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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1963
Page
12
The 1962 annual reports show the engineering and parks departments with total costs and project tallies. Concrete pavement over 31.92 miles, sidewalks, parking lots, and sanitary and storm sewers dominated the budgets, with park expansions and new facilities across Noelridge Bever Cedar Hills and Ellis Jones Jacelyn Robbins areas.
The Playground and Recreation Commission presents an eight week family camping series at Riverside recreation center 1115 C street SW. First session Thursday February 7 at 7 p m with sessions through 9 p m covering food gear destinations and park rules. Registration is at the recreation office EM 4-8121 extension 22 and the fee is 1 dollar per family.
New Delhi reports authoritative sources claim the Communists drafted all Tibetans aged 14 to 42 for compulsory military service. Tibetan conscripts are said to be trained in numerous camps established by the Chinese army.
Herb Heft, public relations director for the Minnesota Twins, will speak at the Junior Chamber of Commerce awards dinner in the Chamber building at 6 15 p m Wednesday. Recipients of the Distinguished Service Award and Outstanding Young Farmer award will be announced that night. Linda Buresh of Mt Vernon Iowa East ern Iowa 1962 will present the awards. Cedar Rapids school board members and an architect will discuss new junior high drawings. Heft will share experiences publicizing a major league club. Heft is a Washington D C native who attended George Washington University and American University. He was a sports writer.
The executive spent 11 years with the Washington Post and one year with Sporting News in St. Louis. He joined the Washington Senators in 1955 and moved with the team to Minneapolis St. Paul in 1960.
Cedar Rapids section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers will announce officers at a dinner-dance Saturday at 7 30 p m at the Town House. It marks the first formal meeting since the merger of the Institute of Radio Engineers and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Professors L A Ware and L Morgan Craft will be honored.
The Coe College concert band under Norman Stafford opens with a premiere by Dr. William P. Latham a new Sonata for Oboe Band Band featuring sophomore Ellen Nuechterlein as oboe soloist The program also includes works by Houston Bright Robert Russell Bennett Glen Osser and Henry Fillmore free admission and open to the public.
Buenos Aires reports the Argentine army will reduce conscripts by 10 percent to lower costs and enable modernization of equipment.
The South China Morning Post says nearly 140 000 refugees from Communist China entered Hong Kong in 1962, the British crown colony. The figure highlights a large migratory wave amid ongoing regional pressures and policy responses.
The seven uniformed bodies of El Kahir Shrine Temple plan a Monday 6:30 p.m. meeting at Shrine headquarters. Potentate Glen W. Brehm said officers for each unit and a president of the executive committee will be elected after dinner and a report session. Each unit will elect officers and three members to the executive committee. Units include the band chanters color guard drum corps patrol wrecking crew and 101 unit.
Bob Brooks reports Iowa vs Michigan game at 6:55 p.m. Monday. Listen to Iowa basketball coverage on KCRG Radio 1600.
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