DOT Officials Hear Gripes On Buses Roads And Crossings
Regional transportation review at Kirkwood Community College drew citizens and officials in a Benton area meeting. Residents pressed for funding for SEATS, noting federal money hoped to extend operations beyond August. DOT cited inflation cutting road builds and urged paying more to improve highways while acknowledging 31 percent of roads are critical. Delays at Cedar Rapids rail crossings will be reviewed by the transportation regulation board in August. Nord Sorenson urged faster gravel road replacement north of the Amana exit and better access from I 380 to Amana colonies.
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State Department of Transportation
Transportation Review
Kirkwood Community College
DOT
Benton County
Robert Shelquist
Shelquist
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Transportation Regulation Board
Iowa
Nord Sorenson
Amana
Ray
Sorenson
Rural Breakin Report Sees Tools Stolen Near Cedar Rapids
A Linn County sheriff report states burglars stole about $2,000 worth of tools and equipment from a farm shed on Dwight E. Hughes Jr. route 1 Cedar Rapids last Friday or Saturday. The haul included over 60 items such as an anvil hammers saws wrenches and a grease gun.
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Dwight E. Hughes, Jr
Route One
Cedar Rapids
Linn
9 Movie Schedule and Contests Across Saturday
A condensed TV style schedule lists films and programs such as Captive Wild Woman, World of Spts, Lost in Space, and Misterogers along with bands wrestling and children's films. Entries include Hudson Brothers acts, Star Trek segments, and Focus Education blocks across late morning to evening Saturday slots.
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Misterogers
Focus Education
Linn and Dubuque Counties Receive Federal Funds
Smaller Linn and Dubuque counties will share 117000 in community development funds from HUD under Title I. Linn towns receive 63000 and Dubuque county towns 54000, as Blouin notes, with allocations about 70 percent of prior levels after funds were depleted and grants suspended pending added federal appropriation.
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Dubuque
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Mike Blouin
Dubuque County
Blouin
Iowa
Congress
Cedar Rapids
Rabbi To Resume Fund-Raising Effort for Nixon
Rabbi Baruch Korff says he will resume fund raising to defray former President Nixon's legal costs. He met Nixon at San Clemente estate and was assured expenses would be reimbursed by Nixon's friends. Korff agreed to lead the President Nixon Justice Fund again after resigning last May 28 due to finances.
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Baruch Korff
Nixon
Korff
San Clemente
President
Nixon Justice Fund
Train Plows into Rio Dance School in Tragic Derailment
A commuter six car train derailed in Rio de Janeiro and crashed into the Imperio Serrano dance school killing 12 people and injuring more than 100. Most victims were adults. several buried in rubble. Engineer Wilmar Valentin Linace, 28, is hospitalized critically.
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Brazil
Imperio Serrano
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Silas Do Imperio
Wilmar Valentin Linace
Venezuela Prepares Nationalization of U S Oil Firms
Venezuela’s lower house advanced a bill to nationalize the foreign owned oil industry, targeting Exxon Shell Gulf Mobil Sun and Texaco subsidiaries. Compensation to be based on fixed asset book value about 1.1 billion dollars, paid cash or bonds over 10 years amid ongoing talks and negotiations.
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Texaco
Welfare Workers and Pennsylvania Strike Settlement Reached
A tentative agreement to end an 18 day strike by state unemployment and welfare workers was reached early Friday, Gov. Milton Shapp said. Details were not disclosed but the pact supposedly fits fiscal guidelines of the AFSCME proposal. Union locals will vote on the proposal over the weekend.
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Milton Shapp
Shapp
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Pennsylvania Employment Security Employes Assn
Pennsylvania Social Services Union
Clem Ryan Named President Of Cedar Rapids Evening Lions
Clem Ryan of 2007 Willow Drive SW has been elected president of the Cedar Rapids Evening Lions club. Franz Sprecher is first vice president, Wayne McNeal second vice president, and Fred Fischer third vice president. Edward Shramek becomes secretary treasurer with Clarence Praeter named lion tamer. Co tail twisters are Forrest Kramer and Neil Thomas. Directors chosen include Martin Andersen Jack Burton Larry Muskat Frank OConnell and George Schweitzer.
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Willow Drive
Cedar Rapids
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Wayne McNeal
Fred Fischer
Edward Shramek
Clarence Praeter
Forrest Kramer
Neil Thomas
Martin Andersen
Jack Burton
Larry Muskat
Frank O'Connell
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