Cedar Rapids Board Sets Bid Dates for Two Junior Highs
The Cedar Rapids board of education set March 21 for grading bids and March 27 for caisson bids on two junior high constructions. Final plan approval targeted March 25 with construction awards hoped by May 1 for Noelridge and June 1 for Cedar Hills. Bond sale scheduled March 28 at 10 a.m. for 3.9 million dollars.
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Cedar Rapids Board of Education
Waldo Berger
Berger
Cedar Hills
Noelridge
Wider use of Cedar Rapids school libraries noted
Cedar Rapids public schools report growing library use by secondary students. At Washington and Franklin high schools circulation has risen twofold and more than tripled respectively in two years. Elementary libraries lag, with none centralized. district eyes a mix of central and room libraries to boost space and staffing.
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Cedar Rapids
Board of Education
Marna Shinn
Washington High School
Helen Levsen
Franklin
Cedar Rapids Junior High Lunch Cost Up Five Cents
Gladys Wathan proposes raising junior high lunch prices from 30 to 35 cents next year to align with senior highs and boost a self supporting program. She argues the increase would fund improvements while elementary meals stay at 25 cents and senior highs at 35 cents, and notes some students can contribute. An January state inspection found deficiencies in protein rich foods at eight area schools.
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Cedar Rapids
Gladys Wathan
Food Service
Board of Education
Miss Wathan
Lenten Luncheon Series at Y Opens Friday
The YMCA will begin a Friday Lenten luncheon series open to laymen and ministers of the city. Edwin Zeller announced the programs run each Friday through Holy Week and are non-denominational. The first speaker is Mrs. W. B. Landrum of Little Rock Arkansas, who will also participate in Cedar Rapids United Church Women’s Day of Prayer. Her theme is More than Conquerors.
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YMCA
Edwin Zeller
The
W. B. Landrum
Little Rock
Ask
Cedar Rapids
United Church Women
Cedar Rapids School Meal Plan Report Cited
Miss Wathan notes seven of eight schools are elementary and that smaller portions may be served per U S Department of Agriculture guidelines. Roosevelt is a junior high. She warns waste could rise if portions are not reduced in elementary schools as state review commends Cedar Rapids program for organization and management.
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Miss Wathan
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Roosevelt
Skating Rinks To Close Friday
Municipal ice skating rinks in the city will close for the season Friday. The playground recreation commission announced today. The toboggan run and coasting areas in Jones Park will stay open while snow cover remains.
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Playground Recreation Commission
Jones Park
Longer Easter Break Planned for Cedar Rapids Schools
Cedar Rapids public schools adopt the 1963 64 calendar with a longer spring recess from Good Friday through a week. Teachers and parents supported the plan in a poll showing 436 votes for the extended break. The year includes a traditional schedule with Thanksgiving, Christmas, and spring recess details and ends June 5 with commencement.
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Cedar Rapids
Board of Education
Arnold Salisbury
Coe Forensic Team Heads to Oregon Tournament
Coe College sent three students Virginia Horak James O Neill and J Means to McMinnville Oregon for the Tournament of Champions, the nation’s oldest invitational forensic contest Linfield College sponsors the event Lynn Engdahl coaches the squad the trip marks the first extended Coe journey since 1942 with entries in four events and two in two man debate.
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Coe
McMinnville
Ore
Lynn Engdahl
Virginia Horak
Avenue NE. J
James O’neill
Hong Kong
Linfield College
Engdahl
College of the Pacific
Miss Horak
Means
Collins Named To Board Of New Graduate Research Center
Arthur A. Collins president of Collins Radio Co. is named to the board of directors of the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest. He is among 34 national leaders appointed as the school prepares a Richardson Texas campus to offer graduate studies not previously available in the area.
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Collins
New Research Center
Arthur A. Collins
Collins Radio Co
Southwest
Richardson
Texas
Kohawks Reach For Finals In Forensic Tournament Run
Coe College Kohawks enter the West Point event then close their season at the national Pi Kappa Delta meet in Carbondale Illinois March 19 to 23. Kohawks also compete at the Iowa state tournament in Dubuque March 7 to 9.
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West Point
Coe
Pi Kappa Delta
Carbondale
Ill
Still Openings in Training Program in Cedar Rapids
A few openings remain for a mechanical draftsman training program under the Manpower Development and Training Act in Cedar Rapids. Iowa State Employment Service manager Bob Frye said the spots opened after several men could not attend. Twenty two men are to be retrained as draftsmen.
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Manpower Development and Training Act
Cedar Rapids
Bob Frye
Iowa State Employment Service
Course starts Monday for Employment Service in Iowa
Frye said interested men should contact the Employment Service in person at 853 Second Avenue SE before noon Wednesday. The course will begin and run for 50 weeks.
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Iowa State
Second Avenue SE
Frye
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