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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1963
Page
6
Cedar Rapids public school officials outline a redesigned instructional grouping plan as it awaits school board action. The policy emphasizes flexibility, three secondary levels, and avoidance of tracking based on socio economic status while noting room for revision and ongoing evaluation next fall and beyond.
At the National Wilderness Conference in San Francisco Dr Chauncey Leake urged a mass tree planting strategy to offset vehicle and aviation emissions. He proposed ten trees per vehicle and vastly larger ratios for airliners and jets, noting water needs and spray debates as potential obstacles.
In a momentous act Congress grants Sir Winston Churchill honorary U S citizenship. The move cements gratitude for his wartime leadership and warns of future paths if Franco-British unity had emerged. Churchill’s broader vision and later calls for U S Britain Commonwealth cooperation are noted as pivotal.
A reader argues against Admiral Rickover using the normal distribution of IQ and other traits to explain educational differences. He contends many factors cluster around curves where some individuals excel while others struggle, and this backs sympathy for underprivileged groups and praise for teachers who raise literacy and language skills beyond earlier generations.
The letter argues for capital punishment as a protection for society and criticizes abolition advocates. It then shifts to farming policy, urging unity among producers to achieve cost of production via cooperatively controlled production and distribution systems. The writer calls for a fundamental cooperative principle to ensure production and distribution at cost.
The note thanks many volunteers and organizations for supporting a polio immunization drive. WMT and KCRG media outlets, Cedar Rapids Gazette, police, Red Cross, Pfizer, McKesson Robbins, PTA volunteers, nurses, pharmacists, and various civic groups are recognized for their time and cooperation.
The South shows growing Republican strength with 1.5 million new GOP voters in off-year gains. Senate and state races narrowed Democratic holds in Alabama Texas South Carolina Georgia Mississippi and North Carolina. Urban areas supplied the main GOP support as two party competition expands beyond presidential years.
About 2 000 Shriners and ma sons from the area gathered in the Paramount theater to hear Harvey A Beffa of St Louis imperial potentate of the Shriners of North America. Cedar Rapids school board elected Douglas B Grant as chairman for the coming year succeeding Dr Carl C Kesler. Marjorie Kurth of Cedar Rapids was among the College of Wooster girls chorus set to present a concert tomorrow at Westminster Presbyterian church.
The report notes efforts by Cedar Rapids groups to influence Congress and improve local services. It mentions Mery Terry’s civil service appointment as senior flight instructor, florists cutting mileage costs, and a veterans chapter reorganizing in Cedar Rapids.
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