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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1977
Page
5
Linn-Mar schools announce a testing plan over the coming weeks with ninth graders taking the cognitive abilities test on Thursday and Friday and grades three through eight taking the Iowa Basic Skills test Monday through Friday next week. High schoolers will complete the Iowa Test of Educational Development on October 20 and 21.
Time magazine reports Nazi Josef Mengele active in Paraguay. He allegedly advises in campaigns against Ache Indians in the Chaco region and oversees slave labor. Wiesenthal says Mengele has a home near Puerto Stroessner and spends time in a restricted military zone. Israel reportedly decides against kidnapping plans.
Parkinson's Disease informational meeting for patients and families will be held Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Ambroz Recreation Center, 2000 Mt. Vernon Road SE. Temple Judah hosts weekly games Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. at 3221 Lindsay Lane SE, one block north of Bever Ave SE at 32nd St. Adv.
Dr John Richter of MIU Fairfield will lecture at Coe College and the Transcendental Meditation center this week on Realizing the Highest Ideal of Education. He will discuss supernormal abilities as natural developments and present three talks open to the public at TM Center 4245 First Avenue SE and Cherry Auditorium on the Coe campus.
Buzz Aldrin former astronaut and moon landing pioneer served as grand marshal for the 1977 Criterium of Beverly Hills. He started the races presented awards and rode in the community fun ride segment of the event in Beverly Hills California.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette established 1883 by The Gazette Co. publishes daily and Sunday at 500 Third Ave SE Cedar Rapids Iowa. Second class postage paid. Subscription rates: carrier 1.05 weekly. mail Afternoon Edition and weekend seven issues 4.29 four weeks 46.00 52 weeks. other states and territories 70.00 52 weeks. No mail subscriptions where Gazette carrier service exists. AP entitled to exclusive republication rights for local news and AP dispatches.
The 1974 Cadillac Elvis Presley bought for 20800 dollars failed to meet a 20000 minimum bid at an antique car sale. The remodeled station wagon will stay with owner Fred Williams of Birmingham Alabama as bids stalled around 17500 despite a Presley portrait offer. Also noted is a 1967 hurricane Beulah threat with 135 mph winds prompting coastal evacuation in Texas.
Police detain over 100 passengers and crew of Amtrak Lake Shore Limited after a man falls or jumps from the speeding train near Burns Harbor Indiana. He dies at a hospital. authorities identify a Colombian passport bearing Angel Javier Ospina, 41, though other papers show different IDs. No charges.
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