Coolidge 30th C R Grade School Opens in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids opens Coolidge Public Grade School on a ten acre site with three level, 20 classroom wings totaling 46,544 square feet. The building supports up to 600 pupils and includes ramps for handicapped access, a shared kindergarten complex, a cafetorium, and potential expansion to four sections per grade.
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Cedar Rapids
Calvin Coolidge
Cedar Hills
First Avenue
Atwood Drive
Arnold Salisbury
Truman School
Taft Junior High
Madison School
Atkins
French Pastry Cook Exhibits Canvas Oven Art in Deauville
Louis Brondole, a French pastry cook with artistic leanings, shows six works in a Deauville gallery. He says his technique is simple and secret, baking his own recipe on canvas like making meringues, and he believes the public will acquire a taste for his art.
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Vichy
Louis Brondole
Deauville
English Channel
Cedar Rapids School Board Meets Tuesday Evening
The Cedar Rapids school board will hold a regular meeting Tuesday at 7 30 p m in the Board of Education building at 346 Second Avenue SW. The session moves from its usual Monday slot due to Labor Day.
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Cedar Rapids
George K Young
Sears Cedar
Rapids
Unusual perk at Levingston Shipyard names boats for women
ORANGE Tex UPI reports Levingston Shipbuilding Co offers a rare perk for women employees a tug boat named for the ladies. The program centers on giving vessels including tugs feminine names as a fringe benefit reflecting recognition and novelty in the workplace.
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Orange, Tex
UPI
Levingston Shipbuilding Co
In Spite of Tradition French Students Work
The French government and private firms recruited hundreds of college students for summer work via state railways and the social welfare ministry. Wages started around 140 a month as railways hired over 800 students and welfare placed 812 in July. The shift ends the old upper middle class view that college kids should not work.
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Parisap
Railways
Social Welfare Ministry
Social Welfare
Fair Friend Attends 80th Erie County Fair Visit
Hamburg New York AP reports Hennie Krause attended the Erie County fair for the 80th straight year marking her long-running ties to the 128 year old event.
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Hamburg
N.Y
Hennie Krause
Erie County Fair
Cedar Rapids to install thirteen new school principals
Thirteen of Cedar Rapids grade schools will get new principals this fall, including two new schools John F Kennedy headed by Robert Fitzsimmons and Coolidge led by Robert Eppel. Other changes include assignments for Franklin Roosevelt Johnson Eisenhower Noelridge Madison Lincoln Buchanan Hiawatha and Van Buren among others with new consultants Terrence Carlson and Robert Foley and staff shifts in business affairs and data processing.
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Cedar Rapids
Robert Fitzsimmons
Washington High School
John F. Kennedy
Robert Eppel
Grant Wood
New Coolidge
Richard Manson
Franklin
Roosevelt
Clyde Lindsley
Eisenhower
Noelridge
Johnson
James Doud
van Buren
Irma Dovey
Hayes
Hiawatha
Keith Wymore
Tom Moran
John ‘Son
Madison
John Christenson
Lincoln
Buchanan
John Hegarty
Harrison
John Russell
Gary Haworth
Palo
Don Stonebraker
Grant
Terrence Carlson
Jefferson High School
John Hutchins
Robert Foley
Foley
Waterloo
Don Grant
Collins Radio Co
al Watson
Peter Solar
Dave Tre ‘Ka
Ray VanderWiel
Jefferson High Traffic Changes Are Announced
Jefferson High introduces a one way arcade drive with restricted entry from Twentieth street and west access only for auditorium parking. East end access limited to east parking lots while loading for buses moves to auditorium steps to ease pedestrian congestion. Signs and painted pavement mark the system.
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Jefferson High School
W. L. Paxson
Twentieth Street
Eighteenth Street
Paxson
Eighteenth Streets
Botswana Students Unite For U.S. Conference In Cedar Rapids
About 20 Botswana students studying in the United States will meet Monday through Wednesday at Immaculate Conception church in Cedar Rapids. Geoffrey Garebamono of Coe College coordinates the event to discuss aiding Botswanian education at home, scholarships, and national development with lodging arranged through Mt Mercy College and the Council on Human Relations.
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Botswana
United States
Immaculate Conception
Cedar Rapids
South Africa
Geoffrey Garebamono
Coe College
Mt. Mercy College
Council On Human Relations
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Tom Merryman
Coolidge School
Coolidge
C.R
Leo Peiffer and Associates
Park School
City Park Department
O. F. Paulson
Tecker Construction Co
Galbraith Heating Co
Justice Elec
Dpal
Morgan Optical
Morgan Optical Ssn
Lobby of American
2Nd Ave. SE
Dial
Third Street
Sears
Sears and
Save Cars
Stars,roebuck and Co
Jefferson
U.S
Edar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Gazette
She Gedur Brupids
Gujette
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