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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1976
Page
4
TV schedule fragment lists stations and programs across multiple markets including Des Moines KTIC Rochester Berea and Cedar Rapids area. It references shows like The Ed Sullivan Show upon various time slots and channel numbers with many program names and episode markers, indicating a dense listing page.
In Fairbanks Alaska at the Bare Affair a bartender named Jess Reeves refused to cash two men’s checks claiming they work for the municipal telephone company and could cut off his service. The men argued, warned of consequences, and later Reeves received a call asking if he was the bartender who refused. The phone outage was later fixed by yard service. A spokesman called it a winter investigation.
A third attempt to raise the F-14 from about 1,500 feet near Wes Tray Firth in Scotland’s Orkney Islands failed. Navy spokesmen said salvage vessels prepare for another try after the plane’s landing gear detached from a line from the Taurus. The $18 million aircraft sank with its gear after sliding off the USS John F. Kennedy deck on Sept. 14.
In a United States versus Great Britain world championship, two tables produced contrasting results. West, suspecting a spade lead, chose between clubs and hearts, settling on a heart to let South take 10 tricks, a score misread as favorable due to a potential four-trick club lead. At the other table West kept quiet on spades, South won in three notrump, and West later led a spade while accidentally discarding a small heart, yielding all three tricks for the declarer.
A Wisconsin reader asks about cutting for deal when six hands are played instead of rubbers. Answer: when a fixed number of hands is specified there is a cut for deal before the first hand, followed by passes in rotation until the required number of hands is completed.
The article notes cranberries as a native North American fruit used long before 1620. It describes Indigenous people mixing crushed cranberries with dried deer meat and melted fat to create pemmican for long storage. It credits the berry with medicinal properties and mentions medicine men using cranberry poultices to draw poison from arrow wounds.
A reader asks about delayed menarche with a reported range of 9 to 12.7 years and the doctor notes no fixed normal age. Felicity asks if abortion affects future pregnancy. studies suggest possible links to low birthweight and prematurity. Another reader raises steroid use among athletes. experts warn of growth stunting, testicular atrophy, lack of proven muscle gains, and ethical concerns.
The Associated Press Managing Editors Association awarded its 1826 Freedom of Information prize jointly to the Omaha World Herald and the Lincoln Journal for acting quickly to fight a gag order, leading to a Supreme Court decision making gag orders in criminal cases nearly impossible. St. Petersburg Times and The Evening Gazette plus Nevada State Journal received extra citations for battles over sources and disclosure of documents.
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