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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1968
Page
12
MT VERNON Cornell College hosts Parents Day with learning sessions led by President Samuel Stumpf on The New Morality. A separate Vietnam Day Planning Committee plans campus info booths, an open forum, and a torchlight parade to present antiwar views to visiting parents.
In Cedar County the clerk election is unsettled as no candidate exists for the remaining two months of Cyril Olson’s term. Hazel Garrison and Phyllis Lensdow clash in prior appointments, with Lensdow winning the Republican primary for the four-year term. Party leaders plan fundraisers as campaigns gear up for Oct. 19.
An Associated Press survey shows new minority history offerings in several Iowa colleges this fall including Drake, Buena Vista, Grinnell, Loras, Luther, Simpson and Wartburg. Upward Bound and other programs aid disadvantaged students with dozens enrolling at Iowa sites this year.
Elkader officials protested a proposed widening of Highway 56 entering the town from the northwest. The council argued the plan is too costly and urged restoring the original $80 000 cost plan from a July 13 1967 hearing. They proposed shifting the road to the west to avoid moving homes. The highway commission is reviewing the issue with no action yet.
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