Holiday crunch hits C R post office
The Cedar Rapids post office expects mail volume to rise from 600000 to over 1000000 first class pieces daily by Monday as Christmas greetings flood in. Postal official Steven Kadlec urges readable addresses with zip codes, warns about international stamps, and advises sturdy packaging and early mailing.
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Santa
U.S. Postal Service
Cedar Rapids
Steven Kadlee
Kadlee
Post Office
Central City parents clash over half day before holidays
At a school board meeting in Central City parents questioned a plan to add three extra half days to the Dec 23 schedule. Superintendent Wayne Rand defended the move citing nationwide concerns about instructional time and a Saturday meeting was set to decide. The board also asked for roof repair bids and denied moving graduation to a weekend night. The note adds a 1967 New Mexico thermonuclear test detail.
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Central City
Wayne Rand
Rand
Hiawatha Council Approves Cable Rate Increase First Reading
The Hiawatha City Council granted first reading approval to an amended Cedar Rapids Cable Communications rate hike raising basic service from 7.50 to 8.25 dollars, citing earlier hearings and potential future adjustments. Council debated deferring the vote. most members noted cable is not a necessity. The council also heard a request to allocate about 5,000 dollars of last year’s liquor tax to the Area Substance Abuse Council to offset federal aid losses, with no action taken.
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Hiawatha City Council
Cedar Rapids Cable Communications Inc
Area Substance Abuse Council
Jon Lash
Hiawatha Council
Cedar Rapids
Cable
Lash
Hiawatha
Tom Patterson
Cedar Rapids Cable
Martin Bruns
John Suter
Area
Benton, Jones, Jackson and
Linn
Substance Abuse Council
Suter
Bruns
Linn deputies approve tentative two year wage pact
Linn County deputies ratified a two year wage agreement after negotiations with the county. The pact offers 38 cent an hour increases for sergeants detectives and dispatchers the first year and 33 to 40 cent raises for others with full major medical coverage and dental cost sharing. If approved by supervisors the contract would take effect June 30 1982.
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Linn County
Public Professional and Maintenance Employees Local 2003
Richard Williams
Williams
Board of Supervisors
Barbs By Phil Pastoret On Handshakes And Bank Pens
The column teases a wary view of a man with a lingering handshake and suggests his other hand might be reaching for a wallet. It also riffs on grownup fairy tales noting the once useful bank pen in daily life.
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C.R. Post Office
New Mexico
Smulekoffs
OSTER
Christie Wallace
Gazette
OK Wage Pact
Richard Yoder
Trude Elliot
Public Professional and Maintenance Employees Union
The
International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades
By Phil Pastoret
Carma Lou’s House OF Music
Center Point Rd
Quai
Hach Brothers Co
Ist St. SE
Avco
Industrial Loan Thrift Guaranty Corporation of
Iowa
State of Iowa
Avco Financial Services
Lowa
Amto Financial Services
First Avenue
N.E
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