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Quad-City Times from Davenport, Iowa • 18

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Quad-City Timesi
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Davenport, Iowa
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QUAD-CITY TIMES Monday, Now. 3, 1980 Let's talk of trophies, tailoring, talent and Tiny Tim the month of June singing in a casino in Cannes on the French Riviera and in January they go to Florida on tour. new member; a male. John Stonebraker, Davenport lawyer, joined the organization even though his wife is not a member. Maybe this will give the League another reason to change its name to League of Concerned woman's editor he League of Women 11 Voters of Scott County has a i A has a chance at a role in the "La Verne and Shirley" series.

The actress lives in Beverly Hills with her husband, an oil man from Texas ho as her college sweetheart. It was Rebecca who sang at the wedding hen the Weikerts were married. mi ft' 7 trt and there's a promise of an appearance at the inauguration, if the election turns out in Reagan's favor As a member of the Serendipity Singers. Daryl just returned from a Sunday appearance for Reagan in Ohio; and has sung two dates with him in the Chicago area within the last two weeks. The Serendipity Singers keep the Stockton man on the move.

They sang at the Corn Talace in Mitchell, S.D., recently, working with Bill Anderson, Ferlin llus-key, Archie Campbell and Jimmy Wiggins. "We performed and attended a dinner for the 50year reunion of Columbia Artists at the Flaza Hotel in New York," says Best. "Also on the program were Leontyne Price, Robert Merrill and the Boston Symphony, conducted by Seiji Ozawa." Their November tour sounds interesting; they'll -be appearing in concert with Tiny Tim and the Drifters on a two to three-week tour of the east coast. "We'll all be riding in the same bus; that should be interesting," Best said. The group spent 5.

J. r. NOW SHOWING-BOTH THEATRES Trophies? They've won their share, considering that these two voting Muscatine children are just three and five years old. Pageant competition is something girls don't usually get in volved with until'they're in their late teens, and most boys never dream of walk trig down therunwa at all Hut little Janet l.ynn Mel kert, 3, walked away with a total of seven trophies in the recent Tiny Miss Iowa Pag eant in Des Moines, and Aaron Adams, 5, was nann-d a finalist in the Habv Master Pageant. Both are spinoffs of the Baby Miss America Pageant Productions out of Metairie, I Janet.

3, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Karl Mi ikert won seven trophies even though she didn't win the title. There's even talk she might be chosen to go to the finals in Houston, Tex She received a trophv a T-shirt and a crow for being a state finalist, and won six more trophies for: second runner-up smile award, runner-tip personality award, first runner-up overall fashion award, lest party dress among all girls from 3 to (I years old; third runner-up in party dress compel ii ion and fourth runner-up for the title of Tins Miss Iowa The onls competition she J. he "Easy Tailoring Seminars," being held today at the Dock in Davenport, turned out to be the largest such seminars ever held in the nation.

The sponsors added two more seminars, and those, too, sold out. So they have 600 signed up for classes and 150 people on the aiting list. Who says sewing isn't popular in the STARRED () fEATURtS-HSO FIRST MATINEE SHOWING ONlYl swimsuit if he goes to Houston for the finals in December. Janet l.ynn, named for the Olympic figure skating champion, competed against 12 other young girls. She attends pre school in Muscatine and is taking tap and ballet dancing, as ell as gym classes all important if she's going to begin entering Miss America preliminaries in the future.

She's already a world-traveler, having gone to Kurope with her parents to visit her grandmother, Marcella McKlllip. who is administrative assistant to Muscatine's Roy Carver. Mrs. Weikert says the only title she remembers winning as a youngster was when she was named "Miss II Sugar Baby" in a grocery store contest, but as a good friend of former Miss Iowa Jeannie Bollhoefer she has considerable interest in pageants. And Janet Lynn's grandmother has been active in the Miss America program for a long time, too.

Hie of her dear friends is actress and singer Rebecca Holden, who as Becky Bloomer was first runner-up to Miss Texas the year that state's contestant became Miss America Kebccca, ho is alxiut to do a country-western album, should be making a guest apjx'arance on the "Three's Company" TV show within the next two weeks, and she 7 45 9 45 fe an! Best, son of the IMI llU Till' FIRST MLADLYSIN 9:30 pun til III VI i hi Elmer Bests of Stockton, low has been singing at Ronald Reagan campaign stops the last few weeks Ml Janet l.ynn elkert, Muscatine, mm all seven of these trophies in one pageant. Not bad for a 3 year old. didn't place in was punctual- to his mother. Apparently it the other male contestants Aaron. son of Mrs.

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OH. GOD! Rurnc mil i I BOOK II worldscope (10 poind lor each question aniwered correctly) 1 VNhile the Soviet Union reported a disop-pointing grain harvest this veir, signed in to buy six to eight million tons ol U.S. grain over the next 4 years. a-China b-lndia c-Iapan 2 Nikolai Tikhonov was named premier of the Soviet Union, replacing (CHOOSt ONE: Andrei Cromyko, Alexei Kosygin) who resigned because ot failing health. 3 Some petroleum experts believe the war between Iran and Iraq could seriously damage OPEC plans to create long-term price and production guidelines.

True or False: Both Iraq and Iran are members of OPEC. 4 Arnaldo Forlani took office as prime minister of Italy, heading that country's 40th govern-mt-nt since the end of World War II. True or I alse: Communists are included in Italy's new government. 5 President Anwar Sadat officially opened the new Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel, the only land link between Fgvpt's mainland and the Sinai Penninsula. The mile-long tunnel goes under the Canal.

newsnqme (10 points II you cm Identity In it pmon in the newt) TODAY THRU 10 35 TODAY THRU THUD 10-00 jr newspicture (10 polntt if you answer thit queition correctly) One year ago on November 4, militants seized the U.S. embassy in Iran, taking more than 50 Americans hostage. As the first anniversary of the embassy takeover approached, UN St-cretary-Ceneral Kurt Waldheim said he (CHOOSE ONE: favored, opposed) any plan to trade spare military parts for the hostages. Caddustiack TJ JODAYTHRUTHUR -J 10-7 4S10 00 VTC'CIAY THMj TMUR -2 15 7 40 i SJ Sugar Britches sportlight Timothy Hufton Mary Tylr Moors ttomng TtBlVT HAL I USUI IOVH cow raa PLUS "BAD PENNY" rBort Rsynold Hru IfJ TODAY THRU THUR. TODAY THRU THUR.

-2: 1 2 on I have been prime minister of Canada for more than 12 years. Recently, my government introduced a plan to change Canada's constitution. Many of Canada's provincial (2 points lor each question aniwered correctly) 1 (CHOOSE ONE: Bill Rodgers, Alberto Salaar) won the New York City Marathon with a time of 2 hours, 9 minutes, 41 seconds. 2 In the same race, Norway's Crete Vait broke-her own women's world record, covering the 26-mile, 385-yard course in a time of 41 c-2 37.33 3 The recent World Boxing Association heavyweight title bout between champion Mike Weaver and challenger Cerrie Coetee ended with a knoikout in the 13th round Which boxer won the bout? 4 Bill Travers of the Milwaukee Brewers, Duk Tidrow of the Chicago Cubs and Don Sutton of the los Angeles Dodgers are among the players eligible for baseball's free agent draft. Travers, Tidrow and Sutton are all a-pitchers b-catchers c-outfielders 5 Philadelphia Phillies third baseman (CHOOSE ONE: Mike Schmidt, Manny ri Mo) was named the must valuable player of the 1980 World Series.

IiI'MIIhI IMIH' iWcll l- ill 1 1 iii I hi Op.o NATURAL LAMPORNs 'L leaders oppose the plan. 0 AM fri. Sot. Who am If mrnm matchwords (4 poind lor each correct match) -i-i 1 WW 1- observe -clear, plain 2- obsolete b-happen, take place 3- obvious r-old-fashioned, worn out 4- occupy d-obey, carry out 5- occur -hold, inhabit roundtable John Hurt Ann Bancroft CHRISTOPHER REEVE ANE SEYMOUR Family ditcutiion (no What changes, if any, do you think should be made in thi- wt elect the president? TOTAUY NUT DANCER ON JTA5I 12 3fl a IS I ft oe II 12 so i 4 TODAY THRU THUR. 2 00-7 30-0-45 TODAY THRU THUR-2 05-75-10 00 Good 61 to 70 pointt I ait YOUR SCORE 1 to 100 point! TOP SCORE 81 to 90 point! Eiceiienl 71 to BO point! VEC.

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