Marion Iowa Teachers Find Few Jobs and Leisure Here
Iowa teachers visiting Marion for a conservation camp evaluated the city as a nice place to live but with limited employment and leisure opportunities. They praised government and services but noted downtown traffic, parking, and limited expansion hinder business growth. They urged promoting industry while maintaining housing demand and good schools. Recreation is limited though a new complex could help. downtown theater is a triple X venue.
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Marion
Iowa Teachers Conservation Camp
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls
Bicycle craftsman builds tall unicycles for circuses and sideshows
Emmett Carpenter, 64, and his wife Betty run a Wichita bicycle shop since 1910 and create custom cycles for circuses zoos animal acts and handicapped kids. He has made unicycles as tall as 18 feet and eight rider two wheelers while noting some designs are impractical for riding.
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Emmett Carpenter
Carpenter
Betty
Cecil “Hammy
Hamilton
Columbus
Ohio
Hamm
Carpenters
Chrysler Corp
Beech
Boeing Aircraft
Dan Daffron
Massachusetts
Shriners
Idaho
Wyoming
Bicentennial celebrations mark 200th birthday on Hudson and in Philadelphia
On this date in 1976 Operation Sail lit the Hudson River as a grand bicentennial display. President Ford spoke in Philadelphia hailing the first Independence Day as the start of a continuing adventure.
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America
Philadelphia
Ford
Free passenger train runs on Riverview boulevard rails
A small group in St. Louis called the St. Louis and Chain of Rocks Railroad operates a free motor car passenger train on three miles of track along Riverview boulevard south of the I 270 bridge. Trains run the second Sunday of each month from April to October. They Salvaged stadium seats from Sportsman's Park for open cars and plan to expand with a 35 ton Plymouth locomotive.
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Riverview Boulevard
Mississippi River
St. Louis and Chain of Rocks Railroad
St. Louis Cardinals
Sportsman's Park
Jonathan Livingston Seagull May Be Re-Released With Narration
Los Angeles AP reports director Hall Bartlett plans a U S and England re-release of Jonathan Livingston Seagull with narration by the seagulls instead of dialogue. Bach has written a narration for the updated version, following previous disputes with Neil Diamond and Bach.
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Los Angeles
Jonathan Livingston
Hall Bartlett
Richard Bach
England
United States
Neil Diamond
Bach
Bartlett
More Actors Join King Cast
Ossie Davis Dick Anthony Williams and Terry Alexander were added to the NBC movie King about Martin Luther King Jr. Davis will play King Jr Alexander portrays a close associate Bernard Lee Williams becomes Malcolm X after Belafonte withdrew Paul Winfield plays the younger King and Cicely Tyson stars as Coretta.
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Los Angeles
Ossie Davis
Dick Anthony Williams
Terry Alexander
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