Costs Sidetrack Taylor Work By Bill Duffy
Cedar Rapids school board delays Taylor school construction citing budget overruns from bid results. Four new buildings require $900,000 more than expected, with contracts awarded totaling $3.517 million to multiple firms. Bids and alternate options detail bids for plumbing, paving, carpeting, landscaping, heating, and electrical work across four sites.
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Hamilton Vasey
Cook-Rowley Construction Co
Squaw Creek
Kolehera Construction Co
Jasphalt
TrueArt Carpets Sales, Inc
Cedar Rapids Nursery Co
Titen and Taege, Inc
al Electric Co
Four-County School Budget Seeks $400 000 Hike
A tentative budget requests a $400,000 increase in expenditures to $2,481,000 funded by a millage rise from 2.0 to 2.75 mills. The extra funds would support special education across Linn Johnson Cedar and Washington counties with districts paying about $204 per pupil. The board also discussed reapportionment and named new hires including Dr Glen Easterday as director of research and evaluation and Mycon Rohde as director of special education.
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Dwight Bode
Linn
Johnson, Cedar
Washington
Ira Larson
Larson
Glenn C. Wallace
Clarence
Carl W. Hen
Glen Easterday
Easterday
University of Iowa
Mycon Rohde
Lester Gill
Cerrie Gretien
Carolyn Kaska
Linda McCalley
Gayle Roeniig
Jeanne Vogel
Blue Cross
Bankers Life
Area Ten and Four County To Avoid Overlap
Area Ten plans for two section schools faced 18 added classrooms increasing base bids by 52,468 dollars. Taylor building occupancy slips from 1970 to one or two years late. Area Ten offered Hawkeye Plaza lease to joint system to prevent overlap while new Area Ten campus opens on Bowling Street. Joint system now housed in Linn County Office Building awaiting decisions.
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Origine
Taylor
Area Ten Community College
Area Ten
Hawkeye Plaza
Sixth Street
Dwight Bode
Lode
E. Paul
Ernest Pence
Robert Stephens
Ahs
University of Iowa
Stephens
Area Ten Board
Joint County Board
Boda
Bowling Street
Joint County System
Linn County
Second Avenue
Atense
D. M. Contractor Secures Pact for Cedar Rapids School Sites
Des Moines firm McLaughlin Construction Co won bids to demolish 14 houses for Cedar Rapids school expansion. Two bids covered removing five houses near Tyler and Seventh SE and nine houses near Fifth Avenue to enlarge Tyler and Taylor school areas. Asphalt work on 11 projects went to Kulchera Construction Co and The Cedar Rapids Asphalt and Paving Co. notched low bids. The articles note expansion plans and bids for multiple school sites and paving projects.
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Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
McLaughlin Construction Co
Twelfth Avenue
Seventh Street
Tyler School
Fifth Avenue
Eighth Street
Taylor
Old Taylor School
Cedar, Rapids
Kulchera Construction Co
Cleveland
Eisenhower
Fillmore
Franklin
Grant
Grant Wood
Lincoln
Patolpahnale
Military Claims 19 from School Faculty Ranks
Nineteen Cedar Rapids teachers left for military service in 1969-70. Dr William Ramstad, assistant superintendent, noted four elementary and fifteen secondary leaves of absence for military duties. The board log shows 149 resignations, 67 leaves, and 29 retirements totaling 295 staff who left the district, with most positions filled for next fall.
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Cedar Rapids
William Ramstad
Ramstad
Taylor School Plans 1970 Abandonment and New Building
Old Taylor school will be abandoned in 1970 as pupils transfer to nearby schools until the new Taylor is completed. The district expands Taylor school grounds in preparation for the new building with a budget exceeding $900,000, nearly matching the deficit for the other four buildings.
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Old Taylor
New Taylor
Taylor
Clarke Resigns as Consultant in Social Studies
Public meeting of the Linn County GOP is scheduled Wednesday as Clarke resigns from the social studies consultant post. The Republican group plans to discuss upcoming campaigns and local party strategies.
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Clarke
Waldo Berger Leads Cedar Rapids School Board Attendance
At Cedar Rapids, Waldo Hennar has attended all 14 board meetings this year. Other members show varied attendance with Lipsky missing none, and Barnes ODonnell absent in seven sessions. A public meeting is slated for Wednesday 7:30 at the Roosevelt hotel to report on the last general assembly. Dr Wentworth Clarke resigns from Cedar Rapids schools to join Portland, Maine, system.
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Ceaar Rapids
Waldo Hennar
Central Committee
Roosevelt Hotel
Linn County Republican
Wentworth Clarke
Cedar Rapide
Portland
Maine
Clarke
Omaha
University of Nebraska
Currie Pay Next Year Set At 29500 By School Board
The school board set Dr. Craig Currie’s next year salary at 29500 making him the third highest paid local school superintendent in Town Currie 41 in his first year he was voted a three year contract with five percent raises in each of the last two years The raises would bring 1971 72 to 32524 He earned 27000 in 1966 68 Board praised Currie for his first year and moves to strengthen classroom and admin programs with support from Ernest Pence and other members
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Cedar Rapids
Craig Currie
Currie
Taises
Ernest Pence
Pence
Robert Barber
No Action on Complaint Over Vacation Status
A three member delegation from Local 55 of the service employees union urged the City School Board Monday to clarify vacation benefits under the 1969 70 working agreement. The board said changes apply next year and took no action. About 200 janitors storeroom workers drivers and maintenance men are affected with 97 facing a one week cut this year under the board ruling. The new contract awards four weeks after 15 years instead of 20 and reduces the three week period from ten to seven years.
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Employes
Moniday
Service
Employes Union
Craig Currie
Oregon Man Hired Defended by Cedar Rapids Board
Cedar Rapids school board defended its hiring of outside administrators after criticism of recruiting from west coast districts. James R. Hitter of Lake Oswego Oregon, assistant principal at Washington High, will earn 14600 next year and currently serves as a Lake Oswego High counselor. Board president Ernest Pence said 10 of 18 administrators hired this spring were from Cedar Rapids, with eight from outside the district. Doctor Craig Currie, the superintendent, previously moved from the west coast last year.
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Cedar Rapids
James R. Hitter
Lake Oswego
Ore
Washington High School
Hitler
Lake Oswego High School
Ernest Pence
Pence
Ben Trickey
West Coast
Craig Currie
Judge Considering Charges Against 2 Men in 2020 Clark Station Robbery
Municipal Judge John B. Reilly heard the preliminary hearing Monday on two men charged in the May robbery at Clark service station 2020 Sixth Street SW. Charles E. Woodard 22 of 529 Tenth Street SW and James J. Browning 21 of 101 Sixth Street SE face robbery counts. Woodard released on recognizance June 13 Browning free on 2500 bond.
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Clark
Sixth Street
John B. Reilly
Charles E. Woodard
Tenth Street
James J. Browning
Woodard
Reilly
Browning
Sewing Expert Demonstrates Making Slacks on TV Show
Sewing expert Lucille Rivers demonstrates making slacks on TV 9's new weekday color series Fashions in srewinc at 4 50 p m. The program features step by step sewing guidance and fashion tips for home viewers.
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Lucille Rivers
TV 9
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