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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1950
Page
10
City Hall final passage voted Monday for an ordinance raising building permit fees in Cedar Rapids. Council also approved a contract with the State Highway Commission to repave and widen 2.3 miles of First Avenue near the Cedar River, at a cost near 600 000 dollars to start this month.
City council approves install of a street light on the alley beside St. Pauls Methodist Church. The measure requests improve safety and visibility for pedestrians and drivers in the area.
Michael Bizek sought permission to install a sanitary sewer along Twenty second Street NW extending 450 feet north from Burch Avenue, with City Engineer Frank Young to review. May water pumping averaged 7 229 355 gallons daily. total May water pumped 224 110 000 gallons. Leo Louis reported plant operation. last month water rentals and sales tax income totaled 29 945 04. Expenditures included 24 392 29 in operating accounts and 5 526 31 for permanent improvements. Cigaret and class B beer per
Remits were surrendered by Carl ie Randall at 700 702 A avenue NE and Harold R. Donohoe at 94 Third avenue SW. Refunds of $TM% were made for the beer permits. New cigaret and class B beer licenses were issued to P. T. Miller for the A avenue address and to Bernice Cowgar for use at the Third avenue location.
Class B beer permits were issued to Robert W. Edleman at 1323 First Avenue E Lucille Jakubec at 130 E Avenue NW and Fred C. Fick at 136 F Avenue NW A cigarette permit was surrendered by F L Schneider at 105 Second Street SE Charles A Nelson received a new permit for use at the same address.
Inchmurrin, the biggest of about 30 islands in Loch Lomond, Scotland, anchors the archipelago with its prominence and size amid the famed freshwater lake.
Washington secretary of commerce Charles Sawyer filed formal dismissal charges against William W. Remington a $10 000 a year department economist as loyalty is investigated by Congress. He said the action aimed at good administration not loyalty.
The Hutchcroft family ends a 20 year city newspaper delivery run on Cedar Rapids routes as Ervin P. Hutchcroft 17 delivers his final Gazette shift. Starting with Gene in 1930 the family carried every route except a two year lapse, numbering 148 subscribers on Ervin’s route at the end. Three northeast Cedar Rapids routes were served by different Hutchcroft members over the years.
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