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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1976
Page
5
The article outlines confusion over February holidays across federal state and local governments. Lincoln and Washington observances vary by entity, with some open and others closed, affecting mail, banking, schools, and businesses.
Cedar Rapids business executives will present Thursday at Kirkwood Community College for secretarial training students. Topics include interview techniques and human relations as students prepare for on the job internships later this year. Students include Tom Curtis John Bouslog Bill Jurgenson Roy King and Patsy Kropenske.
Cedar Rapids high schools dominated the Iowa City and Muscatine speech meets. Jefferson and Washington students earned top honors in expository and impromptu speaking, prose and poetry readings, humorous acting, and acting duets, with finalists and state qualifiers advancing to Drake University on February 21.
Cedar Rapids resident Muhanad Tahir reports a five day Tripoli conference ending with a joint statement. Muslims and Christians were urged to unite to allow Palestineans to return home. The group distinguished Judaism from Zionism describing the latter as racist and political. Tahir is editor of Islamic Irams.
Cedar Rapids Community School District approved planning for a field trip by 15 students and two instructors from May 23 to 28 to Colorado as part of a four state study with an estimated $35 per student cost. The board met in closed session to discuss personnel matters and negotiations strategy.
The East Central Regional Library will rotate its audio-visual collection for more than 28 libraries across five counties next week. Nelle Neafie announced plans for Jones Cedar Johnson Clinton and Jackson counties to start Monday and finish by Thursday. The collection includes 3800 records cassettes and eight millimeter films for inter library loan requests.
The following boys received awards at Van Buren school Pack 26 includes John De Forest Mark Weber Robbie Jenes Robbie Clark Matthew Wall Mike Sturtz Eyenda Turley Craig Bender Myron Parizek Mark Sturtz Donald Rosdall Mark Paspisil Alan Matheny and Michael Lawe.
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