Cedar Rapids Transit reveals major bus route and headway changes
Cedar Rapids Transit introduces new headways and route revamps starting tomorrow with Ellis Park timing and Feb 17 for others. Peak service will operate up to 30 buses with 20 minute headways, non peak at 40 minutes, and some routes extended into Bowman Woods and Lindale Mall area. An UMTA grant application seeks five new buses to ease deficits, with total added costs around 237,845 for five months and projected 500,000 for 1980.
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Cedar Rapids
Ellis Park
Marion
Bagley
Urban Mass Transit Administration
UMTA
Marion/North
Lindale Mall
Oakland Road
Center Point Road
Northwood
Kenwood
Grande Avenue
Bowman Woods
Marion/South
First Avenue
7Th Avenue
Lindale Drive
8Th Avenue
Lindale
Collins Fair
Lincolnway
Kirkwood
Kirkwood Estates
Cedar Hills
Johnson Avenue
Crestridge Drive
Eastview Drive
Junior Achievement Open House and Conference Events Planned
About 30 high school students and 70 Cedar Rapids area business leaders participate in JA events this week. Students travel to Waterloo for the Achievers Conference while leaders tour the new JA Economic Education Center. Programs include a product fair awards, management games, and speaker sessions with Paul Pate and Al Williams. The Cedar Rapids delegation departs Friday morning for tours and contests.
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Cedar Rapids Area
Waterloo
Junior Achievement Economic Education Center
Gary Whiting
al Williams
Steve Gaylord
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Iowa City
Vinton
Des Moines
Dubuque
Mason City
Ottumwa
Newton
Paul Pate
Northwestern Bell Telephone
Pate
January Thaw Fails in Cedar Rapids Weather Report
The Cedar Rapids area saw a brief warm spell only in January with most days well below freezing. The average high 20 and low 1.1 contrasted with normals 33 and 14, while degree days reached 1688 against 144, and precipitation totaled .79 inches (7.6 inches snow) per Eugene O. Frye of Marion, Weather Bureau observer.
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Cedar Rapids
Eugene O. Frye
Marion
Official
Weather Bureau
Cedar Rapids Soap Box Derby Clinic Dates Set for 2026
Cedar Rapids area hosts a series of car-building clinics for first time entrants to the Soap Box Derby. Larry Pookes notes Junior Division kits aid 10 to 12 year olds while clinics cover design, floorboards, axle mounting, brakes, steering, and final body design. Race for Fun on June 3 and Derby on July 8, with All-America material provided by Willard Brown.
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Cedar Rapids
Pookes
Willard Brown
Cedar Rapids Association
Brown
Enthusiasm Pays Off in Job Search
Fifty recruiters from Phillips Petroleum interviewed 3,000 engineers and scientists at 70 colleges in 1978. Less than 13 percent were hired, as Boesiger noted. He adds that grades matter first, but enthusiasm and interest can win over higher GPA candidates.
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Bartlesville
Okla
UPI
Phillips Petroleum
Ight Boesiger
Inter
Five Cedar Rapids firms offer teacher internship program
Five Cedar Rapids firms including Quaker Oats General Mills National Oats Rockwell International Collins and FMC Crane and Excavator Division will host educators from Cedar Rapids Linn Mar and Marion districts for a six week summer internship. The program aims to deepen teachers understanding of business operations and decision making while enriching curriculum and teacher training through seminars and in service activities.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn- Mar
Marion
Cedar Rapids-Marion Area
Engle
Richard Schulz
Dr. Schulz
Dick Stimple
Quaker
Solar desalting plant to be tested near La Rioja
Buenos Aires authorities announce an experimental solar distillation plant to treat brackish water near Argentina’s La Rioja capital. The project is assigned to the Air Force Special Research Commission and the state Sanitation Works Co. for construction and testing.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
la Rioja
Air Force Special Research Commission
Sanitation Works Co
Caviar Shift Boosts Lumpfish Roe Sales in New Jersey
TEANECK New Jersey AP Caviar buyers favor lumpfish roe as sturgeon caviar prices rise due to overfishing. industry leader Arnold Hansen Sturm head of Romanoff Caviar Co. reports lumpfish roe outselling all other varieties while salmon and whitefish roe also gain.
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Teaneck
N.J
Arnold Hansen-Sturm
Romanoff Caviar Co
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Ly Dick Hogan Gazette City Hall Reporter
Ray Bagley
City Transit
Vernon Heights
Mount Mercy
J Street
Wilson Avenue
Linwood
Westdale Mall
Bever Park
5Th Avenue
White Oak Road
Bever Avenue
West Highlands
Kmart
Williams Boulevard
Cleveland Street
10Th Avenue
Great Electric Co. Inc
Camp Good Health
Iowa
Gazette
Barbara J. Piersall
Dale
Laura Piersall
Clara L. Smith
Jack Rice
Forrest
Zona Smith
Claudie Zobel
Gladys Eckert
O.L. Eckert
Bert
Madonna Gallant
Fred Thillen
George L. Clark
Chuck
Gary
Bernard Brown
Bernice Brown
Elizabeth Nowacheck
O.E.S. Auxilary
Louis Gaddie
T. Dolley
Barbara Kubovec
Minnie Sirowy
Albert L. Banes
Pierson
Avenue Floral & Botanicals
16Th Avenue
S.W
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