Editorial urges Cedar Rapids board on married students policy
The Cedar Rapids school board should consider public opinion before deciding on extracurricular rules for married students. The editorial argues the board must act as a body, weighing input from PTA, citizens, teachers, and students, while retaining final responsibility. It notes the proposal would require principal approval for married students to participate, allows exclusions for harmful records, and cautions that a principal-based policy could deny permission, with limited deterrent effect on early marriage.
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Cedar Rapids
PTA
Citizens’ Advisory Committee
School Board
Supt. Wright
Birmingham School Chief Laments Missed Opportunity
The Birmingham Alabama school superintendent Theo Wright mishandled the case of 1081 absentee Negro students arrested during peaceful anti segregation demonstrations. A federal circuit court ordered reinstatement after a district judge refused, prompting debate over proper punishment for truancy rather than arrest.
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Theo Wright
Birmingham
Ala
Wright
Back to the Drawing Board for a Farm Program
Rex Conn argues farmers rejected top-down supply management and government dictatorship. He favors a voluntary large-scale land retirement plan to reduce output without harming efficiency, aiming to balance production with market needs and sustain affordable, bountiful food.
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U.S
Carroll Bottum
Purdue University
Farm Bureau
Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
How to Write Your Congressman from The Gazette
Iowa congressman shares practical tips for constituents on writing letters. Focus on one subject, include full facts and address, and add bill numbers with proper House or Senate identifiers. Emphasizes brevity, personal voice, and complete identification to speed responses.
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the Gazette
Iowa
Alcoa News
Aluminum Company of America
House
Senate
Washington
D. C
Mind’s Rise and the Cost of Knowledge in Modern Life
An essay argues that a highly intellectual society brings both progress and penalties in space exploration and daily life. It notes widespread knowledge, rapid technological change, and doubts about human values as nuclear threats and social strain grow. Despite disorientation, society adapts, balancing happiness with intellect.
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Maj. Cooper
The Diffusion of Knowledge and Human Potential
The text argues that material well being fuels cultural and intellectual growth under liberty. It defends scientific progress, including atomic knowledge, as essential to human advancement and the quest for higher potential, outweighing nostalgia for primitive simplicity.
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