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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1976
Page
6
Weekend post office hours plan a holiday schedule with Saturday window service and limited mail collection Saturday and Monday. City hall library and garbage pickup affected. Tuesday and Friday schedules resume on Saturday. Also brief court notices, Dibble funeral, and a Bicentennial footnote recap.
WEARE NEW HAMPSHIRE England forgives Weare for Pine Tree Riot act of 1772. Eight woodsmen fined 20 shillings each for beating a sheriff and deputy. Fine unpaid 204 years. Weare Junior Historical Society paid $1.80 to Queen Elizabeth. diplomatic note forgives.
NATO and the United States plan a Sea Gnat device to mislead Soviet Styx missiles by dispersing aluminum foil in a shell fired from ships. The system, dating to World War II, may be used by B 1 bombers and will be run by the United States with others joining after a memorandum of understanding is signed in Brussels on September 29.
Mason City in Cerro Gordo county district court a jury awarded Arlene Rossum 11000 for a purse snatching two years ago by three Clear Lake teenagers and their parents. The verdict tallies 7000 actual damages and 4100 punitive damages with each parent potentially liable for up to 1000.
Twenty inmates at Hull's top security prison ended a two day rooftop protest after accusing guards of beating some prisoners. Fires were set and bricks and roof slates were hurled at guards and onlookers before surrendering Friday morning. Guards moved the men to buses bound for other maximum security facilities as the situation was contained.
A reprinted Home Made Cookie Mix recipe by Cecily Brownstone recalls gifting cookies to a Chicago family. The mix yields about ten cups and uses flour oats sugars and shortening. Instructions cover packaging into two bags raisin chocolate additions and baking with eggs milk vanilla as substitutions noted.
Researchers at the Wistar Institute announce a 24 year effort resulting in a new rabies vaccine said to be more effective and less painful. Tested on 45 bite victims in Iran, all survived, and a US rollout is expected next year. Hilary Koprowski calls the breakthrough significant.
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