Teachers Push Meeting Change Over Salary Dissatisfaction
Cedar Rapids educators urge a 4:15 p.m. Thursday meeting at Washington High to discuss the 1968 69 salary package after 57 percent opposed the board approved terms. CREA moves toward unification with ISEA and NEA to standardize dues and benefits.
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Cedar ‘Rapids
Ernest Pence
Barnes
O’donnell
Washington High
Representative Assembly
CREA
Iowa State Education Assn
National Education Assn
Assembly
Robert Allender
Jefferson
Leona Knock
Grant Wood
Helen Laipple
Franklin
Robert Condit
Erskine
John Carlson
Allender
ISEA
NEA
Cedar Rapids Expands Police Two-Wheel Motorcycle Fleet
Public Safety Commissioner John Oberthien announces Cedar Rapids will add a fourth two wheel motorcycle next week. The new unit will cover all city quadrants, with officers receiving special training to chase faster, maneuverable suspects. The $2000 upgrade excludes radio equipment.
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Cedar Rapids
Public Safety
John Oberthien
Oberthien
Stolen Pickup Found Parked Near Hospital
A pickup stolen from the Darrel Kleppe farm near Tipton was recovered Monday parked near St. Luke's hospital in Cedar Rapids. Blood on the gear shift suggested the driver was injured but walked to the Kleppe farm. a second wrecked pickup stolen from Cedar Farm Service was found nearby. Cedar County authorities will retrieve the recovered vehicle.
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The
Gazette
Tipton
Darrel Kleppe
St. Luke’s Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Cedar County
Kleppe
Richard Barden
Kleppe Farm
Cedar Farm Service
Decorah Nursing Home Damaged by Fire
A Tuesday fire at the Decorah nursing home damaged a second floor closet room occupied by Ida Burlong. A heat detector alerted staff. two nurses used extinguishers until firefighters arrived. Damage confined to the room and attic. second floor evacuated. Home operated by Olive Novotny.
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Decorah
Novotny Nursing Home
Ida Burlong
Olive Novotny
Eastern Iowa Vehicle Show Kicks Off Four Day Run
The Eastern Iowa Recreational Vehicle Show opens at Hawkeye Downs with 13 dealers from district 12 showcasing over 60 vehicles including travel trailers campers motor homes and tent campers. The event runs Thursday to Sunday with varied daily hours and an admission fee for visitors over 12.
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Iowa
Hawkeye’ Downs
Marland ‘McCleary
Marion
Cedar Rapids
Airport Rollin
Hart’s
R and L
Tommy’s
Travel
Ernie's
Conoco
Eden Motors
Ray’s
Iowa City
Johnny Kettelsen
Freddie
Urban
Hiawatha
Cliff
Dysart
Lasso E
Anamosa
West Liberty Woman Gertrude McGuire Dies at 89
Gertrude McGuire 89 died Tuesday after a long illness. Born April 6 1878 in Stockholm Sweden she married Luke McGuire March 28 1900 in Cedar county. Survived by daughter Mrs Emil Rasmussen Cedar Rapids and sister Mrs Anna Parzybok Wichita. Services Thursday 3:30 p.m. at Snider funeral home West Liberty with prior viewings in Cedar Rapids and West Liberty. Donations urged to First Presbyterian church memorial fund.
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West Liberty
Gertrude McGuire
Stockholm
Sweden
Luke McGuire
Cedar County
Snider Funeral Home
Cedar Memorial Funeral Home
Cedar Rapids
First Presbyterian Church Memorial Fund
Today’s Columnists Art Buchwald .picture page
The readable portion notes Art Buchwald as today's columnist for a picture page feature. The item reads like a newspaper slot highlighting the columnist and the illustration context.
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Art Buchwald
Adam Powell Hospitalized In Carolina
Former Congressman Adam Clayton Powell was hospitalized in Durham North Carolina after reporting an irregular heartbeat and exhaustion. Doctors at Duke University Hospital said ECGs are normal and no heart irregularities observed. Powell, 60, was set to speak on campus before his condition prompted a postponement of his Howard University appearance and Capitol visit.
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Duke
People’s Revolution
America
Powell
Howard University
Washington
Capitol
House
Window replacement begins at City Hall project
The Veterans Memorial coliseum city hall will receive 156 new aluminum framed windows with heavy duty glass panes. DeVAC Inc of Minneapolis was awarded a 17465 contract by the memorial commission to replace windows on eight levels excluding the auditorium. The windows were delivered on Friday and work started Tuesday.
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City Hall
Veterans Memorial Coliseum
The
Memorial Commission
Devac, Inc
Minneapolis
Joan E. Harkless Released on Bond
Joan E. Harkless aged 37 of 1215 Fourth Street SE was arrested Monday on a warrant for assault with intent to inflict great bodily injury. She posted $1,000 bond and was released Tuesday. Margaret A. Smith of 614 Twelfth Avenue SE filed the complaint on March 30 after being slashed when Harkless allegedly pulled a knife.
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Joan E. Harkless
Fourth Street SE
Margaret A. Smith
Twelfth Avenue SE
Miss Harkless
Miss Smith
Plymat calls to end military draft urged by students
William N. Plymat, GOP Senate hopeful, urged La Salle high school students to join him in demanding the end of the U S military draft. He said he sent letters to Gov Harold Hughes and GOP rivals James Bramwell and David Stanley urging a shift to abolition. He linked President Johnson's Vietnam de escalation to a demand for volunteer armed forces and criticized draft laws while offering Canada as an option for those seeking freedom from conscription.
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U.S. Senate
G.O.P
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Plymat
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Hughes
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David Stanley
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Johnson
Vietnam
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la Salle
Eugene McCarthy
Robert Kennedy
Man Confesses Vandalizing Multiple Cars Citywide
Brown admitted breaking windows on eight Rapids Chevrolet cars and two headlights on the lot at Second Avenue and Seventh Street SE. Reports list seven more damaged vehicles in the 1700 block of A Avenue NE and windshields or windows broken on cars owned by residents on nearby streets. Detectives noted Brown's conflicting emotions toward two girls as motive.
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Robert Werning
Daniel Karas
Fifth Avenue
Gary Liedtke
Towne Lane
Evelyn Barger
McGrath Pontiac
Second Avenue SE
Walter Plank
Washington Avenue SE
Lester Jones
Sixteenth Street
Jones
Brown
Fairfax farmer Theodel Lefebure dies after short illness
Theodel A Lefebure of Fairfax dies Tuesday after a short illness born December 17 1894 in Fairfax He married Gertrude Flaherty on October 9 1918 Surviving include wife two daughters Mrs Edward Teahen Cedar Rapids Mrs Farrell Gay Springfield MI son John R Lefebure Fairfax 14 grandchildren seven great grandchildren four brothers and a sister Mass of Requiem at St Patrick s Fairfax Thursday at 10 am burial in St Patrick s cemetery Rosaries Wednesday night at 830 by National Catholic Society of Foresters Court 799
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Theodel A.lefebure
Gertrude Flaherty
Loras College
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Edward Teahen
Cedar Rapids
Farrell Gay
Springfield
John R. Lefebure
Regis Lefebure
Columbus
Ohio
Richard Lefebure
Chicago
Armand Lefebure
Solon
Henry Lefebure
Gaithersburg
Mary Margaret Sullivan
New York
St. Patrick’s Church
Bernard White
St. Patrick’s Cemetery
National Catholic Society of Foresters Court
Father White
Teahen Chapel
Urban Renewal Land Acquisition Over Six Million
Cedar Rapids reports more than six million dollars spent on property acquisitions for two urban renewal projects. Cedar Lake has cost the city two million two thousand and six dollars, Civic Center four million one hundred thirty nine thousand four hundred ninety one to date.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar Lake
Civic Center
Old Shrine
A. Avenue NE
Evelyn Dolezal Posts Bond on Speeding Counts
Evelyn Dolezal of route two Cedar Rapids posted bonds Tuesday on two speeding charges after an early arrest. Police said she was clocked at 48 miles per hour in a 45 mph zone on Bowling street and later at 90 mph near the Prairie Creek bridge by the Link Belt plant. She posted $110 and $30 bonds and was released.
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Evelyn Dolezal
Cedar Rapids
Bowling Street
Prairie Creek
New Apportionment Ruling Has Limited Local Impact
An Iowa ruling extending one person one vote to local governments likely changes few Cedar Rapids offices. At issue is whether supervisors must be elected from districts of equal population. A Woodbury county suit before the Iowa Supreme Court could redefine county and school board elections statewide.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn’ County
Cedar Rapids Community
Linn County
Iowa
Woodbury County
Iowa Supreme Court
Woodbury
Sioux City
U.S
Cedar Rapids Builds Jump in February Permits
Cedar Rapids posted higher February building activity with new permits valued at 450 997 versus 377 042 a year earlier and remodeling up from 34 723 to 44 678. Town City led at 792 206 including 637 706 in multiple family dwellings, while Des Moines totaled 774 400 and Davenport 532 036. Marion dropped from 229 500 to 124 000 in new building value.
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Cedar Rapids
State Department of Health
Town City
Des Moines
Davenport
Marion’s
Lattner and UAW Extend Negotiation Talks
Negotiations between P. M. Lattner Co and UAW Local 616 continue Thursday under an informal contract extension after the March 31 expiration. The union represents about 20 of Lattner’s 35 employees.
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P. M. Lattner Co
United Auto Workers
Lattner
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