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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1975
Page
6
Cedar Rapids twelfth graders show lower average ACT results than eight years ago with a sharp drop in English, math and social studies. Ninth to eleventh graders remain above national and state ITED averages while underclassmen mirror decade-old levels.
The Waterloo Courier highlights how the Social Security Administration refused a Blue Cross of Iowa plan to use unoccupied hospital beds for long term care because the proposal arrived by special delivery rather than certified or registered mail. Blue Cross argues other late but proper mail was accepted and appeals continue. Congressmen take interest as calls grow for common sense in government processes.
A LA Times Syndicate column reflects on changing social rituals as tennis eclipses bridge and poker as the main pastime. The author notes how conversations shift to tennis terms and friends pursue courts and fitness, redefining admission to social circles.
The piece argues the war aimed to curb conquest and belligerent powers, not shield profits. It cites postwar perspectives from Japan and Germany, notes U S reflections on atomic bombings, and concludes Japan seeks peace and cooperation, urging American readers to shed guilt.
After protest over Ford refusing Solzhenitsyn, the effort to host famed writers faltered as dossiers flagged Tolstoy age tapes and Dickens politics, leaving Henry Kissinger as the chosen writer to aid the President’s image with prose.
A Cedar Rapids census taker defends fieldwork and questions public misperceptions. The writer recounts long hours and multiple home visits, notes pay was per person not by hour, and urges the public and city officials to avoid blaming workers for the census results.
City placed signs reading No parking any time near homes and No parking 6 am to 6 pm near Polk School. A resident says the issue was decided by vote and cites safety for children but laments lack of time for committees. No accidents reported. children cross street without incident.
A speaker decries littering by neighbors and roadside smoking that blocks parking and endangers children. They question how officials and voters chose traffic signs near a school and ask for parking restoration and safer routes for kids leaving cinema and school events.
The American Ex-prisoners of War establish an Iowa chapter under national by-laws. Eugene Shannahan of Williamsburg presents the charter as national director for the north central region. Eligibility extends to anyone held as a prisoner of war in any conflict including Korea and Vietnam. Interested persons may contact Dale Smith of Eddyville or Hubert Hough of Oskaloosa.
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