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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1971
Page
14
A review of new daytime children shows like Curiosity Shop and Take a Giant Step, noting they aim to uplift disadvantaged youngsters but may fail to educate genuinely intelligent viewers. The piece praises ambition but warns most uplift programs quickly bore capable kids, urging varied approaches beyond Sesame Street style.
Fragmented OCR reads like a local weather brief with scattered names and phrases. It mentions 10 days of lives, dating, and a game but lacks coherent facts or identifiers. No clear events, places, or people are established from the readable text.
Oswego Montana, a 200 resident town in the northeastern prairie, was destroyed by a Saturday night range fire driven by 60 mph winds. Most structures burned. only the school bar four houses and a grain elevator remained. Red Cross aid and a Federal Housing Administration survey are planned to assist rebuilding efforts. Local residents describe no one attempting to save belongings as flames overtook the town.
A school bus carrying Gunnison high junior varsity football players crashed on Monarch Pass after brake failure and smoke odor. Eight players and a coach died. 39 injured, with 9 hospitalized Tuesday. Driver Royce Mustain among the injured airlifted to Denver for treatment as investigators seek the cause. Funerals set for seven players and an assistant coach with private services for one.
In Saigon, a special defense ministry panel cleared Lt. Gen. Ngo Dzu of narcotics trafficking charges after a six month probe. President Thieu had ordered the inquiry following a July accusation by Rep. Robert Steele. Dau, previously a two star major general, was promoted to lieutenant general and leads Military Region 2 in central South Vietnam.
Washington Reuters Rep William Chappell proposes two constitutional amendments to create nine districts by population with one Supreme Court justice from each district and six year terms instead of life. The plan would likely place three justices in the South and near one per cent of California based on the 1970 census.
Volkswagen announces board chairman Kurt Lotz will step down after differences over policy, with the presidium expressing confidence in measures under Lotz and noting mutual understanding as the reason for parting. Lotz, 58, had said he had no intention of quitting last week and joined VW in 1968.
A Bank of America branch in Vista, California, was firebombed Sunday. A Molotov cocktail was thrown through a rear window, starting a blaze that caused about $1,600 in damage. No one was inside the bank at the time.
Baltimore AP reports Maryland residents aged 18 to 20 may vote in elections but cannot serve on juries. Attorney General Francis Burch ruled that those enfranchised by the 26th Amendment are ineligible for jury service, with juries drawn from voter registration lists.
United States delegate George Bush told U S News and World Report that Peking could replace Taiwan on the United Nations Security Council. He noted a General Assembly vote to seat Communist China would likely award the seat to Peking, a shift unlike last year's blocked move.
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