Headstart Programs Spend $189000 in Three Iowa Counties
HACAP reports Jones Linn and Johnson counties will use 189000 in federal and local funds for Headstart. The effort supports meals, speech and language, health care, and education for four and five year olds across six Cedar Rapids area centers and three Iowa City centers.
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Jones, Linn
Johnson
Linn
Jo Herren
Jones and Linn
Jones-Linn
Johnson County
Jones and Linn County
Carol Fracassini
Herren
Office of Economic Opportunity
Jones and Linn Counties
Cedar Rapids
Olin
Anamosa
Mt. Vernon
Iowa City
Mills
Jones County
Linn County
Ones
Jones
Agriculture Department
Walter O'Brien
Coralville
Monty Sappe
Fourteenth Street SE
Hawthorne Hills Center
Graduates Choose Laboring Jobs Across the Nation
Three graduates with college degrees pursue hands on work rather than traditional professional paths. Dan Dinello mop s floors at UW for $80 a week while dreaming of philosophy teaching. Jeffrey Plack, a Berkeley pre med turned history major now machinist, cites freedom and learning as motives. John Blumberg, Lehigh alumnus with a master's in engineering, left a navy civilian post to plan a Canadian farm. Sociologists say these cases hint at a broader trend of temporary or permanent shifts away from affluent career norms.
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John Blumberg
Orange
N. J
Lehigh
Navy
Canada
Dinello
AMA
Plack
American Medical Assn
Blumberg
Merleau- Ponty
Harvard
Ginn
Accent on Youth faces shift in work dreams and careers
Dinello and Plack describe eight hours of thought on life choices in the factory and on the line. Blumberg plans to swap toward simpler living and potential Canadian land as he weighs necessity against income. Sociologists note a growing trend of middle class youth pursuing self defined goals over traditional profit driven jobs.
Soviet Claim New First in Oil Well Drilling
Moscow reports that Soviet trade union paper Trud claims the first oil drilling occurred on the Caspian coast in 1844 and the first well drilled in 1847 within Soviet territory making engineer Alexeyev the initial drillist. The claim marks a rare Soviet assertion of a historic first.
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Moscow
UPI
Edwin Drake
Trud
Caucasian Archegraphic Commission
Caspian Sea
Soviet Union
Alexeyev
Snow White First Full-Length Color Animated Cartoon
Disney produced Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937 as the first feature length animated film in color, pioneering full length color animation.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Walt Disney
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Hawthorne Hills
St. James Methodist Church
Trinity United Methodist Church
First Christian Church
United Methodist Church
Olin United Methodist Church
Kirkwood Community College
Headstart
Gazette
John McIvor
Deana Gretten
Angela Gretten
C Street
Coral Candler
Ely
Jeannie Zahn
Judy Rammelsberg
Stacy Worke
Brenda Worke
Candy Lacy
Richard Lacy
Nineteenth Street
Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin
Bennett M. Berger
University of California
America
Robert J. Ginn, Jr
Michigan State
Jack Shingleton
Shingleton
Josef Stalin
Snow
Newton
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