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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1968
Page
2
UPI photo shows seven month old Ricky Davidson reaching for two bottles in a playful sequence. The caption jokes that greed leads nowhere as he struggles to feed himself and calls for mom's help.
Penny Snow stands beside the Rolls Royce limousine Fab One described as the world’s largest and most futuristic car. It weighs over three tons, spans eight feet wide and 22 feet six inches long, and includes a computer, CCTV screens, a camera, and a remotely fired machine gun through the grille. The car features in Thunderbirds and Thunderbirds Six.
A 30 minute thunderstorm dropped about 1.5 inches of rain on Valdosta Georgia students arriving at Sallas Mahone Elementary. Puddles over a foot deep formed at the entrance and the kids waded inside with shoes removed to stay comfortable.
Officers and crew lined up on the deck of MV Uganda in Dar es Salaam awaiting President Milton Obote of Uganda for the inauguration. At the far end a pair of pretty legs belonged to Mrs. B. Buckle of Dorset England, wife of the shipping line's managing director, who sat waiting.
Migrant strawberry pickers in southern Illinois struggle with rain reducing work. Foreman Henry Howell and his wife Mary describe 65 workers scraping for food money. A sunny day pays up to $25, while continued rain yields no earnings. The route begins in Florida and passes through Louisiana and Arkansas before Illinois and Michigan to pick cherries.
Federal Aviation Administration investigators search the wreckage laid out in the hangar at the Los Angeles building to determine the cause of the May 22 crash that killed 23 people.
In a delirious late night memory game, Erma Bombeck riffs on film and book authorship misremembering classic titles like Gentlemen's Agreement and The Grapes of Wrath. The piece ends with a note clarifying Laura Hobson wrote Gentleman's Agreement in 1947.
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