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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1976
Page
9
The Cedar Rapids NAACP branch will meet Sunday at 4 p.m. at June Boyd Community House. Speaker will be Tom White, assistant to Cedar Rapids school system superintendent. Various local ads follow for services and events.
The article recalls Harvard graduates who signed the Declaration with eight signers including John Adams Samuel Adams John Hancock Elbridge Gerry Robert Treat Paine Elbridge Gerry Wil liam Ellery William Williams and William Hooper. It notes Harvard buildings used as barracks by Continental Army during the siege of Boston.
A Shellsburg area tractor accident fatally injured 17 year old Keith Daniel Keith Monday night. The Benton County sheriff reports the tractor rolled into a ditch along a county gravel road northwest of Shellsburg. Keith, a Shellsburg High junior and basketball team member, died at the scene and is survived by his parents, a brother in Cedar Rapids, and an aunt in Shellsburg. Burial plans are listed as Oak Wood Cemetery in Shellsburg. The incident occurred about 1 am Friday by Philip’s in Vinton. The article also briefly notes widows’ Sunday loneliness in New York context.
A joint act in June 1943 clarified civilian flag use rules from 1942. The flag must not be dipped to any person or thing, should not bear writing or designs, cannot be used as a receptacle, not used to cover statues or as payment, not for advertising, and not as drapery.
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