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Regular coin club meeting with slides on commemorative half dollars at YWCA room 109 Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Soup luncheon at St James Methodist Thursday 11 to 1 Adults 75 cents. Barbara Jands joins Herwig's Beauty Salon. Nelson's Meat Market offers guaranteed freezer beef and prime cuts with home delivery. The Gazette ad number 369-1234. Giftree Jan sale at 700 Seventh Street SE. Tom Riley speech at Peoples Bank Community Room Friday 8 p.m. Kaye's performances at Rose May Lounge tonight through Saturday. Sharon Dickson promotes Petite Salon. Alton specials at Albert's Dry Cleaning. Jeromes Rare Coins buying silver certificates. John Atherton speaks on alcoholism Thursday 8 p.m. at St Paul’s Methodist church.
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Cedar Rapids Eyes Model Cities Grant Deadline April 15
Cedar Rapids must act by April 15 to qualify for a second round of Model Cities grants. HUD notified Mayor Frank Bush that the deadline is for filing applications after missing the first May 1 deadline. Approval hinges on pursuing a low income housing project, with planning director Don Salyer saying the application can be ready if the council opts to proceed.
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Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Frank Bush
Don B. Salyer
Bush
Kennedy Misses by Appointment in Saigon
Senator Edward Kennedy failed to attend scheduled talks with Vice-president Ky and Premier Loc due to an administrative slipup. He instead visited the pacification training center at Vung Tau before returning to Saigon. In Hong Kong, a newspaper reported over 200 deaths in riots over food in Kwangtung province.
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Edward Kennedy
D-Mass
Nguyen Cao Ky
Nguyen van Loc
Kennedy
Vung Tau
Hong Kong
UPI
China
Kwangtung Province
Widow seeks to save basement tropical fish shop appeal
Cedar Rapids widow Esther Koffron filed an appeal with the city board of adjustment to overturn a zoning complaint and obtain a certificate of occupancy for her basement tropical fish business. The board meets February 12 to review the case and determine if the shop may continue operating.
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Cedar Rapids
Esther Koffron
D Avenue NE
City Board of Adjustment
City Building Safety Department
Koffron
Board of Adjustment
Water Works Plans Four New Pumping Units
Cedar Rapids city council approves four motor control units from Square D Co for 19 743 and four electric motors from Hupp Electric Motors for 27 118. Superintendent George S. Lee says three phase motors will replace failing two phase units to support the long range expansion increasing plant pumping from 24 million to 36 million gallons daily. The consultant Howard R. Green Engineering Co. backs the upgrade to avert an emergency.
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Cedar Rapids
Water Works Department
Water Works
Square D Co
Hupp Electric Motors, Inc
George S. Lee
Howard R. Green Engineering Co
Theft at Cedar Rapids Home Targets Piggy Bank
Cedar Rapids resident Richard Bragg reported a break in Tuesday. Prised open a piggy bank containing 35 dollars and a bottle of beer was consumed before suspect left. Time window 6 30 a m to 4 p m.
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Cedar Rapids
Richard Bragg
Weing Road
Rezoning Ordinances Given First Reading
Three rezoning ordinances received first reading. They include R-3 to R-1 changes at 2846 Mt Vernon road SE petitioned by Continental Oil Co. and at 607 Twenty-first avenue SW by Louis E. Everett. A third R-3 to R-1 at 604 and 608 Twenty-first avenue SW involves Virgil C. Grant Roger C. and Yvonne Gordon and Dairy Maid Co.
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Mt Vernon Road
Continental Oil .Co
Twenty-first Avenue
Louis E. Everett
Virgil C. Grant
Roger C
Yvonne Gordon
Dairy Maid Co
Duke University grants Waldo Mead political science doctorate
Waldo B Mead son of Otis B Mead and wife 1203 Center Street NE earns a doctorate in political science from Duke University. FEED THE BIRDS.
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Waldo B. Mead
Otis B. Mead
Center Street
Duke University
Randall Milling Hurt In Car Collision On City Bridge
Randall H Milling 24 of 610 Third Ave SE was treated at St Luke s hospital for minor injuries after his car hit the rear of a parked city truck on the First Avenue bridge. Police noted no charges. another crash on the same bridge involved Reginal Grames 21.
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St. Luke’s Hospital
Randall H. Milling
Third Avenue SE
Milling
Ronald G. Jacobs
Seventeenth Street SE
Reginal L. Grames
Third Street NW
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