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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1983
Page
4
Jeffrey D. Dennis, a Cedar Rapids city parks employee, stirs up dust as he prepares a diamond at Noelridge Park for a recent evening softball game.
The Oneota Stamp Club of Decorah offers a cacheted envelope with a Nordic Fest postmark and cancellation for the 17th anniversary. The design features the 1983 Nordic Fest medal by Grant Woldum, a Viking obverse and Nordic Center of America reverse, with dates 1967 1983 and lyrics Syng Dans og Vaer Glad. Sale venues include Decorah Post Office and River and Water streets booth, prices 50 cents to 3.50, mail orders accepted.
Traffic counts on 42nd Street NE in Cedar Rapids show a 10.2 percent rise since the I 380 interchange opened, with counts now around 8,300 to 11,100 vehicles per day in key segments. Mel Meyer, the city traffic engineer, says the increase is not significant and mainly shifts to residential areas.
A grain barge rammed the Highway 982 bridge pier on the Iowa side of the Mississippi River at Lansing injuring the center pier slightly. Damage estimated at 1000 dollars, repairs required, no spill reported. The Floyd H. Blaske towboat and 15 barges were freed by two Lansing towboats after remaining pinned for about three hours. Joe Knotta piloted the towboat, owned by American Commercial Barge Lines of Jefferson Indiana, per Crawford County Sheriff’s investigation.
Cedar Valley Nature Trail grand opening tentatively set for Sept. 18 with a breakfast bike ride from Cedar Rapids to Center Point. Rails to Trails representative Bo Cameron reported approval from the Linn County Conservation Board as the group seeks funding and community support.
The suit filed in Linn District Court this Monday seeks a court order to clean up the property at 423 Second St SW. Bennie Graw, the tenant, is accused of violating laws and creating safety health and fire hazards with stored items. Owners Harold G Ammons and Helen G Ammons are named defendants.
The Cedar Rapids Policemen's Protective Association filed a Linn County suit against the Civil Service Commission alleging arbitrary denial of officers J D Hansel Conrad L Vande Zandschulp and Ted L McLeod from taking promotion exams. The suit says vacations caused missed written or oral tests and asks to include other affected officers as plaintiffs. The exams occur in odd-numbered years and signing up for vacations by March 1 is noted in the suit.
A 1981 district court ruling set April as exam time but this year the written test was in June. Plaintiffs allege unfair denial of make-up exams. prior years allowed them. They seek an injunction to block the promotional list until resolution and a court order to permit make-ups. Hearings scheduled for Thursday on a temporary restraining order and August 11 for an injunction.
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