Free Swim Program Sets County Record Involves Dozens Of Pools
A record 6 755 Linn county youngsters joined the Red Cross free learn to swim effort with 1 458 more participants than the prior peak. Volunteers totaled 424 contributing 14 593 hours while 2 314 earned swimming certificates across Cedar Rapids pools and nearby communities. Noelridge led enrollments with 1 968 swimmers as Cedar Rapids reported 6 147 participants and 381 volunteers.
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Linn County
The
Red Cross
Playground and Recreation Commission
Mt. Vernon
James Manville
Water Safety
Jones
Cedar Rapids
United Good Neighbors
Cigarettes and Meat Stolen From College Fruit Store
Detectives investigate a Saturday night break in at the College Fruit Store located at 1327 First Avenue SE. Burglars fled with an undetermined amount of cigarettes and meat. Authorities are pursuing leads as the investigation continues.
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Asunda Castagna
College
College Fruit Store
First Avenue SE
Traffic violator to help clean school grounds
A 16 year old Cedar Rapids youth who drove a car over an evergreen tree at Jefferson high school Aug 17 was ordered to five days helping the school's groundskeeper. Judge Loren M. Hullinger Jr suspended the driver's license 30 days and offered ten days in jail or five days at the school. The youth Daniel L. Steggall chose the work assignment.
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Cedar Rapids
Jefferson High School
Loren M. Hullinger, Jr
Daniel L. Steggall
D Avenue NW
Hullinger
Steggall
Four Hurt Slightly in Two Car Accident
Four Cedar Rapids residents suffered minor injuries in a two car crash at Cherry Hill road and D avenue NW Sunday at 4 33 p m Alfred Caffrey 43 and wife Irene 41 of 18a Cherry road NE were treated for bruises and lacerations at St Luke s hospital and released Mrs Lloyd Cratty 42 of 432 Mayberry drive NW and daughter Ada Weis 24 of the same address were treated for bruises at Mercy hospital and released Cratty was charged with failing to yield the right of way.
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Cedar Rapids
Cherry Hill Road
D Avenue NW
Alfred Caffrey
Irene
Cherry Road
St. Luke’s Hospital
Lloyd Cratty
Mayberry Drive
Ada Weis
Mercy Hospital
Cratty
Weis
Caffrey
Gazette Want Ads Highlight Value for Readers
Local listings emphasize economical value with concise ads. Readers find bargains on goods services employment and housing across multiple sections.
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Economical Gazette
City Briefs Include Scholarships And Thefts Across Town
Des Moines officials will award $100 Look magazine Good Worker scholarships to Jan Bowen and Elaine Barta in Harold Hughes office. A 62 downtown merchants free ride and shop promotion is advertised. Reported thefts include a toolbox worth about $200 from a car at a southwest service station and a wristwatch and other items valued at $92 stolen from an apartment. A spare tire valued at $200 was stolen from a Norfolk truck at Powers Truck Port. Mt. Mercy’s Mrs. D Aquila attends the American Education Theatre Assn. convention, while Metz Tran Gordley is promoted to full professor at East Carolina College. A wooden row boat valued at $100 is reported stolen from the Cedar River. The UCS coordination committee reschedules its September meeting to Sept. 10.
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Jan Bowen
Robert Bowen
Twelfth Avenue
Elaine Barta
Jerry Barta
Eighth Street
Look Magazine
Gov
Harold Hughes
Des Moines
Robert L. Galloway
Waveland Drive
Southwest Side
Mrs Frank Brown Provides Convalescence Update
Convalescing Mrs. Frank Brown of 3339 Circle Drive NE has been released from St Marys hospital in Rochester Minnesota and is recovering at home. AA Al Anon and family group plan their third anniversary meeting Tuesday at 8 pm in Kenwood Park church.
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Frank Brown
Circle Drive
St. Mary’s Hospital
Rochester
Minn
Alcoholics Anonymous
Alanon Family Group
Kenwood Park Church
Cedar Rapids Gazette Established in 1883
The Cedar Rapids Gazette was established in 1883 by The Gazette Co. and published daily and Sunday. It lists subscription rates by carrier and mail, including night and afternoon editions, with regional pricing and mailing details. The piece notes AP news republication rights for local and dispatched news.
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the Gazette Co
Third Ave. SE
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Owa
Navy Reports Five Enlistments This Week
Navy reports five men enlisted for general career fields. Two join Great Lakes training, Charles E. Brown Jr. and Kenneth C. Waters. Three head to San Diego, Frank C. Watson, Arden D. Moore, and Larry L. Fife. Merle A. McGrew returns home on leave en route to Memphis aviation electronics school.
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Great Lakes Naval Training Center
Charles E. Brown, Jr
Fifth Avenue
Marion
Kenneth C. Waters
Central City
General Field
San Diego Naval Training Center
Frank C. Watson
Fourteenth Street SE
Arden D. Moore
Cambridge, Ill
Larry L. Fife
Orchard Trailer Court
Merle A. McGrew
Merle W. McGrew
Springville
Aviation Electronics School
Memphis
Tenn
Iowa State Fair baton twirl results and local notices
Burkey daughter of the Don Burkeys placed second in the senior division of the Iowa State Fair baton twirling contest. Retailers Special events committee of the Retail Merchants Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce will meet Friday at 9:30 a.m. in Woolworth's coffee shop. Cedar Rapids Labor Assembly will meet at IBEW hall at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Genevieve's Beauty Salon advertises fall permanents and hair cuts for the price of one. Canopus Club annual outing set for Tuesday at Sid Blencoe cottage on Coralville reservoir.
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Burkey
Don Burkeys
Apache Trail
The
Retail Merchants Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce
Woolworth’s
Labor Assembly
Cedar Rapids
Ibew Hall
Sixth Street
Genevieve’s
Mt. Vernon Rd
Canopus Club
Sid Blencoe
Coralville Reservoir
Caretaker Post Open at Camp Wapsie Y
Camp Wapsie Y announces a year round caretaker post led by Jim Springer camp director. A crew of college men is needed for Sept 3 15 with Coe football team at the camp for pre season drills. Contact Springer at Camp Wapsie telephone Coggon 4331.
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Camp Wapsie-Y
Jim Springer
Springer
Coe
Camp Wapsie
Coggon
Hennessey Bros Win Contract for SW Side Sewer
The city council awarded the Schaeffer drive SW sanitary sewer project to Hennessey Bros Inc of Marion as the low bidder at 4 947.25, $504.75 under the engineer’s estimate. Other bids were 5 267 by Milan W Freese Co and 5 858.70 by Morris Excavating Co. The line runs on Twenty sixth avenue SW from Schaeffer drive to 415 feet west and on Schaeffer drive from Twenty sixth avenue to All view drive.
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Schaeffer Drive
Hennessey Bros, Inc
Marion
Hennessey
Milan W. Freese Co
Morris Excavating Co
Twenty - Sixth Avenue
Twenty-sixth Avenue
Allview Drive
Wooden Pillar Falls Kills Marshalltown Workman
A Buck Demolition Co. worker Chester Jerome McBride age 35 of Marshalltown died when a wooden pillar fell on him at the Iowa Soldiers Home in Marshalltown. The old building is being razed and replaced by a new hospital.
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Iowa Soldiers Home
Chester Jerome McBride
Marshalltown
Buck Demolition Co
Danville
Farmers battle land grab before KCRG TV nine
Farmers clash over land rights in a Monday night report on KCRG TV nine with details about the dispute and involved parties.
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Kcrg-Tv
The
Dakotas
Mt Mercy Sends Seven to National Catholic College Congress
Mt. Mercy college will send seven students and three faculty members to the 20th National Congress of the National Federation of Catholic College Students in Minneapolis from Tuesday to Saturday. Keynote will be R. Sargent Shriver, Peace Corps director. Attending students include Patricia Larkin Kay Regan Barbara Lemon Peg Boyle Bennett Jayne Kuebrich Linda Steele and Judy Fischer. Representing the faculty are Rev. Edgar Kurt Sister Mary Eleanor and Sister Mary de Siena.
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Mt. Mercy College
National Federation of Catholic College Students
Minneapolis
R. Sargent Shriver
Peace Corps
Patricia Larkin
Kay Regan
Barbara Lemon
Cedar Rapids
Peg Boyle
Bennett
Jayne Kuebrich
Oxford
Linda Steele
Central City
Judy Fischer
Oelwein
Edgar Kurt
Mary Eleanor
Mary de Siena
Entire Vietnam Staff In Washington Resigns
The entire South Vietnamese diplomatic staff in Washington resigned in protest of repressive measures against Buddhists professors and students, according to the embassy report.
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Vietnam
Washington
South Vietnam
Chorus sought for Shrine musical Anything Goes
About 40 auditioned Sunday for Cole Porter's Anything Goes to be staged in early October by El Kahir Shrine. Director Richard DuBois urged more men and women to join the chorus and announced a first rehearsal Tuesday at 7 30 pm on the Shrine headquarters third floor. Final role decisions will come in a few days. Performances are set for October 1 3 8 10 and 11 in the Coe auditorium.
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Cole Porter
el Kahir Shrine Temple
Richard DuBois
Shrine
Fifth Street SE
DuBois
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By Williams
Ardell P. Alderman
Fifth Avenue SW
M. D. Daniels
Norfolk
Powers Truck Port
Highway 30 South
Frank D’ Aquila
American Education Theater Assn
University of Minnesota
Metz Tran Gordley
East Carolina College
Greenville
N. C
Franklin High School
Louis Kosina
Hamilton Street
Cedar River
UCS
United Community Service
Baton
Marcie
Che
Associated Press
Ermec Ly
Nikolai
Russia
Distillers Products Company
Dundalk, Maryland
Jo Fischer
Armed Forces
Mr. Wump
Navy
Hennessey Bros
Wooden Pillar Falls
Workman
Mercury
Monterey
Mt. Mercy
Imembers
Cedar Rapids Christian School
Merchants National
FDC
Full Service Bank OF
Norma
Comet
Lauer
Mercury City Teitzer
Lincoln-Mercury, Inc
3Rd Ave
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