Plan for More Instruction on Drugs in Cedar Rapids Schools
Cedar Rapids schools plan expanded instruction on drugs and alcohol. Supt. Craig Currie announced the appointment of a curriculum and in service education leader to address gaps. A board report cited many schools offering little or no drug education and stressed fact based awareness over preaching. The district aims to implement a K–12 human sexuality program starting next fall, with public workshop planned at Harding Junior High.
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Cedar Rapids
Craig Currie
Currie
Kennedy High School
Dudley Draxton
Iowa
Crafton
Mit
Draxton
Kenneth Byerly
Four-County Board Pushes Mandatory Preschool Physicals
The Cedar Rapids area four-county school board approved funds and a plan for mandatory preschool medical exams for incoming kindergartners. The effort also launches a program for blind children with teaching centers in Cedar Rapids and Town City, plus a traveling classroom, serving several counties.
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Cedar Rapids
Board Onla
Spencer Pink
Dwight Bode
Town City
Bode
Iowa City
Board Votes To Condemn Land Appeals Award
The four county board discussed funding for psychological and speech therapy services, with Iowa City seeking 104000 from the joint system as it pays for its own services. A sheriff's jury awarded 26700.80 for a site on eight acres, and the board voted to forward that amount to the county while appealing the award to district court. The board also began reviewing 1969 70 salaries for the four county joint system and to study staffing and salary needs.
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Iowa City
Bode
Cedar Rapids
Hiawatha
J. W. Pirie
Robert Barber
East Iowa Congressmen Laud Nixon Inaugural Praise
Eastern Iowa lawmakers in the U S House lauded President Nixon's inaugural address for timeliness and unity. Rep John Culver called it timely for world peace and urged inclusion of the disaffected. Rep Fred Schwengel praised its realism and need to mobilize the concerned. Rep John KyI described it as humble and poetic.
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Dorothy Williams
Washington
Nixon
United States
House of Representatives
John C. Culver
Cedar Rapids
Culver
Fred Schwengel
Davenport
Schwengel
John Kyl
Bloomfield Republican
Blood analysis machine installed at St. Luke's
A Coulter Counter now at St. Luke's hospital Laboratores performs seven basic blood metrics in 40 seconds, including white and red cell counts, hemoglobin, hematocrit, MCV, MCH, and MCHC. It speeds diagnoses, reduces hospital stays, and complements a prior chemical analyzer. Dr Looker and LeRoy Robbins trained staff on the new equipment.
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St. Luke’s Hospital
St. Luke’s New Addition
St. Luke’s
Looker
LeRoy Robbins
St. Luke's
No Makeup for Weather Imposed School Holiday
Cedar Rapids schools may skip a makeup day after an ice storm prompted a midweek holiday. Superintendent Dr. Craig Currie told the school board that state law allows replacing one instructional day with an August teacher institute, and he seeks written county approval to avoid a makeup day if approved.
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Cedar Rapids
Craig Currie
Currie
Laird to Visit South Vietnam on Defense Talks
Melvin Laird will visit Saigon early next month to discuss U.S. troop withdrawals and policy matters, according to American sources.
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Saigon
UPI
America
Melvin Laird
South Vietnam
U.S
Bill to finance C R fire police facility drawn
Des Moines reports a bill by Sen. Ralph Potter to authorize Cedar Rapids and other towns to issue general obligation bonds for a joint fire police station. Proposed costs include Cedar Rapids at 2.44 million, with perceptions of a 3 million total project. Michael Ster named Red Cross water safety chairman for Linn County chapter.
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C.R. Fire-Police
Frank Nye Gazett
Des Moines
Ralph Potter
Marion
Potter
Cedar Rapids
John Oberthien
Oberthien
Wisconsin
Fondu Lac
Wis
YMCA
Ottumwa
Michael Ster
West
Eighth Avenue
Linn County
American Red Cross
Richard F. Looker
Red Cross
Municipal Building Budget Details Revealed
Police department costs total 75 834 and a 2 773 000 allocation covers multiple needs including 2 880 mould 1 800 classrooms 11 2 vehicle service 4 448 lobby 5 860 storage and mechanical equipment. An additional 1 400 square feet for parking meter operations and vehicle storage would be financed from parking meter funds.
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Balk
Milwaukee tracks reopen south of Harpers Ferry
Special to The Gazette reports that Milwaukee tracks south of Harpers Ferry are repaired and open after a derailment 4 miles south. Sunday night 17 cars of a 120 car freight train derailed due to a broken rail blamed by railroad officials. Two loaded cars were among the derailed cars.
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Harpers Ferry
St. Paul
Jones Theologian Role at JC Church Terminated
Charles Jones, tied to a controversy over a claim that half of Cedar Rapids teens engage in drugs or sex, ends his lay theologian position at Immaculate Conception parish. A joint statement with Rev Roger E. O'Brien says the program will discontinue Feb 28 1969 and Jones will assist the Lay Institute of Theology to place him elsewhere.
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Charles Jones
Cedar Rapids
M Moral
Lmaculate Conception Catholic
Jones
Roger E. O'Brien
Church Parish Council
Immaculate Conception
Lay Institute of Theology
San Francisco
Immaculate Conception Parish
Youth duo charged in multiple vehicle thefts in Cedar Rapids
Harold H. Lindsey, 18, and a 16-year-old Cedar Rapids boy were arrested after a 3:30 am chase on the northeast side. They face two counts of larceny of a motor vehicle and parole violation, with a stolen car from Noelridge Gulf station and a truck theft tied to Des Moines tree cutting firm. Lindsey is on parole for larceny and prior breaking and entering counts.
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Harold H. Lindsey
Lindsey
Cedar Rapids
Roger Bird
F Avenue
Noelridge Gulf Service Station
Marion Road
Des Moines
C Avenne
Collins Road
Men Get Time To Answer Theft Count
Two Cedar Rapids men were charged with larceny of a motor vehicle after being arrested Sunday night near Springville. Kenneth F. Rothmeyer and Floyd E. Kepler were held in Linn County jail on $2,500 bond each and given until January 23 to waive or demand a preliminary hearing.
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Cedar Rapids
Kenneth F. Rothmeyer
Floyd E. Kepler
Linn
Springville
Sixth Street
John Ely, Jr
Twenty-third Street
Rothmeyer and
Kepler
Linn County
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