Cedar Rapids hit by floods and wind damage across city
Cedar Rapids faced rising waters from the Cedar River and heavy rainfall. Bridges at Thirteenth to Nineteenth streets NW were damaged, streets closed, and many industrial plants reported basement flooding though few delayed operations. Park golf courses and parts of the airport were affected by water and power issues.
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Vinton Ditch
Thirteenth
Fourteenth
Nineteenth Streets
Streets
Shaver Road
F Avenue
Cedar Lake
Link-Belt Speeder
Sixth Street
Iowa Steel and Iron Works, Inc
Twelfth Avenue
Storm Outages Hit Linn County Areas In Weekend Storms
Cedar Rapids and surrounding Linn county districts faced major power outages as Sunday storms hit West side neighborhoods, Center Point, Urbana and Walker. Six line fuses blew in Cedar Hills after 10 p.m. and primary transmission lines burned in Ellis Park area. Repair crews faced high water. two 34500 volt lines were knocked out. An IE boiler seal failed at Prairie Creek station but power remained uninterrupted. Elton Fuller, IE assistant chief engineer, was treated for smoke inhalation and released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Center Point
Urbana
Walker
Linn County
Iowa Electric Light and Power Co
Cedar Hills
Ellis Park
Power Company
Shaver Road
Stony Point
Sixth Street
Prairie Creek
Cedar River
Iowa Electric
Iowa Power Pool
Elton Fuller
Thirteenth Avenue SW
Fuller
St. Luke’s Hospital
Riley Renews Attack on Coe Upward Bound Program
State Sen. Tom Riley released an 11 page report detailing misconduct by Coe Upward Bound participants during a Minneapolis visit. He proposed six changes including transferring control to the federal office of education and eliminating long trips.
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Riley
Tom Riley
Coe College
Minneapolis
Congress
Joseph McCabe
Coe
McCabe
Office of Economic Opportunity
OEO
Federal
Office of Education
University of Minnesota
Upward Bound
East Iowa flooding swamps towns and farms across counties
A major storm sent 3.5 to 8 inches of rain across East Iowa causing floods in Blairstown, Oelwein, Cedar Falls, Waterloo and beyond. Debris, damaged fences, flooded basements, a fire at Emil Fortman farm, and power outages accompanied the high water. Local rivers rose, with Coralville dam outflow increasing to 2000 cfs as river levels approached flood stages.
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LaPorte
Dunker
Oelwein
Emil Fortman
Ryan
James McElliott
Hopkinton
Jesup
Wapsipinicon
Independence
Iowa
Coralville
Iowa River
Waubeek
Town City
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
Town-Illinois Gas and Electric
Newport
Iowa City
Grundy County
Dike
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Liberty Park
C R Man Fined For Drunk Driving Collision
Wallace E Kann, 40, of 1114 Thirty second street NE, pled guilty in Linn district court to drunk driving after an auto crash at E avenue and Twenty seventh street NE on July 2. Judge J Paul Naughton imposed a $300 fine and revoked his license for 60 days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Harry Hilton
E Avenue
Second Street
Fifteenth Street
A Avenue
Quaker Oats
Iowa Manufacturing Co
Wilson and Co
Allis- Chalmers Manufacturing Co
Thirty-second Street
Allis-Chalmers
Waconia Avenue
Kenwood Ditch
Vetter-Parks Lumber Yard
Seventeenth Street
Wallace E. Kann
Linn
Kann
Twenty-seventh Street
J. Paul Naughton
Gift for Trying Rupture Truss Reveals Comfort
Advertisement from Kansas City touts an inconspicuous rupture truss with 30 day trial and a $4.95 truss gift. Physicians Appliance Company offers a free descriptive circular from 3460 Koch Bldg Kansas City Missouri 64114. Act today before the address is forgotten.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Physicians Appliance Company
Koch Bldg
W. 75Th St
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First Avenue
Gazette
L. W. Ward
Nassif
First Avenue SE
C.R. Rain
Streets Department
First Street
National Oats
H Avenue
Henry
Jones Park
Squaw Valley
Bever Park
St. John’s
Dearborn Brass Co
B Avenue NW
Grace Co
W. R.cryovac
Sixth Street Road
Johnson Gas Appliance Co
E Avenue NW
Universal Engineering Corp
C Avenue NW
Barnard and Leas Manufacturing Co., Inc
Twelfth Street
F Avenue NW
Roosevelt Junior High School
North Western Railroad
Indian Creek
Gage Memorial Union
Science
Second Avenue
Fourteenth Avenue
Thirty-eighth Street
Marion
Omaha
Chicago
Ninth Avenue
Thunder Creek
Blairstown
Keystone
Dick Buch
Buch
Harold Ehrman
Turkey River
Maquoketa River
Maquoketa
Black Hawk Creek
Hudson
Coralville Lake
A. T. Roth
Miles Newcomb
Newcomb
By Joe Fischer
Slael
C.R. Man
Genith
Hese ME
Second Ave
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