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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1975
Page
6
Headlines over the past two years warn of lagging elementary enrollment in Cedar Rapids Community School District. A nine-person citizen committee will study building needs, space for two special programs, and strategies for fall 1980 amid rising costs and past closings.
A district committee studies two programs needing space including seven standard classrooms a gym cafeteria conference room and restrooms for 39 students ages 2 to 24 and a work study program with 150 special education students. Forecasts show a district enrollment drop to 22 109 with ~22.5 vacant classrooms across several elementary schools.
The 56th anniversary of the Hanford post American Legion will be marked with a potluck dinner at the Legion home on Saturday evening. Organized by 20 WWI veterans in 1919 the post chartered May 28 1919 now has 2088 members and supports Boys State oratorical contests scholarships Junior Legion baseball Boy Scout troop and Emerald Knights Drum and Bugle corps. It will host a regional Junior Legion baseball tournament and members participate in Memorial Day and Veterans Day observances.
United Cerebral Palsy center at 1201 Eighth Street NW aims to grow its day activity program for physically handicapped adults from 17 to 25 30 this year and to 45 eventually. Executive director James E. Gross says entry is by agency or self referral with a $48 000 expansion cost and a $44 000 1975 fundraising goal.
Bonn reports that a new year law made 2.5 million Germans aged 18 to 21 legal adults, granting voting and parliamentary rights while increasing personal responsibility. Student Willi Vollmer notes New Year’s Eve marked the end of freedom as youths gain election eligibility. Separately in Liberty Kentucky a woodchuck tunneled through 20 inches of road to open a doorway on Main Street.
Five additional Eagle Scouts were named Friday to be honored at the Eagle reception preceding the Hawkeye Area Boy Scout council Scouter Recognition dinner March 8 at the Memorial Union in Iowa City. They are Stephen Johnson Brian Cook Joseph Stein of Newhall and Robert E. Roberts David Clemens of Cedar Rapids. The Eagles and their parents will be honored at 5:30 p.m. reception before the 6:30 p.m. dinner.
Cedar Rapids public library adds 887 cassette tapes to its collection with duplicates for checkout. Recorders at the main downtown desk. tapes shelved mainly at the main library and available at Edgewood and Kenwood branches. Tapes span spoken word, music with commentary, dramatizations, interviews, poetry, science, and politics. On this date in 1585 Sir Francis Drake sails for the West Indies.
The Gazette prints air quality data for Feb 20 to Feb 26 from Linn county health department. Stations include addresses on First Street SW Center Point Road NE Council Street NE First Avenue SE Fourteenth Avenue SE plus Central City and Mt Vernon. Readings show no exceedances of 24-hour or 8-hour standards. station 4 records eight-hour 4.6 and one-hour 9.0, station 2 eight-hour 4.6 and one-hour 9.0, station 4 0.032 maximum, and station 2 34.2 for 24-hour. average annual concentrations range from 0.013 to 0.020 micrograms per cubic meter.
Weinhardt notes growth south of Kennedy high near Glass road and Forty-second street, with Pierce already crowded. Hiawatha area and Nixon area show varied enrollment trends as the district weighs reuse of extra space for senior citizen lounges or small programs. Considerations include avoiding cross-town student commutes and minimizing domino effects from moves, with a report due to the school board this month.
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