Backup units called to duty when all ambulances busy
Area Ambulance crews stayed busy answering calls late Monday into Tuesday with all three ambulances active at least once. Cedar Rapids firefighters also logged eight calls while the backup system from Linn County Sheriff rescue units and volunteers remained in use.
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Tim Trosky
Trosky
Linn County
Mercy Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Delay in IBP legal battle postponed to December
An $11.5 million IBP case against former executive Hughes Bagley was postponed again in Cedar Rapids federal court after an 80 minute delay. The trial is reset for December 13 and is expected to last two weeks amid a long running dispute tied to the Meat Price Investigators Association antitrust case and IBP counterclaims.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Dakota City
Neb
Hughes Bagley
Sioux City
IBP
Bagley
Cattlemen’s
Meat Price Investigators Association
Iowa Beef
U.S. Supreme Court
Dallas
Dubuque Packing Co
Mount Vernon district offers faculty $300 increase in base
Mount Vernon The school board proposed a $300 raise for 1983 84 raising base pay from 12000 to 12300 with a district cost of 43744 plus an $8 monthly insurance annuity increase for a total of 5319. The board accepted most staffing policy changes and cited tight finances due to enrollment declines while noting the teachers fair share of new money at 44120 and minimal staff reductions.
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Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon School Board
Mount Vernon Teachers Association
Adrian Ringold
Mount Vernon Education Association
Ringold
Lisbon teachers press court to order arbitration in salary dispute
The Lisbon Education Association sues Linn County Court to compel the Lisbon Community School District board to arbitrate a contract grievance over teacher Denise Ellis’s pay. Ellis, with four years service, would earn $741 more than the current $13 659, argues the union. The dispute dates to March 22, 1982, and follows a leave during 1981 82. The association says arbitration was agreed after initial appeals, but the district refused to proceed.
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Bargaining Uni
Lisbon Community School
Linn
Lisbon Education Association
Denise Ellis
Ellis
Prank Firing Denies Jobless Benefits for Iowa Worker
Iowa officials ruled Mark Dursky, a Cedar Rapids shoe dept employee for Senecka Shoe Co, ineligible for jobless benefits after he made a prank call that produced an obscene name over the store PA system. He was fired September 10 for misconduct and ordered to repay $109. Additionally, the Justice Department cleared Richard Allen of any wrongdoing in accepting $1,000 from a Japanese magazine.
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Des Moines
Iowa Department of Job Services
Mark Dursky
Cedar Rapids
Senecka Shoe Company
St. Louis
Petersen Harned von Maur
Westdale
Petersen's
Dursky
Justice Department
Richard Allen
Nancy Reagan
Cedar Rapids to begin rental inspections after Jan 1 1983
Cedar Rapids plans regular rental housing inspections starting shortly after January 1 led by Terry Steinbach. Fees set for each inspection and a five year cycle aim to inspect all rental units, with 1000 properties unregistered awaiting first inspections and a possible annual budget impact of about $65,000.
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Cedar Rapids
Terry Steinbach
City
Floyd Bergen
Public Safety
Steinbach
Housing Inspection Services Department
Hiawatha Water Board sells bonds for fifth well
Hiawatha trustees issued 300000 in bonds at a Monday meeting to E F Hutton Co of Des Moines as the lowest bidder at 9.062 percent interest. The city will retire the debt 1983 to 1992 from water revenues with no current rate increase. Construction begins next spring to serve population growth. location not yet chosen.
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Hiawatha Water Board
E.F. Hutton Co. Inc
Des Moines
Water Board
Beverly Daws
Daws
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