Water for 2 Fires Halts Average Supply in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids fire chiefs note color coded hydrants aid firefighting. Assistant superintendent Dick Wilford cites aging water mains, 12 16 20 and 24 inch lines in loop area, and two major fires that drew 4 6 million gallons. The department tests hydrants and backs larger mains to improve flow, with guidance from 1988 Underwriters survey.
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Cedar Rapids
Sun
Ae64
Deant
Hunter
Sullivan Hall
Dick Wilford
Wilfora
Cedar Rapids Loop
Wilford
Firs
Jesse Hunter
Water Department
Fire Department
Witford
Studend
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Anderwriters
Wiltord
Lincolnway Village
Cedar River
Cedar Rapids Summer Festival features art and photo exhibits
The Cedar Rapids Summer Festival in Greene Square June 22 24 showcases Cedar Rapids Art Association and YMCA Camera Club exhibits. The art display highlights education programs and work from students and instructors while the camera club plans lighting effects for colored photography and prizes from regional shows.
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Cedar Rapids
Greene Square
Cedar Rapids Art Assn
YMCA
Ymca Camera Club
Photographic Society Off America
Wattare
Camera Club
Sweekly
Donna Nicholas Hahn
Harold Spurrier
Spurrier
Margaret Mackin
John Cabal
IC.R. Man Honored: 50 Years in Masonry
Niels Hornun of 414 Thirty fifth street NE receives a 30 year Masonry membership certificate and life membership from Crescent Lodge No. 25 AF and AM. Grand Master Glenn Wilson of Des Moines notes only 12 of 1000 Masons reach this 50 year distinction and praises Hornun for steadfast faith in the craft.
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Niels Hornun
Crescent Lodge No
Glenn Wilson
Des Moines
Erand
Masons
Hornun
Budget Conference Schedules for UCS Agencies
A series of 11 budget conferences begins Tuesday with the allocations committee of United Community Service. Sessions set for June 9 to 30 cover panel budgets, with final consolidation on July 2. Meetings feature listed agencies and two panels led by Charles H. Sheehy and John C. Rice.
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UCS
YWCA
United Good Neighbors Agency
UGN
Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation
Girl Scouts
Camp Fire Girls
Mental Health Center
National Recreation Assn
Sunshine Mission
Assn
Boys Scouts
National Council On Crime and Delinquency
Home For Aged Women
Ellis Branch Ymca
Marion Branch Ymca
Mental Health Assn
Family iService Agency
Salvation Army
Town Children's Home Society
Public Health Nursing Assn
United Cerebral
Iowa Wall
Iowa Town
Country Ywca
Janely Boyd Community House
Red Cross
Charles H. Sheehy
Kenneth H. Bastian
K. R. Chiverton
M. E. Felden
William C. Fletcher
Leonard Hardy
Donald H. Healy
Dudley Henderson
Charles W. Johnson
Sam S. Johnson
Henry Katz
Vitor L. Klopfenstein
Willig E. Lamb
Norman G. Lipsky
Allen J. Mei
Gon
Victor Bock
Emmett A. Collins
John Dayhoff
Donald R. Ebinger
Charles Frisch
William D. Galway
Robert &. Gates
John R. Haney
Keith R. Johnson
John F. Kanealy
Alvin G. Keyes
Charles M. Kuenzj
Francis A. Lockner, Jr
Richard F. Lonk
Bids Sought for Removal of 1409 Tenth Street House
Carl Smith of the city health department called for bids to raze the house at 1409 Tenth Street part of the Frances Lee estate. District Court Judge B J Maxwell ordered removal and the cost to be assessed against the property. Bids must be submitted to City Clerk Harold Schaefer by 4 p m Tuesday.
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Carl Smith
City Health Department
Tenth Street
Smith Sid
Frances Lee
Oak Hill
District Court
B. J. Maxwell
Harold” Schaefer
Smith
Solicitations Review Committee Set To Meet In Cedar Rapids
The Solicitations Review committee will meet Tuesday at noon in the Roosa Vel hotel Cedar Rapids. The sole agenda item is reconsideration of the campaign proposal from the county chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. At a May 6 meeting the panel asked for additional information before acting.
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Cedar Rapids
Roosavel
Wit
National
Courthouse Space Battle Draws County Leaders and Budget Talk
The Linn county board of supervisors met with an architect to discuss expanding the courthouse. They rejected a lane floor addition and favored a three story front extension if approved. Plans also cover closing the second floor rotunda and rearranging the basement used by social welfare and other offices. Estimated move and construction around $60,000.
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Board of Supervisors
Bridge
Department of Social Welfare
Linn County Conservation Board
Linn County Fairgrounds
Central City
Linn County
Linn Courthouse
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Cedar Rapids Lumber Co
Auto-Rite Electric Co
William Kennedy
The
Art Association
Thirdstreet and
Fourth Avenue
Ce’aar Rapids Art Center
Axy
Abbott Lipsky
Thomas Hyde
Paul Phelan
Kenneth Bastian
Willam Shuttleworth
Ic.r
Reddy
Underwood-Olivetti
Merveaux Typewriter Company
Third Ave
Dial EM
Prue
Franklin
Roosevelt
Wilton
McKinlay
Iowa
Pri
Asa
Fourth ST
Coffman
Optometrist
Drs H. Price
Easy Credit
Ben Blackstock
Blackstock
Floyd Emmons
George Hamilton
Hamilton
Kresge
Rer
Regiéa
Nnnes
Kresge's
Lindale Plaza
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