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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Aug 14, 1977

Page

7

Linn County Public Meetings This Week

Public agency meetings listed across Linn County include the zoning commission in room 103 of the courthouse at 1 p.m. and a 10 a.m. Linn supervisors session with a 10:25 a.m. jail remodeling hearing. Other gatherings cover planning, conservation, civil service for deputies, city and county councils, health board, human rights, and regional committees with various venues and times noted. No Friday meetings scheduled.

Linn County Zoning Commission Regional Planning Commission Transportation Technical Advisory Committee City Council City Hall Linn County Conservation Board Squaw Creek Park Lodge Linn County Civil Service Commission Cedar Rapids Citizen’s Committee On Alcoholism Lakeside Drive Cedar Rapids Human Rights Commission Council Hiawatha City Council Hiawatha City Hall Riverfront Improvement Commission Riverfront Linn Board of Supervisors

Antarctic Station Logs First Above Freezing Heat Wave

Sydney AP reports Mawson station in Antarctica, 28 scientists, recorded 42 degrees Fahrenheit on August 2 as temperatures rose above the freezing point for the first time in history. Normal winter lows there range 13 below to 22 below zero, linked to a southern Indian Ocean low. Mawson, established 1956, lies on the Antarctic Coast south of Australia. Stokely Carmichael remark noted from a decade past.

Sydney Australia Antarctica T. J. Perry Bureau of Meteorology Antarctic Mawson Antarctic Circle Perry Indian Ocean Mawson Station

Million a Day In Stock Sales at Kansas City

The Kansas City stockyards average about 1 million dollars in cattle hogs and sheep sold each market day. Roughly 260 million dollars in livestock pass through annually. Daily sales include about 3 000 cattle 3 500 hogs and 200 sheep. The yards began in 1871 on five acres by the Kaw river and peaked in the mid 1940s at 175 000 head capacity per day.

Kansas City Kaw River Chamber of Commerce of Greater

Sophomore Orientation Planned Across Cedar Rapids High Schools

Orientation sessions for incoming sophomores at Jefferson Kennedy and Washington high schools run this week. Meetings with counselors are arranged in small groups and a district wide welcome is set for Aug. 26. Parents may attend Kennedy event Aug. 23.

Cedar Rapids Jefferson Kennedy Washington

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Stokely Carmichael U.S Zenith Crowley-Klopp Robert S. Klopp Theonsumer Gui Uying Sidney Margolius
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