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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1972
Page
15
The 61 year old Boy Scouts of America Handbook has been fully revised. It adds urban hikes and new topics like drug abuse and pollution while trimming old outdoor lessons like mushroom identification and call of the wild.
The revised Scout handbook emphasizes six knots and six core skills while adding modern topics like Geiger counters, stock market basics, and job resumes. It shifts focus from traditional crafts such as stalking and blacksmithing to space exploration, oceanography, electronics, and computers, signaling a new era for the movement.
Kirkwood Community College will inaugurate seven new department heads as fall term starts Tuesday. New leaders include Michael Standefer heading law enforcement corrections programs, Katherine Loomis overseeing nursing education, and Curtis Plaskon coordinating the inhalation therapy training program, with 16 additional full time instructors named.
New instructors join Kirkwood programs across business, agriculture, health, and career outreach. Names include David Bunting, Becky Azonca, Sylvia Mays, Robert Neiderhouse, Kent Carruthers, H. Richard Davis, Barrie Swinbank, Leroy Slaymaker, Kenneth Taggart, Carol Ballantyne, William Davis, Barbara Freer, Lowell Rutz, Carol Vitiello, Donald Anderson, and Shirley Anderson, with varied degrees from UNI, Iowa State, U of I, Kirkwood, and other institutions.
Ed Porter, a Santa Clara County courthouse custodian, serves jury duty in a civil case. He mops a spill in an elevator, assists a missing child case in domestic relations court, identifies an attorney, replaces a burned out light bulb, and handles keys before quitting. He earns 15 cents for the day and 15 cents a mile travel allowance.
Tony Griffths of Newhaven England objects to new yellow no parking lines outside his restaurant. He covered them with tar, officials repainted them, and he vowed to blacken them again. East Sussex council says it will repaint and bill him, while workers keep restoring the lines.
Patricia McCormack reports that medical school admissions struggle to keep pace with rising applicant numbers. The AMA and Harvard example highlight the mismatch between seats and demand with over 200000 applications this year and calls for expanding seats by about 3300 to balance imports of foreign graduates.
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