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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1981
Page
9
United Auto Workers at FMC Corp Cedar Rapids plant vote to cut hours to four days a week, aiming to save 135 to 160 jobs from 230 to 260 potential layoffs amid a construction equipment recession. Plant to shift to Monday through Thursday from January after a holiday shutdown.
An advisory group urged Cedar Rapids to equip its squad cars with radio monitors so officers can hear Linn County and Iowa State Patrol transmissions. No formal vote was taken at the Metro-Comm meeting, and Cedar Rapids officials are still deciding.
A construction site office manager testified that a man he identified as the Teamsters steward Boeding said non union drivers were barred from the Cedar Rapids wastewater facility. Boeding and two Local 238 officials Wilford and Dague are among extortion defendants. Casten joins on conspiracy and related counts.
Two people face charges after drunken driving arrests in Linn County late Wednesday into Thursday. Brenda McManigle, 19, was nabbed in front of the Cedar Rapids Police Station after her car hit I 380 pillars while turning onto Second Avenue SW. Darrell Long, 39, was arrested on 16th Avenue SW in intoxicated condition and held on an additional interfering assault charge after allegedly kicking an officer. Merkel was jailed Thursday and released after a Linn County District Court appearance.
Dean Michael Vedepo, 21, of 412 18th St. SE, arrested Thursday evening and charged with second degree theft for a copper wire theft on November 3 at E&S Electric Contractors site 1045 33rd Ave. SW. Police found wire in his possession from 1021 Third Ave. SE. Vedepo held at Linn County Jail pending arraignment.
Banco Mortgage reports a $900 refrigerator stolen from a vacant house in the 1600 block of 13th Avenue SE after breaking a storm window. Bohemian Savings and Loan cites loss of two chairs and an end table valued at $750 from a house at 10th Avenue and Ninth Street SE, entry via basement window and sliding patio door. The break in occurred on Nov. 27 but was not noticed until Thursday.
Gary G. Merkel, 32, of 2409 Bever Ave SE, was arrested just before 1 a.m. Thursday and charged with assault intoxication and interfering with official acts after police responded to a fight in the 4600 block of Mount Vernon Road SE and observed Merkel in an apparently intoxicated state.
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