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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1966
Page
6
City audit of 1965 books urges council to monitor idle funds and reinvest in higher yield securities. The 11 recommendations from McGladrey, Hansen, Dunn and Co. include examining low yield investments. Finance Commissioner Stewart Shank notes prior steps but audit highlights remaining improvements.
State Rep. Walter McNamara urged action in Des Moines to consider a 1967 bill setting a $1 per hour minimum wage for all occupations. He cited low waitress pay and welfare dependence, pressing community action officials to back wage proposals as a basic state problem.
Drivers and plant employees at Industrial Tower and Uniform Service on Fifth Street SE returned to work Wednesday after a week-long dispute. Thirteen drivers walked off December 6 and plant workers left Monday. Union and company officials declined to comment on the dispute. The Teamsters Local 238 contract had not expired, and officials estimated 60 to 110 workers participated.
Petitions were circulated in several Cedar Rapids taverns Tuesday night seeking a recall election for Mayor Bob Johnson. Backers claim contemptible conduct and misuse of public funds, while a Cedar Rapids Labor Assembly board member said no support was given. State law requires one fourth of previous mayoral voters to trigger a recall, about 5,965 signatures from 23,461 voters in 1965, enabling any candidate to run with ten percent of that total.
Gary L. Dubishar, 17, of 451 Twenty second Street NW, was fined 25 dollars and costs for reckless driving. Police said he drove 30 mph toward Jefferson High School as pupils walked, at a road lacking a sidewalk on November 4.
Darrell J. Hogan of 4802 Ninth Street SW received a 60 day suspended jail sentence on a charge of false altering of a check. He allegedly wrote a $5 bad check to a Cedar Rapids service station on October 18. Municipal Judge Howard Mc Laughlin imposed the term.
The College Community school board accepted the resignation of bus maintenance man Frank Pegump and junior high secretary Carol Bird. It authorized employment of Walter Benthin Frank Bys and Thelma Truhlar with Christine Olson hired as junior high teacher for second semester. Low bids 16 345 50 for two 66 passenger school bus chassis and bodies. Clarence Bergman and Jim Jennings authorized to attend conventions in Dallas and Atlantic City.
Cedar Rapids school board member Ben Trickey objects to moving westside students to Kennedy High unless no alternative exists. He calls the plan disruptive and wants cost figures for extra evening buses. Board to revisit the boundary issue at Monday’s 7:30 meeting.
A Grand Rapids cab driver Pete Dykstra said a thief stole his snow tire but attached the spare to the bare axle as a kindness. Police reported the incident Wednesday and noted cooperation from board members in investigating the odd theft.
The Board of Education hears a proposal from the superintendent calling for all west side Biartisen district students and most Mindisun Sehual district students to be reassigned to Renney.
Federal postal inspectors investigate a lighted fusee tossed into a mail drop box at Eighth Avenue and Fifteenth Street SE. The blast damaged three mail pieces including a charge check before burning out. The incident was found during Tuesday morning mail pickup. Police notified.
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