Local Pepsi drinkers get their reward
Cedar Rapids area residents receive free cases of Pepsi after being pictured or quoted with the beverage in The Gazette and local papers. Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. manager Gene Woellert says the gimmick rewards faithful drinkers, with recipients including workers, a woman in Greene Square, a pony owner, and even a pig seen on TV.
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Nancy Stevens
Sie
Cedar Rapids Area
Gene Woellert
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co
Cedar Rapids
Woellert
Gazette
Penick
Ford
Linda Kula
Kula
Dick Strausser
Midway Drive
Strausser
Clayton County OK's major road regrading planned for 1983
Clayton County will spend about 2.85 million next year on secondary roads, down from 2.997 million this year due to a 150000 cut in federal revenue sharing. Four regrading projects are set for Y-13, W-67, X-28 and C-7x plus a 350000 bridge on X-41. State money totaling 725000 will fund widening drains and regrading these sections. Still awaiting IDOT approval is paving the final Great River Road segment from Millville to North Buena Vista.
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Highway 3
Strawberry Point
St. Sebald Church
St. Olaf
Farmersburg
Asbury Cemetery
Elkport
Meisner
Clayton County
Iowa Department of Transportation
Millville
North Buena Vista
IDOT
ISU wins contract to start rural transportation tech center
Iowa State University’s Engineering Extension Service gains a 250000 dollar federal and state grant to establish a Technology Transfer Center for rural transport agencies in counties and towns under 50000 residents. The program runs a two year funding cycle with possible third year, starting January, and includes courses, newsletters, and a toll free information service.
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Ames
Iowa State University
Federal Highway Administration
Iowa Department of Transportation
Iowa
Congress
ISU Engineering Extension Service
Civil Engineering Department
Engineering Extension Service
Marston
City seeks repayment from former Denison mayor
In Crawford County District Court Denison seeks to recover 4506 dollars from ex mayor Gerald Smithson. The suit grows from a 5000 dollar loan to Pat Wingrove for an undercover drug probe in February 1981. The city contends the loan was authorized by Smithson without council approval. Wingrove was repaid 450 dollars and the city later agreed to 4000 dollars plus 506.86 in costs. The city now sues Smithson under Iowa law. Denison is 90 miles west of Ames.
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Denison
Iowa
Crawford County
Gerald Smithson
Pat Wingrove
Smithson
Wingrove
UNIA Stands Against Reagan Teen Sub-minimum Wage
The University of Northern Iowa Student Association votes 27 to 2 against a proposed sub-minimum wage for teenagers. They warn it would pit older students and parents against teen labor, hinder college savings, and leave non-teen students unemployed as employers seek cheap young labor. UNISA President Rusty Martin criticizes the proposal as harming students and financial aid.
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Cedar Falls
University of Northern Iowa Student Association
Reagan
UNISA
Rusty Martin
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ISU
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Jeors
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