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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1969
Page
2
Applications are open for college women and older high school juniors or seniors for the 1970 summer playground program run by Marios Parks and Recreation. Craft instructors and a playground director positions are available. Wayne Jackson will interview during the holiday break.
MOSCOW AP report outlines a new 14 000 word party theses marking Lenin’s centenary. It stresses peaceful coexistence with a sharp socialist capitalist struggle, criticizes Maos China only indirectly, and condemns personality cults while endorsing youth movements and reforms in domestic policy.
Iowa City has asked the Johnson County Bar Association to study the advisability of a municipal court. Phillip A. Leff announced a study committee with chair Mation R. Neely and members Edward W. Lucas William Dr. Tucker Hebert N. Downer J. Patrick White Jerry L. Lovelace Jay H. Honohanan Mrs. Jean Burley Arthur C. Leff. The panel will report to the Bar Association for city council guidance.
At Miami Marine Stadium 1600 spectators heard Allen Ginsberg shouted down as four letter words roused stadium officials. Public address music drowned the poet out after delays and a clash over profanity and staff rules. The event aimed to aid Jerry Powers in appealing a profanity conviction in his underground paper.
Two youths aged ten and eleven were charged with burglary by Cedar Rapids police youth bureau for a December 20 break in at James Martin's apartment. About four and a half dollars in coins were stolen. The youths were released to their parents and referred to probation.
A Mr. Vernon youth, Wayne Noble, 18, pled guilty in municipal court to six traffic charges after a police chase from First Avenue and Thirty-third Street NE. Judge Clinton E. Shaeffer fined him $105 total plus costs for four stop sign violations, speeding, and eluding police. A license charge was dismissed when Noble produced a valid Town license. Noble’s arrest followed the Sunday chase.
The Standard Oil Foundation awarded Coe College an unrestricted gift of 2500 dollars as part of 160 grants to private universities and colleges in 1969. Executives said the grants support academic freedom and private higher learning. Coe has enjoyed annual unrestricted grants from Standard Oil Foundation since 1983.
Berard M Kamerick pastor of St Patrick's Brooklyn diocese died suddenly on Tuesday. He had led St Patrick's since August 12 1960. Born September 15 1908 in Ottumwa he earned a BA from Saint Ambrose College Davenport in 1930 and was ordained May 10 1934. He later served as dean of men and a professor at Saint Ambrose and was pastor of St Peter's Davenport starting September 24 1937.
Rome AP report says Italian Socialist deputy Loris Fortuna who pushed a divorce bill defeated Pope Paul VI in Pau. Fortuna led a magazine poll showing 2,277 votes among 3 journalists and 2 leadership officials. Pope Paul scored 314. Astronaut Neil Armstrong named international man of the year and actress Sharon Tate labeled woman of the year.
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