Grant Wood board debates cuts and additions in 1972 78 plan
The Grant Wood area education agency board reviewed proposed cutbacks and additions for 1972 78. Media staff face 2.5 full time positions cut amid state spending limits and reduced film replacement funds. Other changes include adding three school psychologists and more speech clinicians while reallocating preschool staff to special education funds.
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Grant Wood Area Education Agency
Cum Ehlinger
Ehilinger
Myron Rodec
Special Education Support Services
Police Suspect Same Man in Two Robberies
Cedar Rapids police believe a single man robbed two Sixth Street SW stores Monday night. The white male, 25 to 30, 5'7" to 5'9" and 150 to 180 pounds, carried a small handgun and left with less than $50 from each store. Dairy Maid at 2030 Sixth St SW and Grams Grocery at 820 Sixth St SW reported swift in-and-out incidents with clerks present. The suspect reportedly ordered a sockged exit and was followed by a brief escape. Additional details include staff actions and policy talks at Linn County facilities, with board discussions on public information access and salary adjustments for professional staff.
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Cedar Rapids
Leas
Dairy Maid
Sixth Street
Ard Gran’ Grocery Store
Dairy” ‘Maid
Igram’s
Cedar Rapids Print Shop Sued for Union Label Use
Lonnie Hull doing business as Cedar Wood Press and Fred Bedard face a Linn district court suit filed by the Cedar Rapids Printing Trades Council on behalf of the International Printing Trades Assn. Plaintiffs seek at least 4000 in damages and an injunction for alleged use of a counterfeit union label and likely customer confusion.
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Cedar Rapids
Lonnie- Hull
Cedar Wood Press
Rockford Road
Fred Bedard
Linn
Cedar Rapids Printing Trades Council
International Printing Trades Assn
Seeith
The
Union Labor
Cannon Distinguished Quality
Coe Lectures on Our Evolving Earth by Preston Cloud
Geologist Preston Cloud of UC Santa Barbara will speak on Our Evolving Earth at Coe College Cherry Auditorium, Wednesday at p.m. The talk, sponsored by Coe Forums and Discussions and Sigma Chi, is free. Cloud associates with the U.S. Geological Survey and has served on NAS committees shaping science policy and earth resources reports.
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Preston Cloud
University of California, Santa Barbara
Cherry
Coe College
Coe
Sigma Chi
Scientific Research Society of Noth America
Cloud
U.S. Geological Survey
Santa Barbara
Commitee
National Academy of Science
USA
Academy
National Research Council
NAS
Two Hospitalized After Accidents on C R Streets
Two people were hospitalized in Cedar Rapids after separate crashes. Vergie Harrington 43 of 620 Fifteenth Street NE suffered head and facial injuries in a collision with a semi driven by Ronald Hill 45 of Tama. Harrington was listed in good condition at St Luke's. Donald Ross 15 of 1247 Fourth Street SW was treated at St Luke's for bruises and possible internal injuries after being struck while crossing Sixteenth Avenue and Ninth Street SW. He was in good condition. Credit: police report details incomplete.
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Cedar Rapids
Vergie L. Harrington
Fifteenth Street
St Luke's Hospital
Sixteenth
Revenue
Harrington
Ronald L. Hill
Tama
Donald Ross
Fourth Street
St. Luke's
Sixteenth Avenue
Ninth Street
Group Told Ford Not Flu Greatest Threat to Elderly
The president of a Washington based senior citizens lobby told a Cedar Rapids rally that the greatest threat to older people is not swine flu but the reelection of Gerald Ford. He criticized Ford’s health care posture, Medicare and Social Security, urging more workers to support a Democratic ticket and a forward looking administration.
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Natal Council of Senior Citizens
Cedar Rapids
Gerald Ford
At & Senior Citizens
Sally
Democrats
Nelson Cruikshank
W Lillian Carter
Natural Committee
Cartee-Mondale
Focal P-3 Amalgamated Meat
Cutters Hall
Cruisshank
Ford
Cruikshank
Themi
Carter
Herbert Hoover
Colton Memo lets Clift lead as acting chief during discharge case
Safety Commissioner Ed Colton issued a memo to prevent vacuums in command if former Police Chief Wallace LaPetera is discharged. It orders LaPetera to report to Callon at 9:30 am, place him on paid leave, and keep Clift in control with LaPetera barred from city premises and property. Colton says the memo avoids court-ordered confusion and would adapt if a court rules otherwise. Providence RI AP. Dr. Frankerty, former Defense Secretary and Pentagon advisor, dies in a Rhode Island nursing home.
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Ed Colton
Wallace LaPetera
Gareth Clift
Mde
LaPeters
Callon
Department
Clift
Iter
Costos
Saléry
Colton
Providence
Frankerty
Ask
Secretary of Defense
Pentagon
City Briefs Report Multiple Thefts Around Town
Home thefts include radios valued at 750 a lawn mower 150 a snowblower value 04 from 141 Eighth avenue SE. A burglary at Fern Klopp residence 511 Twenty first street NE saw 189 in cash and jewelry stolen between 7 am and 345 pm Monday. Purse belonging to Marcia Dolouis of Oelwein was taken from a Target shopping cart Monday evening containing 222 in cash and personal items.
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EA Hasley
Eighth Avenue SE
Fern A. Klopp
Twenty-first Strait
Dolouis
Marcia
Oelwein
Target Store
Few Applicants for Police Jobs face low interest
Acting Police Chief Gareth Clift reported slow response to patrolman positions with only ten applications received by Monday. The deadline is 5 p.m. November 9 at the civil service office in city hall or the police department. ON THIS DATE in 1960 MLK and 52 others were arrested during a sit down protest in a department store in Atlanta.
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Gareth Clift
Pstrotman
Clift
Civil Service Office
City Hall
Martin Luther King
Atlanta
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Ehlinger
Linn County
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Dwight Bode
Clarence Hosford
Monticello
Ann Fedderson
North Liberty
CLR
Springville
Patrice A Herren
St. Luke's Hospital
Marion
University of Idaho
Tae Eeaiil
C.R
Onmy
Terry White
Jerry Thomas
Rove
Buster
Sterra He
LiLley
Woodmen
Modern Woodmen OF America
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Merton D. Krumrei
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Canbor Rapids
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Stolem
Tee
Morn Briefs
Westinghouse
Lagis
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