Stimple joins Cedar Rapids Children's Home drive as gifts chief
Richard B. Stimple of Quaker Oats becomes chairman of the special gifts division for the Centennial Challenge Campaign supporting the Heartwood campus project. The drive aims to raise about 800000 from the community, with 175000 already reported and gifts of 25000, 15000, and four 10000 pledges noted.
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Quaker Oats Co
Cedar Rapids
Special Gifts
John E. Moore
Stimple
Quaker Oats
Capital Funds Campaign
Moore
Children’s Home
Heartwood
C and
Wilson Avenues
15Th St
Peo
Ralph la Combe
Dorothy Brouillard
Tom Parks
Warren Reinecke
Harold A. Wendorf
Children’s Home of
C R schools near full compliance with state immunization law
Only one student may fail to meet the new immunization requirements after the first compliance round. Officials expect near total adherence as students return for the new term.
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C.R
Shot Law
Midwest rail debate and Iowa immunization drive update
Iowa grapples with rail restructur ing options as farmers shift to unit trains and barge ports. Officials warn reform must come quickly while Cedar Rapids schools enforce a new immunization law with high compliance already reached in most districts and a few exemptions and provisional certificates still in process. ON THIS DATE in 1912 China became a republic after the Manchu Dynasty's abdication.
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Sippi
Missouri
Iowa
Gulf
New Orleans
Houston
Holland
Rock Island
Milwaukee
Union Pacific
Omaha
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Charles Beusch
la Salle High School
Cedar Rapids Community Schools
St. Patrick’s Catholic
Christ Community
Cedar Rapids Christian School
David Wilson
Christ Community School
Deane Chesley
St. Patrick’s Catholic School
Rita Marie Thissen
Beusch
China
Sun Yat-sen
Kirkwood Community College Trucker Class Opens This Week
The truck driver training program for those 18 and older begins this week with 244 hours over five weeks. Students spend 90 minutes on the road and four hours in class, earning chauffeurs licenses in week four. The course costs $250. Register with Leonard Fevold at 398 5690. classes meet at noon or 5 30 p.m.
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Kirkwood Community College
Leonard Fevold
Xenon Discovery and Andes Geography Facts
Xenon was discovered in 1898 by Sir William Ramsey and Morris Travers. The Andes span about 4,500 miles with an average breadth near 150 miles and reach around 12,000 feet high, divided into multiple regional chains. Legend says Romulus founded Rome in 753 B.C.
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Xenon
Sir William Ramsey
Morris William Travers
South America
Andes
Equator
Tierra del Fuego
Romulus
Rome
B.C
Energy management seminars set for Cedar Rapids workshop
Local school personnel can learn to cut energy budgets at a February 15 workshop in Cedar Rapids. The session is part of 15 statewide seminars funded by a federal grant to the Iowa Energy Policy Council. Attendees include board members and building staff. 9 a.m. at Grant Wood Area Education Agency.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa Energy Policy Council
Grant Wood Area
Sixth Street
EPC Conservation
Harriette Lindberg
Derby Area Soap Box Derby registration planned for March
Cedar Rapids area announces an open registration meeting for youngsters ages 10 through 15 on March 4 at 1 30 p m in the Central YMCA Cedar Rapids Jaycees and the Cedar Rapids Area Derby Association sponsor a program with clinics in March and April to help first time entrants. The junior and senior divisions lead to trips to the national finals in Akron Ohio last year 102 youths competed.
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Cedar Rapids Jaycees
Cedar Rapids Area Derby Association
Knight
Akron
Ohio
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