Ancient board game tests skill with lucky dice roll
A brief note highlights a historic board game where concentration matters and chance can decide the outcome. It hints at a “real old-timer” bridge hand and signals pages 7A for more details.
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20 May 1978
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Cedar Rapids Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1978
Page
1
Bank Robbers Escape With Undisclosed Sum in Des Moines
Armed robbers struck a Des Moines bank and fled with an undetermined amount of money. Witnesses noted the heist followed a tight timetable, suggesting preplanned coordination. Police investigate while reviewing surveillance and canvassing nearby businesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Liberian Connection and Other Mild World News Highlights
A column notes Ruth Ann Ehrhardt uses a Liberian connection to stay in touch with Cedar Rapids friends despite no phones at Zorzor Hospital Liberia. Other items tease a neighbor dispute over a honking woman and a weather forecast for a cool weekend with highs near 70.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zorzor Hospital
Liberia
Africa
Ruth Ann Ehrhardt
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids residential property values rise 22 percent
Cedar Rapids home valuations jump 22 percent as ordered by the state department of revenue to reflect rising values. No retail or industrial changes. agricultural property drops 39 percent. Taxes may still fall if the 81 percent levy rule keeps total taxes below last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
State Department of Revenue
Viet spy trial verdict convicts two men in first Vietnam War case
A federal jury in Alexandria found former U.S. Information Agency official Ronald Humphrey and Vietnamese student David Truong guilty on six of seven espionage and conspiracy charges. Sentencing set after motions on June 23. maximum life. Jurors and relatives cried as verdicts were announced.
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Alexandria
UPI
U.S
Hanoi
America
U.S. Information Agency
Ronald Humphrey
David Truong
Albert Bryan
U.S. District Court
Humphrey
Washington State
Bryan
Marshall
Christmas Craft in May at Cottrell’s Basement Workshop
Wood carver and craftsman Chuck Cottrell keeps a year round Christmas workshop at 4631 Midway Drive NW. Shelves hold wooden buggies wagons and curios along with carved animals posed as if drinking jumping and tossing manes. He recalls a loud basement night mistaking it for a burglar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chuck Cottrell
Midway Drive
Santa Claus
North Pole
Cottrell
Truck rams gas tank at Palo
A blue Chevrolet pickup crashed into a 30,000 gallon Ther mogas Co. gas tank near Palo about 11 50 p m Friday. The impact set off a fire in the truck and damaged pipes and valves while authorities searched for a suspected driver and one person was injured. The tank did not explode and roadblocks closed access to the scene for hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palo
Shellsburg
Thermogas Co
Free clinic founder in Chicago area closes after 125000 visits
Aging Dr. Eugene Balthazar of Aurora says he is shutting the Aurora Free Medical Dispensary on June 1 after funding deficits and lack of a licensed physician. Since 1972 the clinic logged about 125000 visits, averaging 100 to 200 daily, with volunteers helping but no malpractice insurance. He declined state aid and plans possible travel after closing.
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Chicago
Eugene Balthazar
Aurora
Bal
Aurora Free Medical Dispensary
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Marion
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State Director of Revenue
Piersall
Truong
Monique Miller
Los Angeles
State Department
USIA
Washington
Saigon
Paris
Dung Krall
The
CIA
By Tom Alex
Gazette
Tom Bach
Drug Company
Dr. Eugene Balthazar
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