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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1969
Page
1
Hollywood reports that O J Simpson, Buffalo Bills star and USC alumnus, makes his acting debut as a college football hero with a serious ailment in CBS's Medical Center. The feature highlights his potential as a future actor while noting the episode relies on his presence as the main draw.
The Senate voted to continue housing programs and add a $75 million provision to cover rent for public housing tenants exceeding 25 percent of family income. The $6.3 billion bill includes funds for urban renewal, model cities, transit, elderly housing, and public housing subsidies, with amendments expanding FHA mortgage limits and mobile home financing.
Wilf Amery attempted to burn out wasps in his garden shed using flaming rags. The blaze spread and destroyed the shed and burned a neighbor’s greenhouse, causing $720 in damage. Amery called it a pretty expensive afternoon.
The International Monetary Fund is set to issue 9.5 billion in special drawing rights over three years as a new form of paper money backed only by acceptance among nations. Pierre-Paul Schweitzer urged immediate action with distributions starting January 1971, detailing varied allocations by country and noting that SDRs will expand reserve holdings without gold backing.
Richard R. Goldberg 38 of Iowa City a mathematics professor at the University of Iowa was arrested by Cedar Rapids police after trying to obtain a narcotic drug via a phony doctor calling a pharmacy. He was arraigned before Municipal Judge Clinton Shaeffer and released on his own recognizance with a preliminary hearing deadline set for Oct 2.
In Calcutta the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi canceled engagements after rioters at a Manipur rally left three dead and 34 injured. She condemned the violence and imposed curfews as troops moved into Ahmedabad and other cities to quell days of Hindu Moslem fighting that has killed hundreds, most of them Muslims.
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