Cedar Rapids City Council Acts on Numerous Measures
Wednesday actions by Cedar Rapids city council largely approved resolutions and ordinances on liquor license refunds and permits, street and traffic matters, zoning changes, land deals, and public works projects. The meeting also included hearings on Fortieth Street SE vacation and a 1934 Nixon-Moscow summit note.
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Cedar Rapids
Don Canney
Poor House
Department of Planning and Redevelopment
Handler Motor Co
Mr. Chicken’s Coop de Ville
Nelson Meats
J Street
Fortieth Street
Walter and
Evalyn G. Mollman
Walter G
Bever Avenue
Richard Nixon
Moscow
Gurney says he nearly alerted officials on illegal fundraising
Former Senator Edward Gurney testifies in bribery conspiracy trial about considering telling authorities in 1973 after learning about fund raising from builders tied to FHA. He says he destroyed a letter to avoid hurting his Watergate committee role and later sought a quick Justice Department probe in 1978 to protect his re election chances.
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Tampa
Fla
UPI
Edward Gurney
Senate
Gurney
Elliot Richardson
Federal Housing Administration
James Gircot
Watergate Committee
Nixon
Republican Party
Henry Peterson
Justice Department
Vote To End Omaha Strike
AP report on Metro Area Transit bus drivers and mechanics in Omaha ratifying a two year contract 102 to 33 after earlier rejecting a different two year offer 123 to 78. About 250 members of United Transportation Workers Union Local 223 walked out Tuesday. pay rise of $1.05 per hour over two years versus their demand of $1.50. Current wage $4.51 per hour. Also note Earl Butz age 66.
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OMAHA
Metro Area Transit
United Transportation Workers Union
Trivers
Wallace to wear hip cast after leg fracture in rehab
Alabama Governor George Wallace will wear a left leg hip-o-loe cast for three weeks after a shin bone fracture likely sustained during physiotherapy. X-rays showed a fractured shin. he will work from the governor's mansion for a week then return to the capitol office. Brezhnev warned in 1965 that Soviet missile strength exceeded Western estimates.
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Wallace Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
George Wallace
Wallace
Governor's
Capitol
Kissinger to Meet Gromyko in Geneva and Europe
Secretary of State Kissinger will meet Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko in Geneva July 10-11 to discuss the Middle East crisis and nuclear arms talks. He plans stops in Paris and London to consult French and British officials while vacationing in the Virgin Islands.
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Washington
Reny Kisssinger
Geneva
Andrei Gromyko
Middle East
State Department
Kissinger
Paris
London
Virgin Islands
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Micro-Technology, Inc
Edwin T. Kral
Twenty-ninth Street
First Avenue
Milwaukee Railroad
State Highway Commission
Cottage Grove Avenue SE
Indian Creek
Second Avenue SE
Jack Eggelston
Robert
Beverly Newmire
Seminole Valley
Eighth Avenue
la Donna Fay Rich
Blairs Ferry Road
Arla
Barbara Waterhouse
Oakland Acres
Cedar Lake
Oak Hill
B.T. Howell
Fifteenth Avenue
Bowling Street
P.F. Bezanson
Civil Development Assn
Civic Center
Claude 2. Harve
Second Avenue
Oakland Church of the Nazarene
Forty-second Street
Lilac Lane
Poppy Street
Charles
Seventh
Eighth Streets
Eighth Avenues
Life Investors Development Co
Glass
Edgewood Road
Lenard Biella
Perpetual Savings and Loan
Robert C
Marie L. Cook
Clarence J
Harriet M. Kissling
Guly
Peterson
Carpetland
U.S.A
Secretary of Agriculture
Earl Butz
Sava
Soviet Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
Gromyko
Lindale Plaza
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