Cedar Rapids faces precinct changes after 1956 registration surge
Cedar Rapids voters show uneven growth with 25 precincts total and several over 3,000 registered. Officials plan a study to redraw lines for balance as annexation looms, while most precincts remain stable and no early boundary changes are required.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Kenwood
Eastern Avenue
Twenty-ninth Street
Marion
Buchanan School
Mt. Vernon Road
Nineteenth Street
Cedar Lake
Hiawatha
River
Oakland-Old Marion Road
Garfield
First
O Avenues
Roosevelt
Cottage Grove Avenue
No. 25
Buchanan
Grantood
Erskine
Jackson School
Fourth Avenue SE
Optimists Projects In 1956 Benefit 3279 Youths
Cedar Rapids Optimists report 3279 boys and girls across eight organizations benefited from 1956 Christmas tree sale proceeds. Groups aided include YMCA YWCA Camp Wapsie Camp Good Health Ellis Community Center YMCA Community House Children’s Home and Camp Waubeek. An additional 171 youngsters were helped by individual donations.
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Cedar Rapids
Paul Jones
YMCA
YWCA
Camp Wapsie
Camp Good Health
Ellis Community Center Ymca
Community House
Children’s Home
Camp Waubeek
Jones
City Hears Obsolete Health Officer Code Needs Rewrite
Officials say current city ordinance on duties of the city physician and health officer is obsolete and must be rewritten. Mayor Meaghan notes the successor to the late Dr Edward Files will be delayed until the ordinance is updated. The board examining the replacement for the late City Assessor Jim Scolaro omits Howard Helscher. the third member is Keith W Dunn with L P Boudreaux and Arthur Deamer.
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Meaghan
Edward Files
Jim Scolaro
Howard Helscher
Buffalo Survives Fifth Auto Crash
Buffalo Ole Joe, an 1800 pound renegade bull, has survived his fifth automobile collision in five years near Big Delta Alaska. He caused about 300 dollars in damage to a territorial police patrol car and another vehicle was wrecked when it struck him at high speed. Old Joe was briefly ailing but remains at large with a herd in the Big Delta country.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Ole Joe
Buffalo
Big Delta
Joe
Old Joe
Also Mentioned on This Page
Stewart Shank
Precinct 23
Kingston Stadium
Eighth
Sixteenth Street
First Avenue
Greene Square
George Greene
Chamber of Commerce Senior Men’s Bureau
Stewart Holmes
Holmes
Nicholas B. Brown
Addison Daniels
Julius E. Sanford
Hosea W. Gray
George
Swede Halvorson
Shank
Don Gardner
van Vechten Park
New South Park
Shaver
Riverside Sale
Jim Meaghan
American Federation of Grain Millers
Penick and Ford
Riverside Park
Penick and Ford Union
Art Helsinkveld
Gazette
Cedar
Newton
al Kremenak
Roosevelt High
Iowa
Newton's
2Nd Ave
2Nd St
Kremenak
Newton’s
Federal Reserve System
FDIC
Royal Portable
Merveaux Typewriter Exchange
Third Ave
Craemer's
Eer
Ota As
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