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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1972
Page
7
Cedar Rapids Community school board okayed seven pilot studies for 1972 73 including informal school and family life education. The informal school will use district materials with two full time teachers and planned parent involvement.
Cedar Rapids Community School District approves a 28,646,263 dollar budget for 1972-73 with no objections. General fund 24,628,380 dollars supports administration and instruction while the schoolhouse fund includes bonds and construction. Total valuation 246 million. millage down 3.5 mills.
The Cedar Rapids Community School District reallocated 730000 in phase II building funds to remodel McKinley and Roosevelt junior high schools. Plans cover PE cafeteria and locker areas while other projects shift Kennedy high school work. The board also approved Title I remedial reading funds and extended day programs and set a Europe concert tour for the Washington High band.
In Strawberry Point a straw vote will be held at the Sept 11 school election to gauge interest in constructing a municipal swimming pool at Starmont High School. A proposed 80 000 bond issue would fund the pool on donated land with an annual tax up to 4.4 mills. The vote is nonbinding and city officials have not commented on the plan.
The article notes that Texas, by the joint resolution that annexed it to the United States, has a unique right to divide itself into smaller states, a constitutional provision rarely invoked or discussed in broader state governance contexts.
Three suspects in the August 5 beating of Leonard Rubendall at a Postville trailer home pled innocent to assault charges in district court. Howard Burgess 25 from Alexandria Missouri Hayden Watts 27 from Keokuk and Charles Brown 24 from Keokuk remain jailed locally.
Rubendall was hospitalized after the incident but has since been released. He was reportedly robbed of $100 in cash. A woman initially sought as a suspect was not charged.
Orville Randolph Dolph, 32, of Lone Tree, was charged with assault and battery and intoxication after incidents Monday night in which two women reported being followed and threatened by a man. Police court records indicate the accusations stem from the described encounters.
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