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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1978
Page
6
Two Cedar Rapids police officers received honors at a City Council meeting. John Huston earned the Medal of Honor for an arrest of an armed man at the PDQ Store on October 9, 1976. George Mayfield received the Medal of Merit for providing emergency heart massage to a crash victim on November 22, 1976.
City council heard that a store with living quarters at 915 Second St SE violates city codes and poses a fire hazard. Fire official cited blocked exits, stored combustibles, and missing extinguishers, while owner Frank Cach argued exits are blocked to deter theft and noted his age and health.
Iowa Concrete Products awarded the storm sewer pipe contract for the Plaza East addition with a bid of 20140.80, about 3 percent under the estimate of 20779.11. The competing bid was 20559.50 from Zeidler's Inc. of Waterloo.
Cedar Rapids historic residences at 1214 and 1216 Second Ave SE were added to the National Register. Owned by Tom Riley and Leo Peiffer, the mid Victorian brick town houses date to 1865 and were built for Charles Calder’s daughters.
The Iowa Department of Transportation Commission approved nearly 8.5 million dollars to remove curbs along 1 550 miles of roadway over three years.
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