Cedar Rapids seeks federal aid for 33 million transit center
A Washington meeting November 14 will review Cedar Rapids federal funds for a 33 million downtown ground transportation center. Attendees include Mayor Don Canney and city officials with state and private investors. Officials aim to secure 7.66 million in federal funds with 641,700 state funds, city share 1.27 million, the rest private. If approved, center would occupy Fourth to Fifth Aves and First to Second St SE. John Stearns of the Mets stole 25 bases in 1978, a National League record for a catcher.
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Washington, D.C
Cedar Rapids
Washington
Don Canney
Tom Aller
Don Salyer
Iowa Department of Transportation
Barton Aschman
Chicago
Cannon Design
Buffalo
N.Y
UMTA
Aller
Canney
White House
Jack Watson
DOT
Fourth and Fifth Avenues
First
Second Streets
John Stearns
New York Mets
Commuter Airlines Eye Cedar Rapids Flight Replacement
Cedar Rapids airport director Roy Jameson says Mississippi Valley Airlines and Britt Airways have expressed interest in replacing United's cutback from Chicago. United will reduce Chicago flights from five to two starting April 1 1980 while adding two long range West Coast flights. Britt previously served Cedar Rapids during last spring’s strike.
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Mississippi Valley Airlines
Britt Airways
United Airlines
Cedar Rapids
Chicago
Roy Jameson
United
Jameson
MVA
Terre Haute
Ind
West Coast
Ozark
Wright Arrested for Assault Following Complaint
Larry D. Wright, 21, of 2121 Blairs Ferry Road NE, was arrested on assault charges after a complaint by Margaret Reed of the same address. Reed says Wright struck, pinched and beat her, and Wright was released from Linn County Jail later that day on court orders. A separate civil suit filed in Linn District Court by Nancy Pease against Ray Gene McMenemy seeks 250000, alleging negligence including failure to yield to a pedestrian in an unmarked crosswalk after a Jan. 19 incident on Wilson Avenue SW and 14th Street.
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Larry D. Wright
Blairs Ferry Road
Wright
Margaret Reed
Reed
Linn County
Wilson Avenue
14Th Street
Nancy Pease
Linn
Ray Gene McMenemy
McMenemy
Iowa City Eyes 1.3 Million Road Funds for Hawkeye Arena Access
The Iowa City council in an informal session urged collaboration with the University of Iowa to secure 1.3 million dollars in state road funds. The plan funds construction and widening of roads to the Hawkeye Sports Arena, including a four lane access road linking U.S. Highways 6 and 218 with Woolf Avenue near the arena site.
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Iowa City
Iowa City Council
University of Iowa
Hawkeye
U of I Recreation
Boulders delay dredging for I 380 fill material
Cedar Rapids IDOT district engineer Robert Henely reports occasional sub-surface boulders at the 30 acre borrow site across from Ellis Park are hindering sand and pea gravel extraction. Dredging has shut down about a week with a contractor seeking a device or alternate plan to obtain the needed 1.3 million cubic yards of fill for the I 380 corridor.
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Cedar Rapids
Robert Henely
Iowa Department of Transportation
Borrow
Cedar River
Ellis Park
Henely
IDOT
Harnischfeger workers win 35-cent hourly hike in three-year pact
United Auto Workers employees at Harnischfeger ratified a three year contract delivering a 35 cent across the board hourly raise and 3 percent wage hikes in 1980 and 1981. The package also adds automatic cost of living increases. Average pre agreement pay was $8.53 per hour.
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United Auto Workers
Harnischfeger
Harnischfeger Uaw
Waterloo driver surrenders in ham embezzlement case
Jimmie E. Beck, a South West Leasing Truck Lines driver from Waterloo, turned himself in to U.S. marshals in Kansas City after a Cedar Rapids federal complaint charged him with embezzling 50 cases of hams from Wilson Foods. He faces an initial appearance before a U.S. magistrate and will be sent to Cedar Rapids for arraignment. The load, valued at 2813.90, was destined for Hodgkins Illinois. Beck allegedly tried to sell two cases of Wilson labeled hams to Vondracek’s Super Market in Cedar Rapids.
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U.S
Kansas City
U.S. District Court
Cedar Rapids
Wilson Foods
Jimmie E. Beck
Beck
South West Leasing Truck Lines
Hodgkins
Ill
South West Leasing
Wilson
Vondracek
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Washington High School
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Marion
Coleman Air Transport Corp
Rockford
C.R
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Henry Witwer
Freeir
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Hams
Bill Malloy
Diamond Store
Malloy Jewelers
Second Ave. SE
Kent
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