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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1968
Page
25
Iowa State fair seeks statewide art entries with a juried exhibit and a $730 in prizes spanning oil tempera acrylic watercolor gouache and drawings. First prizes are $60 and $40. sculpture gets $40 and $30. Final entry dates Aug 5 to 9. fair runs Aug 16 to 25 with prep Aug 14 and 15.
Ralph Nader, 34, famed for auto safety advocacy, will lecture at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Owa Memorial union ballroom as part of the 30th annual Fine Arts festival. The free Summer Session talk, titled Unsafe at Any Speed, follows his rise in Washington through a one-man crusade for safety. He is a Princeton and Harvard Law graduate.
Grinnell College purchased a 365 acre tract in Jasper County nine miles southwest of Grinnell along the Skunk River for use as a biology field preserve and laboratory. The Mason estate sale was funded by a private foundation. President Glenn Leggett called the property marginal for agriculture but ideal for biology studies and research.
Dividends totaling 36609.60 will be paid to members of the Federal Land Bank Assn in Iowa City this week. Checks will be mailed to stockholders Wednesday. The association serves Cedar, Johnson, Muscatine and Louisa counties with more than 802 farmers and 18.246 million in long term farm loans outstanding.
Iowa City Federal Land Bank Assn sets its annual meeting for September 18 at the New Ballroom Memorial Union Iowa City. Registration starts 6 p.m. Dr Wayne H Shortes Iowa State Ames will be featured speaker. Directors listed include Herbert Hinkhouse Lloyd Myers Ray Williams and Forrest Townsley.
Mayor C C Cornell names Ossian residents to disaster organization committees covering fire rescue feeding medical cleanup and equipment repair. A 3 to 5 minute continuous siren blast will warn residents and fire truck and police sirens serve if power fails. Dessel shelter becomes alternate HQ and clothing bedding collection site if city hall is destroyed.
What Cheer notes the centennial of St. Martin's Lutheran Church with a noon potluck after morning services a devotional at 2 30 p m and an open house at 3 30 p m The Rev Edmund Weiss has led St Martin's and St John in Victor since 1961 The first pastor Rev J J Oetijen served 1868 to 1873.
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