School Board Buys Hupp Site and Adjacent Houses
The Cedar Rapids board of education voted to purchase the Hupp Electric Motor Co. building at 353 Second Ave SW and five adjacent houses for 135000. The district plans use for employee parking and storage, possibly razing two houses, with funds from the 242 mill capital improvements tax levy and no bond funds.
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School Board
Hupp
Cedar Rapids
Board of Education
Second Avenue
Fifth Street
Craig Currie
Currie
Not Chicagoans Make Up Most Of 653 Arrests At DNC
Chicago police report that about 61 percent of the 653 people arrested during last week’s Democratic National Convention disturbances were nonresidents. Roughly 86 percent of those charged were under 30, with the largest groups aged 17, 18, and 21. Women and men show varied employment and education statuses, and arrestees came from across the United States and abroad. All detainees are free on bond awaiting court appearances.
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Chicago
UPI
Chicago Police Department
Public Information
YMCA
Hawaii
Iran
England
Germany
Communist Hints At North Korean Shift On Pueblo
Tokyo AP reports Kenji Miyamoto secretary general of the Japanese Communist Party says a strong U S reply to North Korea's demand for an apology could advance the release of the Pueblo crew. He visited North Korea and called the seizure an accidental development not a wider plan.
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Tokyo
Communist Party
U.S
North Korea
Kenji Miyamoto
United States
Highest paid lobbyist hired by cosmetologists in Kentucky 1968
In Frankfort Kentucky the top paid lobbyist for the 1968 legislature earned 3500 dollars in salary plus 515 dollars in expenses for one month. The client group was a cosmetics professionals coalition and the payment reflected a single month’s work.
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Frankfort
Kentucky
J C Penney First To Report In UCS Drive
J C Penney Co in Linn county becomes the first firm to complete UCS solicitations this year. The early third report shows 127 of 129 employees contributing with a total corporate contribution of 3674 dollars and 14 percent ahead of last year.
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J.C. Penney Co
Ucs Drive
J. C. Penney Co
Linn County
United Community Service
UCS
J. C. Penney
Penney
New Twist in The Universe Birth Theory Emerges
London reports sharpen debate on how the universe began. Profs W H McCrea and V M Ambartsumian offer a multi bang idea to explain quasars, while Sir Martin Ryle and Lovell weigh single big bang versus steady state. Red shift interpretations face renewed scrutiny.
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London
W. H. McCrea
University of Sussex
Australia
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
B. Y. Mills
Sydney University
Bernard Lovell
Earth
Surfing Team to Represent South Africa at World Champs
A six member surfing team will be chosen from trials July 6 to 8 to represent South Africa at the world surfing championships in Puerto Rico, November 7 to 14.
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Durban
South Africa
Puerto Rico
Planners Favor Department Store Site at ORC&B Block
Cedar Rapids planning commission approved a resolution designating the former Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen building block as a preferred site for a new department store with off street parking planned across First Street NE. The panel also tweaked the 50 year flood plain rule and approved six rezoning petitions while denying two. Three proposals were tabled for future action amid local resident opposition.
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Cedar Rapids
First Street
Don B.salyer
First Avenue
Old Marion Road
Eva Evans
Fortieth Street
Iowa Builders Finance, Inc
F Avenue NW
Continental Investment Corp
Blairs Ferry Road
C Avenue
I Avenue NE
William and
Donna Frese
Sixteenth Avenue
A and §, Inc
Fourteenth Street
Third Avenue
St. Paul’s United Methodist Church
CREA To Host Teachers in Politics Clinic Sept 28
Robert Arnold of Erskine Elementary, president of the Cedar Rapids Education Assn, is named legislative chairman for the East Central district and will help organize an eight county Teachers in Politics clinic in Cedar Rapids on Sept 28. Dorothy Gilmore and Ralph Plagman co chair the CREA legislative committee with Charles Lingren assisting. Delegations from Benton, Iowa, Linn, Johnson, Jones, Cedar, Jackson and Clinton counties are expected.
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Robert Arnold
Erskine Elementary
Cedar Rapids
Kennedy
Arnold
Benton
Iowa
Linn
Johnson, Jones
Cedar
Jackson
Clinton
Campaign Site Sabotaged by Hippies in Los Angeles
Vice president Hubert Humphrey's Southern California campaign office was found vandalized with obscenities by about 20 hippies who scrawled on walls clogged drains and defaced signs. Correll reported leaflets from leftist groups and swastikas as protesters shouted antiwar chants during the disruption.
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Los Angeles
Hubert Humphrey
Southern California
Joseph Correll
Humphrey
Youth Commission
The
Communist Party of Southern California
Correll
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St. Paul’s Parking
St. Paul’s
Steve Jackson
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the Gazette
Planning Commission
Cedarcrest Heights
Hickory Hills
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St. Semes
J. F Ryan Coggo
Wendy Wake
Coralville
Nancy Rutherford
Marion
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Lindale
SELBY
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Weyenberg
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SLIM
Free Foundation
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