Tyler Elementary to open voluntary race balance programs
Cedar Rapids Community School Board approved a plan to run an Enterprise school at Tyler for kindergartners to fourth graders and an Expo center at Squaw Creek for fifth and sixth graders to boost racial balance. Nonminority enrollment will be invited to Tyler while minority students may transfer to other district schools. Transportation, counseling, and volunteer staffing will support the program, with funds sought from the state budget review committee.
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Cedar Rapids
Tion
Expo Center
Truman Annex
Tyler
Iowa
Craig Currie
Currie
Ed Rich
Petitions Back Married Couple at Washington High
Petitions urging that a married couple be permitted to continue teaching at Washington High School were presented to the Cedar Rapids Community board on Monday night. An unwritten district personnel policy requires married couples to be separated in staffing decisions.
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Washington High School
Cedar Rapids
Rch
Scott Miller
Richard McDonald
McDonalds
Washington
Administrators Get Increases Of 3.9 Percent
Cedar Rapids Community school district granted average administrator pay raises of 3.96 percent for 85 staff at a board meeting. Total increases amount to 60,518 with 55,000 in eliminated positions reducing net cost to 6,361. Lead salaries range from 13,873 to 19,594 with executive directors earning 19,794 to 25,000 and Ramstad at 27,000 Currie at 35,230.
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Cedar Rapids
Lincoln
Buchanan
Educational Services Center
Iowa
William Ramstad
Craig Currie
Army To Release Reserve Officers From Active Duty
About 4,900 reserve officers, or a little under 10 percent, will be released from active duty by Oct. 1 as not needed in the post Vietnam era. Only those below lieutenant colonel are affected, with higher ranks urged to retire. Readjustment pay up to 15000 dollars may be available to about 4,000 of the officers. There are 53,200 officers on active duty across second lieutenants, first lieutenants, colonels and majors.
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Washington
Army
Ultimate Superman No. 1 fetches 1800 in Sacramento
An 18 year old Sacramento student paid 1800 for one of nine remaining copies of the 1938 Action Comics No. 1. Mitchell Mehdy sold part of his 2000 comic collection to buy it from Theodore Holstein. Mehdy may sell only to a museum for at least 10000 and plans to store the artifact in a bank safe with Lloyd's of London insurance.
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Sacramento
Calif
Mitchell Mehdy
Mehdy
Theodore Holstein
Melody
Four Die in New Wave of Bloodshed in Ulster
BELFAST Lupped by the worst outbreak in weeks four people die in a single day as a bomb wrecks a cottage near Portadown and several shootings occur in Belfast. Victims include two Catholics a Protestant and a British soldier amid continuing sectarian violence. British troops guard routes into Catholic areas amid threats of Protestant vengeance assassinations.
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Belfast
UPS
Northern Ireland
Portadown
John McCormack
One phone call puts a low cost want ad to work
A brief classified notice invites readers to place a low cost want ad by calling 398 8234 for quick placement and visibility in the newspaper.
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