Linn-Mar Curriculum Reports Highlight New Courses and Training
Marion reports from Linn-Mar schools show a push for multi age classes and metric system training. Principal Glenn Jensen proposes replacing resources with semester courses in agri business and adding new classes in animal science and farm business management. A general business course for 9th and 10th graders is planned along with consumer education and law. A guidance counselor is recommended to support a student body of about 930 to 950 next year.
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Linn-Mar
Glenn Jensen
Jensen
School board weighs curriculum changes across departments
Driver education may gain a winter program and a two week summer option in motorcycle safety. Arts and home economics merge classes while a painting and chamber choir join the lineup. Drop of boys chorus and shifts in foreign language enrollment are discussed. Title IX implications and PE reductions are proposed along with new consumer education and reading reforms.
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Jensen
Eloise Bross Dies at 52 in Marion Services Tuesday
Eloise P. Bross 52 of 1385 Gavenne Marion died Saturday in a Cedar Rapids hospital. Born May 27 1923 in Cedar Rapids she wed Jack C. Bross June 22 1956 at Blairstown. She worked as secretary for Sieg Cedar Rapids for 16 years and belonged to Ascension Lutheran church and Marion American Legion Auxiliary. Burial is Pleasant Hill cemetery Blairstown with services 1 p.m. Tuesday at Murdoch chapel Marion. casket closes at 12 30 p.m. Friends may donate to cancer fund.
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Gavenne
Marion
Cedar Rapids
Jack C. Bross
Blairstown
Bross
Sieg-Cedar Rapids Company
Ascension Lutheran Church
Marion Post
American Legion Auxiliary
Terry L. Baird
Harrogate
England
Virgil Richardson
Denver
Colo
Francis Richardson
Robert Dresher
Bountiful
Utah
Murdoch Chapel
M.C. Hagedorn
Pleasant Hill Cemetery
The
Cancer Fund
Thought for today Reflection on knowledge by Horace
A compact aphorism from Horace, the Roman poet and satirist born 68 B.C. The quote suggests human limits in knowledge and prudence in judging what one cannot fully understand.
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Horace
B.C
Marion Firemen Respond to Three Calls
Marion firemen were kept busy Saturday with three reported fires. A grass fire along the Milwaukee railroad right of way west from Lindale drive was extinguished with no damage. another grass fire along tracks between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets caused no damage. Childs playing with matches started a chair fire at Bruce Boyson farm on Alburnett road. no damage reported. Dale Johnson’s daughter pledged Kappa Epsilon at Augusta University.
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Marion
Milwaukee Railroad
Lindale Drive
Thirteenth
Fourteenth Streets
Bruce Boyson
Alburnett Road
Marion area groups outline library and church notices
An 8 PM Marion public library meeting aims to form a Friends of the Library group to promote library services with teas displays and events featuring Iowa authors. Other items include YMCA activity schedule, Beta Sigma Phi meeting and speaker, Lions Club talk on the Marion Historical Museum project, First Presbyterian Ash Wednesday service details, and Mrs. Marshall Dingman’s return home from St Luke's hospital.
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Library Board
Friends of the Library Group
Iowa
Eta Lota
Beta Sigma Phi
William Strasburger
Twenty-fourth Avenue
Bob Pierson
Lee Schoon
Twenty-seventh Avenue
First Presbyterian Church
Jay A. Miller
Person of Christ
Jesus the Divine Physician
Weapons Spending More Than Doubled in Developing Nations
A global study titled World Military and Social Expenditures 1976 reports developing countries more than doubled their weapons outlays from 15 billion to 39 billion dollars between 1960 and 1974. It notes 25 percent of world scientific manpower shifts from civilian to weapons work, slowing social tech progress.
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Washington
Ruth Sivard
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Man Robbery Report Near Cedar Rapids Tavern
A Cedar Rapids man reported being attacked and robbed after leaving Shah deen’s tavern Saturday night. George W. Jenkins suffered a head cut, was treated and released from St. Luke’s hospital, and said the suspect stole $15 and a $5 billfold. The assailant, described as a 6 foot tall, 190 pound black male about 30, fled in the 600 block of Fifth avenue SE after Jenkins refused a loan.
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Cedar Rapids
George W. Jenkins
Dalewood Avenue
St. Luke’s Hospital
Jenkins
Fifth Avenue SE
Deputies Arrest Three On Gas Siphon Count
Three young men were charged with larceny in the nighttime for siphoning gas from cars near the Lisbon FS service station late Sunday. David L. Pitlik 20 Mt. Vernon route two Joel D. Wolfe 19 Mt. Vernon and Bradley S. Chambers 19 Macomb Ill were accused of stealing goods valued under 20 dollars.
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Lisbon
David L. Pitlik
Route Two
Mt. Vernon
Joel D. Wolfe
Bradley S. Chambers
Macomb
Ill
Canney Sees Iowa lagging in local revenue options
Cedar Rapids Mayor Don Canney, after a Palm Springs seminar, said Iowa trails the nation in local revenue sources. He noted Cedar Rapids relies on property taxes for a large share of its budget and discussed tax increment financing and local option taxes as alternatives. He plans to brief the council and may seek a statewide initiative on local option taxes. ON THIS DATE in 1975 Kislinger hinted at a softer U S stance toward Cuba.
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Cedar Rapids
Don Canney
Palm Springs
Calif
Iowa
Practical Seminar Institute
Canney
Missouri
Three Killed in Weekend Iowa Crashes
Three Iowans died in weekend traffic crashes. Harold D. Wells 27 of Knoxville died Sunday afternoon on Iowa 156 near Bussey when his single vehicle rolled over four or five times. Randall Tystahl 23 of Alpha was killed Saturday when his car left a T intersection and overturned into a ditch near Alpha Fayette County. Michael Anderson 17 of rural Oakland died Saturday night when his car left a Pottawattamie County road and plunged down a 25 foot embankment.
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Harold D. Wells
Michael Anderson
Oakland
Randall Tystahl
Alpha
Tystahl
Fayette County
Anderson
Pottawattamie
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