Voter Registration Ends Ahead of Cedar Rapids Bond Vote
Final week to register for the June 2 Cedar Rapids school bond election. Registration closes at 5 p.m. next Monday. New residents or precinct movers may register at the city clerk’s office, with residency requirements in Iowa Linn county and the district. Absentee ballots available at the Board of Education building. office hours listed through May 29.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Community School
Iowa
Linn County
Secretary's
Board of Education
Second Avenue
School Board
Bronze Star for Vietnam actions awarded to C R Patton
Former Cedar Rapids resident Staff Sgt. Rex B Patton received the Bronze Star at Fort Lee Virginia for June 26 1964 in Vietnam When his helicopter came under Viet Cong fire he helped unload a medical team and then aided the crew of a second helicopter under heavy fire Carrying two wounded crew members from the wreckage he earned the medal His sister in law Mrs Vernon Dighton lives at 219 Seventh Street SW Also noted are other local air force personnel reports and assignments
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Cedar Rapids
Vietnam
Rex B. Patton
Ft. Lee
Air Force
Doris Peterson
Set. Patton
Patton
Vernon Dighton
Seventh Street
Funding of 4.2 Million for New Senior High School
A plan allocates 4.2 million dollars for constructing a new senior high school. The proposal outlines funding use for site development and building costs to expand local secondary education capacity.
Johnson County Board Seeks 50 MPH On Old Highway 218
The Johnson County board of supervisors adopted a resolution urging the state highway commission to set a 50 mile per hour limit on the six mile stretch of Old Highway 218 between Iowa City and North Liberty. They cite a string of serious accidents blamed on speed.
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County Board of Supervisors
State Highway Commission
Iowa City
North Liberty
Sorority Names Top Member At 1965 Convention
Mrs Ralph Krone received the outstanding member award at the 16th national convention of Epsilon Sigma Alpha held in Oelwein over the weekend. Miss Linda Mason Davenport and Mrs John Roy Cedar Rapids Alpha Phi earned second and third place. Five Cedar Rapids women were elected to state offices including Mrs Douglas Holets Gamma Gamma as president and Mrs Robert Rutherford Alpha Omega as past presidents auxiliary leader. Seventeen Cedar Rapids members attended.
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Ralph Krone
Forty-first Street
Epsilon:Sigme Alpha Sorority
Oelwein
Linda Mason
Davenport
John Roy
Cedar Rapids
Flunk Day Festivity Kicks Off Coe College Welcome
Coe College marks its annual Flunk Day with a carillon sunrise concert by The Beatles and other modernists. Student Council President John Casey leads a civil defense style notice for an experimental evacuation as six Cedar Rapids police monitor campus activity. no arrests reported.
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Coe
Coe College
Coe Auditorium
Student Council
John Casey
William Rowland
Richard Nelson
East Iowans Receive Engineer Scholarships
Iowa City list shows multiple East Iowans awarded University of Iowa engineering scholarships. Recipients include David Hyde Raymond Machacek Cedar Rapids Larry Levsen Clarence Gary Phillips Delphi Richard Lammers Dyersville William Seifert Homestead David Berry Dennis Kaiser James Longstreth Dwight Walker Theodore Verch all of Iowa City Gustave Fink Richard Shogren Lansing Evan Gerard Norman Ogden Marengo Kenneth Burda Oxford Junction Peter Sea ba Sigourney Erwin Toer ber Stanwood.
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Iowa City
Oelwein High School Addition Contracts Set for June 15
Contracts for the 790000 construction project at Oelwein High School will be awarded by the board of education at 2 p.m. on June 15. The proceedings involve plans for the new addition and the selection of bidding firms.
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Oelwein
Board of Education
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Edilberto K. Tiempo
Silliman University
Philippines
Edith Tiempo
Silliman
Waterloo- Cedar Rapids
National League of American Pen Women
Wartburg College
Ray Lageschulte
Waverly
National League of Pen Women
Peoples Church
C.R. Man
Douglas L., Cook
Kenneth Cook
Gunter Air Base
Ala
Lackland Air Force Base
Texas
Richard P. Shay
F. L. Shay
Central City
Fortuna Air Force Station
Westby
Mont
Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base
Kansas City
Robert J. Dunlop
Clyde C. Dunlop
Center Point Read
Offutt Air Force Base
Neb
Paris
The
Sorority
Sapa Food Service
East
Lowa
SWAB
Sixteenth Avenue
N.W
Robinson’s
16Th Avenue
S. W
Acres
Robinson
Jamaica
Aaen
Blom’s
Colton
Oxfords
Women's Work
Oxford of
Slipon
Romeo
16Th Avenue S.W
Hampooer
Peterson’s Home
Furnithinas Town & Country Shossing Center
West Side
Cail
First Avenue
Tiriye Ch
Robb
RCA Whirlpool
Gas & Electric
H.P
RCA
Whirlpool Corporation
RCA Whirlpool Appliances
Pedia Corporation of America
Robb’s Appliance CO
Second Street
S.E
Penney
Dial
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