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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1967
Page
2
Seventeen of 21 graduates from Area Ten Community College two year mechanical and electronic engineering tech programs are working in Iowa. Of 75 vocational graduates, 58 remain in Iowa, reflecting the college’s close work with employers to place students locally.
BRISTOL England UPI police reported a thief took the metal and glass police sign from the Brandon Hill station door. The incident follows a sermon emphasizing interior peace as the source of public harmony and moral government.
R G Gibbs Des Moines secretary of the Iowa Pharmaceutical Association criticizes a Wisconsin senator report on a Senate small business subcommittee drug survey. He argues the report confuses the public about prescription prices generic versus brand names and agency pricing practices.
Funds outline a $1 million cost for Anamosa high school under construction and a $3.5 million center, with equipment possibly exceeding $100,000. The committee weighs work therapy, shop units, and 20 to 30 hours weekly inmate labor as part of a rehabilitation model without walls or bars. A March meeting at the reformatory will decide location and other details.
The assistant chief of the Cedar Rapids fire department R H Ellison offers Christmas fire safety tips. Place the tree away from exits and check electric lights for frayed cords, replacing them. Keep the tree watered if possible and inspect for browning needles near lights. Avoid metallic trees and use colored flood lights. Turn off lights when no one is home.
Bob Hope recounts a perilous air attack as he and Duke, Steve, Hernandez and Van Horn maneuvered through flak and a SAM. Duke executes barrel rolls to reach open water and beach while ejecting at roll bottom injuring back, four weeks grounded. He hopes for another chance at Disneyland.
Milton C. Pflughaupt 73 a lifelong Linn County resident died Saturday in a Cedar Rapids hospital after a long illness. He was a retired farmer from rural Marion. Services set for Tuesday at 1 30 at Murdoch's in Marion with visitation after 2 p.m. Monday. Contributions may be made to the First Presbyterian church memorial fund.
A Veterans Administration representative will assist veterans dependents and beneficiaries at Linn County Courthouse Thursday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Various civic groups and clubs announce meetings and events including lunch programs and Christmas activities at local hotels and YMC A facilities.
The Forest Research Institute in Dehra Dun asks state foresters to locate the country’s oldest tree to preserve it. The best known previous specimen was a deodar cedar felled years ago, estimated at over 700 years old.
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