House Subcommittee Probing FBI Links to Oswald and Ruby
A House subcommittee opened hearings into the FBI's links with Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby before Kennedy's assassination. Rep. Don Edwards aims to set the record straight, reviewing FBI actions including a destroyed Oswald letter and Ruby's possible role as an informant. Senate probes and CIA mentions accompany the inquiry.
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Washington
House
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Lee Harvey Oswald
Jack Ruby
John Kennedy
Congress
Warren Commission
Oswald
Don Edwards
D-Calif
Civil and Constitutional Rights
Edwards
FBI
Subcommittee
Edward
J. Edgar Hoover
Dallas
Bureau
William Walter
New Orleans
Ice
Kennedy
House Committee
Senate Select Committee On Intelligence
Richard Schweiker
Rpa
Gary Hart
Senate Committee
Central Intelligence Agency
Schweiker
Intelligence Committee
Cedar Rapids Board Proposes Sunday Activity Ban and Policy Tweaks
Cedar Rapids Community School Board considers banning Sunday activities and tightening Wednesday night limits. The plan, urged by Mary Ann Kucera, adds 48 hour exception notice to churches and requires 24 hour principal notification. Other items include a Franklin junior high day change and emergency stadium repairs.
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Cedar Rapids Community School Board
Education Services Center
Second Avenue
Mary Ann Kucera
Franklin Junior High School
Ken Lemke
Franklin
Lemke
James Kreamer
Roosevelt Junior High School
Kingston Stadium
Grant Wood
Academic Honors to Two C R Students
Two Washington high school students received letters of commendation from the National Achievement Scholarship Program for Outstanding Negro Students. Michael A Branch and Paul Harris were among the commendeds from over 50 000 black students who took the 1974 Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test as part of the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
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Washington High School
Michael A. Branch
Twentieth Street SE
Paul Harris
Bever Avenue SE
Norwegian Heritage artifacts show at Luther College library
A display titled Our Norwegian Heritage runs through October at the Preus Library Luther College. Items come from Luther College archives and Winneshiek County archives housed in the library.
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Preus
Luther College
Winneshiek County
Hungry Runaway Monkey Meets Banana Ball at School
In Hamilton Ohio AP Eric a one year old monkey escaped from owners Billy Schooley and Jeff Reynolds and spent the night on an electric transformer outside Corpus Christi school. The next morning he wandered into the school as 300 students gathered outside and laughed. The monkey apparently preferred bananas to policemen and died after a dog warden trap incident.
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Hamilton, Ohio
Eric
Corpus Christi School
Billy Schooley
Jeff Reynolds
Cornell event to feature Orthodox speaker from Cedar Rapids
The Rev. Constantine Nasr of St. George Orthodox church Cedar Rapids will speak on Eastern Orthodoxy at Cornell College Mount Vernon. The lecture begins at 7 p m in the Palisades room of the Commons and is open to the public.
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MT. Vernon
Constantine Nasr
St. George Orthodox Church
Cedar Rapids
Thodoxy
Cornell College
Palisades Room
Refinery Blaze at ARCO in Philadelphia Extinguished
A nine alarm fire in ARCO’s gasoline blending area near Philadelphia ended at 4 28 am after more than 18 hours of flames and smoke. One serious injury was Mayor Frank Rizzo who suffered a shattered thigh bone while fleeing a gas line explosion and was hospitalized after surgery.
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Philadelphia
Atlantic Richfield Co
ARCO
Frank Rizzo
Rizzo
Officers Named by National Honor Society in Postville
Postville high school announces National Honor Society officers Gloria Hager is president Sandy Turner is vice president and John Wickler is secretary treasurer.
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Postville
National Honor Society
Postville High School
Gloria Hager
Sandy Turner
John Wickler
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Nicholas M. Horrock
New York Times Service
Mittee
CIA
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Mier Fidel Castro
Cuba
Warren
Criminal Division
Department of Justice
Hoover
James Hosty
C.R. Board Eyes
Lauree Gerber
Grenadier Guardsman
Adian
Windsor
MM Haiy
C.R
Luther
Cornell
Adventure Land
Six Flags Amusement Parks
Mid- America
the Bank of Today
Ast Trust and Savings Bank
C.R. Area
Alberts Crooners
al Motor Sports
Allied Glass
Beckers Peoples Furniture
Skelly
Cedar Rapies Microwave Co
Fourth Avenue Vacuum
Goodyear Tire and Rubber
Brothers
Hawkeye Seed Co
al Basimutira Horak Motors
Iowa Typewriter Co
Carbons & Paper
JD Steak House
West Side
Bill Kauffman Hardware
Hiawatha Oster Appliances
Kozyinn
Kubias Hardware
Linn
Madelines
Wig Salon
MacKenzie Interiors, Inc
Nimmers Crafts
Nordman Jewelers
Novak Heating
Palmts Health Spa
Pidgeons Furniture
Pittsburgh
Jerns Plant
Robert A. Read Phapner
Roosevelt Royale
Shirley S
Stejskai Florist, Inc
Weather Shield
Soutique
World Theater
Lee Abrahamson
1St Ave
FDIC
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