Linn County Considers Venereal Disease Clinic Start
Health Board votes to continue study on opening a VD clinic at the Health Department later this fall. Plan would use volunteer medical staff with funds from the poor fund and seek cooperation from Planned Parenthood and Cedar Rapids Clinic for Women to provide low cost screenings. In 1982 Linn County reported 433 gonorrhea cases treated and 189 preventive treatments, with no infectious syphilis cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Burke
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Diane Krivo
Krivo
James Boddicker
Keith Erickson
Health Department
Center Point Road NE
Planned Parenthood
Cedar Rapids Clinic For Women
Erickson
Jim Doyle
State Department of Health
Vickie Hitchcock
Hitchcock
Linn County Health Dept Sets Mosquito Traps Across Cedar Rapids
Linn County Health Department under Keith Erickson runs light traps to monitor encephalitis carrying mosquitoes. Traps operate four days a week with Friday shipouts to Iowa State University for study. first trap placed at Tom Hart’s yard, with another at the Linn County Humane Society and a third site to be chosen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn County
Health Department
Linn County Humane Society
Keith Erickson
The
Health Board
Iowa State University
Erickson
Cedar Rapids
Tom Hart
12Th St
Mount Vernon Road
Jamboree in Oxford Segues From Greased Pig to Outdoor Dance
Oxford Lions Club Park hosts the June Jamboree on Saturday with events from a greased pig race and baby crawl to tug of war and sack race. Activities run 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. with free events and some preregistration for the volleyball tournament. The lineup includes fun run, hot dog eating, nail pounding, pedal-tractor pull, water balloon toss, Simon Says, and an outdoor dance by The Renegades.
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Gazette
Johnson County Bureau
Oxford
Oxford Lions Club
Iowa City
The
Renegades
Hiawatha Library seeks Labels for Education donations
Hiawatha Public Library appeals to residents to donate Campbell Soup Labels for Education to redeem audio visual equipment. Other redeemable labels include V-8, Franco American, Swanson, Prego, and Recipe Dog Food. Labels can be dropped in the outside book return at the temporary City Hall site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiawatha Public Library
Shirley Henry
Campbell Soup Co
Hiawatha
Campbell
Swanson
Henry
City Hall
Black Graduates to Be Honored at Coe College Banquet
The second annual Celebration of Achievement banquet will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday at Coe College to honor Cedar Rapids area high school black graduates. George Jackson of Iowa State University will be guest speaker. Admission is $8 with dinner. tickets available at the door. Scholarships will be presented during the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
George Jackson
Iowa State University
High schools urged to stick with six-period day
Cedar Rapids Community Schools should keep the six period high school plan despite many Iowa districts using seven periods. Ralph Plagman, principal at Washington and Metro high schools, warned the seven period format could require contract changes or more teachers and harm morale. The report also discusses new course offerings and graduation requirements, with no vote scheduled.
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Kurt Rogahn
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Ralph Plagman
Plagman
Washington and Metro High Schools
Kingston Stadium
Technical Specialty Systems Corp
Iowa Electric
Harold Guthrie
Guthrie
Joseph Raider
Mesa, Ariz
Arthur
Erskine
Tomahawk Trail
Nixon
Hiawatha
Highway 150
Medical help available for those without jobs
The Linn County Medical Society urged that laid off and unemployed patients continue to see their physicians, who will treat on a lower or no-cost basis as needed. Mercy and St. Luke's hospitals report not turning away patients who cannot pay and offer financial counseling. The society notes Hill Burton free care figures and immunization access through the health department. Call 365-2527 for a list of doctors accepting new patients.
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Gail Cooper-Evans Sezette
Linn County Medical Society
Mercy
St. Luke's Hospitals
D.H. Langfield
Isobel Mack
St. Luke's Hospital
Mark Hansen
Hill Burton
Hill-Burton
Hansen
Mack
St. Luke's
She
St. Luke’s
Hill- Burton
Sproston
Linn County Health Department
Keith Erickson
Health Department
The
Medical Society
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Linn
Educational Services Center
Second Ave
Langfield
Ethan Sproston
Organized Labor
United Way
Parade
Meister Brau
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