Linn-Mar Board Sees Bids Above Estimate For Bowman Woods Addition
The Linn-Mar board did not award a Bowman Woods elementary addition contract after bids topped the architect’s estimate by 26,000. Low bid from Cook Rowley Construction was 182,014 with alternates and earlier in the evening a public hearing drew no objectors.
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Linn-Mar Board of Education
Bowman Woods
Cedar Rapids
Cook Rowley Construction Corp
Morehead Construction Co
O. F. Paulson Construction Co
J. E. L. Kohlmann
Kohlmann
Corkery
Linn-Mar Education Assn
Marion Planning Board Denies Shell Oil City Property Purchase
Marion planning commission rejects Shell Oil Co request to buy city property at Ninth street and Seventh avenue used for off street parking. Denial tied to 6 000 square foot minimum lot size. Final plats for several additions were approved or sent to council, with deadlines and procedures announced.
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Marion Planning and Zoning Commission
Shell Oil Co
Ninth Street
Seventh Avenue
Marion Chamber of Commerce Retail Bureau
Fairlawn
Baack
South Eighth Street
Grand Avenue
Chamber of Commerce Industrial Development Corp
Third Avenue
Marion Heights
Herman Thompson
Stark
Cedar Rapids
South
Marion City Limits
Thompson
Industrial Map Now Available by Marion Chamber
The Marion Chamber reports a two week membership drive adding 25 new members and 10 prospects being contacted. It will provide an industrial area map and lot statistics as a buyer resource. Also notes planning meeting, airport meeting set for March 27, YMCA schedule, visiting guests, hospital patient, and a local tax service advertisement.
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Marion Chamber of Commerce
Industrial Development Corp
Iowa
Waterloo
Raymond Eckhart
Fire damages second floor of Marion residence
Fire of undetermined origin damaged the second floor of the Richard Vandenberg home at 2020 Eighth avenue Wednesday morning. Firefighters confined the blaze to the upper story. one bedroom suffered extensive fire damage and furniture was destroyed. The other upstairs bedroom had heavy smoke damage. Mrs. Vandenberg activated the alarm at 7 45 a.m. Injured person: Mrs. Daniel M. Prouty, 1620 Seventh avenue, with a severe hand laceration treated at St Luke's Hospital and released. The accident occurred at the Prouty home.
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Richard Vandenberg
Eighth Avenue
Daniel M. Prouty
Seventh Avenue
St. Luke’s Hospital
Prouty
Phones Out Hour in Manchester Office
A blown fuse at the General Telephone Co. office in Manchester cut local and long distance service for one hour from 9 to 10 a.m. Wednesday morning. Local callers reported disrupted service and long distance connections failed during the outage.
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Manchester
General Telephone Co
Benda Named To Commerce Commission
Gov. Robert Ray named Kenneth Benda to the state commerce commission to begin July 1, replacing Bernard J. Martin. Benda, 50, a Hartwick banker and longtime Iowa senate member, will serve a six year term. He will be joined by Collin W. Fritz and Jack H. Bedell who move to the banking superintendent and parole board respectively, with salaries of 18 000 and 9 000 dollars.
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Des Moines
Robert Ray
Coe
Kenneth Benda
Hartwick
State Commerce Commission
Senate
Collin W.fritz
Newton
Jack H. Bedell
Spirit Lake
State Parole Board
Benda
State Senate
Iowa
Poweshiek
Commerce Commission
Bernard J. Martin
Fritz
Jasper County Savings Bank
John Chrystal
Coon Rapids
Bedell
Virginia Bedell
Parole Board
Fred H. Moore
Spencer
Hartwick State Bank
Brooklyn
Iowa State
Lemnitzer to be Relieved as NATO Commander in July
President Nixon announced General Lyman Lemnitzer will relinquish his post as supreme allied commander in Europe on July 1. General Andrew Goodpaster will assume the duties after consent from the NATO Defense Planning Committee. Goodpaster previously led a U.S. Army division in Germany and held senior roles in Washington.
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Joint Chiefs of Staff
U.S
Vietnam
Granite City
Isl
Goodpaster
West Point
Princeton
Bingo measure filed in House Iowa proposal limits to bingo games
Rep Theodore Ellsworth proposes a constitutional amendment to authorize licensing and regulation of bingo games run by charitable religious or veterans groups in Iowa. The measure would permit only bingo and would exclude lotteries or the sale of lottery tickets.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa
Theodore Ellsworth
R-Dubuque
Waterloo Man Is Shot During Holdup
A service station attendant was shot in the head during a holdup at a gas station on Highway 218 in Waterloo. Mark Covington, 24, Cedar Falls, was shot about 3 a.m. and in poor condition at a hospital. Police seek a white man about 25. about $30 was taken.
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Waterloo
UPI
Mark Coyington
Cedar Falls
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