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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1963
Page
5
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, noted theologian and televiewer, flew to Dubuque on Thursday for lecture appearances and raised about $4000 for Catholic missions.
More than 2,000 people paid $2 each to hear Archbishop Sheen speak at Wahlert High School, with proceeds donated to missions by a Knights of Columbus council. The 67-year-old prelate, a Rome Ecumenical Council delegate, urged a new vision and discussed wealth sharing and anti communism in his talks and news conference.
Fort Dodge reports Myrtle Aydelotte of Iowa City was re elected president of the Iowa League for Nursing. Barbara Bernard of an Iowa school of nursing was named vice president.
Base bids for the Johnson county home came in about 25 000 below architect Robert Earnhart s estimate. The board plans to add about 8 200 in alternates to finish basement rooms. Frantz Construction Co led general bids at 410 000. Laren Co 154 843 for plumbing. Fandel Electric 44 644. Kimball Brothers 15 972 for elevator work.
Mrs Homer Miller is in Keokuk county hospital Sigourney for a broken right leg after a fall while removing storm windows. A wind gust tore the window from her hands and she crawled to the house to summon aid.
Johnson county supervisors approve nine zoning recommendations and set a May 13 public hearing at the courthouse. The agenda includes rezoning a Scott township tract to host an underground LP gas storage facility by Mid-America Pipeline Co with safety reviews and independent expert input. Also bids for 500000 gallons of road oil for the 1962 reoil program to resurface about 270 miles of county roads.
Iowa City University speakers report that all living things possess internal clocks for day and year cycles. Northwestern professor Frank A. Brown Jr. tells about human inland and lunar rhythms affecting sleep, metabolism, and navigation during a junior science symposium.
The article outlines two hypotheses for biological clocks in marine organisms. One posits inherited timing systems aligning with environmental cycles, while the other suggests regulation by subtle factors like Earth's magnetic field.
Dick Davis of Cedar Rapids geology senior at Cornell will present a paper on Conodonts from the Middle Silurian Hopkinton Dolomite of Iowa at the Iowa Academy of Science meeting at Iowa State University. He is son of Leila H. Davis of 718 Fourth Avenue SE.
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