Tax Pie breakdown shows safety gets biggest share
A Cedar Rapids brochure using a $400 tax bill outlines how the city, school district, and county share the tax dollar. The city takes 31.7 percent, with $40.43 of the $127.04 city portion going to public safety. The study notes five self-supporting departments and cautions the figures are illustrative. Mayor Bob Johnson endorses it as factual and copies are available at City Hall.
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Cedar Rapids Community
Library
Playground and Recreation Commission
Accounts and Finance Department
Public Safety Department
Bob Johnson
City Hall
City officials join early morning fitness drive
About a dozen city officials from the council and departments formed a “serious effort” to regain trimness. The group meets at 7 a.m. three days a week for an hour of calisthenics and volleyball at the Ellis branch YMCA, directed by Maurice Wilson of the Y.
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Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric Co
Ellis Branch Ymca
Maurice Wilson
The
YMCA
Harold Schaefer
Jesse Hunter
Dick Jensen
Marlin Cox
Gas Co
John Seaton
Don Gardner
John Oberthein
Bob Levi
the Gas Co
Don Salyer
Bob Johnson
Ellis Branch
Weather Slowed Work on Bridge in December
Construction on the Second Avenue bridge advanced only four percent in December as harsh winter weather slowed progress. Ned Ashton, a consulting engineer from Iowa City, said the Des Moines Bridge Co. completed 73 percent of the project in only half of the scheduled 18 months.
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Second Avenue
Ned Ashton
Iowa City
Des Moines Bridge Co
Reconstruction project progress near city hall
During December the firm poured the north sidewalk in front of city hall and completed the transformer vault. Work on the sub floor drainage beneath the street is expedited. Completion of drainage may allow pouring a floor beneath the street and a new deck slab plus three arch ribs on the south side of the west channel. Ashton indicated substantial progress.
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City Hall
Cold Weather Tests For New Lockheed C-141 Starlifter
America's newest and largest transport plane the Lockheed C-141 Starlifter arrived at Eielson Air Force Base Fairbanks Alaska for a series of cold weather tests.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
America
Eielson Air Force Base
Burmese Mission Sets Out for London Washington Tokyo Trade Ties
A Burmese mission led by Col. Tan Yu Saing departed Rangoon last week for London Washington and Tokyo to establish trade missions. The group will stay about three weeks before continuing to Tokyo.
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Rangoon
London
Washington
Tokyo
Tan Yu Saing
Burma
Revolutionary Council
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Gazette City Hall
Cedar Rapids
Sullivan
Parks and Public Property Department
Parks and Golf Maintenance Fund
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David McGuire
Milwaukee
Gazette
Krall
Red Cross
Crosby Square Hush Puppies
Kingsway
Barefoot Freedom
Your Foot Comfort Store
Second Avenue SE
Ashton
Victor
Iowa Typewriter CO
First Avenue
Notary Public Service
Farm Service
Bankside
Pension Trusts Collection Service
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William J. Barron
Barron Motor Co
J. Hamilton Bell
Fred E. Bellamy
Martin-Marietta Corp
William C. Crawford
King's Concrete Co
Edwin C. Evans
Averill Trusts
R. S. Gates
Coe College
Henry E. Haegg
Haegg Construction
John M. Sagers
A. L. Smulekoff
Smulekoff Furniture Co
Ervin F. Stephanek
T. R. Warriner
Frank C. Welch
Ted J. Welch
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