Linn-Mar Board Approves Junior and Senior High Curriculum Changes
Linn-Mar school board approved major reforms for junior and senior high curricula. Proposals include exploratory foreign languages typing home economics industrial arts art and music theory plus developmental reading with a $1000 budget. A seven period day without a homeroom and a new health sex ed program are proposed for junior high. Senior high plans favor more realistic programs for non college bound students and expanded guidance and diverse course options.
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Linn-Mar Board of Education
John Corkery
Corkery
Glenn Jensen
Marion Council rejects Valleyview restricted parking request
Marion council denied a request by Mrs. Don Levenberger to restrict parking on Valleyview drive citing a need for a city wide study. The vote was 5 to 1 with Ray mond Eckhart opposed.
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Larry Tanner
Marion
Leighton W. Ford
Valleyview Drive
Don Levenberger
Grands Avenue
Raymond Eckhart
Levenberger
South Eighth
South Fifth Street
Council Public Safety and
Streets Committees
Bill Grundy
Safety
Jan Marg
Grundy
Council
Eugene Frye
Marg
William Tobin
Legion Memorial Swimming Pool
Édunell
Mary
Ralph W. Potter
Zodac Construction Co
Cedar Rapids
Herman Thompson Associates
Howard R. Green Co
John P. Hennessey
Public Safety Committee
Fairview Drive
South Dump
Sant Marion
Jensen Asks 4.5 Million Denies Voc School Rumors
The Cedar Rapids Gazette reports on Jensen seeking 4.5 million while denying rumors about a vocational school. The school board discusses medical attendance at games, stretcher readiness, and bus transport for injured players. Resignations of two teachers on leave are accepted. proposals remain undecided.
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Jensen
Cedar Rapids
Mar
Eels
Lucille E. McCal
Harold Wengert
Area 10
Selby Ballantyne
Area 1
Max Clark
Decorah
Fink death obituary and local updates from Marion
Leslie J. Fink 57 of 890 Fourteenth Ave Marion died Monday after a short illness. He lived in Marion 16 years born Oct 18 1910 Garwin married Dorothy Davis April 14 1940 Waterloo. He worked at Iowa Manufacturing since 1951 formerly a farmer. Survived by wife a son Lloyd in Virginia Beach Va three daughters and ten grandchildren. Memorial service 2 PM Thursday Cedar Memorial Chapel of Memories. Burial Cedar Memorial Cemetery. Casket closed after service. Also Marion YMCA schedule and local ads note.
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Leslie J. Fink
Fourteenth Avenue
Marion
Garwin
Dorothy Irene Davis
Waterloo
Iowa Manufacturing
Fink
First Methodist Church of
Lloyd Fink
Virginia Beach
Gary
Carnahan
Cedar Rapids
Don Winter
New London
Iowa
Keith Chalmers
Libby
Mont
Lester Fink
Traer
Orval Fink
Ivan Fink
Los Alamitos
Calif
Marcus Knoop
Cedar Memorial Chapel of Memories
Lloyd C. Kellams
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Cedar Memorial Funeral Home
Chapel of Memories
Area schools press for 4.5 million operating fund
Iowa area vocational and community college leaders testified before the Senate Education committee seeking a 4.5 million operating appropriation to cover cash flow delays. Jensen cited consolidations reducing college counts and urged continued support under the department of public instruction.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Senate Education Committee
B. A. Jensen
Area 10 Board
Cedar Rapids
Jensen
Area Schools
Board of Regents
Department of Public Instruction
Uance
Public Instruction Department
Breakins Follow Oelwein Games
OELWEIN police report third break in at Oelwein high school in four weeks. The principal’s office was entered after a basketball game. The teachers’ lounge door was forced but nothing was taken. Proceeds from the Elkader versus Dike game were not discovered in the office.
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Oelwein
Oelwein High School
Elkader
Dike
Tipton Girl in Fair Condition After Home Fire
Lisa Hamann ten, daughter of Mrs Louis Wagner, was listed in fair condition at University hospitals Iowa City with burns suffered in a fire at her Tipton home Monday. Her clothing caught fire from a kitchen blaze and family members extinguished the flames.
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Tipton
Lisa Hamann
Louis Wagner
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Indictment Following Jesup Car Crash
Clarence Hauge 73 of Winthrop is in satisfactory condition after his car struck the rear of another vehicle in Jesup Monday. He was charged with failure to have control of his vehicle.
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Independence
Clarence Hauge
Winthrop
Jesup
Hauge
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Douglas Construction Co
Peter F. Crivaro
Lee Coppock
Crivaro
Thomas E. McGowan
Eugene Dunn
Ralph Chestown
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Line County District Court
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L. J. Fink
the Gazette
YMCA
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Ray
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LeMars
Leo Palmer
Alburnett
Palmer
Cocking’s
Seventh Avenue
Jessen Child
Frank Nye
Gazette
Howard Dean Jessen
James A. Jessen
Cheryl Ann
Cynthia Marie
Elizabeth Lamm
Murdoch
Jean P. Hauter
Thursiday
Elgin Sportsman
Nordman’s Jewelers
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PTA
Sorge Pharmacy
Carol Ashlock
Alton Ashlock
Fifth Avenue
Pillsbury Baptist Bible College
Owatonna
Minn
Frank Gorup
17Th St. NE
Eleventh Street
Nile
Stephen Smith
Town Square
Sleventh Street
Smiths
Ask
First National Bank
Contin
McOr
Block
America
First Ave
9Th St
Sun
Landis Financial Group
Public Finance Service
Landis
Empire Credit Corporation
Oelwein Games
Dickey's
Mera
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National Institute of Gry Cleaning
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