Area Ten Officials Testify as Iowa Hearing Sheds Light
B A Jensen Cedar Rapids Area Ten chairman will testify at a Des Moines hearing on area schools called by Sen Joseph Flatt to examine school missions and state administration. The board disputes a state audit showing 235 per student hour versus Area Ten figure 176 and plans a private audit. A fire damages settlement at the sheltered workshop covers replacement of equipment.
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B. A. Jensen
Area Ten Community College Board of Directors
Des Moines
Area School System
Area Ten
Cedar Rapids
Joseph Flatt
Winterset
Flatt
Senate Higher Education Committee
Iowa
Kupka
St. Paul Insurance Co
Harding Addition Plans Approved By School Board
The Cedar Rapids school board approved preliminary Harding junior high expansion plans in a special meeting. A 12 600 square foot addition would add 300 to 450 students, depending on use of a large team teaching area, with office space and other classrooms. The project has a 256 000 bond issue allocation and work on working drawings will begin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Harding Junior High School
Golf Street
Polk School
B Avenue NE
Polk
Two Critically Injured in Crash Near Springville
A crash near Springville on highway 151 left three people injured two of them critically. Martin Dimond 20 of Marion and Margaret Hinman 43 of Springville sustained serious injuries along with Hinman’s daughter Karen 5 who was treated and released. An ambulance responding to the scene collided with a pickup, injuring no one but prompting charges for Anna Katcher 41 for failure to yield to an emergency vehicle.
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Springville
Highway 151
Cedar Rapids
First Avenue
Fortieth Street
Iowa Highway
Edmund Steffen
Earlville
Dimond
Margaret Hinman
Karen
Steffen
James P. Murphy
Anna M. Katcher
Twenty-second Street
Ambulance Co., Inc
Fifteenth Avenue
Katcher
St. Luke’s Hospital
Musical melodrama at Jefferson high scheduled
Jefferson high school vocalists present The Fireman's Flame in the school auditorium Thursday and Saturday at 8 pm. The 70 member cast performs a 1890s setting written by John Van Antwerp. Tickets available at the door or by call reserve at 365-4661.
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Jefferson High School
John van Antwerp
Armed Forces Enlistments and Honors Mentioned
Twelve area men enlist in the armed forces with postings to San Diego Ft. Polk and delayed programs. Notable honors include Air Force Capt James R. Klein earning the Distinguished Flying Cross in Vietnam and Maj Colin R. Burgert receiving the Bronze Star in Germany. Various family-linked service members report on leave or assignments across the U V A region and overseas postings.
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Willard R. Pierce
Oelwein
Navy
San Diego
Thomas L. Fuchsen
Whittemore
Richard L. Rasmussen
Sixth Street
Roscoe A. Phipps
Hill View Drive
Marion
Lewis R. Wright
First Street
Vincent E. Bading II
Valley Brook Drive
Army
Ft. Polk
Norman L. Ratliff
Troy Mills
Jackie R. Neal
Fourteenth Avenue
John F. Werner
Williamsburg
Donald G. Kilgore
First Street SE
Air Force
James R. Klein
Ervin F. Klein
Eastern Boulevard
Vietnam
Colin R. Burgert
Mathilde O. Burgert
Second Avenue SE
Germany
Cedar Valley Radio Club Joins National Emergency Test
Fifteen members of the Cedar Valley Amateur Radio club participated Sunday in the national simulated emergency test sponsored by the American Radio Relay League. Arnold Verdon directed activities with mobile, portable and fixed stations. The control center operated from city hall civil defense station powered by diesel generators. The group transmitted 29 messages from city officials to parts of the country.
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Cedar Valley Amateur Radio Club
American Radio Relay League
Arnold Verdon
Linn County
Civil Defense Radio
Cedar Valley Club
City Hall
Hearing Society Names Officers
Mrs. Frank Bukocek elected president of the Cedar Rapids Hearing Society at Sunday's meeting. Others chosen: Mary Ellen Dill as vice president, Mrs. Henry Weidman as second vice president, Curtis King as secretary, and Mrs. Bigelow Bowers as treasurer.
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Frank Bukocek
Cedar Rapids Hearing Society
Mary Ellen Dill
Henry Weidman
Curtis King
Bigelow Bowers
UNI Classes at Area 10 Postponed Due to Weather
University of Northern Iowa extension classes in the Hawkeye Plaza building and Kennedy high school Cedar Rapids have been postponed to next week due to weather. Additional sessions in Monticello Vinton and Belle Plaine were also moved to next week from Tuesday night.
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University of Northern Iowa
Hawkeye Plaza
Kennedy High School
Cedar Rapids
UNI
Monticello
Vinton
Belle Plaine
Ricehill murder case asks Iowa High Court to allow defense access to state evidence
Defense lawyers in the Elliott Ricehill murder case petition the Iowa Supreme Court arguing trial courts may order sharing of state evidence with defense. They say discovery is within trial court discretion and not forbidden by statute, while the state warns increased discovery could aid crime. State notes grand jury and subpoena powers as exclusive discovery tools.
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Elliott Ricehill
Iowa Supreme Court
R. Fred Dumbaugh
Paul Kinion
Linn
William Eads
Iowa
Lowa Supreme Court
Neb. Defendant Indicted in July Beating Death Case
A Nebraska defendant is accused in the July 2 beating death of Mabel Bigley a 75 year old widow at her apartment on 118 First Street The state's brief and a ruling brief urge that cross examination and counsel rights are meaningless without sufficient defense information The state has ten days to file a reply brief and the high court will consider whether to uphold or overturn the trial court in the next session.
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Neb
Mabel Bigley
First Street
Safety Award to King's Concrete Sand Plant
The King's Concrete Co sand plant at 300 I Avenue NW won first prize in the National Sand and Gravel Assn Class F safety competition. Edward J. Payneer accepted the award for the plant at the 53rd annual convention in New York.
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King’s Concrete Co
I Avenue NW
National Sand and Gravel Assn
Silver Spring
Maryland
Edward J. Payneer
Association
New York
Harding Hosts ISEA Legislative Listening Post at Harding
The Iowa State Education Assn will run biweekly legislative listening posts with a kickoff at 8 p.m. in Harding junior high school Cedar Rapids. James Freeman leads arrangements for Cedar Rapids Education Assn with a telephone conference to hear reports and ask questions. Duane Lodge reviews weekly legislative activity. Sessions alternate between Harding and nine other cities, with Des Moines linked to Cedar Rapids on February dates.
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Harding Junior High School
Iowa State Education’ S Assn
ISEA
General Assembly
James Freeman
Cedar Rapids Education Assn
Harding School
Freeman
Duane Lodge
Harding
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
Culver Nominates Scott Phillips II for Merchant Marine Academy
Congressman John Culver nominates Scott Phillips II of 931 Twenty first Street SE for the United States Merchant Marine Academy. Phillips is among statewide nominees for five academy appointments for the class entering this summer. applications open until October 31 for the class entering in summer 1970.
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John Culver
Scott Phillips
Twenty-first Street
United States Merchant Marine Academy
Phillips
Culver
Academy
Quartet Surprises Teacher on Channel 9’s Truth or Consequences
A professional quartet plans surprises for a music teacher on the Color program Truth or Consequences. The segment airs at 6:00 PM Tuesday in color.
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Channel 9
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