Complete Salary Schedule for Central Staff Wages Voted
The school board approved 1968-69 central staff salaries and director raises. Highlights include Hamilton Vasey to 21,000 and Otto Wiedersberg to 18,000, with several other administrators receiving 1,500 hikes. Data processing and hourly boosts for secretaries were approved, plus raises for Beusch, Drahos, Solar, Malmer, Jahncke, Prosser, Watson, Perry, Grant and others.
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Hamilton Vasey
Otto Wiedersberg
Donald Stout
Newell Lash
Ted Clark
Lyle Johnson
Gladys Wathan
Food Service
Grace Peterson
David Trecka
Ther
Charles Beusch
Aldrich Drahos
Peter Solar
Alvin J. Malmer
Department of Buildings and Grounds
Gene Jahncke
Michael Prosser
al Watson
Sara Perry
88 Vacancies for Cedar Rapids Schools Remain Open
Cedar Rapids public schools plan for the 1968 69 year with 88 teaching vacancies. Principal vacancies include 32 in junior and senior high schools and 56 in elementary positions. There are 650 applications for secondary jobs and 206 for elementary roles. Resignations total 78, including English chair Donald Hollenbeck of Washington high.
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Cedar Rapids
Peter Solar
Solar
Donald Hollenbeck
Washington High School
Bid Opening Date Set For Hiawatha School
The Hiawatha school board set May 28 as the bid opening date for an 11 room addition to the elementary school. Architect representatives said plans would be mailed to contractors around May 1 with a tentative completion in August 1969. The board approved plans specifications and contract form after discussing lighting fixtures acoustical treatment.
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Hiawatha
Crites and McConnell
Cooperation Requested for City School Census Drive
City and school officials announced a biennial census starting May 1 with 100 enumerators. The effort, a joint census with the planning department, will collect data on school age children housing income ranges and transportation for federal studies while keeping information confidential. The goal is to finish house to house data gathering by the first week of June to save taxpayer funds.
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City Planing Department
Eighth District Lawyers Set Delegate Election in Cedar Rapids
Nearly 100 attorneys from Linn Johnson Iowa Cedar and Jones will meet at Elmcrest Country club in Cedar Rapids Thursday at 2 30 p m to elect a member to the board of governors of the Iowa State Bar Assn and name other officers It is the first official meeting of the Eighth district formed by the 1967 legislature Speakers include Matthew J Heartney Jr on estate planning and Lester T Proctor Jr on retirement plans for the self employed.
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Eighth Judicial District
Cedar Rapids
Iowa State Bar Assn
Linn
Johnson
Iowa
Cedar
Jones
Elmcrest Country Club
Linn, Jones and Cedar
Emil Trott
Iowa City
John Locher, Jr
F. James Bradley
Linn County Bar Assn
Matthew J. Heartney, Jr
Des Moines
Lester T. Proctor, Jr
Iowa-Des Moines National Bank
Begin Hunt For School Chief in C.R.
Cedar Rapids will start a search for a new school superintendent this week with a formal vacancy announcement to faculty. The board accepted Dr. Arnold Salisbury’s resignation and released him from the last two years of his contract. Salisbury will teach at Western Illinois University.
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Cedar Rapids
Ernest Pence
Pence
Midwest
Arnold Salisbury
Board of Education
Salisbury
Western Illinois University
Hamilton Vasey
Bond Vote Preparations Begin in Cedar Rapids School District
Bond issue planning is underway as Cedar Rapids Community School District officials, with Lipsky of the school board finance committee, work with Chapman and Cutler to prepare certificates of bonded indebtedness and boundary lines. Staff will determine building needs and bond size, with a potential $5.5 million vote this year.
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Cedar Rapids Community
Norman Lipsky
School Board
Chapman and Cutler
YMCA Indian Guides pancake project gains tickets and chairmen
More than 400 tickets have been sold for the YMCA Indian Guide pancake project in Cedar Rapids. The May 6 event at the Y runs 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. with five sub committee chairs named for kitchen dining room food publicity and ticket sales.
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YMCA
Indian Guides
Cedar Rapids
South Dakota
Dwight Belkmnap
Fathers and Sons
Don Wendel
Richard Leighton
Bud Hardy
Lane Schumacher
Delbert Zirtzman
Darrell Sturtz
Dennis Day
Gordon Trimble
Thomas Meyer
Leighton
Wendel
Meryl Stamp
James Nemmers
Ken Horak
Robert Sullivan
Robert Schmiedel
Dave Bush
Hershey predicts 1969 draft call could top 297000
Pentagon draft projections touch 1969 needs as Hershey warns calls may reach near 297000 if the Vietnam war continues. He notes 1967 inductions at 297000 inform 1969 needs while June calls dip with summer enlistments and Marine corps additions.
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Hershey
Washington
Lewis Hershey
Congress
Defense Department
Marine Corps
Army
Party to People G O P Forums Set for Thursday
Linn county Republican Chairman Jack Walters announced a public hearing titled Party to People opens at 7 p m Thursday at the Roosevelt hotel. Invitations were sent to groups interested in state government for residents of the Second congressional district as similar hearings occur in other districts.
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Roosevelt Hotel
Linn County
Jack Walters
Walters
Doughnut-Shaped Mars Lander Signals After Desert Impact
A doughnut shaped Mars landing craft in Pasadena has sent radio signals for an hour after an impact at 80 mph in the desert. Authorities confirm the craft remains functional and transmitting as engineers assess recovery options and next steps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pasadena
Calif
Principal Resigns at Harrison School and More
Abraham Oglanian, Harrison School principal in his third year, resigns to take private sector work in Cedar Rapids after the contract ends. He previously led Lincoln School for four years and taught at Grant School for two. The board also accepts the resignation of Donald Senne, assistant principal at Jefferson High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abraham Oglanian
Harrison School
Board of Education
Oglanian
Harrison
Lincoln School
Grant School
Cedar of LaNiana Rapids
Donald Senne
Jefferson High School
Car Hit by Milwaukee Freight Train Near Station Crossing
Sharon Larson, 19, of rural Postville escaped injury when her car was struck by a Milwaukee freight train at a crossing near the K and 8 parking lot. The collision spun the car around.
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Decorah
Sharon Larson
Postville
Milwaukee
K and 8
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C.R
Hiawatha School
Begin Hunt
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Carl Reiner
Joey Bishop
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G.O.P
Office of
C. R. Kitchen
Optometrist
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Sears, Roebuck & Co
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Petite
Suhn
Cincinnati, Ohio
Sunny Brook
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