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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1961
Page
8
The Cedar Rapids school board's move to charge tuition for summer classes is defended as a fiscally prudent, voluntary service. Critics warn of burden on parochial school families, but the piece notes most districts charge for summer programs and that aid for needy students is provided.
The piece notes deadline-driven delays in license plates voting registration and tax dates and cites poets and leaders on waiting. It then sketches a Des Moines school bill fight and mothers defending their "brilliant" children amid the uproar.
Harriette Boyce celebrated her 95th birthday at her home on Second Ave SE. She was the last living graduate from Cedar Rapids first high school class of 1872. Other items note a 60 mph night speed limit bill, pigion paste tests at the public library, and political shifts at the Young Republicans convention in Des Moines. City officials also discuss a fire equipment investigation into the Newman department store fire.
A reader laments stroller access in Lindale stores and a high elevator demand with no lift. She notes three stores unusable for strollers, escalators without elevators, and asks authorities to consider mothers with babies. The author also shares personal hardship after returning to light work earning about $22 weekly.
The piece argues Kennedy’s foreign policy vision is strong while his domestic plan lacks detail and realism. It highlights projected spending and inflation risks, unemployment, wage decisions, and AFL CIO demands as threats to growth, calling the domestic agenda partisan and uncertain. It notes two puzzling sentences about testing national endurance under a possible controlled economy.
The President’s message to Congress stresses vigilance against Communist threats in Latin America and Europe. He warns against appeasement, urges UN support, and insists dialogue with the USSR and China must not obscure firm goals.
President Kennedy aims to avoid dramatic public posturing and pursue careful realism with the Soviet Union. He has tempered rhetoric, engaged in discreet diplomacy, and authorized cautious steps toward disarmament talks while resisting escalation over Laos Cuba and the Congo.
A 38 year old farmer and father of six describes being forced to sell his farm and enter a state sanatorium for tuberculosis. He received aid to dependent children during and after treatment, but rehabilitation for employment did not materialize and he was suspended from A D C.
A reader from South English thanks The Gazette for Sunday edition and compliments carrier Garth Grove for delivering the paper reliably. The note emphasizes lifelong effort to express gratitude and acknowledges the paper’s informative and inspirational content.
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