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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1975
Page
2
A husband plans a golf outing while his wife budgets finances and proposes planting a garden to cut costs. A media colleague Fred helps dig dirt and plants bottles and a Playboy centerfold in the garden as the couple jokes about disguising the gas meter and vegetables. The wife handles the garden while the husband schemes a return to the course.
An economical spring recipe from Greece blends lemon juice with beaten eggs to make a thickened sauce for blade steak. Braised slowly with dillweed, the budget cut yields tender meat served with rice and peas, salad, rolls, and chiffon cake for dessert.
Ten students including Pam Zook Leland Gwin Jan Nichols Susan Bower Susan Greene Sharon Shumaker Marge Herman Joyce Clark Marty Lucas and Diane Greenwood are initiated at a 7 30 p m ceremony in Sigourney Community High School cafeteria. James Claussen Iowa City wins second in the Miami Graphics Biennial with a lithograph Headed for an Accumulated Comfort earning a 750 purchase prize. On this date in 1974 Nixon opened Expo 74 at Spokane Washington.
ISU will admit 153 high school seniors next fall with recognition or recognition and award. Recipients with recognition and award place in the top two percent of their class, including valedictorians and salutatorians, while recognition entrants are in the top three to five percent. Named students span Cedar Rapids to Washington across eastern Iowa.
Iowa City United Way of Johnson County has been chosen from 17 states to join a 20 member national United Way committee for small cities. The panel will foster liaison between United Way of America and smaller chapters, assess program effectiveness, and suggest studies and improvements for the United Way system. The Montour High School Alumni Assn. plans its 94th anniversary banquet May 24 at 7 p.m. at Dick's Restaurant, with reservations by May 18 through listed contacts.
Timothy J. Jacobson, 19, of Boone, was arrested by Ames police and charged with arson for three fires on Iowa State University campus at Memorial Union. He appeared before Magistrate Larry Munsinger with a $5,000 bond set and is held in the Ames city jail awaiting a preliminary hearing. A former janitor at ISU, he faces charges amid a campus fire rash since year start.
Sigourney board of education met in special session to open bids for reroofing the South Elementary building. Nelson Roofing Co. Ottumwa was the low bidder at 64091.10 dollars for the project.
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