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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1966
Page
3
Des Moines delegates to the Iowa Republican convention received a proposed platform labeled a blueprint for change and progress. It urges refunds of a substantial share of federal income tax to the states, fair housing, reduced legislature size, and a host of reforms from air pollution control to an LSD bill.
The Iowa board of public instruction approved the merger of Scott and Muscatine counties into a single school area. The two counties set up election districts and named directors at a May 24 meeting. The merger takes effect July 1 with five Scott and two Muscatine members on the new board. no board elections until 1967.
A. L. Mensing, 69, of Lowdon filed papers for the Republican nomination for state representative from Cedar County. Mensing served seven terms in the house from 1951 to 1965. Two years ago he was defeated by State Rep. LaMar Foster who has announced his Democratic bid.
The Iowa Board of Regents approved plans for a large fieldhouse expansion at the University of Iowa to cost 6.5 to 7.5 million dollars funded from non tax sources. Porter Brierly Associates to prepare preliminary designs for a complex including six extra basketball courts and other athletic facilities. The current fieldhouse would be remodeled into a 15 000 seat arena with a costed ticket plan for students and regular pricing for the public.
Local classified section lists services at Bethel Baptist Grace Baptist St Josephs Catholic and many others. It notes sermons weekly time slots and school sessions. A drowning incident near Honey's Marina is reported with a missing boy later recovered from five feet of water under a dock.
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