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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1979
Page
2
Iowa City municipal employees through their union call for a 6 percent raise in the first year and 4 percent in the second year, plus quarterly cost-of-living adjustments, in the initial round of negotiations. The police department had a separate 14 percent request rejected by the City Council, to be settled by mediator.
Arlington officials accepted an Environmental Protection grant to fund wastewater treatment facility design. Bert B. Hanson and Associates Inc. of West Union will handle engineering plans. The next regular meeting is January 10. December 27 meeting was canceled for holidays. Postville nurse director named Sally McClure replaces Virginia Anderson after 18 years.
Local Union 55 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ratified a two year contract with Independence Municipal Light Plant. It calls for an 8 percent wage increase the first year and a 4.4 percent rise the second year, based on a $7.26 hourly base. The union had sought 12 percent. The contract is to be finalized at the January board of trustees meeting.
Christoff, 22, of Lansing, was treated at Veterans Memorial Hospital after a one vehicle crash eight miles west of Waukon. The car driven by Paris Kastys, 22, Chicago, left a curve, rolled, and tossed Christoff from the vehicle. She suffered back injuries a fractured wrist and minor cuts. The car was a total loss and Kastys was charged with failure to maintain control.
A series of early Saturday crashes left eight dead. Cedar Falls area victims were Roger Saul, 16, and Sherrie Bruns, 13, with multiple teens hospitalized. Des Moines and Tama County fatalities followed, including Tim and Tracy Shanks and Mark Petersen, plus a Badger man. Police cited drunk driving, off road crashes, and derailments as causes while names, ages, and locations from Cedar Falls to Estherville, Davenport, Tama, and Stanhope appear in the report.
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