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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1978
Page
7
City hearings schedule tonight and Wednesday at 7:30 and 9 a m. The planning commission will review a new zoning ordinance and map. A second hearing before the City Council March 23 covers the 1978 79 budget and federal revenue sharing use. Rezoning in the 14th Avenue and 15th Street SE area for multi family housing also discussed.
Cedar Rapids police arrested Tracey Carney and Danny McNabb early today for burglary at 3966 Center Point Road NE. Both men were charged. McNabb also found with marijuana. A separate arrest involved Alfred Nelson on an assault tied to a March 3 report.
Cedar Rapids moves to send the proposed cable television ordinance to a Washington consulting firm for analysis. City Attorney McGuire says no substantive changes are needed. The Cable Television Information Center will review for federal consistency at a cost of about $600 and a month-long analysis.
The City Council authorized Traffic Engineer Mel Meyer to propose widening First Avenue eight feet between 12th and 13th streets to add an extra eastbound lane and two mandatory left turn lanes at 13th Street. The project could cost about 12000 with half funded by the state and work starting in May. an alternative is removing parking on the south side of First Avenue for the block.
A Sunday afternoon blaze at the Lawrence Bermel farm northwest of Keota destroyed a barn and its contents including three sows, pigs, and hay. Firefighters from Keota fought the fire. the cause was not determined.
A drunken driving charge was filed against Jack W. Wolfe, 48, early today. He was arrested at 2 09 a.m. in the 2000 block of Seventh Avenue in Marion.
District officials and Eisenhower parents clashed over closing the smallest elementary school as enrollment declines. Proposals would move students from Squaw Creek and Taft to other campuses, reassign dozens of elementary and junior high students, and study facilities before final decisions on Hayes and Fillmore.
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