Time Right Now To Change Cedar Rapids Mayor Considers Move
The Cedar Rapids city government edges toward a potential shift from the commission form to a council manager system as several veteran officials ponder re election. Finance Commissioner Stewart Shank, Parks Commissioner Donald Gardner, Mayor Frank Bush, and Public Improvements Commissioner Donald Canney weigh the security of municipal service against tempting offers and longer term needs. The editorial urges reconsidering the manager plan to preserve continuity and experience amid upcoming leadership changes.
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Cedar Rapids
Stewart Shank
Parks Department
Frank Bush
Donald Canney
Grand Jury Oversteps Authority in ISU Humanities Debate
The Grand Jury of Story County cannot force state university curriculum choices. Chapter 771 of the 1966 Iowa code limits their duties to indictable offenses, prison conditions, misconduct in office, and highway obstruction. Their move to influence humanities teaching suggests a bid for thought control rather than lawful indictments.
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Story County Grand Jury
State Board of Regents
Iowa State University
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Iowa State
Regents
Change Looks Timely Cozy Up to Cuba
Drew Pearson reflects on Fidel Castro’s decade in power noting early warnings from 1959, Che Guevara’s role, and Castro’s endurance through Cold War tensions. The piece contrasts U.S. policy shifts and calls for reevaluating relations with Cuba amid evolving regional dynamics.
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Ashington
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Castro
Havana
Che Guevara
George Marshall
Bogota
Nasser
Caribbean
Panama Canal
United Carib Republic
Eisenhower
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Washington
Raul
Bolivia
Venezuela
Moscow
Poll 1969 Shapes Up as Better Year
Louis Harris surveys show moderate optimism for 1969 with about four in ten expecting change. Optimism centers on an end to the Vietnam War and a sound dollar, with two thirds hopeful for an honorable settlement and fewer deaths, and Paris talks seen as improving prospects.
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Louis Harris
Vietnam
Paris
Times Square
Ignatz
Public mood mixed about 1969 hopes and Nixon impact
A Los Angeles Times Syndicate survey of 1,455 adults conducted December 12 to 18 shows Americans hopeful about progress in war, economy, law and order, and race relations in 1969 yet wary that broad, sweeping change is unlikely. Middle aged, whites, suburbanites, higher earners, women, and educated respondents show greater optimism, with Humphrey voters more confident than Wallace voters.
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Castro
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Bay of Pigs
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Bell-McClure Syndicate
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White House
Big City
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Hubert Humphrey
Humphrey
George Wallace
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Los Angeles Times Syndicate
Turning New Year ritual into a comic guide
Russell Baker lampoons New Year customs with a NYT humorous pocket guide. He mocks Guy Lombardo and the era of holiday ritual, weaving satire on New Year’s traditions, lists, Old Lang Syne, and resolutions into a brisk period voice.
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J .Ashington
Guy Lombardo
Lombardo
Farm Bureau backs workers right to join any union
Kenneth Thatcher of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation defends farm workers’ freedom to join or not join a union. He notes the boycott aims to compel a specific union and argues the national labor relations act is ill suited for agriculture. He urges a special act to protect farm labor and details wage facts for grape workers in California.
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Farm Bureau
Council of Churches
California
Kenneth Thatcher
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids fund drive tops goal as 1958 campaign ends
The Cedar Rapids Marion United Fund finished nearly ten thousand dollars over its 306264 goal. Campaign chair Gordon De Lay oversaw the drive. Co-directors for the Jamboree were Richard duBois and Charles Lauterbach.
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Cedar Rapids
Marion United Fund
Gordon DeLay
Kate
Coe Auditorium
Richard duBois
Charles Lauterbach
T. James Bell
Musketeer Drum and Bugle corps secretary renamed
In Cedar Rapids city notes Mrs. Ray Ingham was named secretary of the Musketeer Drum and Bugle corps. fear that Cedar Rapids might lose its franchise in the Three I league eased by plans making the Raiders a farm club for the Cleveland Indians.
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Musketeer Drum and Bugle Corps
Ray Ingham
Cedar Rapids
Raiders
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