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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1978
Page
4
Kirkwood Community College instructor Rhonda Kekke led a winter curriculum add on international education focusing on time space and body movement. Her class used elevator interactions to show how social distance affects comfort and cross cultural communication.
Grant Wood Area Education Agency staff ratify a two year 1978 80 contract with administration. The deal raises salaries by 5.4 percent base and top, increases total payroll 8.06 percent, adds family health insurance contributions, and expands term life coverage. Board action due next week to approve before it takes effect.
Perry Harris and James E. Jackson had charges dismissed after prosecutors said insufficient facts and witness inconsistencies. Others received suspended sentences or probation for drunk driving offenses, including Robert L. Hodgkin, Floyd W. Raftis, Eugene L. Bowles, Karen S. Keeney, and Michael G. Clinton, with Clinton facing a deferred sentence and community corrections requirement.
Powers Associated Constructors Inc sued the Iowa Board of Regents and the state over a 1974 Hydraulics Research East Annex contract. A 1976 suit sought over 520,000 in damages. a Johnson County jury awarded about 27,000. Appeals contested the damages scope and retrial ruling.
No objections at public hearing on the 1978 79 North Linn Consolidated School District budget set at 1 955 000. The tax levy will fall by 67 cents per 1000 valuation though actual taxes depend on property values.
The Garnavillo Lions Club initiated a relief drive for a local family whose David Bacon residence between Guttenberg and Garnavillo burned Tuesday. Loss estimated at $20,000 due to a basement wood furnace fire. Contributions accepted at Garnavillo Savings Bank.
A 41 year old man, Billy R. Alday of 1612 Ninth Ave SW, was charged with drunk driving shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday. He was arrested near the intersection of 12th Avenue and Eighth Street SW and also faces a speeding charge.
About 3800 was raised in Cedar Rapids for United Cerebral Palsy Center as 100 plus American Junior Bowling Congress members took part. Patty Staub of Lancer Lanes led the women with 303.77 dollars, while Jim Brockhohn of Cedar Rapids Bowl topped the men with 261.39 dollars.
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