Merit Pay for Teachers in Cedar Rapids Schools
The board discussed merit pay for teachers as a needed reform, with Superintendent Parker promising a new approach to salaries. The piece argues for recognizing teaching ability in pay and stresses ensuring teachers are well informed, especially as the system shifts from 6-6 to 6-3-3 with new high schools, noting university enrollment from many states and foreign countries.
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Waples
Board of Education
Cedar Rapids
Parker
University of Iowa serves state by enrollment patterns
A new survey shows the State University of Iowa enrolls students in proportion to county populations. Johnson County has the most students as the university's home county, followed by Linn, Polk, Scott, and Black Hawk in both population and enrollment. Woodbury ranks seventh due to location.
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State University of Iowa
Johnson County
Iowa
Linn
Johnson
Polk
Scott
Black Hawk
Woodbury
Britain Speaks Up Against Soviet Influence
British leaders grow vocal over Communist danger as Soviet bigwigs Bulganin and Khrushchev tour Asia and plan a visit to Britain. Foreign Minister MacMillan denounces an evil alliance fueling violence in Cyprus, while Churchill questions allowing the Soviet visitors to Britain.
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Free World
United States
Bulganin
Khrushchev
India
Burma
Afghanistan
Russia
Great Britain
Western Free Nations
Britain
MacMillan
House of Commons
Cyprus
Makarios
Vnion
Greece
Winston Churchill
Woodford
Private Schools Rights Are Fundamental To Liberty
The Wall Street Journal notes a White House Education Conference discussion affirming private schools and parental choice as fundamental rights. Critics urge insisting on private education as essential to freedom of thought, speech, and faith, not merely a tolerated custom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White House Conference On Education
Wartime housing plan and local notes from Cedar Rapids
A plan to buy land and build 50 two unit quonset huts for 100 veterans and families was shown to James Yuill by Hatch and Brookman Lumber reps. Captain DuWayne B Baker spoke to the Chamber of Commerce youth group about a bombing mission, and Dr Hoyt Thomas was elected worshipful master of Mount Hermon lodge for 1946. Mayor Hahn skipped a city council meeting en route to New York for mayors’ conference.
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James Yuill
Emergency Housing Committee
Russell Knapp
Henry Gundling
Charles Severn
Hatch and Brookman Lumber Company
DuWayne B. Baker
Cedar Rapids
Young Men’s Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
Hoyt Thomas
Mount Hermon
A.M
Masonic Hall
F. K. Hahn
New York
United States Conference of Mayors
Dewey Behind Push for Ike Second Term
Washington column reveals Leon Hall and associates coordinated with Tom Dewey to hint Ike's 1956 run. Adams, Brownell, and Dewey discussed press timing while Hall reported party finances and a potential “Salute to Eisenhower” fundraiser. Dewey aides press Ike’s renomination behind closed doors.
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Dewey
Ike
Washington
Leonard Hall
Eisenhower
New York
Tom Dewey
Hall
Gettysburg
Sherman ‘Adams
Herbert Brownell
Congress
G.O.P
Chicago
Charles Weis
Guy Gabrielson
Kansas
Harry Darby
Adams
Nixon
Senate G.O.P
Knowland
Brownell
Looming Congress to Push Major Legislation in Election Year
Roscoe Drummond predicts a busy 1956 session with vigorous debate. Bipartisan discipline, election pressures, and Johnson’s influence in the Senate will shape farm, school construction, highway, tax, housing, and health agendas as parties seeks bills they can defend to voters next fall.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Nixon
Sam Rayburn
Senate
House
Congress
Stevenson
Harriman
Kefauver
Williams
Lausche
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
Johnson
White House
Embracing Sign Language Over Lip Reading for Deaf Children
Dr Molner argues that teaching deaf children lip reading alone hides deafness rather than addressing it. He cites The Silent Worker and criticizes the trend toward dependency on lip reading, urging parents to adopt sign language for clearer, fuller communication. He says sign language is more accurate and practical in many cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. T. Griffing
the Silent Worker
Griffing
Farmers urged to write Benson over farm price concerns
A letter writer criticizes politicians for blaming the Eisenhower administration and Benson while urging farmers to directly address Secretary Benson. The author suggests salesmen carry 50 government postal cards to prompt farmers to write their views to Farm Boss Benson on farm prices and relief.
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Eisenhower
Benson
MacArthur
Korea
Stevenson
Harriman
Farm salesmen urged to send opinions to Benson and Eisenhower
Elmer G. Carlson urges farm salesmen and their staff to run a direct farm poll to relay farmers’ views to Ben son and Eisenhower. He suggests farmers’ messages go to the administration via weekly reports, with polling potentially expanding to hog cattle milk and produce buying stations.
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Benson
Congress
Eisenhower
East Iowa Park
Elmer G. Carlson
The
News-Guide
Audubon
When should a coach tell a player he will play
Opinions from several readers on the timing of notifying a player about his chance to play. Replies discuss telling him before the game, during warmups, or not at all, with emphasis on practice, jitters, confidence, and psychological readiness affecting performance.
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R. N. Skinner
Twentieth Street SE
Barney Morrison
Avenue
Merchant
Evashevski
Happel
Notre Dame
D. E. Zarub
Wildwood Drive
Leo Langland
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Jim T. Keever
Merritt Apartments
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George E. Story
Josephine Story
Fairfax
U.S.S. Saratoga
Bremerton
Wash
Robert
Richard Tow
Omaha
Williamson
Majestic Theater
University of Kansas
Coe College
Moray Eby
Eby
Moscow
Asiatic Freedoms
Drew Pearson
Pearson
Dewey’s
National Committee
Len
Sherman Adams
Roscoe Drummond
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Keever
Skinner
Zarub
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