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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1976
Page
12
Cedar Rapids Community School District advances Title 9 compliance through its affirmative action plan built on a self study. Beth Hatch led the effort and found the district already ahead, especially in girls athletics, with Tom White praising progress and reduced restrictions.
The plan promises comparable locker rooms for male and female students by July 1978 and equalized sport seasons with Iowa athletic groups. It requires coeducational physical education by 1977 78 and bans sex based intramurals where not allowed.
Oxford Ohio introduces a bicycle parking scheme using drilled posts and ring bolts with eyelets. Cyclists are advised to chain bikes to the bolt eyelet and stand upright parallel to the street. Parking remains free for bicyclists unlike motor vehicle meters.
Ronald Oriti, a Griffith Park Observatory lecturer and meteorite expert, hunts for earthbound fragments from a bright August fireball over northern California. He believes some meteorites survive and fall in rugged areas, with the Smithsonian awaiting discoveries from public lands.
In Lititz Pennsylvania the annual Candle Festival honors a 1843 tradition with 5000 candles on wood lattices over Lititz Springs Park stream. A Queen of Candles starts the ceremony as Boy Scouts light a quarter mile display of tapers. Hallmark cards donated candles for the 134th celebration.
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