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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1974
Page
9
Grandparents recount walking two miles each morning along country roads to school. Today many elementary students living under two miles from school still walk or depend on parental transport as Cedar Rapids Community School provides bus rides.
A Cedar Rapids safety committee of 14 months develops a scoring manual to identify unsafe school crossings for elementary and junior high students living more than two miles from school. Led by J W Sackett the group weighs traffic speed volume truck flow pedestrian counts and environmental factors to recommend sidewalks signals and potential adult crossing guards funded by the school district and city.
Linn County Heritage society hosts Dear Genie seeking Iowa connected questions under a 50 word limit. Readers urged to mail inquiries to Dear Genie P O Box 175 Cedar Rapids Iowa 52406 with full names and addresses.
Herman Davis of Manila Mississippi county is listed by Gen Pershing as one of the 100 greatest World War I heroes. The private, who left school after fourth grade, earned the Distinguished Service Cross for silencing a German machine gun nest near Verdun on October 10, 1918. He died in 1923 in Memphis from tuberculosis linked to poison gas exposure in France. a state park at Manila bears his name.
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