MAC Committee Lines Up Diverse Growth Panel
The mayor’s advisory committee on growth and urban renewal, about 150 members strong, is divided into seven major committees with H F Hub Rice as general chairman. The panels include Public Relations, Community Service, Budget and Finance, Urban Renewal, Emergency and Disaster, Growth and Development, and Housing Code, each led by named leaders and supported by a wide roster of professionals.
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H. F
Hub” Rice
MAC
San
Gerard Glaza
James Gundrum
Richard Jordan
Don Raner
Leo B. Sedlacek
Harold Vietor
RI Rice
Don Salyer
James White
Larry McGrath
John Zachar
Ben Wimner
I. L
Tommy” Tucker
John Wagner
Francis Gillon
Leo Saconson
COIC
Grant Collins
R. D. Crissinger
C. E. Doty
Lumir Emery
Marion Fair
John Gerber
David Glanz
Jerry Hasley
Donald Anderson
Mayor calls for independent city plan commission
AYOR Bob Johnson urged creating a completely independent city plan commission to separate planning from politics. The proposal aims to depoliticize development decisions and restore public trust in the process.
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Ayor
Bob Johnson
Iowa planner reform urged at Ames conference
Cedar Rapids mayor Johnson urged revising Iowa plan and zone laws at a town and community planning conference in Ames on April 27. He said planners face political pressure from elected officials and proposed self sustaining commissions with authority to draft city plans without council approval, citing airport and library boards as precedents.
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Cedar Rapids
Sun
Ames
Iowa
Johnson
Airport Commission
Library Board
Recreation Commission
Riverfront Commission
City Assessor
Jensen Earns Licensed Engineer Title for City Work
Richard Jensen of 3001 Henderson Avenue SE joins the city engineering department as a licensed professional engineer after passing the state examinations. He has served since graduating from Iowa State with a civil engineering degree in March 1958. The Iowa board of engineering examiners administered the exams in March.
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Ichard Jensen
Henderson Avenue
Jensen
Iowa State
Iowa Board of Engineering Examiners
Elm Disease Prevention Plan Outlined for Cedar Rapids
Acting city arborist Obert Gardner announces a public program to stop Dutch elm disease in Cedar Rapids. The plan urges removal of all elm brush and wood from felled trees, debarking saved wood, removing dead or dying elm trees, trimming healthy trees, and notifying the parks department of any wilted branches to protect local elms from the potential Iowa City outbreak.
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Obert Gardner
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Parks Department
Mayor Bob Johnson plans fifth neighborhood meeting
Mayor Johnson schedules a second round of grass roots meetings this time on the southwest side. The event is set for May 22 at 7 30 p m in the Wilson junior high school auditorium. The city aims to bring officials closer to residents.
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Bob Johnson
Wilson Junior High School
Camp Wapsie-Y appoints Keith Black as director for 1962 season
Keith Black, a three year staff veteran, is named program director for Camp Wapsie-Y with wife Mrs. Black as camp nurse. They will live on site while Black supervises all four age groups and unit activities. Children eight and older or seven-year-olds entering third grade in the fall may attend.
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Keith Black
Camp Wapsie Y
James Springer
Iowa i Lutheran Hospital
Des Moines
Black
Ottumwa
Glen L. Black
Marion
Iowa
Minnesota
Camp Wapsie-Y
Springer
Greek Film presents Windfall in Athens at Cedar Rapids
The Monday Evening Series at Peoples church screens Windfall in Athens the first Greek dialog film shown in Cedar Rapids in years. English subtitles accompany the Greek dialogue with a 6 pm and 8 pm show, profits aiding the Albert Schweitzer hospital in Lambarene equatorial Africa.
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Athens
The
Peoples Church
Hello Lambetti
Dimitri Horn
Miss Lambetti
New York Times
Horn
National Theater of Greece
Lunt
Fontanne
Greece
Michael Cacoyannis
Yannis
Alvizo Orfanelli
Andrea Anagnosti
Margarite Georgiou
George Pappas
Arne Sucksdorf
Tion
Albert Schweitzer Hospital
Lambarene
Equatorial Africa
Kennedy likely to visit Brazil between August and September
UPI reports U.S. Ambassador Lincoln Gordon says President Kennedy probably will visit Brazil between mid August and mid September. The timing remains unofficial, with no confirmed dates announced.
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JFK
Brazil
Rio DE Janeiro
UPI
U.S
Lincoln Gordon
Kennedy
Credit Group To Study Tax Dollars
A program to show where city tax dollars are spent will be discussed at the Cedar Rapids Retail Credit Assoc meeting Tuesday at 5 p.m. in the Sheraton Montrose hotel. A three member panel including Dave Jensen Miss Gloria Alcock from Washington high school and John States from Jefferson will discuss distributive education in the city educational system.
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Cedar Rapids
Rhonda Fleming Stars in Marine of the Month on Follow the Sun
Actress Rhonda Fleming headlines KCRG-TV 9 tonight at 6 30 in Marine of the Month on the program Follow the Sun. The feature showcases Fleming in a nautical themed segment set for the evening.
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Rhonda Fleming
Kcrg-Tv
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