Nixon's Drive In Passes From Whittier Memory
In Whittier California Nixon's Drive-In was a popular 1950s hangout for teens. Donald Nixon ran Nixon's Family Restaurant and Nixon's Drive-In, which competed with Bob's Big Boy. Adults recall two Nixon locations and a late business ending after Donald Nixon's death in 1987.
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Whittier
Calif
Los Angeles
Richard Nixon
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Donald Nixon
Nixon
Paula Abbott
United States
Marian Bramlett
Nixon’s Family
Gazette Promotes Agriculture Through Soybean Ink
The Gazette highlights a commitment to the future by printing with soybean ink and using recycled newsprint. It urges readers to recycle newspapers by dropping them in boxes at City Carton on Sixth Street SW and the former fire station at 42nd and Council NE.
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The
Gazette
City Carton
Sixth St
42Nd
Council Streets
Cedar Rapids Gazette subscription and delivery details
The Cedar Rapids Gazette lists daily and Sunday editions at rd Avenue SE Rapids Iowa 52401 with two mail options and varying rates. It notes second class postage in Cedar Rapids and provides subscription prices for motor route, morning and Sunday issues, and 52 week terms for other regions.
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Rae Sacer Seite Sens
Sence
Gazette
Rd Avenue SE
Rapids
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Uss
Associated Press
AP News
TER
Cedar Rapids Gazette, Inc
P.O
CITYLINE suffers four hour shutdown in Iowa service
A four hour CITYLINE shutdown due to a rare software problem was later resolved. The outage followed brief disconnection at Tele com USA's downtown switch site as power sources were moved. The audiotex system did not return online, leaving about two thirds of calls unanswered and limiting access to some financial categories. CITYLINE handles up to 376,000 calls monthly in Eastern Iowa.
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Cityline
Telecom*usa
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Waterloo
Dubuque
Iowa
SEC backs stockholder vote on tobacco firms exit
SEC upholds right of shareholders to vote on whether firms with tobacco interests should leave the business by 2000. The decision, aimed at Philip Morris and others, centers on whether such policy questions fall outside ordinary business rules. Activists push for investor support to curb tobacco advertising and influence corporate behavior.
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Iowa City
Security and Exchange Commission
SEC
Philip Morris Companies Inc
Paul Neuhauser
University of Iowa
San Franciscan Capuchin Fathers
Adrian Dominican Sisters
Adrian, Mich
Neuhauser
South Africa
American Brands Inc
Loews Corp
Kimberly Clark
Commission
Ing
Pension Plans
Tobaccco
Congress
Downtown street work to close sections this summer
Downtown businesses heard of a faster summer street improvement plan. Hastings Paving of New York won the bid while most contractors are Cedar Rapids area based. The project will widen sidewalks repave streets and add lights benches and brickwork. On street parking will be reduced and alternate parking urged. A progress report will be given March 23 at Drake's Salad Bar.
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Ransom
Lee Tippe
Hastings Paving
New York
Cedar Rapids
Hal Gilchrist
Banclown
Third Avenue
Second Street
Fourth Street
Ground Transportation Center
Fourth Avenue
First Avenue
Fifth Street
Treasure found in Cedar Rapids yields no riches
Three boys in northeast Cedar Rapids pulled a storm sewer bag containing 31 soggy checks from Teakwood Lane near Pur ple Drive. The checks were made out to ITT Financial Services of Cedar Rapids in January. Police were notified and could not locate an incident report.
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C.R
Jeff Burnham
Cedar Rapids
Brian McElmeel
Greenfield St
Jason van Fleet
Teakwood Lane
Niel Rasmussen
Purple Drive
van Fleet
McElmeel
McElmee
Rasmussen
Steve Feldman
ITT Financial Services of
Cedar
Rapids
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Bob Greene
OS Angeles
Frisch’s
Bramlett
Abbott
Whittier Boulevard
Nixon’s
Bob
the Gazette
Johnson County Bureau
Hi Big Mac
Marion
Heather Sloman Wood
Carolyn McElmeel
Eric Holub
Westdale Mall
Old Capital Center
Sebring
Heen
Mattress
Merada
Land and
SKY Premium
K-Mart
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