Cedar Rapids odor and noise fix costs rise
A citizen committee heard that odor and noise problems at Cedar Rapids water pollution control plant will require about seven more months and up to 650000 dollars for solutions. Dome covers for sludge tanks and an air scrubber plus a silencer for the incinerator stack are planned with work expected to begin next spring after DEQ and EPA action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Citizens’ Committee
Environmental Protection Agency
Iowa Department of Environmental Quality
Joe Joslin
EPA
Kansas City
Tom Tauke
Tauke
Joslin
Jim Gerlich
Howard R. Green
Gerlich
DEQ
Jerry Rattenberg
Sam Walker
Walker
Pat Smith
Under the Rainbow Promises Hollywood Farce
Chevy Chase and Carrie Fisher headline Orion Pictures comedy set in 1930s Hollywood. Mako and Joe Maher co star along with 150 midgets in this wartime era spoof shot on location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Chevy Chase
Carrie Fisher
Orion Pictures
Mako
Joe Maher
Money Game hits Iowa City in pyramid style investment hype
Iowa City promoters tout a Money Game pyramid scheme promising $800 returns from a $50 investment. The plan spans multiple cities, uses cash only, and keeps locations secret with meetings held three times weekly. Police caution the state has declared such games illegal.
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Iowa City
C.R
Cedar Rapids
Internal Revenue Service
Des Moines
Marshalltown
U.S
Iowa
Nebraska
Coralville
Washington County
Riverside
Harvey Miller
University of Iowa
Sheller Globe Corp
Miller
Marion offers 4.8 percent police pay raise in new contract
Marion proposes a 4.8 percent average pay hike for officers effective next July. The offer includes higher starting pay for patrolmen and varied raises by tenure, with emphasis on recruiting new officers. Fringe benefits remain unchanged and a grievance over overtime pay will be dropped as a goodwill gesture while another union complaint remains unresolved.
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Marion
Gary Ray
Doug Hart
Ray
Hart
Police Protective Association
Robert Zier
National Theater of the Deaf to tour all 50 states
The National Theater of the Deaf will become the first theater to visit all 50 states with a Las Vegas appearance in November. Based at Waterford's Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, the company tours the West and Southwest with The Iliad, Play by Play, an original production using a Super Bowl metaphor to retell Homer’s epic. It is written by deaf playwright Shanny Mow and directed by Edmund Waterstreet, who is also deaf.
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Waterford
First Intercollegiate Football Game Rutgers Beats Princeton
On this date in 1869 Rutgers defeated Princeton 6 to 4 in the first formal intercollegiate football game, marking a historic college sports milestone.
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Rutgers
Princeton
Cedar Rapids Gazette Local Note on Postage and Inscriptions
Fragmentary text shows Cedar Rapids Gazette masthead with address on 3rd Avenue Cedar Rapids Iowa and a brief mention of inscription rates. It also references Associated Press rights and the newspaper’s local news and dispatch rights.
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Cedar Rapids
The
Gazette Ompany
Lowe
Cedar
Pattisons
Associated Press
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C.R. Sewer Plant
Marion Police
Tom Fruehling
Marion Bureau
Mario
Friends of the Public Library
Riverside Roundhouse
Lowrey
Las Vega
America
Lowre
Lowreys
Fine Quality
Thomas Hammond Kimball
Baldwin
Steve
Sherry Black
Lowrey Organ Center
Westdale Mall
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