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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1970
Page
8
Dennis Bates reports on Kennedy High School where two meetings about social studies courses sparked emotion and rumors. A December advisory group formed to liaise among parents students and faculty and plans to focus on curriculum while inviting parental class participation and input from teachers.
Cedar Rapids Community school district voters head to the polls Monday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. to decide two bond measures. A 950000 general classroom addition bond funds Kennedy and Taft projects, with 570000 for Kennedy and 380000 for Taft. A second 300000 measure would fund artificial turf and all weather track at Kingston stadium, with total yearly cost an estimated two dollars per year on a 20000 home for 19 years.
Polling locations for the Cedar Rapids Community School District bond election are posted by precincts and townships. Voters registered within the district vote at assigned schools and public buildings such as Kenwood Erskine Hiawatha Palo Marion Arthur Fire Station 7 Washington High School Mercy School of Nursing Lincoln School Roosevelt Junior High Jefferson Senior High Garfield Lincoln Hoover Wright Kenwood Erskine Monroe Madison Cleveland Taft Waterworks and the Waterworks building among others with specific street addresses and capacity figures.
Mt Mercy College announces a January term with a new program Try College for 20 Days. Dr Myron L Koenig leads a 18 course lineup including The Americans, Red Plus Yellow Equals, The Detective Story From Poe to Present. Registration at the registrar Room 204 Ward Hall 8 am to 4 30 pm January term courses meet daily for two hours or more.
Fragmentary report shows a Louisville motorist arguing at an intersection where the light was red and another vehicle proceeded. The chaotic scene includes honks and a shopper’s misread, with confusions in the OCR readout about actions and names.
Vicar Oliver Hill says window cleaners at All Saints church rubbed the color out of several valuable stained glass windows, erasing likely historic artwork.
New York buyers at Waldorf Astoria paid 2300 for Napoleon’s complaint letter about the Pope and 1400 for Elizabeth II’s first handwritten manuscript offered at public auction. Hofman and Freeman bought the Queen’s late 190s logbook page set and Napoleon notes on Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations for 4200. Walter Benjamin acquired Napoleon’s 1804 Pope letter, describing the Pope as ridiculous and lunatic.
In KERKADE Netherlands police on a neighbor tip searched the home of a 79 year old villager and uncovered a defused hand grenade kept in his bed for 26 years.
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