Japanese English teachers visit Cedar Rapids on cultural exchange
Yoshiaki Anraku and Hiroko Yamazaki, junior high English teachers from Japan, visited Cedar Rapids August 25 for a two week stay under a group program with the Iowa State Education Assn and others. They observed Prairie High and Elementary classrooms, compared curricula, and noted larger American school libraries and more informal classroom dialogue.
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Nixon
Yoshiaki Anraku
Iruki
Japan
Yoshi
Cedar Rapids
Iowa State Education Assn
Council On International Exchange
Youth For Understanding
Earl Billington
Ninth Avenue
Billington
Hiroko Yamazaki
Nagoya
Robert Lorber
United States
Penn State University
Iowa
Penn State
Chloe Lorber
Anraku
Polling Places List for Cedar Rapids and College Community
A detailed roster of voting sites in Cedar Rapids and surrounding townships. Entries include multiple city schools, town halls, and community centers with street addresses and area notes. The list identifies 41 Cedar Rapids and College Community district sites plus regional polling points in nearby townships.
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Cedar Rapids
College
School board candidates face district 2 and 8 races
Kirkwood area farmer and veteran advocate Newton discusses vocational training, funding, and tax ideas as he runs for district 2. Opponent Lewis Dreibelbis seeks Anamosa area seats. In district 8 incumbent John Gerber runs unopposed for Cedar Rapids precincts 2 6 7 19 20 21 23 24 25 27 28 30.
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Hayes
D Street
Riverside Roundhouse
Fourteenth Avenue
Roosevelt School
Thirteenth Street
Madison School
Woodside Drive
Harrison School
Eleventh Street
Ellis Ymca
Ellis Boulevard
City Hall
Second Avenue Island
Adams School
Linmar Drive
Coe College
Eby
D Avenue
Luzerne
Cedar Rapids
Newton
Kirkwood
Lewis Dreibelbis
Anamosa
Central City
Mt. Vernon
Monticello
North Linn
Springville
Urbana
Cedar Point
John Gerber
Nineteenth Street
Jailers Miss Prisoner After Week's Absence
Martinez California UPI reports prisoner Conser L Shaw a convicted rapist stepped outside the county jail between August 16 and 21 to empty the garbage and never returned. It was a week before anyone noticed. Acting Sheriff Harry Ramsay says investigations are underway on several fronts. Shaw was a jail trusty held for return to prison as a parole violator.
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Martinez. Calif
UPI
Conser L. Shaw
Contra Costa County
Harry Ramsay
Shaw
United Nations Text By Cedar Rapids Authors
A new paperback, The United Nations A Partnership of Peoples, is authored by Melvina Svec of Cedar Rapids with illustrations by Jean E. King. The 78 page resource covers UN history, agencies like World Bank and FAO, and aims at high school students and young adults in Linn County and local libraries.
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United Nations
Partnership of Peoples
Cedar Rapids
United Nations Assn
Melvina Svec
U.N
Jean E. King
Hanseatic League
League of Nations
World Bank
FAO
Unesco
ILO Are
Linn County
Iown
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Hiroko
America
Grand Canyon
Disneyland
San Francisco
Judy Daubenmier
Gazette
John Mcivor
Grant
Outlook Drive
All Saints
Dalewood Avenue
Twenty-ninth Street
Monroe
Pioneer Avenue
Erskine
Thirty-sixth Street
Grant Wood
Twenty-sixth Street
Jane Boyd
Tenth Street
Immaculate Conception
Fourth Avenue
Johnson
Eighteenth Street
Polk
B Avenue
Garfield
Maplewood Drive
Arthur
Franklin
Twentieth Street
Washington
Forest Drive
Wilson
J Street
van Buren
Hoover
Johnson Avenue
Coolidge
First Avenue
Taft
E Avenue
Cleveland
Lincoln
Eighteenth Avenue
Ninth
Eisenhower
Forty-sixth Street
Harding
Golf Street
Kenwood
Kennedy
Wenng Road
Pierce
Marilyn Drive
Northwood Drive
Town Hall
Covington
Hiawatha
Emmons Street
Palo
First Street
Squaw Creek
Mt. Vernon Road
County Road
F-24
Robins
Big Grove
Shueyville
College Community
Prairie
College Township
Fairfax Township
Fairfax
Florence Township
Jefferson Township
Monroe Township
Putnam Township
Ely
Benton
Blairstown
Newhall
C.R
Smulekoff
Robertson
Smulekoff's
Sharon Davis
Tomahawk Trail S.E
Tommy Tucker Realty Co
Sharon
Clarke College
University of Iowa
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