School district to fund writing program upgrades and staff
C R School district plans to implement writing skills recommendations by hiring three professional readers offering in service courses and bringing in outside consultants. The package totals 810,715 with 430,000 sought from the budget review committee and 381,409 from the district and grant sources. If approved the committee would add 20 per pupil in 1976 77 allowable growth. The board also received a 117 118 increase to the 1975 76 budget authorized total to cover special education costs once financed by the Joint County system. The growth was granted at 40 percent of the district request.
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Tially
Grant Wood Area Education Agency
Department of Public Instruction
Joint County
Eight Seek Cedar Rapids School Board Seat Interviews Set
Cedar Rapids Community School Board will begin eight candidate interviews at 4 p.m. March 31 in the Educational Services Center board room for the seat vacated by James Kreamer. Names submitted include Mark Donahue, David Feltes, Craig Hickok, Walt Hill, Gerald Hinzman, Tom Hoegen, Tom Kelly, and Roger Stigers. Beatty says additional candidates may contact him through Wednesday with a final decision expected in April.
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Cedar Rapids
Beatty
Mark Donahue
Thirty-seventh Street
Hedges Associates
David G. Feltes
Bever Avenue
C.A. Roberts Co
Craig G. Hickok
Dalewood Avenue
Collins Radio Co
Walt Hill
Meadowbrook Drive
Iowa Glass Depot
Gerald R. Hinzman
Lauren Drive
Tom Hoegen
Cottage Grove Parkway
Tom Kelly
Trail Ridge Road
Gohmann Realtors
Roger Stigers
Twenty-first Street
Byers and
Happel Realtors
Kreamer
Moslem Leader Vetoes Plan For President's Resignation
In Lebanon a key leftist Moslem warlord Kamal Junblatt rejected a plan to resign the Christian President Suleiman Franjieh as civil war raged. He demanded Franjieh's immediate and unconditional departure while militias fought in Beirut and hillside districts. A cease-fire effort was pursued by Syria's Col. Ali Madani as talks continued and Franjieh reportedly agreed to a delayed resignation.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Suleiman Franjieh
Kamal Junblatt
Franjieh
Ahmed Al-Khatib
Socialist Progressive Party
Tated
Holiday Inn
Hilton Hotel
Junblatt
Syria
Ali Madani
Woman Arrested Twice Monday on Larceny Counts
A 22 year old woman Cynthia Ann Musgrove was arrested twice Monday in separate larceny incidents. She allegedly took a billfold from Wendy Wischmeyer at Armstrongs and later two purses at Shaheens Fifth Avenue tavern where Willie Love confronted the victim. Love was charged with assault and battery. The want ad number is 398-8234.
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Cynthia Ann Musgrove
C Avenue NE
Armstrong's
Wendy Wischmeyer
Twentyfourth Avenue
Miss Musgrove
Shaheen
Fifth Avenue Tavern
Fifth Avenue SE
Mary Ann Gardner
Route Two
Cedar Rapids
Willie Benjamin Love
Seventh Avenue SE
Love
Ewart K. Clear Dies at 77 in Mayo Clinic Rochester
Ewart Keller Clear 77 of Belle Plaine died Saturday at the Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota. Born October 7 1898 in Bluffton Indiana he founded Clear's department store in Belle Plaine. He married Pauline Torrence June 1 1931 and was active in Theta Chi American Legion Rotary Belle Plaine Commerce Christ Methodist church and other groups. Services Wednesday 11 at Christ Methodist with a prayer service Tuesday 7:30 and Masonic service 8 at T W Van Beck's.
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Belle Plaine
Ewart Keller
E.K.) Clear
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Bluffton
Ind
Pauline Torrence
University of Wisconsin
Clear
Clear’s
Theta Chi Fraternity
Judicial Nominating Commission
American Legion
Sehr Seeks Johnson County Board Seat
Sehr, a 14 year Johnson County road department employee, announces his candidacy for a four year term on the Johnson County Board of Supervisors. He would resign his road job to serve full time and aims to remove sensationalism from county government and restore public trust. Lehr is among 11 filing candidates. April 14 is the filing deadline. Crawford is described as 68.
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Iowa City
Don Sehr
Johnson County Board of Supervi
Sehr
Johnson County Secondary Road Department
Lehr
Cedar Rapids Council Delays Start by Half Hour
The Cedar Rapids city council will begin at 9:30 am instead of 9:00 am on Wednesday. Mayor Don Canney cited a speaking engagement as the cause, noting the absence of Finance Commissioner Hal Schaefer who would be out of town.
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Cedar Rapids
Don Canney
Hal Schaefer
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