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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1979
Page
8
Coe College anticipates 952 students living on campus this fall, up from 848 last year, as admissions and student services surrender Voorhees Hall offices to dormitories. The move aims to create 20 extra rooms with remodeled first floor space and off campus housing will be used as needed.
In Linn County three suspects face charges from separate incidents. Richard Everts, 33, was jailed on assault and public intoxication after an alleged domestic dispute in his apartment building. David Buxton, 34, remained jailed after allegedly striking a restaurant manager during a dispute over payment at Marc's Big Boy. A third item notes a walk run in Iowa City to support the ERA, with a 13 mile route starting at the Iowa Memorial Union and a goal of about 10000 dollars.
The Cedar Rapids Community District still needs 10 drivers after spending at least 2500 on August ads. Journal reports half page ads in The Gazette and possible rewards for recruiting new drivers. Meantime five to cover for mechanics and five substitutes are desired.
Deborah D. Hoopes, 2117 Washington Ave SE, named director of health services at Coe College. A 1974 Coe nursing graduate and former Mount Mercy College nursing instructor will oversee campus health services and health education programs. Also notes Edison patent filing date in 1891.
Clown Zachery met Mayor Don Canney at City Hall in Cedar Rapids in a Ringling Brothers related visit. The clown read a proclamation, received a key to the city, and joked about the circus acts while joking about shovels from groundbreakings.
An 18 year old worker, Keith Munroe of Calmar, was injured when a tree fell on him at a construction site eight miles south of the Victor Interchange on Interstate 80. He was flown to University Hospitals in Iowa City for serious neck back and chest injuries and later released. The accident occurred at 7:45 a.m. near Iowa County Road V-38 as Munroe and Charles Sender, 20, of Ossian uprooted trees.
The 1901 First Avenue Corporation may build Southeast housing in Oak Hill between 9th and 11th Avenues and 5th and 10th Streets SE. Plans include either one six-plex or two four-plex buildings with mostly one-bedroom units rent at 225 to 250 dollars and two-bedroom units at 275 to 300 dollars. If costs rise, a larger building is possible. Funding is private with no government subsidies. This pilot could lead to more Oak Hill units if accepted.
Ben M. Dukes chair of teacher education becomes professor of teacher education. Allan D. Kellar, Pearl M. Taylor associate professor of music, advances to professor. William Spellman of economics also earns full professor title with prior service since 1970 and degrees from Baker University and Kansas State University.
The Northbrook Residents Association filed in Linn District Court seeking reversal of a state health department decision granting Discovery Village Inc. a Certificate of Need for an eight bed two unit residential care facility. The suit claims the council's ruling was arbitrary and unsupported by substantial evidence and asks for a stay to halt construction with a hearing set for September 6 at 2 p.m.
The Conference Board reports that the nation’s 16 largest metropolitan areas added just 1.1 million residents from 1970 to 1975, growing under 0.5 percent annually. Only Miami, Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth rose above 1 percent.
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