City Buses Struggle in Iowa Transit Reforms
Across Iowa city buses face funding woes as subsidies shape service. Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, Dubuque and others rely on public support. private operators like Interstate Power run losses. Officials debate funding, routes, and future viability as ridership and costs shift.
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Iowa
Ft. Madison
Cedar Rapids
Marshalltown
Iowa City
Mason City
Waterloo
Ft. Dodge
Sioux City
Muscatine
Burlington
Council Bluffs
Des Moines
Davenport
Ames
Ottumwa
Dubuque
Clinton
Interstate Power Co
National City Lines
Quad-Cities
NCL
Foster Homes Sought for Fourth Of Juvenile Institution Inmates
Iowa program expands to place about a quarter of youths ready for release into foster homes. Burt Galaway says $240,000 allocated will fund the effort with $75 monthly per child for room and board plus clothing medical and school needs. Subsidies of $25 per bed will keep foster beds available as staff recruit homes and counsel families.
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George Kruse
Iowa
Burt Galaway
Communities Service Unit
Board of Control
Galaway
Linn County
Eldora
Mitchellville
Toledo
Annie Wittenmyer
Davenport
Terry Hartman
San Francisco Eases Teen Access to Pool Halls
San Francisco officials plan an amendment to allow minors in pool halls. The move comes after pool parlors gained wider acceptance, with support from pool hall advocates stating that activities there are less risky than theater balconies or drive-in movies.
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San Francisco
Board of Supervisors’ Fire, Safety and Police Committee
Thomas M. O'Connor
Merrill Steinberg
Whitworth School Teaches Courting Course in Rochdale
In Rochdale England the Whitworth secondary school offers a course on courting. The program aims to teach social skills for dating and relationships to students at the school.
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Rochdale
England
UPI
Whitworth Secondary School
Here
Bridge on the River Kwai Tonight on Channel 9
The color film Bridge on the River Kwai airs tonight at 7:00 on Channel 9 starring William Holden and Alec Guinness.
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William Holden
Alec Guinness
Channel 9
Europe Tour Waiting List Still Has Room for More
Chamber of Commerce officials said they still accept names for a waiting list for the 1967 Europe and Balkans tour. The Cedar Rapids Goodwill Tour departs April 28 and returns May 21, with 335 dollars for air travel only and 959 dollars for continental and Balkan tours. The itinerary includes Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Cologne, Frankfurt, Munich, Austria, Switzerland, Venice, Florence, Rome, and for the Balkan trip a Paris to Athens leg with four days in Athens and stops in Yugoslavia and Thessalonica.
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Chamber of Commerce
Europe
Balkans
Chamber
Cedar Rapids
Pan American
Nental
Athens
Yugoslavia
Thessalonica
Italy
Wind carries balloons 1500 miles from New York
Labor Day balloon release at Dobbs Ferry's children village sent 250 balloons with tags. A fisherman from Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Raymond Hart, found 20 tags in the water three miles north of Fogo on September 6. Balloons traveled about 1500 miles in one day. 20 children will be rewarded with a party at the village.
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Fogo Island
Newfoundland
Raymond Hart
Fogo
New Fine Arts School Opens at Beirut University
BEIRUT Lebanon AP A School of Fine Arts was inaugurated in Beirut attached to the Lebanese University. About 100 students enroll and Antoine Nahas the new director says teaching standards equal to European faculties with courses in architecture painting decorative arts and dramatic art. Skills include architectural history reinforced concrete strength and metal skeleton construction.
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Beirut, Lebanon
Beirut
Lebanese University
Antoine Nahas
Nahas
Hen triggers shotgun wounds Mrs. Giron in Venezuela
In Caracas, a hen stepped on a shotgun trigger leaning on a wire fence, firing buckshot at Mrs. Dama de Giron and wounding her legs. The incident, while accidental, leads Mr. Giron de Creed to propose the hen be killed by immersion in a soup kettle.
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Caracas
Venezuela
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East Dubuque
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Iowa Transit Assn
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Dowling
Waterloo Cedar Falls Transit Co
Waterloo Industrial Management Assn
WIDA
Robert Young
Young
Lloyd Turner
Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Turner
Iowa City Coach Co
University of Iowa
Lewis H. Negus
The
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Smulekoff
Jewelry Dept
Pi Dian Ial
Bride
Liberal Arts
Smulekoff’s
New York
Dobbs Ferry
N.Y
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