York Times wins the Pulitzer Prize for public service for publishing the Pentagon papers amid trustee reservations about certain journalism awards. Other prizes go to Jack Anderson and AP photographers Horst Faas and Michel Laurent for coverage of East Pakistan abuses.
Washington reports Nixon has held secret talks with Soviet leader Brezhnev, boosting prospects for a SALT accord. Ambassador Smith will return to Helsinki with new instructions as Semenov also may receive guidance. Officials say advances were made in a broadening of an offensive freeze possibly covering submarine missiles.
The Times reports a confidential city study estimating more than 300,000 New Yorkers were habitual users of heroin or narcotics between 1964 and 1970. It notes a 42 percent rise in identified narcotics abusers in 1970, with 48,187 new abusers last year, mostly heroin. The estimated 416,918 drug users were protected from 151,219 reported by agencies. Narcotics include morphine, Demerol, and methadone.
District Chairman Roger Halvorson of Monona says a Republican will announce the party’s candidate for second district congressman on May 8 or May 12 at Manchester. The move follows Sen. John Walsh’s withdrawal and Rep. John Culver’s decision to run for re election, reshaping the GOP field and leaving no hinted identity.
A Senate endorsed resolution sent to President Nixon urges each American family to plant a vegetable garden to save money fight inflation and improve health. The measure notes the enjoyment of family growing and the goal is practical adoption nationwide.
The court would be forced to swim upstream against the tide of evidence too strong to resist, risking a ruling that counters the weight of proof presented by the union case.
DES MOINES Rain slowed field work last week, leaving less than four days suitable for work. Corn planting is under ten percent complete, behind last year's fifteen percent. Many counties have completed seeding oats with nearly one percent of oats seeded for the state. Plowing is eight percent completed, compared with ninety percent by this date last year.
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