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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1977
Page
4
A Reg Watters collection petition shows Ralph Clements of 2222 First Avenue NE Cee ’19 requesting early release to honor a Chautauqua contract. The note highlights many Coe students spent summers on circuits to earn money.
A full scale historically accurate Chautauqua production by Coe College alumni and students centers the Saturday 10 a.m. event under the big top on campus. The program features a Mark Twain lecture reenactment, a melodrama Curse You Jack Dalton, period costumes, community sing along, and a Dixieland finale.
The El Kahir Shrine Temple schedules its annual parade in downtown Cedar Rapids Saturday at 1 45 p m A spring ceremonial starts 8 a m at the Scottish Rite Temple 616 Avenue NE with new Northeast Iowa members attending A grand entry and unit presentation will be at 6 p m at the Memorial Coliseum.
Cedar Rapids recreation commission receives donations to Ambroz center at 2000 Mt. Vernon road SE. Weaving classes gain three looms and equipment. pottery classes gain two wheels and an electric kiln. A gas kiln is under construction with a donated kiln building.
Franklin junior high students present a talent show at 7 30 p m Tuesday in the school auditorium. Tickets at the door cost 1 25 for adults and 75 cents for children. Acts include music comedy and magic routines.
The Downtown Kiwanis club gave certificates of merit on Wednesday to nine outstanding industrial arts students. Honorees include William Huage Franklin Junior High Diane Davis Harding Junior High Shelle Perry McKinley Junior High Jeff Visek Roosevelt Junior High Bret Kelsey Taft Junior High Mark Fehlberg Wilson Junior High Randy Heinle Kennedy Senior High Doug Kula Jefferson Senior High and Steve May Washington Senior High.
A local post office sale in Lyndhurst produced a sheet of 100 stamps with missing bottom perforations. The anonymous buyer sold it to dealer Alan Grant for 550 pounds. Grant expects five pairs to fetch 350 pounds each, while keeping the rest.
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