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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1982
Page
16
The Abbe Creek School exhibit is open today from 2 to 6 p.m. and located on Old Highway 30 between Cedar Rapids and Mount Vernon. It remains open by appointment at other times. For information call Linn County Conservation Office at 398-3505.
A series of weekend events includes a rendezvous at Izaak Walton Grounds Anamosa by Celebrations Buffalo fork Settlers and Capt Morgan s Independent Co of Iowa Volunteers. Independence hosts 10 000 meter run at middle school 8 am two mile fun run 9 30 am parade 10 am First Ward Park watermelon feed dance demonstrations and waterball fights at fairgrounds. Oelwein runs a 10 kilometer race at city park starting 8 am with the parade following. All Iowa Fair continues at Hawkeye Downs.
Iowa City will join a second city in Arkansas as the only urbanized areas chosen for a federal case study to simplify transportation planning in small cities. The Small Urbanized Area Transportation Planning Case Study aims to cut costs, stress more visual, less long-range methods, and produce a slide show presentation for nationwide use. A meeting with federal and state officials is set for July 7 in Iowa City.
The Cedar Rapids Public Library presents an all cartoon Films in the Park program at 9 p.m. Tuesday in Bever Park. The titles cannot be listed due to contract limits, but many favorite characters are included. The series began last year and remains a popular free summer event running each Tuesday in July.
The Iowa City theaters feature Astro Firefox Camp Us and Megaforce showings, plus Rocky III Poltergeist Blade Runner and Annie. Star Trek II Wrath of Khan plays in the TowA venue with 2 4:39 7 and 9:30 slots.
Clemens Erdahl, Iowa City council member, calls for a 48 percent raise for six council members and a 55 percent raise for the mayor in two phased steps starting January 1, 1984. He labels the issue politically sensitive and urges formal consideration by the council.
Erdahl proposes raising council salaries from 4200 to 6800 and the mayor from 7400 to 7800 after July 1 1984 to attract candidates and compensate for time spent on meetings. He suggests annual 4 percent increases with 8 percent total before elections, contingent on CPI.
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