Snow on Christmas Wins? City gambles on light snowfall
Es Moines officials opted not to deploy snowplows on Christmas Eve as light snowfall seemed nonhazardous. The city estimated a $13,000 cost to clear a light dump, while Cedar Rapids faced five inches and plowed the holiday. Veteran water department employee Forrest Schultz retires after 28 years.
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United Thane Tet
Public Service
Jacobson
Cedar Rapids
Jack Eggleston
Eggleston
Cedar Hills
Forrest P
Pete
Schultz
Ninth Street
City Water Department
Jefferson
Iowa
Water Department
Rules for Rubbish Pickup List
Cedar Rapids residents will receive posted rules for preparing non garbace waste for city pickup starting Monday January 7. Items include cold ashes cans bottles magazines papers rags waste paper yard trimmings branches up to five inches diameter four feet long roots in disposable container and small construction leftovers up to one bushel basketful.
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Cedar Rapids
City Council Meeting Agenda Highlights
The council schedule lists an invocation by Rev John P Woods of Westminster Presbyterian Church at 10 am in City Hall. Items include bills and payroll, final adoption of a proposed budget, a resolution to assess sanitary sewer along Highway 30 from J Street to Highway 218, and an objection to an assessment for concrete pavement on C Avenue NE from Parcrest addition to Old Marion road NE filed by Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery Assn.
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John P. Woods
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Highway 30
J Street
C Avenue
Parcrest
Old Marion Road
Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery Assn
New Ballpoint Pens For All Post Offices
The post office department plans to issue new ballpoint pens to 35 000 offices starting the New Year. The pens are sturdy attractive and write smoothly with blue or black ink. The service buys over a million pen barrels and more than two million refills annually. They must resist rough handling and work on grease spots and rough surfaces.
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Washington
UPI
Post Office Department
Postal Service
Cribbage and Card Play Rules From Hoyle Q A Brief
Answers cover cribbage run reuse scoring four and three points, poker with six cards in hand loses chips and pot to next deal if others fold, and canasta rules for taking a frozen discard pile require a natural pair or a mix with matching and wild cards after initial meld.
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Canasta
Ten Outstanding Young Men Named for 1962
Tulsa AP brief lists ten individuals across religion medicine education government and media as the United States Chamber of Commerce year’s top young men. Names include James Beatty Jules Bergman John Brademas Guido Calabresi Robert Castle Hugh Haynie James Jude James Turpin Curtiss Anderson among others with awards to be presented in Little Rock Arkansas January 18 19.
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Tulsa
Okla
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
James T. Beatty
Los Angeles
America
John Brademas
Jules Bergman
New York City
American Broadcasting Co
Bert I. Bernhard
Washington
U. S. Civil Rights Commission
Guido Calabresi
New Haven
Christmas Mail Volume Hits All Time Peak in C R
Cedar Rapids post office wrapped a record Christmas mailing season with a 2.5 percent rise in volume. Outgoing mail rose 0.5 percent while incoming climbed 4.6 percent as the three state region stayed nearly even. The office processed 4,683,000 outgoing letters and 178,000 parcels in the first 25 days of December and 4,609,000 incoming letters and 125,000 incoming parcels.
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C.R
Cedar Rapids
Emall
Iowa
Washington letter to Betsy Fauntelroy loaned to UVa library
A 1752 letter by George Washington written while recovering from pleurisy to the father of Betsy Fauntelroy of Richmond County announcing his intent to court the 16 year old. Betsy rejected him again, later marrying Bowler Cocke and then Thomas Adams, a Continental Congress member.
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UPI
George Washington
University of Virginia
Clem D. Johnson
Roanoke
Washington
Betsy Fauntelroy
Richmond County
Frederick
Labor Research Man Wirtz Aide Appointed to Labor Dept
AFL-CIO research director Stanley Ruttenberg 45 is named special assistant to Labor Secretary Wirtz. He will serve as economic adviser and focus on unemployment issues, taking office January 1.
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UPI
Afl-Cio
Stanley Ruttenberg
Wirtz
Ruttenberg
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