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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1985
Page
4
Iowa City School District notified 13 teachers their jobs may terminate next fall. Many likely will be rehired as hours change or positions are reclassified. Officials cite March 15 notification deadline and anticipate further resignations to enable replacements.
Three Iowa State University faculty members Joseph M. Prusa Patricia A Thiel and Vijay Vittal received National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator awards of 25000 per year for five years up to 500000. Prusa researches heat transfer and fluid mechanics with solar heating interest Thiel studies single crystal metal surface chemistry for catalysis and Vittal works on power system dynamics and electric utility projects. The program supports universities creating highly qualified scientists and engineers.
Kirkwood Community College will run a six week telenetwork series on child advocacy from 12 30 to 3 30 p m each Wednesday through May in Iowa Hall. Tuition is 10 dollars per person with sessions delivered statewide and led by child advocacy experts for nurses counselors educators and parents.
On this date in 1964 Britain set aside an acre at Runnymede the site of the Magna Carta for commemorating the late U S President John F Kennedy the memorial ties Kennedy to a historic liberty landmark.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette lists its office at 500 Third Avenue SE Cedar Rapids Iowa and details subscription rates including $2.25 weekly carrier service 10.40 for 4 weeks and 110.00 for 52 weeks with mail restrictions. It notes The Associated Press exclusive republication rights for local news and directs postmaster address changes to P O Box 511 Cedar Rapids Iowa 52406.
A photograph from the Interstate 380 bridge northeast of the Quaker Oats plant captures a rail yard where a line near Cedar Lake splits into seven tracks. The image centers on the complex junction adjacent to the plant.
Domino’s driver Lester McCorkle was delivering two pizzas to 612 Fourth St SW when an 18 year old and two younger youths robbed him at knifepoint of the pizzas. John W Hopker 18 of 930 N St SW faces first degree robbery and delinquency charges along with the 15 and 11 year olds. Police arrested the trio. two pizzas were seized as evidence.
Eighteen agencies were approved for funding in the 1985 South Tama County United Way campaign after admissions hearings at the Tama Civic Center. Presentations by 16 agencies led to inclusion, with others like the Heart and Cancer Research units at the University of Iowa Hospitals also accepted. American Red Cross South Tama Chapter was tabled due to lack of coordinator and no funding request.
Iowa State University researchers created an 80 question 95 minute test to define computer literacy. Professors Simonson Montag Maurer say the exam, used as a final in computer courses, targets skills and computer anxiety with four parts and a high average score of 65 percent.
Iowa City poet Paul Zimmer director of the University of Iowa Press is among 16 authors named to the 1985 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters awards. He earned the 5 000 prize for Family Reunion Selected and New Poems 1983. Zimmer, native of Canton Ohio, has written poetry for 25 years. He previously directed the University of Georgia Press before joining Iowa.
Kay Konz a former University of Iowa College of Education teaching assistant filed a $1 million suit in Johnson County District Court naming Stewart Ehly an associate professor as defendant. Konz sought $250000 for income loss pain and medical costs and $750000 in punitive damages for injuries from the March 21 1983 van crash on Interstate 80 near Davenport that rolled several times injuring Konz who required physical therapy.
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