Local government meetings this week listed
Public and semi public meetings include Noon Linn County Health Center board at 400 Third Avenue SE nine events across Cedar Rapids Linn County and surrounding areas. Schedule features city council weekly informal and regular meetings and several school boards with times from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in various buildings.
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Linn County Health Center Board
Third Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids Board of Adjustment
Cedar Rapids Community School Board
Second Avenue SW
Cedar Rapids
UCS
UCS At
Linn-Mar Community School Board
North Tenth Street
Marion
Will Pick Two Carriers For Young Columbus Trip
The Cedar Rapids Gazette will send two Eastern Iowa newspaper carriers on the Young Columbus XVII tour to Germany and Romania from April 19 to May 1. Candidates compete in a circulation drive ending February 19, with 11 finalists chosen and judged by independent panel on route excellence school citizenship.
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Germany
Romania
Iowa
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Parade Magazine
Trans World Airlines
United States
Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Mark Scharff
Independence
Douglas Zingula
Bucharest
Sibiu
Sighisoara
Brasov
Sinaia
Munich
Oberammergau
Garmisch
Rothenberg
Heidelberg
Wurzburg
Frankfurt
Mt. Mercy freezes tuition for 1973 74 year
Mt. Mercy college board of trustees announces a tuition freeze for the 1973 74 academic year keeping tuition at 1485 dollars. Sister Mary Agnes Hennessey confirms the decision noting the college has seen enrollment rise from 518 in 1968 to 746 and tuition climb from 750 to 1485 over the period, while others plan increases.
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Mt. Mercy College Board of Trustees
Mary Agnes Hennessey
Mt. Mercy
Iowa
Annual El Kahir Meeting Slated
The 25 county El Kahir Shrine temple will hold its annual meeting and officer elections Wednesday at 7 30 p m. Retiring Potentate Joseph Sampson presides on the Shrine Embassy club third floor. Reports by officers will be submitted and the session will pick the 1973 potentate and other divan members. Uniformed El Kabir Shrine units plan their annual meetings January 16 with unit officers elected and a president chosen for the uniforms. Dr Frank H Collings of Marion heads the uniformed bodies.
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el Kahir Shrine
Joseph Sampson
Shrine Embassy Club
el Kahir
Vernon Pickerill
Pickerill
el Kabir Shrine
Frank H. Collings
Marion
First U S Christmas Seals Sold in 1907
The first modern Christmas seals to fund tuberculosis relief were sold at a Wilmington Delaware post office on December 9 1907. Emily Perkins Bissell of Wilmington designed the seals. Christmas seals originated in Denmark in 1904. The road toll shows over 1.8 million deaths in U S motor vehicle crashes from 1900 to 1970 per the National Automobile Club.
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U. S
Wilmington
Del
Emily Perkins Bissell
Einar Holboll
Denmark
United States
The
National Automobile Club
In memory notices from multiple donors and families
A series of memorial messages from Dr J R Ferguson, Mr and Mrs Spurrier, Alice Decker, Anne and Karen Ann, a wife and daughter for Edward Hospodarsky, a note for Karel Jares, Mr and Mrs Wickham, and Mr and Mrs Lester Stastny. Amounts include 20.00 and 10.00 for Mrs Ahart Melsa.
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Harold K. Spurrier
Edward Hospodarsky
Anne
Karen Ann
Major John L. Morris
D. D. Wickham
B. F. Veror
A. O. Harstad
Cultus Club
Ahart Melsa
Lester Stastny
William J. Stewart
Faith Elizabeth Connor
Amos J. Kolda
Dear Genie: Linn County heritage society genealogical column
Editor announces a new Dear Genie column in The Sunday Gazette. The Linn County Heritage Society invites readers to send family history questions to Cedar Rapids Box 175. Members seek information on several ancestors and descendants, including Jane Cook, John H. Cook, Emily E. Winchell, David N. Saxton, Jane McFarland Saxton, James Fletcher Hicks, and others, with contact details for responses.
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Genie
Sunday Gazette
Linn County Heritage Society
Cedar Rapids
Duncan Ross
Glassroad NE
Theodore Hruska
Lloyd Banks
Harry Glessner
Linn County
Iowa Genealogical Society
Desire
Jane Cook
John H. Cook
Emily E. Winchell
Riverside Cemetery
Anamosa
Jones County
Iowa
Larry Stotler
Pebble Drive
David N. Saxton
Jane McFarland Saxton
Allen County
Ohio
Spring Grove Township
Mary Jane
David Church
Patience
John Anderson
Sarah Jane
George Zimmerman
Joseph
Isabelle
Arias Andrews
Norma Banks
Tenth Avenue SW
Town
James Fletcher Hicks
Lee County
Elizabeth Rodgers
Hawkins County
Tenn
James
Eliza
Appanoose County
Sharon Hruska
Owen Street
Prizes Announced for International Piano Strings Voice Contest
Mrs William Cowen founder and president of the Artists Advisory Council says ten thousand dollars in prizes will be awarded in the fourth international contest in piano strings and voice. Final auditions set for May 4 at Orchestra Hall Chicago. Applications available by writing to Mrs Cowen at Suite 201 55 E Washington St Chicago Ill 60602.
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Chicago
William Cowen
Artists’ Advisory Council
Orchestra Hall
Cowen
Washington Street
Ill
Man bites dog victim after attack and eats dog to death
In Montevideo Uruguay neighbors report a man who was bitten by a dog retaliated by biting the animal and then continuing to eat the dog until it died. Police arrested him and said a mental examination would be conducted.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
New Cedar Rapids Librarian Named for Children’s Dept
New Children’s Librarian Mrs Pansey H Washington of Normal Illinois is named to head the Cedar Rapids public library children’s department. She holds an MS in library science from USC and has extensive postgraduate work at USC and Whitworth College. She previously taught children’s literature at Atlanta University and served with the U S Army Library Service in Japan and Korea. She will start January 15 and succeeds Evelyn Zerzanek who retired.
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Pansey H. Washington
Normal
Ill
Cedar Rapids
U.S
Washington
Tucson
Arizona
Beaumont
Texas
Library Abeltions
Idaho State University
Kansas State University
Illinois State University
Evelyn Zerzanek
Small Craft Warnings Rebranded as Advisories
Washington AP reports the National Weather Service will replace small craft warnings with small craft advisories. Sailors must judge if observed or predicted conditions pose real danger to them.
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Washington
National Weather Service
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Linn County Board of Health, Health Department
Center Point Road
College Community School Board
Prairie High School
Young Columbus Trip
William Mellerup
J. R. Ferguson
Mark Decker
Alice Decker
Clarence
Karel Jares
Mary Herda Pyle
Jennie B. Scheneberger
Grace
Don Winters
Virgil Devin
Thomas Holme
Ethel
Palo
Brussels
Sahara Desert
New Children's Librarian
Hidley
Famous Names
Foley's Shop
Lindale Plaza
Peoples Bank
Town and Country
Mays City
Newhall
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
United States Government Securities
Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Bank Stock
Federal Reserve System
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Certificate
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