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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1968
Page
13
Petitioners submitted a comparison table to the board of review listing downtown parcels first, followed by an outlying district property. Names Cedar Rapids parade organization Jean Koza exhibits and displays Kathleen Corcoran Iowa City publicity appear in the compiled material.
A Cedar Rapids protest argues downtown properties are overassessed compared with suburban real estate. It cites Granby Mon trose SGA Higley parcels and says downtown values exceed market values by over 20 percent, urging the board of review to uniformly adjust land assessments and restore balance. The five-member board, including Hoegen and Peiffer, may equalize assessments and the protest deadline was today.
Iowa City announces Homecoming committee chairmen for the University of Iowa event on October 12. Names include John Hames and other campus leaders guiding activities and festivities.
Cedar Rapids recreation commission reports 3747 boys and girls in grades three through six joined the Junior Garden Club the highest total since 1964. Enrollees will be visited for garden inspecting in June or July and a children’s exhibit is planned for August at Bever Park with merchandise awards.
Edward Emerts, 35, of Monticello was treated and released from a Monticello hospital after a one car crash east of Springville on highway 64. He slept at the wheel, left the road into a ditch, and was alone in the vehicle with minor cuts and possible chest injuries. No charges were filed.
The city of Cedar Rapids received 72 683 43 dollars in HUD open space funds to reimburse prior spending on Seminole Valley park three acres by Coolidge school Cedar Hills and a riverfront tract south of the city to be a police firearms range. TRAER-Bill Petersen and Steve Nagel were named to attend Boys State June 28 at Camp Dodge sponsored by the Legion Lions and Chamber of Commerce.
The Inter-Service Club Council of Cedar Rapids and Marion will honor 27 National Honor Society students at a 6 30 p m banquet at the Roosevelt hotel. Dr Joseph McCabe of Coe College will speak on Honors in What with certificates presented to each student. Schools represented include Jefferson Washington Kennedy Regis LaSalle Prairie Marion and Linn‑Mar.
Republican candidate Tom Riley to speak Tuesday noon at the Roosevelt hotel. Edwin Neufield to speak after a 6 p.m. dinner at YMCA Keen Teen room. Theft report: overnight loss of clothes and a portable liquor cabinet from Holiday Inn room owned by Tom Liebold. Stolen tools valued at $85 from A. W. Kletschke's garage. Villa Capri offers full time beauty operator work. Advisements include clock repair, jewelry coins, dry cleaning deals, and real estate notices.
The National Defense Education Act program at the University of Kansas runs from June 10 to August 2 and includes several teachers among its participants in the 1968 summer history institute.
Cedar Rapids Mayor Frank Bosh urged residents to direct all tornado relief gifts to the local Red Cross chapter. The Red Cross has served the Charles City Oelwein area since Wednesday evening and will provide rehabilitation assistance to those in need.
A fire in Rio de Janeiro destroyed the carnival decorations stored by the state tourism department under a Kennedy High overpass. The damaged materials were mainly wood and plastic and were prepared by an instructor for the parade.
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