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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1979
Page
4
In Center Point a group of youngsters dispels doubts about summer heat by cooling off in a park. Adam Wermayer eight Amy Sundermeyer eight Allan Sundermeyer twelve and Holly Wermayer eleven, all of Center Point, are pictured enjoying the old fashioned way to stay cool.
The West Union City Council in special session approved a $993,573 general contract with Nelson Construction Co. of Caledonia Minnesota for the Palmer Memorial Hospital project. The $2.2 million project includes an addition and is slated for completion in January 1981. The council also accepted and approved the Swale Addition plan and plat.
Gov. Robert Ray ordered a pay freeze for the Nat ural Resources Council director James Webb keeping his $22,900 salary unchanged for a second year. Webb voiced frustration over the unexplained halt as Ray continues efforts to reorganize or dissolve NRC.
The Vinton City Council approved bids for two asphalt color coded tennis courts at Riverside Park with a total cost of 25,700 funded partly by 10,000 from federal revenue sharing. B.L. Anderson of Cedar Rapids supplied the stone and Tennis Services of Iowa will cooperate. The panel also set plans for assessments on Fourth Street for a 1979 street improvements project and approved reapplying for federal funds to pave the project. The Street Department will be realigned under the city coordinator to include heavy maintenance equipment operators, and all bridges will be inspected as part of the Iowa Structural Inventory Report after IDOT funding for Third Street repairs was rejected.
A new lawsuit in Buchanan County District Court targets Brandon Farm Products seeking payment for LP gas, tank rent, and service charges from September 1978 to early May. Shaws Skelgas Inc seeks 1746.32 with interest as part of the action. Earlier suits named Northwestern Distributing Co and Protein Blenders Inc for totals over 10,000. The Brandon firm was shuttered in the year noted.
DeVere J. Kacher, 52, of 2414 J St. SW, Cedar Rapids, was arrested by a state trooper in Independence at 11 p.m. Wednesday and charged with drunk driving. He was held overnight and appeared in Magisterial Court Thursday, released without bond to hire his own attorney. On this date in 1970, the last American troops were withdrawn from Cambodia during the Vietnam War.
Amoco will boost fuel allocations to Iowa service stations by five percent next month. Nationwide shipments rise to about 90 percent of last July by American Oil Co, but Iowa stations will still see only about 75 percent of gasoline and 60 percent of diesel from last July. Amoco cites inventory drawdown to meet demand, though shortages persist.
Iowa Civil Rights Commission seeks temporary injunction against Woodfield's owner Harry Ambrose over alleged racial entry discrimination on a Saturday night. Attorney General Tom Miller and two residents contend black patrons faced stricter ID requirements than whites as investigation continues. A July 24 hearing will decide liquor license revocation or suspension.
Independence police arrested 57 year old John Howden early today after witnesses saw him driving erratically on Second Avenue SW. He was jailed awaiting a magistrate appearance.
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