Linn deputies favor smaller cars for mileage savings
Linn County sheriff's department plans eight new Buick LeSabres to replace older cars. Officials say the nine to 18 mpg range now will rise by about 20 to 25 percent, cutting fuel costs as deputies drive about 569,100 miles yearly. The lowest bid came from Allen Motor Co. at 38,199 for seven cars, with an eighth added after a fall 1977 test.
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Linn County
Orlie Workman
Sheriff's Department
Workman
Civil Department
Buick LeSabre wins bid for sheriff fleet in Iowa trials
Marion Police Department and Cedar Rapids Police Department joined the Iowa Highway Patrol and Sheriff's Department in testing a Buick LeSabre. The bid criteria lowered wheelbase and engine size to 115 inch wheelbase, allowing more manufacturers to bid. Switzer cited high performance and comfort, noting about 40 percent of the fleet is already smaller cars. Deputies favored the Buick after trials.
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Marion Police Department
Cedar Rapids
Sheriff's Department
Buick
Switzer
Secretaries OK First Cedar Rapids School District Contract
The Cedar Rapids Community School District secretarial clerical bargaining unit, 212 members, ratified its first contract for 1978 79 by a 62 to 10 vote. The package includes a 6.79 percent total salary increase with hourly wages from 2.84 to 4.99, varying by position and an average 5.8 percent rise. Insurance coverage details depend on administration decisions, currently limited to 100 dollars.
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Cedar Rapids
Steve Muller
Rita St. Germain
Muller
Horn seeks fourth term in Iowa House
Des MoinesState Rep Wally Horn 44 announced his candidacy for re election to a fourth term in the Iowa House of Representatives on the Democratic ticket. He is on leave as a teacher at Jefferson High School and chairs the House Education Budget Subcommittee. Horn represents the 28th District Cedar Rapids precincts 22 through 30 and lives with wife Beverly at 917 Belmont Parkway NW. They have one son and one daughter. A U S Army veteran Horn is active in the Cedar Rapids education and civic groups and sits on local boards. Mediation for a 1978 79 contract begins tonight at Grant Wood Area Education Agency with Robert Bergstrom as mediator. If no agreement is reached in ten days the process moves to fact finding. On this date in 1973 heavy fighting occurred in South Vietnam before a cease fire.
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Wally Horn
Iowa
House of Representatives
Horn
Jefferson High School
House Education
Ways-Means
Cedar Rapids Education Association
Metro Kiwanis Club
Linn County Historical and Museum Association
Cedar Rapids Kids League Baseball Board
The
American Legion
Cedar Rapids
Beverly
Belmont Parkway
Grant Wood Area Education Agency
Grant Wood Education Association
ISEA Mobile In-Service Lab Comes to Tiffin
East central Iowa teachers will gather in Tiffin on Friday for a day long mobile in service training lab sponsored by the Iowa State Education Association. The event opens at 8 30 a m with registration at Tiffin High School and offers seminars on accountability instructional strategies curriculum and human relations. Parents and students may attend. This is the fourth of five labs this year with Mason City High School hosting the final session March 3.
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Iowa
Tiffin
Iowa State Education Association
ISEA
Robert Gilchrist
Mason City High School
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