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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1977
Page
8
Linn County held a public hearing on the proposed 1977-78 budget totaling 23.6 million with property taxes rising eight cents per thousand and an extra 74 cents outside cities. Road spending would rise to 3.68 million amid mixed citizen input while library levies face state-law constraints.
Kansas lawmaker Rep. Mike Glover, who backs decriminalizing small marijuana amounts and says he uses it regularly since college, was questioned by Attorney General Curt Schneider in a drug case. Immunity was granted to testify, but a Shawnee County judge warned of criminal contempt if he refuses.
Sgt. First Class William L. Davis is named army recruiting representative in Cedar Rapids joining Sgt. First Class Bill McCollum. The Cedar Rapids staff will work with school counselors on career guidance programs. Davis previously served overseas in Europe and Korea and will reside with wife Barbara and children Denise and Scott. Contact at 2712 First Avenue NE or 365 8601.
The North Fayette County Community School District approved a 1977-78 budget of 2,620,799 and authorized joint district programs with Oelwein West Central Fayette Valley Turkey Valley Fredericksburg and New Hampton for trainable mentally handicapped pupils. The plan uses a lease purchase building west of the junior high and staffing includes three teachers two aides and a secretary. The board also proposed eliminating one half time kindergarten position and a divided second grade at Hawkeye elementary with one teacher for 30 students.
The Tama South Tama school board approves a candy machine for the Toledo building by the junior high student council with conditions. The unit will be off from 10 41 a m to 12 52 p m to avoid lunch periods, and students vow to prevent litter damage and keep candy out of classrooms.
The James P. Young Memorial scholarship in French is endowed at Coe College by Mrs. Elisabeth Larsh Young and family. The gift supports a French major with the highest GPA after junior year toward senior year fees.
The Duane Arnold Energy Center near Palo will shut down Saturday for refueling and maintenance. IE officials estimate the operation will last about five weeks and that coal plants will meet all electricity needs during the outage. This second refueling replaces 100 of 368 fuel bundles, with bundles containing 64 rods each and energy equivalents of one ton of coal per pellet. The plant, operating since June 1974, produced about 46 percent of IE electricity in 1976. Ownership is 70 percent by Iowa Electric, 20 percent by Central Iowa Power Cooperative, and 10 percent by Corn Belt Power Cooperative. In a separate item, Gary A. Bennett, 25, of Oelwein, was fined $200 for possession of a controlled substance after a Feb. 3 arrest in Oelwein.
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