Cedar Rapids City Council approves multiple resolutions in regular session
Cedar Rapids officials moved on many items including annexations on Edgewood road NW, a solids handling work order, and riverwall modifications. They granted beer and cigarette permits, pool licenses, dance and taxicab licenses, and reviewed ordinance ideas on parental fines. Community groups praised the council for the ice rink and Catholic Daughters backed resisting a sex theater downtown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgewood Road
Cedarcrest Heights
Arthur A. Bezdek
Me Too, Inc
Jacolyn Drive
PDQ
Forty-second Street
Helen J. Voigt
Miller Avenue
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co
Sixteenth Avenue
Herman O. Zimmerli
Fifth Street
Laton W. McGrew
Richard M. Havlik
Collins Road
Cedar Rapids City Cab Co
Minimum Wage Rises to $1.60 for 1.6 Million Workers
The Labor Department announced that starting Monday the federal minimum wage increases from $1.45 to $1.60 per hour, affecting about 1.6 million workers in small retail and service sectors, hotels, restaurants, and schools under the 1966 amendments. Agriculture workers on large farms remain at $1.30 per hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Labor Department
Armed Forces Awards Presented to East Iowa Servicemen
A Manchester ser viceman M Sgt Frank Sunderlin earned the U S air force outstanding unit award for exemplary performance in the space program. At Patrick AFB Fla he is a missile test equipment technician with the aerospace test group. Other area service members received Bronze Stars in Vietnam and additional honors including the Distinguished Flying Cross Air Medals and the Purple Heart for wounds. Major awards went to Capt David Wray Beale AFB Calif CWO Howard Townsend Tama and Lt Loren Kula Oxford Junction among others with multiple Air Medals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Frank Sunderlin
U.S. Air Force
Patrick Air Force Base
Fla
Sunderlin
Aerospace Test Group
Army
CWO
Howard Townsend
John Townsend
Tama
Vietnam
Spec
David Potter
Ben Potter
Anamosa
Michael Erdman
Bernard Erdman
Blake Boulevard
Air Force
David Wray
USAF
Robert Wray
Air Medal
Southeast Asia
Republic of South Vietnam
Wray
Beale Air Force Base
Calif
Loren Kula
Louis Kula
Oxford Junction
Japan
Jerry Rabik
Stanley Rabik
Memorial Drive
OAS to Hear Ecuador Charge of U S Coercion
The Organization of American States voted 22 to 0 to hear Ecuador's charge that the United States coerced it through economic sanctions over fishing rights. The U S abstained as Ecuador seeks a claim under Article 19, while sanctions remain outlawed for 12 months and seizures rise to 17 since January 11.
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OAS
Ecuador
U.S
Washington
U. S
Organization of American States
Pan American Union
American Tuna Boat Association
San Diego
Joseph Jova
Jova
International Court of Justice
Inter-American Committee Fon
Winds Plague Firm s Trucks At Floyd Virginia
High winds toppled a tractor trailer on U S 221 in Floyd Virginia injuring no one. Bennie McDade reported to Hickory Springs Manufacturing Co. which sent a survey truck. A second truck was overturned by gusts but quickly righted and returned to the company offices as winds calmed.
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Floyd
U. S. 221
Here
Bennie McDade
Hickory Springs Manufacturing Co
Herman Elliot
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Cedar Rapids
Donald Canney
Stewart Shank
Richard Phillips
Stan Reinis
Whitters Developments, Inc
Czech
Addi
Tion
Belden Hill Co
Melvin G. Stanek
Wilson Avenue
Joseph R. Vondracek
North Towne Lane
Joseph L. Fiala, Jr
Zodac Construction Co
Charlotte Bailey
Highland Drive
Eugene Vislsel
Second _ street
Group Troop I
Harnischfeger Co
Crandie
East Iowa
Iowa
James Hayden
Eugene Hayden
Blanche Drive
Michael Bomber
Richard P. Bomber
Sigourney
Hayden
Bomber
OAS Permanent Council
Java
Jewelers
Norelco
Gillette
Soft & Dre
South Bend
Arvin
Razor
Travel
Johnson
Polaroid
Cepacol
General Electric
Robinson
Msrp CO
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