End of St. Wenceslaus School Ends 75-Year Cedar Rapids Run
St Wenceslaus Catholic school in Cedar Rapids closes after 75 years as archdiocese reorganizes Catholic schooling. Declining enrollment and finances, with 74 students and 3 teachers remaining, end the K-8 program after 1968 69. Students transfer to All Saints Immaculate Conception or nearby Tyler.
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St. Wenceslaus
Cedar Rapids
Archdiocese of
Dubuque
Fifth Street
Sisters of Mercy
All Saints
Immaculate Conception
Tyler Public School
Clarence Frana
James Milota
Old St. Wenceslaus High School
Milota
Linn County
Cedar Rapids-Marion Area
John McIvor
Mary Regina
Turner Co President to Step Down in June
Ronald P. Evans of Cedar Rapids announces he will leave active management of The Turner Co. on June 13 while remaining as a director. Appointed general manager in 1943 and president in 1946, Evans will be succeeded by an announced replacement. The Cedar Rapids based maker of microphones and embalming equipment is a subsidiary of Conrac Corp.
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Ronald P. Evans
Cottage Grove Avenue
Turner Co
Cedar Rapids
Evans
Conrac Corp
Conrac
Municipal Court Judgments List with Names and Amounts
A public notice lists numerous municipal court judgments naming parties such as Peoples Furniture versus Hawkins for 191.18 dollars and Sears Roebuck versus Perez for 214.27 dollars. It includes many other civil sums and defendants across a broad set of cases.
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Peoples Furniture
Gary
Anie Mae Hawkins
Sears Roebuck and Co
Lorenzo Perez
Penford Employes Credit Union
Kenneth F. Willets
Teamsters Local 238
Clenn H
Charlotte Lyons
Thelma Stokes
Carl Burgett
Midwest Paper Co
A. J
Pilots Alert at John Day Field Over Bird Trespass
At John Day airstrip in Oregon pilots must stay vigilant as a blue grouse occupies the south end of the field and dives toward planes during takeoffs and landings. The feathered trespasser has become a local oddity affecting operations.
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John Day, Ore
John Day
Its A Big Country At Friday Channel 9 Matinee
Van Johnson and Gene Kelly star in its A Big Country broadcast on Channel 9 Friday at 3 30 PM matinee schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Johnson
Gene Kelly
Channel 9
Whittier President To Head Nixon Unit
Dr. Paul Smith retires as Whittier College president to lead the Richard Nixon Institution of Human Affairs a teaching and research center with a library on portions of Nixon life Nixon alumnus of the college Smith who led Whittier since 1951 will oversee three or four full time professors and stresses teaching the benefits of the free enterprise system he taught constitutional government to Nixon in 1934 noting Nixon was not a traditional good student but an uncommon one.
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Whittier
Calif
Paul Smith
Whittier College
Richard Nixon Institution of Human Affairs
Nixon
Smith
Nixon Institution
Stowaway Aims To Go to USS
A young Cuban, Armando Socarras Ramirez, 22, who rode in the wheel well of a Havana to Madrid airliner, survived eight hours clinging to a retracted wheel and hopes to reach the United States. Hospital doctors call his recovery fabulous with no fever and out of danger. he says uncles in New Jersey may help.
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Madrid
UPI
Havana
U. S
New Jersey
Armando Socarras Ramirez
Ramirez
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By Bill Duffy
George Bishop
Indianapolis
Anthony Chihak
Frana
Dramatics Club
Confraternity of Christian Doctrine
CCD
R. P. Evans
Buresh
William Hunt
Steven Tobin
Apache
Yya Milan Freese
Ids Chevrolet Co
Prank
DeShaw
Whipple
Winterberg, Wills and Shepard
Lyle
Jean Wingerson
Eldon L. Colton
Patrick L
Sharon K. Byrne
Mercy Hospital
Stephen W. Heimann
Dial Finance Co
Lester L. Jones
Collins Employes Credit Union
Michael R
Ida R. Pena
Florence Stockwell
David R
James Stool
Larry A. Adair
George Grubich
William J. Burns
Marion Sea
Cliff Grother
O. E. Andersen, Jr
James L. Chipokas
Gabe Shada
Mrs
John Robertson
Lindale
Zales
USS
2Nd Ave
M.R
Marty) Smith
Peoples
Philco
Meter-Matic Bank
First Avenue
Lindale Plaza
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