Cedar Rapids Mayor Skips Voting In City Council Actions
At eight meetings Mayor Jim Meaghan did not vote on about 100 items. He adopted a Roberts Rules system using aye or no voice votes, signing resolutions without voting on their content. The council now has four or fewer commissioners acting while the mayor gaveles decisions, with no city code specifying voting method.
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Cedar Rapids
Jim Meaghan
Meaghan
Maude Krebs
Roberts
Outstanding Young Farmer To Be Honored In Cedar Rapids
Kenneth Thatcher, secretary of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, will keynote the Outstanding Young Farmer banquet in Cedar Rapids. Thatcher, a Russell native and former regional Farm Bureau director, will discuss opportunities in agriculture and proposed solutions to current problems. The event, hosted by the Jaycees, starts at 6 15 p.m. in the Chamber of Commerce building, with the winner advancing to the state contest.
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Kenneth Thatcher
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Cedar Rapids
Chamber of Commerce
Thatcher
Russell
Farm Bureau
Des Moines
Chariton Junior College
Iowa State College
Grinnell
Poweshiek
Appanoose
Wayne County
The
United Presbyterian Church
Des Moines Committee On International Relations
Polio Benefit Carnival Gets Rent Break at Memorial
Cedar Rapids Memorial Commission shaved the rental to below the standard 225 for a polio benefit teenage carnival and dance at Memorial Coliseum on February 2. Officials say a new policy favors non profit groups using Memorial facilities for clearly public good projects, with a health fair involving 13 agencies seen as another example.
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Memorial Colliseum
Cedar Rapids
Mayors Vote by Custom as Cedar Rapids Debates Rules
The piece explains that mayoral voting mirrors commissioners' practice, with a $1,300 higher salary. It notes Cedar Rapids school board chairs vote, city boards sometimes vote, and outlines highway project plans on Fiftieth Street and Marion Road, plus traffic access changes and a later construction start. It mentions cost concerns and policy on outside sponsorships.
Surgical management of diverticulitis to be discussed
Dr. John M. Waugh will discuss surgical management of diverticulitis at the Linn County Medical Society meeting Thursday night at the Roosevelt hotel. Waugh heads a Mayo Clinic surgery section in Rochester and is a professor of surgery at the Mayo Foundation graduate school.
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John M. Waugh
Linn County Medical Society
Roosevelt Hotel
Waugh
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Mayo Foundation Graduate School
Paved Old Marion Road Drive Expands Toward Highway 150
City and county plans for a street along Old Marion road and Fifti fieth street NE from First avenue to Center Point road have grown. The state now requires a 150 foot right of way, up from 120 feet, adding land and houses to be acquired. Estimated costs rise to about 200000 dollars as more properties are involved and the state would pay part of the expansion.
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Fiftieth Street
Old Marion Road
First Avenue
B. C. Lackman
Marion
Center Point Road
State Highway Commission
Youth fined after pled guilty to reckless driving
A 19 year old youth, Alton Cunningham, pled guilty to a reckless driving charge in traffic court. Judge M. D. Elston fined him $75 but shaved a dollar after Cunningham said he had only $74.
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Louisville
Alton Cunningham
M. D. Elston
Cunningham
Birth of a son sparks 101 gun salute in France
A 101 gun salute welcomed the Beckerin dynasty heir as Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Begein, longtime butcher shop owners, celebrate twenty years for a son. Hunt club members joined the tribute with shotguns. In other notes, a vodka tax proposal in Poland targets funding anti drunkenness campaigns. A California incident ends with a mistaken arrest by police after a blackout in a man’s cellar. International press attendance and quirky misadventures fill the rest of the dispatches.
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T. Malo DU Bois
France
INS
Begein
Mona‘co
Auto vanishes from porch in Rochester
Rochester report by UP states Robert D. Powers found his car parked on the porch the next morning after leaving it at the curb before bedtime. No clues available.
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Rochester
N. Y
Robert D. Powers
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