Cedar Rapids workers seek 7 percent raise for 1984
About 380 Cedar Rapids employees represented by AFSCME Local 620 pressed for a 7 percent across-the-board wage hike beginning July 1, 1984. The union asked compensatory time options, higher standby pay for water department staff, and higher rates for fill-in sanitation workers and part-time seasonal staff, with city counterproposal due November 30.
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Cedar Rapids
American Federation of State
Jan Corderman
Streets
Schools weigh film Day After impact in Cedar Rapids area
In Cedar Rapids Marion area schools educators debate how to handle ABC TV film The Day After with mixed views. Some plan discussions in religion and social studies while avoiding mandatory viewing, and others may show parts later within curricula with careful evaluation.
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C.R
Kurt Rogahn
Jazette
Cedar Rapids-Marion
Metro High poll shows high nuclear war concern
Instructor Dick Socwell at Metro High School notes heightened student worry about nuclear war after surveys. About half of 400 students were polled and 65 percent expect a future nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union. Seven of eight worry no safe place would exist, while 67 percent would stay to help after. Just over 61 percent blame an insignificant cause for war.
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Dick Socwell
Metro High School
Metro
Iowa City
Socwell
Soviet Union
Locwell
Marion Bypass Faces Opposition From Local Business Owners
A Marion business petition signed by about 40 owners opposes the Collins Road Extension bypass planned in the Iowa DOT five year program for 1986. The council also approved $8 million in tax exempt development bonds for a new Davco shopping complex at the old Twixt Town site, with no city cost.
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Christie Wallace
Marion Bureau
Marion
Seventh Avenue
Council
John Coughlin
Collins Road
First Avenue East
Indian Creek
Davco Development
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids Man In Good Condition After Self Amputation
A 28 year old Cedar Rapids man who intentionally cut off his left hand with a butcher knife was in good condition last night at St Luke's Hospital. He severed the hand Wednesday night at the Five In One Dam on First Street NE, discarded it in the river, and was driven to the hospital by two passers by. Police said he lost a lot of blood and the hand has not been recovered.
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Iowa Department of Transportation
Marion
Coughlin
IDOT
Marion Chamber of Commerce
Council
Chamber
Cedar Rapids
St. Luke’s Hospital
First Street
St. Luke’s
Bank slits blamed on mail machine crease
Merchants National Bank said envelopes with news letters mailed to thousands may appear opened. A bank official cited a sealing and stamping machine that creased top slit envelopes, causing them to break open in the post office sorter. About 20 to 40 envelopes were affected with a check planned for further issues.
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Merchants National Bank
Merchants
Bill Coppock
Coppock
Bishops Lift Meat Friday Rule in 1966 United States
On this date in 1966 Roman Catholic bishops in the United States ended the prohibition against eating meat on Friday. The change reflected shifts in post Vatican II practice and allowed Catholics to choose meat meals on Fridays within general guidelines.
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United States
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