City Planners Study Six Point Road Change
City Plan Commission discussed the Cedar Rapids six point road proposal at a Roosevelt hotel luncheon. The group referred the plan to a subcommittee on major streets and noted Younker's Sears Roebuck shopping center rezoning for March 6. Suggestions included a railroad overpass and new creek bridge on J street and tying highway 150 to B avenue NE and the F avenue bridge to highway 74.
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Chamber of Commerce
Cedar Rapids
City Plan Commission
Roosevelt Hotel
Younker’s
Sears Roebuck
First Avenue
Old Marion Road
Plan Commission to review highway and zoning proposals March 6
A major street committee study of highway proposals accompanies zoning plans for a 72 acre 50 store shopping center and a J Street overpass project. Marion civic leaders and city planners expect discussion at the March 6 meeting chaired by Ray Spielman with George Cockburn slated for rezoning review.
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Chamber of Commerce Highway Committee
First Avenue
Tenth Street
B Avenue
St. Luke’s Hospital
Highway Commission
Major Street Committee
Plan Commission
Marion
Ray Spielman
Younker
Sears
Spokes- Commission
Henry Men
Kling
George Cockburn
Aiment
Pilot leaps from burning plane to wing brace in Douglas
Pilot Pete Barnwell 30 climbs onto a wing brace when the interior becomes too hot, guides the plane down with one hand to a safe jump distance, then jumps 30 feet to land unharmed as the aircraft crashes and burns. He was flying for the county forestry unit and lacked a parachute.
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Douglas
Pete Barnwell
Barnwell
County Forestry Unit
Forestry Unit
Foresters
Fire Department
Jackson boy confesses to grandmother stabbing
A 16 year old Jackson, Michigan boy admitted to police that he stabbed his grandmother 22 times because she harped at him. Harold Wayne Lewis confessed after five hours of questioning by Detective Sgt. Frank E. Palkowski.
Nazi Officer Paroled From Landsberg War Crimes Prison
Former Nazi Naval Captain Kurt, involved in the murder of seven American prisoners, has been paroled from Landsberg war crimes facility in Heidelberg after World War II crimes conviction.
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Heidelberg
INS
Landsberg
Kurt
Paroled German War Criminal Goebell Rejoins Society
Goebell aged 59 was released Tuesday on the unanimous recommendation of the German allied parole board. He had been sentenced to death by a U.S. military court in March 1946 for involvement in the killing of seven U.S. airmen on Borkum island in August 1944. The sentence was commuted to life then reduced to 28 years, enabling parole.
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Goebell
West Germany
U.S
Borkum Island
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New Creek
J Street
Wcf&n
State Highway Commission
Cedar Lake Slough
Quaker Oats
Spielman
Commission
C. M
Doc” Manley
J i Street
Twenty-seventh Avenue
By Jimmy Hatlo
Buchanan
FT. Lauderdale
Fla
Buick
America
Jackie Gleason
Wew Motor Co Co
First Avenue East
Frigidaire
First Street
A.T.D
Checker Electric Supply, Inc
Dial
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