Western trek leaders featured in playground week
The playground week highlights Kit Carson and western lore with many contests across venues. Children engage in dress up, balloon stamps, paint your knee, bubble gum blowing, and bike decorating as charts, shows, and parades run through the week plus a Fourth of July observance and a city track meet preparation.
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Kit Carson
Adams
Erskine
Arthur and Harrison
Hayes
Jacelyn
Hoover and
Johnson
Madison
Apache
Alandale
van Buren
Will Jones
Cleveland School
Pierce
Cleveland Park
Polk
Wright
Lincolnway
Bever
Kenwood
Reed
Fillmore
Franklin
Monroe
Daniels
Coolidge
Nixon
Noelridge
Tyler
Ellis Playground
Bowman Woods
Hoover
Riverside
Shawnee
Harrison
Ellis
Arthur
Grant Wood
Grant
Jones
Cherry Hill
Consumer Guide
First Trust
Kirkwood to Offer Credit Management Program This Fall
Kirkwood Community College will launch a credit based management development program in the fall led by David Jensen. The program combines general and applied management curricula and allows prior work experience to count toward a certificate diploma or an associate degree. Courses will run day and night with credit hours 24 for certificate 48 for diploma and 96 for the AAS degree. Call admissions at 398-5517 for details.
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Kirkwood Community College
David Jensen
Kirkwood
Jensen
Passenger Pigeons Extinct Since 1914
Passenger pigeons once numbered in the billions and formed vast flocks across America. The species became extinct in 1914 when the last known individual died at the Cincinnati Zoo. Disease loss of food and relentless slaughter by humans drove the decline.
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America
Cincinnati Zoo
The
World Almanac
Thorpe first to win decathlon and pentathlon
Jim Thorpe became the first athlete to win both the decathlon and pentathlon in the 1912 Olympic Games. Officials later stripped his medals after ruling he had played professional baseball prior to the Games.
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Jim Thorpe
Trees Help Cut Highway Glare Oncoming Lights Shielded
Washington AP reports that road builders plant 70 000 trees and 140 000 seedlings yearly on interstates to provide visual separation. Over seven years more than 500 000 trees and one million seedlings have been planted to reduce headlight glare. A wanted ad prompts readers to dial 398 8234.
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Washington
Donald S. Knight
Knight
California Tops Nation in Trucking Home Offices
California has become the largest trucking state by number of home offices, with 328 ICC regulated motor carriers, says William J. O'Neill of Leaseway Transportation Corp. Pennsylvania follows with 314, while New York, New Jersey and Illinois also rank in the top five.
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New York
Geographers Inject New Life Into Age Old Study
Geographers are transforming a once backwater field by using social science tools to study urban growth land use transportation and regional development They seek reasons for where people and activities are located and how they should be situated in modern society Quotes from Prof Julian Wolpert of the University of Pennsylvania mark a turning point as geography gains stature and blurs lines with economics political science and ecology.
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Wolpert
Julian Wolpert
University of Pennsylvania
The
Assn. of American Geographers
Geographers
Deciding Vote by Senator Ross Ends Johnson Impeachment Bid
In 1868 Kansas Senator Edmund G. Ross cast the deciding vote that preserved President Andrew Johnson from impeachment charges, shaping U.S. political history.
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Edmund G. Ross
Kansas
Andrew Johnson
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van de Po
Seminole Valley Day Camp
U.S.A
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Joyce Gibson
Tim Kellogg
Steve Oeschger
Jane Ramm
Kirkwood Credit
King's
Mid-West
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Mgr
16Th Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
California
New York Times Service
Poland
India
Greece
Bd. W. Joseph
R. P. Scholl
Optometrists
1St Ave
First Avenue
Great
First Avenue Bike Bank
First Ave. N.E
Hirst Trust & Savings Bank
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