Tele-Friend Begins April 1 for Cedar Rapids Youth
Mary Burke reports Cedar Rapids Foundation 2 launches Tele-Friend a new 6 to 9 p.m. weekly counseling line staffed by 15 trained junior and senior high students. Supervisors note trainee enthusiasm, with sessions using encounter-group style training to build empathy and reflective listening.
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Foundation 2
Mary Burke
C Avenue NE
Cedar Rapids
Jaquie Martin
Craig Wunderlich
Mike Turner
Turner
Salted Away 650 Feet Down
UVS operates a vast subterranean storage facility 650 feet below a Hutchinson salt mine. The repository houses 250 acres of space for sensitive documents, films, seed corn, and historic newspapers, guarded by a single elevator shaft and strict security.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Vaults and Storage, Inc
UVS
Carey Salt Mine
Mike Gingerich
Gingerich
Kansas Prairies
Kansas
Carey Salt Co
Book Workshop brings three experts to Kennedy High School
Three guest speakers will headline a Saturday workshop at Kennedy High School, Cedar Rapids, featuring Marilyn Sachs, Eric Carle, and Bill Halloran. The one day event, funded by a $5,000 prize, runs from 8:30 a.m. with talks on reading, realistic children’s books, authors, and using books to spur imagination, involving about 300 teachers.
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Kennedy High School
Cedar Rapids Community School
Eric Carle
Bill Halloran
Westfield
Mass
Encylopedia Britannica
Halloran
Sachs
Carle
Studies Heart Case Survival in Aortic Dissections
CHICAGO AP Surviving should be the rule when the aortic artery wall weakens and threatens to burst says Dr. Constantine E Anagnostopoulos University of Chicago heart surgeon Rupture is the most common cause of death but early diagnosis and treatment can prevent death He notes his book Acute Aortic Dissections reviews 36 patients followed over seven years and 549 surgical records Of 969 untreated patients 90 percent died within a year.
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Chicago
Constantine E. Anagnostopoulos
University of Chicago
Anagnostopoulos
Exodus to suburbs accelerates as urban population falls
The Conference Board reports continued city to suburb migration with suburban population up over 10 percent in five years and city populations shrinking 2.5 percent. By 1980 more than 60 percent of metropolitan dwellers are expected to live in the suburbs, up from 54 percent in 1970.
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Conference Board
Scout-O-Rama Ticket Sales Open Across Seven Counties
Four district chairmen named to lead sale of Scout-O-Rama tickets as Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts gear up for May 1 shows at Prairie High School Jones County Fairgrounds Monticello Johnson County 4-H Fairgrounds and Seminole Valley Park Cedar Rapids. Tickets cost 1 and include $1 off pizza at local outlets. Proceeds benefit packs and troops with kickoff Thursday and sales at four sites 5 to 8 p.m. or 4 to 7 p.m. depending on district.
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Jerry Shoemaker
Cedar Rapids
Hawkeye Area
Boy Scout Council
Richard Phillips
Everett Staskal
North Star
Jan Heitman
Temaque
James Althouse
Monticello
Wapsiketa
Larry McConahay
Iowa City
Wauhawk
Shoemaker
Prairie High School
Jones County Fairgrounds
Johnson County
Seminole Valley Park
Marion
Coralville
Washington
Hiawatha
North
Cedar County
Bezanson Scout Service Center
Collins
Road NE
Warhawk
Johnson
Iowa
South
Cedar Counties
U.S. Army Reserve Center
Riverside Drive
West
Benton County
Linn
Morris Plan
Ty Kmart
Jones County
North Linn County
Linn County Co-op Oil Co
76 Youngsters Enter Cedar Rapids Soap Box Derby
Cedar Rapids area derby organizers aim to enroll 76 youths and take all to Akron for the national finals under the Spirit of 76 program. Willard E Brown notes Collins Radio provides a 500 dollar sponsorship for the final heat and sponsors are sought for other races. Registration info session set for Saturday at the Central YMCA with details on traditional and kit car divisions for ages 10 to 12.
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Collins Radio
Cedar Rapids Soap Box Derby Assa
Akron
Willard E. Brown
Association
Central Ymca
Brown
Collins
John Pierce
Jaycees
Pierce
Thursday Opening for Indians at Jefferson High
Jefferson high school presents a stage tribute to native Americans titled Indians in a stylized Buffalo Bill show. Gary Baumgartner stars as Buffalo Bill with cast including Mike Swain and many others. director Robert Gender. Tickets at door or by reservation 398-2344. Prices 1.50 adults 1 student.
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Jefferson High School Theater Department
Arthur Kopit
Buffalo Bill
Gary Baumgartner
Sitting Bull
Mike Swain
Wild Bill Hickock
Rick Dawson
Jesse James
Jeff Nechanicky
Billy the Kid
Ed Simon
Geronimo
Dave Olson
Ned Buntline
Steve van Steenhouse
Annie Oakley
Janice Jacobs
Mike King
Dan LeGrand
Joe Grammer
Joe Sherman
Dennis Hruby
Jerry Hoyum
Steve Campbell
Debby Joyner
Lois Baker
Jeff Schmidt
Duane Brown
Mike Cray
Mark Ockenfels
Jon Wilson
Mike Campbell
Kurt Diers
Tom Gorsuch
Greg Penn
Doug Schmitz
Art Sonka
Todd Abney
al Henkel
Luann Astor
Mary Bareis
Betsy Bonar
Shirley Davis
Julie Lane
Joan
First Flag Controversy Still Rolling Along
Historians debate the nation's first flag of independence with claims it originated in Easton Pennsylvania or resembled Britain’s Union Jack. Proponents say Easton flew it July 8 1776 during the Declaration reading, tied to the Betsy Ross style with 13 stripes and a blue field of 13 stars.
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Great Britain
Easton
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Northrup King Grain Company
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
Mickey Rooney
Doby Gillis
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Arctic Savings and Loan
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Federal Reserve Bank
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American Library Assn
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Corrie
Curle
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Lextless
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Chief Joseph
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Collins Road
Town House
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