Birthday cake honors Good Tyme Gals in Cedar Rapids
The Good Tyme Gals, eight women over 63 with no officers, met Tuesday at Joe Palumbo residence in Cedar Rapids to celebrate two birthdays. Ema Prusha and Matilda Havlik were honored, with others include Muriel Gaunt Harriet Lents and Maxine Svoboda. The group tours local businesses about twice monthly and enjoys lunch outings.
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Cedar Rapids
Ema Prusha
Seventeenth Street
Muriel Gaunt
Thirty-third Street
Harriet Lents
Fifth Avenue
Matilda Havlik
Twenty-sixth Street
Maxine Svoboda
Thirtieth Street
Joe Palumbo
Thirtieth Street Court NW
YMCA Board Eyes Growth and Fund Drive
Metropolitan Area YMCA board approves a long range plan aiming to double membership and increase served persons by 1996. The year long study led by Alan Dalziel outlines expanding programs and facilities, strengthening the Christian foundation, and boosting cooperation with agencies while developing financial resources for goals. A capital fund campaign launches in April to finance immediate facility needs.
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YMCA
Metropolitan Area Ymca
Alan Dalziel
Christian Foundation
YMCA Plan Seeks Growth at Linn-Mar and Surrounding Areas
The United Way approved a capital fund campaign for Kee RoR Marion Ellis and Central branches at Camp Wapsie. The YMCA uses 80 percent of capacity across hours, aiming 80 percent capacity with 60 percent program growth in non-building facilities. It plans doubling school gym use within five to eight years and expanding outdoor, family, and young adult programs. Membership could rise 39 percent by LYB1, with total served increasing from 23 232 to 39 000 by 1985, aided by volunteers projected to double from 1 835 and 57 000 hours last year.
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Marion, Ellis and Central
Camp Wapsie Y
Capital Fund
United Way
YMCA
Linn-Mar
Marion
Cedar Rapids
College Community
Solon
Anamosa
Ymcas
Health Plan on Schedule for Linn County Demo Program
Linn Health Services projects opening September 6 as planned. Ann Weir reports a one year demonstration program to identify barriers to care and aid low income residents. Of 15 doctors contacted, 56 replied and 50 will participate. three decline citing retirement. A sliding fee schedule will include those just above the low income line. Details to be released next week.
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Linn Health Services
Ann Wair
Weir
Linn County Health Center Board
Cal Care
Miss Weir
Crosby Returns To the Boards After 20 Foot Fall
Crosby, 73, returns to the Concord Pavilion for a one night stand billed as a trial run before a European tour to Norway, Sweden and England. He says he remains a bit limpy from last March’s stage fall at a Pasadena auditorium that ruptured a spinal disc and hospitalized him three weeks. He jokes he will never retire completely and may remain the gray eminence of show business as long as fans want him.
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Concord
Calif
Bing Crosby
Concord Pavilion
Hillsborough
Norway
Sweden
England
Bing
Pasadena
Crosby
Cedar Rapids Symphony Auditions Set at Paramount Theater
Auditions for Cedar Rapids Symphony openings will be held Saturday August 27 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Paramount theater. Strings audition 9 to 11 a.m. winds and percussion 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Openings include violin viola cello bass principal clarinet second oboe English horn and piccolo. To register call 366-8203.
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Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra
Paramount Theater
Symphony Office
Cedar Rapids Residents Earn and Spend More in 1966 to 1976
A chamber of commerce summary shows Cedar Rapids personal and household incomes doubled from 1966 to 1976, with per capita income rising from 3413 to 6160 and per household income hitting 37547. Spending and consumption also rose, with phone, electricity, water, and natural gas use up significantly, while export sales climbed from 75 million to 273 million.
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Cedar
Cedar Rapids
Moon origin theory tied to a captured planet
Swedish physicist Flannes Ale fven proposes the Moon formed when a small free planet was captured by Earth's gravity. Meanwhile, about 6,000 stars are visible without aid, with an estimated 100 billion stars in the Milky Way. The anaconda and constrictor have vestigial hind legs, while the worm lizard is legless.
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Flannes Alefven
Milky Way Galaxy
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Tam Mereyminn
Ymca Board
C.R. Symphony
C.R
Chi
Bo Xea
Sale
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