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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1978
Page
14
In Lincoln Nebraska during a warm-up heat of a baby crawling contest eight month old Joshua Jakoubek and ten month old Joshua Johnson diverged from the course. Jakoubek reacted with a swift right jab to Johnson's jaw to settle the matter.
Two East Moline firefighters stand by as a burning condemned house, recently used by the department for a practice fire, threatens to grow. The crew pauses for a break while the flames intensify in the structure.
Country stars Bobbie Gentry and Jim Stafford wed Sunday under a sycamore tree at a Fayette County estate near Memphis Tennessee. Governor John Wilder officiated the ceremony. Gentry age 35 rose to fame with Ode to Billy Joe while Stafford age 34 charted with Spiders and Snakes.
Four Ku Klux Klan members led by Mississippi Grand Dragon Douglas Coen were attacked by demonstrators with anti Klan placards. A Boston policeman stood in the background as the clash erupted Sunday at City Hall Plaza, with one placard reading Death to the KKK Committee against racism.
In a Buchwald spoof, a sports-obsessed man named Phil McCloskey sinks into a TV coma watching nonstop football and baseball playoff coverage. His wife and visitor note his fixation, with the punchline that he finally whispers Cosell talks too much as the World Series nears.
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