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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1976
Page
25
Wednesday’s meeting saw unanimous approval on most items. Actions include permits for sewer property, bids for water pipe supplies, and notices for a Feb 18 public hearing on $850,000 industrial development bonds for Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co.
Planning resolutions set public hearings for Feb 18 on rezoning requests at 806 Thirty-fifth Street SE East Moline Pizza Hut Inc and Theodore T Manning. Don and Nancy Gephart 2630 Johnson Ave NW. Chester Hagan Edgewood Road SE corner E Avenue NW. Also approvals for Chestnut Ridge and Doe Valley additions preliminary plats. Other items include sewer extension Edgewood Road SW and lane work Edgewood Road NE, sidewalk waiver Macek second addition, street lights Westview Drive NW, and protests on smoking in buses and public buildings.
The resolutions authorize the traffic engineering department to revise school signal timing at First Avenue and 24th Street East and at Twelfth Avenue and Seventh Street Southeast. A first reading amends the truck route ordinance and a second reading updates the city electrical code. A resolution also amends a lease increasing rent by 120 dollars from Milwaukee Railroad for land adjacent to the central fire station.
NBC canceled the midseason comedies Grady and The Cop and the Kid after last week’s Nielsen bottom. Mac Davis will replace them with a new variety show in the 7 8 p m Thursday slot starting March 18. The Waltons led the week ratings. ABC won the season, CBS close behind, and NBC trailed.
In the Andaman sea off southern Burma a ferry and a fishing trawler collided. About 160 people are believed drowned with 200 on board and only 40 rescued, according to Working People's Daily.
Dr. R. B Fulton leads a panel on Transcendental Meditation at Coe College Cherry auditorium Monday with talks at 2 30 and 7 30 p.m. The event is free and public. Participants include Rev. Lynn Bergfalk and Rev. John Temple. The panel covers mantra meaning initiation rites and public funding.
Hawkeye Area Boy Scout council outlines two major events at the Tuesday executive board meeting. The annual dinner will be March 13 at the University of Iowa union ballroom with Silver Beaver awards. Scout-O-Rama chairmen were named for four districts and events set for May 1 at six sites across seven counties.
Members of Communications Workers Local 7101 voted to support the Bell System and other telephone firms in opposing government approval for customer owned equipment hookups to the nationwide network. The FCC is studying such connections which would let users install their own gear under FCC standards and avoid monthly rentals. The union warns Bell System could lose 2 million dollars in year one and that denial of rentals would hurt service and threaten jobs. On this date in 1963 France vetoed Britain joining the European Common Market.
The page lists showtimes for multiple venues including World Tower Plaza Eastown Marion and Cinema X with titles such as Three Days of the Condor The Mysteri ous Monsters Tower of Love Blackbeard s Ghost The Hinden burg Lucky Lady The Other Side of the Mountain Mahogany Peeper Dog Day Afternoon plus a note that actor Victor Mature turns 60 today.
The Trans-Siberian railroad route from Moscow to Peking is the longest continuous rail journey available without changing trains.
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