YMCA Drive Campaign Gathers For July Report Meeting
Volunteers from the Metropolitan Area YMCA Campaign for Youth attend a luncheon at Central YMCA noon Tuesday to discuss the $3 million drive. John Gerber, president, notes long range planning supports new and renovated spaces at Ellis Marion Central Ys Camp Wapsie and a Far West facility. upgrades aim to shorten Paris to Bordeaux travel to under four hours as Europe’s fastest intercity service.
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Metropolitan Area Ymca
Mott Room
Central Ymca
John Gerber
Metropolitan Area Ymca Board of Directors
Ellis, Marion and
Central Y’s
Camp Wapsie Y
First Avenue
Stoney Point Road
Paris-Bordeaux
French National Railways
Europe
Trombone Solo Set For Cedar Rapids Band Concert
Cedar Rapids Municipal Band hosts a free Bever Park concert at 8 pm with guest conductor Lee Wille of Kennedy High School and trombone soloist Kim Scharnberg. Program includes marches, overtures, and a Tombone solo alongside works by Schubert Bowles Prokofieff and Richards. Wille also conducts church choir. Scharnberg is a Kennedy graduate and Iowa All-State alumnus.
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Cedar Rapids
Bever Park
Lee Wille
Kennedy High School
Kim Scharnberg
Kennedy
Freedom
Karl King
Beguine
Osser
Richards
Wille
First Congregational Church
University of Iowa
James Dixon
Daniel Moe
Gerhardt Zimmerman
St. Louis Symphony
Frederick Fennell
Washington High School
Indianapolis
Racine
Wis
Scharnberg
Miami Drive
Iowa
McDonald's
Chicago
Eastman School of Music
Rochester
N.Y
Marconi International Fellowship Award Honors Human Betterment
Gioia Marconi Braga announced a $25,000 annual fellowship from the Marconi International Fellowship to reward efforts in communications sciences advancing human betterment. The prize, established in 1975, is administered by the Aspen Institute in Boulder and funded by multiple corporations. Guglielmo Marconi began wireless experiments at 16 in Italy and later demonstrated wireless messaging.
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Washington
Intellectual Property Owners Inc
Gioia Marconi Braga
Marconi International
Aspen Institute For Humanities Studies
Boulder
Colo
Guglielmo Marconi
Bologna
Italy
Cedar Rapids News Briefs and Local Updates
The page highlights possible revisions to a proposed dog ordinance, Weather Facts on the temperature humidity index, rising bankruptcy cases with causes examined, Friendsmobile program at Cedar Rapids Public Library, a high ozone reading and weekly playground schedule, upcoming Linn county tax spending agency meetings, trial lawyers association president from Cedar Rapids, Dear Genie ancestor tracing appeals, summer school writing focus for elementary students, and a Cedar Rapids industrial firm commissioning new art.
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Friendsmobile
Cedar Rapids
Linn
District Association of Trial Lawyers
Genie
Police seize live animals in Brooklyn humane poaching case
In New York police halted a roaming mob with snakes a penguin and a mongoose taken from Schoepfer Studios Manhattan. Four youths were arrested and charged with third degree burglary and possession of stolen property for the stuffed animal and reptile carcasses case.
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New York
Brooklyn
Sgt
Richard Klew
Public Morals Division
Schoepfer Studios
Manhattan
Klev
In Memory Letters Among Local Obituaries and Tributes
A jumble of memorial notes honors relatives and friends with dates and names like Uncle George Klouda Harry C. Steffensen and Dorothy. The fragments mention birthdays July 13 July 19 and various families such as Klouda Sedlacek Bradle and Hasek amid a budget line and unfinished notations.
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Camp Good Health
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Gazette Newsroom
Cedar Rapids Gazette Employees Canteen Fund
Venture Club
Marion
Jo Ann Robinson
Jennie Gibson
Catherine Johnson
Emily J. van Harts
Ruth Arnott
Mabel Luse
Clark Luse
George Klouda
George
Harry C. Steffensen
William Bradle
Frank Cach
William E
Lil Jones
Albia Blaha
Joe
Klouda
John Low
Shana
Prokop Velky No
Dorothy
Lillian
Frank
Anna Hasek
Alice Brainerd
Helen oTig
Donna
Mike
Susan Paidar
Elsie Klouda
Leach and Familly
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Julia Swan
CSA
Carl and
Marie Sedlacek
William E. and Jones
Coe Growth Fund Drive Surpasses $270000 Goal
The Coe Growth fund drive for 1977-78 will top $270000, beating the $250000 goal. Donald Ribble and a 250+ volunteer team led donors from Cedar Rapids and beyond, with an estimated 2500 contributors supporting student aid, faculty salaries, library needs, and operating costs. President Leo Nussbaum praised the community’s strong response.
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Coe College
Coe
Donald Ribble
Cedar Rapids
Coe Growth Fund
Leo L. Nussbaum
Ribble
Marvin H. Maire
Allan Peremsky
Charles Loomis
John Sayers
William Pohorsky
Frank Pfaff
Execution of Nicholas II and family in 1918
On this date 1918 the Russian czar Nicholas II his wife and their five children were executed by the Bolsheviks ending the Romanov imperial line.
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Russia
Nicholas II
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Gazette
Christine Osberg
Abby Hoover
Cedar Rapids Country Club
John Hoovers
Hillcrest Dr. SE
C.R
Lee
Bill
Frances Cloudy
John Squire
Des Moines
Paul Kovacik
Lana Giesler
Gilbert W. Martin
Freda G. Ahring
H.K. Staub
Crai Seeley Sr
Max
Evie Hollingsworth
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Iva Pratt
Betty O’reilly
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Elsie Sova
Dean Edward Kopeck
Jerry
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Sears
Sears National
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Alliance
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Yamerican Federal Savings and Loan Association
First Street
Third Avenue
Iowa City
Lower Muscatine Road
West Des Moines
Ankeny
Newton
Davenport
Clinton
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