Cedar Rapids School Board weighs boundary shifts for five districts
Cedar Rapids offers two public hearings to discuss redistricting plans affecting Harrison Fillmore Cleveland Kenwood and Garfield. Superintendent Parker says hearings are not final and outlines west side shifts to ease Harrison overcapacity and east side moves to relieve Garfield overcrowding.
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Cedar Rapids
LANS
Harrison
Fillmore
Cleveland
Clyde Parker
Board of Education
Kenwood
Garfield
Kenwood School
Parker
G Avenue
Eighteenth Street
H Avenue
E Avenue
Belmont-Highwood
O Avenue
Carlisle Street
Thirty-fourth Street
Old Marion Road
Buchanan
West Side
Fer fond of San Pedro as he serves abroad
George R. Fer, a San Pedro native attached to the American embassy in Karachi, Pakistan, expresses broad pride in his hometown to the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce, which received his letter from abroad.
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San Pedro
California
George R. Fer
Rough Cedar Rapids parking need forecast by 1975
The Cedar Rapids planning study by Harland Bartholomew forecasts 2,164 more downtown parking spaces by 1975, bringing total to 6,317. Current peak demand is 4,475 spaces vs 4,153 spaces available, with 9,900 entering the loop and 3,700 workers in the district.
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C.R
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids’ Loop
Kids Garden Show at Bever Park August 15
Preliminary arrangements are made for the annual children's playground and home garden exhibit and picnic at Bever Park. The event, held in the large pavilion on August 15, features entries from city schools with prizes for flowers, vegetables, canned produce, and garden notebooks. Judges include Cedar Rapids Garden club for produce and flowers and Miss Catherine Eckstein for notebooks. About 50 garden notebooks and over 300 entries are expected, with Effie Burton Memorial Awards among the prizes.
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Bever Park
Leonard J. Smith
Playground and Recreation Commission
Cedar Rapids Garden Club
Catherine Eckstein
Effie Burton
Anamosa Man Directs Cedar Rapids Band Tonight
Anamosa high school band director William L. Stusak will lead Cedar Rapids Concert Band tonight at the Plaza in a 15-piece program from Strauss to Ellington. Trombonist Norman Murfield of Anamosa is soloist performing a modernized Swing Low. The concert is funded by local 137 AFM and the music performance trust fund. Stusak is a Coe graduate and Northeastern Iowa Bandmasters Association president.
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William L. Stusak
Anamosa
Cedar Rapids
Plaza
Strauss
Duke Ellington
Norman Murfield
Murfield
John Morrissey
Stusak
Coe College
University of Iowa
The
Recording Industry
Thea Henry Fillmore
Clare E. Grundman
Manuel Bilton
Persian Market and Teddy Bear's Picnic at the Jorettes Show
A varied program features the Persian Market and Teddy Bear's Picnic selections performed by the jorettes with a trombone solo by Norm Javan in the Overture setting. Harry Stone also contributes a shoe shine interlude.
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Norm Javan
Harry Stone
Song Writer to Be Honored With Own Works
The final Sunday program will honor Egbert A. Van Alstyne, a noted composer of many old-time hits. Van Alstyne, a Cornell graduate, directs the community sing, with Orville P. as alumni director and longtime friend. Four of his popular songs will be performed, including Mendries, Pretty Baby, Dreaming, and Pony. The program also features hymns In the Garden and Our Fathers, Days, Smiles, and Sync. weekly sings are sponsored by the Playgrounds mission during intermission Sunday concerts by the Cedar Lakes concert band. Elmer F. Young provides the accordion accompaniment for sing. Words are collected on a large screen.
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Ing ‘Munity
Egbert A. V
van Alstyne
Cornell College
Community Sing
Orville P
Ksou
J Alstyne
Mendries
Jews Flee Persia to Israel Amid Kurdistan Exodus
In Jerusalem Rafael head of the Jews Agency immigration reports thousands of Persian Kurdistan Jews have left for Israel. About 2,000 have already arrived, with others in Teheran awaiting exit permits. Premier Ben Gurion notes many fled homes, seeking refuge in the new Jewish state as death rates rise among those trapped in harsh conditions.
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Jerusalem
Israe
Persian Kurdistan
Thare
Rafael
Jews Agency
Denarmae
Kurdistan Mountains
Thm
Sands
Kurdistan
Cemeten Teheran
Israel
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Belmont
Highwood Drive
Harrison School
Edgewood Road
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Thirty-second Street
Fer
Cleveland School
Fillmore School
3Rd St
Iowa
J. WN. McFadden
Optometrist
SE A
Ee. Acousticon
Merchants Nat'l. Bank
Harland Bartholomew and Associates of
St. Louis
Anamosa Man
William Stusak
le Porte
the Jorettes
Wii
Persia
Isras
Smulekolf
Smulekoff
Frigidaire At
Fierle
Meter Bank
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