Stroke Club Inspires Perseverance in Cedar Rapids
Nora McSkimming, 66, two years after a stroke, regained speech and movement aided by Cedar Rapids Stroke Club members who encourage talking and share recovery strategies. The group at St. Luke's Hospital blends therapy with support, helping participants cope with fear, isolation, and practical needs like transportation and community access.
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Nora McSkimming
McSkimming
Day Street
Cedar Rapids
Stroke Club
Rhoda Harden
Tipton
Magician Ed Jarvis Masters Illusion Arts in Cedar City
By day Ed Jarvis directs the Salvation Army Men's Social Service center in Cedar City and by night he performs as a magician with his group the Jaronas. He has 14,000 dollars worth of equipment, holds a first place magicians award, and has toured 26 states and Canada with multiple acts including hypnosis escapes and dove production.
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Ed Jarvis
Salvation Army Men's Social Service Center
Cedaris
Jarvis
Fortieth Street
O— Margaret
Bramwell
Sect
The
Jaronas
States
Canada
Vienna appoints Leopold Gratz as youngest Vienna mayor since 1774
In Vienna Leopold Gratz, aged 43, becomes the capital’s youngest mayor in over two centuries and the third Viennese chief executive named Leopold. Early congratulators include chimney sweeps from across Austria, who are believed to bring luck when seen in Vienna.
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Vienna
Leopold Gratz
Leopold
Gratz
Austria
Swim-a-Thons Planned at YMCA Branches Next Weekend
Maury Wilson announces 12 hour Swim-a-Thons at Marion Ellis and Central YMCAs next weekend with laps counted by official and 10 percent of proceeds to YMCA World Service. Registration due Wednesday. pools open 3 p.m. Saturday to 3 a.m. Sunday at Central and Ellis and 2 p.m. Saturday to 2 a.m. Sunday at Marion. Proceeds fund World Service and local project needs. lane markers and a gym scoreboard planned.
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Maury Wilson
Metropolitan Area
YMCA
Wilson
Marion, Ellis
Central
Ellis
Marion
Ymca World Service Program
Y. Ellis
World Service
St Jude programs to aid leukemia patients in Iowa
Two projects will boost St Jude Children’s Research Hospital outreach in Eastern Iowa. Linn County ALSAC funds a slide show by Eugene Pugh about the Memphis hospital’s leukemia cure rate, and Cedar Rapids Marion youths enroll in a Teenagers March Sept. 23 30 fundraising drive with one hour routes and school posters. Lisa Pugh’s photos underpin the slide program.
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University Hospitals
Iowa City
St. Jude
Children’s Research Hospital
Memphis
Tenn
St. Jude Hospital
Danny Thomas
Iowa
Linn County
ALSAC
Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities
Eugene Pugh
B Avenue NE
Pugh
Lisa
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Harold Hutchins
Hutchins
Marion High School
Coe College Lectures to Feature Shirley Chisholm and Notables
Coe college announces a fall term student lecture series with speakers including U S Representative Shirley Chisholm U S Senator Dick Clark and poet Gwendolyn Brooks Public events are free The schedule lists Robbins in September and Clark Fuller Carlson Engle Nieh Spilh aus Brooks and a tentative Chisholm appearance in December at various campuses and venues
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Coe College
U.S
Shirley Chisholm
D-N.y
Dick Clark
D-Iown
Gwendolyn Brooks
Coe
Leo L. Nussbaum
Larry Robbins
China
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Stuart Lounge
Gage Union
Robbins
Nixon
Sen. Clark
Cherry Auditorium
Hoyt Fuller
Black Magazine
Chicago
Ronald Carlson
University of Iowa College of Law
Free
Cherry
Paul Engle
Hua- Ling Nieh
Mao Tse-tung
Athelstan Spilhaus
Sinclair Auditorium
Put-On Ritual Of Mun gonge Sect In Zaire Sainted Sham
Pende tribesmen of the Mun gonge sect in Zaire perform a theatrical rite. They skew cheeks with thorny sticks and arrows, dance briefly, remove adornments in secret, then reappear in the clearing seemingly unharmed and unscarred.
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Zaire
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By Dale Rueter
Willard Christopherson
American Automobile Assa
Christopherson
Mt. Vernon Road
St. Luke’s Hospital
Diane Rattner
Medical Social Service Department
Charlotte Shook
K Street
Lieve
Fred Hull
Thirty-fourth Street
Mrs. Shook
Jackson School
Sheboygan
Houdini
International Brotherhood of Magicians
the Times
New Vienna
Total Service Banking Guaranty Bank & Trust CO
Yms
Fred E.diers
Auth Cpt
Kardon
1St Ave
Sat
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