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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1966
Page
14
Marion school head Dr. Darrell Spaan leads a seven member eval team starting Monday and finishing Wednesday to assess Marion high school. The review by the North Central Accrediting Association includes teacher work and student interviews.
The Marion Jaycees seek help collecting names and addresses of service members for a Christmas greeting project. Residents may mail names to Marion Jaycees P O Box 243 Marion Iowa or call Mrs. Neal Schrader or Mrs. Lee Freeseman with details.
Sixteen year old Geoffrey Graham, joined the junior leaders regiment of the Royal Artillery in May, was discharged due to an allergic reaction to khaki dye in his uniform. He received a 5.65 pension for a service caused disability.
A Greyhound bus en route from Birmingham to Mobile overturned Sunday about 22 miles south of Selma injuring 18 people. Seven teens were hospitalized in Selma with others in Montgomery. driver said he lost control after hitting a rainslick spot on the highway.
Florence art authorities prepare a large reconditioning center in the Boboli gardens behind the Pitti palace. Dr Giovanni Urbani says 1300 damaged works include over 900 canvases and woods and the hospital will use gas drying then furnaces and blowers to control humidity. The project, financed by Italia Nostra, is slated to begin in two days with an estimated cost around 48000 dollars.
The home of Eugene Debs, five time Socialist presidential candidate, is designated a national historic landmark by Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. The residence, founder of the first industrial union, is also an official state historic site per Indiana's 1965 legislature.
A Vietnam War rescue recounts Air Force Lieutenant Gerald Bankus bailing out at 7000 feet above Tay Ninh. He landed near helicopters and was escorted to the U S Army Special Forces camp. His father Dempsey Bankus endured two days afloat after a B 24 was shot down in World War II.
Sioux Indian Redhorse, 35, from a South Dakota reserve, donated a kidney to John Dickinson in Chicago after seeing a newspaper ad. The transplant last week succeeded and John’s doctors say the new kidney is functioning well.
Tokyo reports a government move to issue new 50 yen and 100 yen coins starting January 1. Vending machine makers estimate about 30,000 yen per machine to adapt to the redesigned coins, due to changes in size and weight.
A housemaid’s complaint about a porcelain piece blocking the vacuum led to a Christie’s sale of an early Ming blue and white flask. Identified by Anthony du Boulay as from the first quarter of the fifteenth century it is one of only three known copies with a Peking Museum and the Percival David collection as the others. The anonymous owner and a London dealer buyer were noted.
Bakersfield residents report a new product named Acryline that grips denture plates with a vacuum seal. The maker claims it feels like natural teeth and lasts six months before reapplication. It is sold at drug counters.
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