Five Cedar Rapids youths honored during Negro History Week
The NAACP publicity committee profiles Cedar Rapids youths born and raised here who excel in education and careers. Ted, a second year electronic engineering student and former student leader, shows a path from naval electronics to politics and auto clubs. Paulette Clark, a Collins Radio supervisor, leads a team of women operators and trains new workers. William W. Davis, at 2027 H Avenue NE, reflects a broad range of interests from computers to church to music.
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Cedar Rapids
The
NAACP
Ted
Area Ten
Collins
Clark
William W. Davis
H Avenue
Davis Looks Back at Education and Career Path
William C. Davis from Cedar Rapids pursued college after Washington high School graduation in 1958. He worked as a stock boy and appliance repairman before entering Coe College in 1962, graduating 1965, and rising to a bank management trainee and programmer. He plays in orchestras, directs youth choirs, and serves on church boards though he works at KLWW.
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Davis
Washington High School
Dubuque University
Cedar Rapids
Coe
Merchants National Bank
Dubuque
Peoples Unitarian Church
Unitarian Universalist
Black Unitarian Universalist Caucus
William C. Davis
I Avenue
KLWW
Jefferson High School
Bill
Bob Brown
Leo Owens
Youth Employment Service
Y.es
Olen E. Gibson, Jr
Gibson
Parsons College
Passaic
N.J
Bendix Corp
Collins Radio Co
University of Iowa
Olen
Parsons
Off Limits: Key Biscayne Street Serves Only Residents
Secret Service blocks Bay Lane on Key Biscayne where the winter White House is located. Only residents and their visitors may pass, with identification checked by agents around the clock. Olen and Norma and their two sons are mentioned as residents on the street.
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Key Biscayne
Fla
John Hardy
Nixon
White House
Bay Lane
Secret Service
Security patrols curb burglaries on Bay Lane Island
The article notes heightened security by guards along Bay Lane on Key Biscayne. It describes the President owning multiple units in a block-long campus and a hedge hiding a private residence. Boaters are warned to stay 500 yards away from the beach and aircraft.
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Hardy
Bay Lane
Key Biscayne
Biscayne Bay
Miami
Area Ten
Cedar Rapids
Ted
Davis
Grant Wood
Jackson
McKinley Junior High School
McKinley
Male-Only Clubs Welcoming Women in Sydney
Several Sydney private clubs once reserved for men are now admitting women to offset a 25 percent drop in liquor sales after a police crackdown on drinking and driving. Ladies are offered associate memberships.
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Sydney
Australia
Extra Earning Days Save by February Seventeenth
Promotion notes two earning milestones with 4.5 percent dividends on insured passbook savings. It urges starting a new account this month to qualify for gains beginning February 1.
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Navy
Sports Car Club of America
Northeast Iowa Sports Car Club
Paulette Clark
James E. Clark
Paulette
Gary
Jane Boyd Community House
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Silver Leaf
CBS
Olen Gibson, JR
William
A-G-L Institute of Broadcasting
Milwaukee
His
Norma
Ted Davis
Bohemian Savings
Continnent Mens Shop
Coats
Lindale
California
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