Cedar Rapids City Council Minutes Highlight Turbulent Session
Cedar Rapids city council met in regular session with Mayor Donald Canney and commissioners present on several finance and public works items. Bids were opened for Twenty-ninth Street drive SE paving with a low bid of 104,584.90 from Ray Bertelli Sons Inc Cedar Rapids.
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Cedar Rapids
Donald Canney
Harold Schaefer
Richard Phillips
Stan Reinis
John Oberthien
Twenty-ninth Street Drive
First Avenue
Thirtieth Street
Ray Bertelli Sons, Inc
Cedar Rapids zoning and construction actions noted
City Planning approves Bjornsen main tenance bond for Cedar Lake street improvements. Board of library trustees set term to 1978. Petitions seek street lights on Seventeenth NW and Tamara SW. Iowa Glass Depot seeks vacating 80 foot alley between Fifth and Sixth SW. Cramer Brothers appoints Delmer Cramer as equal employment officer. Investors Associates seeks sidewalk waiver between J and Woodland SW. June auditor statement accepted. June treasurer receipts. Water mains construction approved in Cedar Lake by Bjornsen. Final plat of Reece's first addition approved. Zoning changes: 1820 First Ave NE R-4 to R-T. 2701 Schaeffer SW R-1 to R-2. Weing Road NE CUP zoning for Cornelia C Ross et al south of Cold Stream.
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H. Clements
Cedar Rapids
Board of
Library Trustees
John E. Reid
C Avenue
Seventeenth Street
C Avenues
Vic Daman
Tamara Drive
Iowa Glass Depot
Fifth
Sixth Avenues
Third Street
Iowa Glass
Cramer Brothers Construction Co
Delmer Cramer
Des Moines
Investors Associates, Inc
Cedar Lake
Bjornsen Construction Co
Reece
First Avenue
First Trust and Savings Bank
Schaeffer
Mary Jordan
Cornelia C. Ross
Weing Road
Cold Stream Avenue
Peeping Tom With Big Eyes Baffles Charleston Police
A Charleston police desk sergeant reported an excited housewife called to complain about a peeping Tom at her window. When asked for a description she replied that he had big eyes, giving a humorous but non-graphic brief of a local incident.
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Charleston
W. Va
UPI
Operation Skywatch begins 24 hour aerial vigil in Iowa
Twenty years ago Eastern Iowa launched Operation Skywatch a 24 hour sky patrol to detect hostile aircraft. The program named after the era's heightened security aimed to monitor airspace and respond promptly to any threat.
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Iowa
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Cigaret
Life Investors, Inc
Collins Read
Council Street
Wright School
Fortieth Street
Richmond Road
Western Fraternal Life Assn
Vernon D. Reece
Center Point Road
Max F
Arlene R. Donahue
Edgewood Drive
Midwest Development Co
Apple Ridge
Apple Ridge Unit
General Mills, Inc
Mid-America Holding Co
Greene and College
Oak Hill Cemetery
Civic Center
Joseph P. Kinney
James J. Bader
Jean M. Benz
Charles E. Stickney
Louis J. Krejci
Brown Derby
Twelfth Avenue
Breckenridge Hotels Corp
Sixth Street
Richard W. Johnson
Cedar Rapids Municipal Airport
Cedar Rapids Motor Hotels, Inc
Holiday Inn
Williams Boulevard
Charles Stickney
Kozy Inn
Robert D. Justin
the Hub
Walter D. Novak
Martha M. Novak
Wayne W. Novak
Cedar River
Des Moines Register and Tribune Co
van Vechten
Noelridge
Cherry Hill
van Buren Park
Mary Collins
Board of Library Trustees
Ralph
Otes
Vanity
Ted Desert
Bath
Vanity Bowl
Aluminum
Anu Nou
Semizgloss
Uns
KMART
Collins Road
Il Ay
PAG LN
Third Avenue SE
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