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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1978
Page
4
The three day wildcat strike at Corn Sweeteners ends with no firings and most workers back on shift. President Martin Andreas says the dispute over maintenance duties was settled via arbitration with Teamsters union officials late Thursday. About 150 of 180 production staff participated.
Stan Wiederspan, longtime director of the Cedar Rapids Art Center since 1973, resigns effective Sept. 1 to pursue expanded professional opportunities. He cites five years of growth in exhibitions, learner's gallery, Art Center School, and expanded education as his legacy. A search committee led by William Coppock will seek a successor, with interviews hoped to begin soon.
The Iowa Department of Transportation faced little public opposition at a hearing held at Coolidge Elementary School on Thursday. The plan studies extending Stoney Point Road west of Cedar Rapids from north of Highway 30 to Highway 149, a 1.8 mile project intended to link the new Highway 30 bypass with existing routes.
IDOT officials outlined a land friendly plan for the Cedar Rapids corridor. The improved road will require little new right of way and will avoid homes, with only a vacant house to be taken. Construction starts next summer and completion is slated for November 1979. Sandra Greenlief sought driveway access and bus turnarounds, which officials said would be checked. The 15 minute hearing featured a slide show on the project and its route from 450 feet north of the Highway 30 and Stoney Point Road intersection to a bypass up to Highway 149.
A Tuesday evening radiologic session for technologists will be held at Iowa Hall on Kirkwood Community College campus. The event, via statewide telenetwork, is one of 16 sites and costs 4 dollars with registration at 7 p.m. Dorothy Rasley of University of Iowa Hospitals will present, sponsored by the Iowa Society of Radiologic Technologists and Iowa Community Colleges.
Seven of ten Linn County registered voters oppose public funding of abortions in a LIFE Voter Identification project preliminary result. The study of 7,900 calls, part of National Right to Life efforts, gauges voter positions on abortion and candidate stances.
Two persons were arrested on drunk driving charges in Linn County. Richard I. Allcutt, 42, of 325 First Ave NW, was arrested at 2:05 a.m. near Ellis Boulevard and O Avenue NW. Alison J. Andrews, 63, of 100 First Ave NE, was arrested at 5:53 p.m. Thursday in the 300 block of Edgewood Road SW after a two car collision. No injuries were reported.
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