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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1976
Page
7
Cedar Rapids officials met to address a shortage of squad cars and funding. Chief LaPeters was authorized to seek bids for immediate replacements with funds for about eight vehicles, while the source of funding for 24 more over two years remained unsettled.
A group of 23 Eastern Iowans filed in Cedar Rapids federal court in 1970 seeking about 190000 in losses from commodity futures schemes. They reached an out-of-court settlement for just under 40 cents on the dollar, with Woodstock and principals paying 30000, to be completed by January 1977.
The Cedar Rapids city council will decide at its Wednesday meeting whether to fund a pilot program for paid adult crossing guards at 11 school crossings. The district has authorized 3500 and local Catholic schools 1000, with 4500 still to be supplied by the city. council members question administration and police involvement.
A Cedar Rapids Community school board special session was scheduled for 1 30 p m Tuesday to discuss a closed session on negotiations strategy. CREA and the board have met since December with a PER board mediator to try for 1976 77 contract agreement. CREA is the teachers’ exclusive bargaining agent.
Cedar Rapids city council asks an architectural firm to submit a contract for study by city legal staff for a new community center and adjacent parking ramp. Three firms showed interest with one proposing to design the whole project and hotel, while others offered design only for the ramp. Mayor Don Canney notes none of the firms is ruled out and quotes fees around four percent. Council members prefer a single architect for the whole complex but see no necessity.
Carl Burton Wilford, 42, of 803 Ninth Street SW, was in good condition at Mercy Hospital with a back injury from a Monday one-car crash. His car crossed the center line on the 1100 block of First Street NW and hit a utility pole. police charged him with driving on the wrong side.
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