Fifty Years of Federal Grip on Air Traffic Control
The Cedar Rapids FAA staff mark half a century of federal air traffic control. Lyle Grell and Don Gabel describe safer skies due to radar and automation, with 61 airport employees guiding about 300 daily takeoffs and landings. The 1981 strike reduced staffing, yet tech advances keep routes safe as growth continues.
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Mark Glenn
Magine
Cedar Rapids
Federal Aviation Administration
FAA
Federal Air Traffic Control
Grell
Gabel
Fort Dodge
A Cedar Rapids air traffic controller recalls early days
Obert Tracy spent 23 years at the Cedar Rapids airport beginning in 1959 before retiring. He describes training in Illinois, a low starting salary, and working before radar with help from the Chicago ARTCC. Tracy, 57, now travels and golfs.
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Obert Tracy
Cedar Rapids
Air Force
Illinois
Tracy
John Deere
Cedar Rapids Tower
1628 Park Towne Place
Tower
Cedar Rapids Firm Sees $100,000 Hit Over Tax Credit Gap
RFK Transportation president Robert Kazimour says his Cedar Rapids firm could lose about $100,000 after missing a Senate mechanism that extended the 10 percent investment tax credit for new trucking equipment. He cites Des Moines rival John Ruan of Ruan Transportation securing a $20 million credit.
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Cedar Rapids
U.S. Senate
Robert Kazimour
RFK Transportation
John Ruan
Ruan Transportation Co
Des Moines
Ruan
Kazimour
Ryan
Congress
Senate Finance Committee
Grassley faces heat over transition tax rules
Iowa senator Charles Grassley who helped craft the tax reform bill won Senate approval of transition rules benefiting Des Moines trucking magnate John Ryan and Cedar Rapids Teleconnect. The measure also kept the investment tax credit for Cedar Rapids restaurant owner James Lamb, prompting criticism from opponent Kazimour and others who argue the rules undermine public confidence and create a loophole.
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David Lynch
Washington
Charles Grassley
Senate Finance Committee
Des Moines
John Ryan
Teleconnect
Cedar Rapids
Tuscany Grill
Grassley
Senate
Ryan
John Roehrick
Iowa
Ruan Transportation Co
Ruan
Ruan and Teleconnect Inc
R-Iowa
Kazimour
Independence man, 89, searches for lost dachshund Heidi
Fred Haegele, 89, misses his dachshund Heidi who vanished on June 3. Neighbors, police, and postal workers organized searches, posters went up, and a $100 reward was offered, but Heidi remains missing after a month. Haegele, who cared for Heidi after his wife’s death, kept a biscuit box as a keepsake. He may get another dog but hopes to recover Heidi first.
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Cindy Kranz
Iowa
Independence
Fred Haegele
Heidi
Haegele
Melva
Idaho
Washington
Tap hurls Kalona teacher into a strict probation
Tony Perkins, a 24 year old Kalona Elementary physical education teacher, faces a three year probation after a May incident in which a plastic baseball bat struck a second grade student on the head. Superintendent Les Dollinger says Perkins is an innovative but overzealous educator balancing child safety with teaching.
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Mike Mrkvicka
Johnson County
Kalona
Tony Perkins
Perkins
Les Dollinger
Mid-Prairie District
Kalona School
Edna Griffin’s 1947 Des Moines protest remembered on July 7
Edna Griffin led a small lunch counter sit in downtown Des Moines on July 7 1947 sparking months of protests and legal battles to enforce Iowa public accommodations law. Griffin now 76 recalls the shock of local discrimination and notes Duke Ellington was once refused service here.
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Judy Daubenmier
Azelle
Des Moines Bureau
DES Moines
Edna Griffin
Griffin
Iowa
Walpole
N.H
Stanley
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Winterset Cottage
Lowa
East Lowa
Don Gabel
Lyle Grell
Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center
Aurora
Ill
Robert Tracy
C.R. Trucking Firm
Dale Kueter Zett
Sen. Grassley
John Smith
Cast Inc
Tom Tauke
House of Representatives
Mid-Prairie
D.M
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