Parking Fees in Cedar Rapids Face Downtown Growth Dilemma
City planners confront a conflict between raising parking fees to support expanding downtown spaces and fears that higher costs will drive drivers to outlying free parking. Consultants suggest private facilities could supplement public lots, but local merchants worry about lost trade. A study of consumer response and market research may guide a cautious path forward amid doubts and policy stakes.
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Cedar Rapids
Edward Purcell
Ralph H. Burke, Inc
Chicago
Burke, Inc
New York City School Strike Leaves Students Behind
A massive public school strike halts instruction for 39 days affecting over a million students in New York City. Racial tensions and demands for local control sparked a breakdown in mediation and raised calls for stronger state and federal action to prevent future closures.
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America
Congress
Iowa Good Roads Address Flags Federal Rules on Design
Director J R Coupal told the Iowa Good Roads Association in Cedar Rapids that federal rules may force double hearings and shift final highway design decisions to the federal level. He argued Iowa’s current intersection and entrance exit design flaws risk dangerous left turn problems and praised any federal push that improves Iowa’s highway design methods.
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Iowa Highway Commission
J. R. Coupal
Iowa Good Roads Association
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Commission
Coupal
Federal Department of Transportation
Iowa Department
Birchites Maneuver for Control Wallace To Keep Building Third Party
Irmingham Alabama. George Wallace moves to sustain a national third party American Independent party with Birch Society ties. Wallace eyes governors senatorial runs while using aggressive rhetoric to energize supporters and fund his campaign network.
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Wallace
Irmingham
Ala
George Wallace
United States
Teddy Roosevelt
Bob LaFollette
Strom Thurmond
Henry Wallace
White House
Alabama
George Corley Wallace
American Independent Party
Montgomery
Wallace and Wallace
Gerald
George
Say
Roy Harris
Augusta
Courier
John Birch Society
Bard Logan
Bircher
Texas
Nixon Faces Rockefeller Question Over Cabinet Seat
A Southern Nixon supporter warns John Mitchell that Nelson Rockefeller as defense secretary would alarm conservatives. Mitchell defers, stressing loyalty to the South while Rockefeller's fate remains uncertain amid internal debate. Rockefeller’s readiness and Nixon’s plans loom large as the administration shapes up.
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Ashington
Nixon
Rockefeller
Mitchell
Miami Beach
Spiro Agnew
Pentagon
David Rockefeller
Treasury
Chase Manhattan
George Champion
Washington
Robert Finch
California
Nelson Rockefeller
David
New York
Defense Rockefeller
John F. Kennedy
City council weighs ambulances and aid request
The 1958 town council debates whether ambulances are a city obligation as the private ambulance operator seeks financial assistance. Ben Ploof leads the Oelwein Safety Council with Richard Shirk and others in officer roles amid nursing faculty appointments and a youth drowning incident.
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Ben Ploof
Oelwein Safety Council
Richard Shirk
Charles McQueen
Herb Colby
Etta Rasmussen
University of Iowa College of Nursing
State Board of Regents
Birthday party honors eight year old David
A party held in honor of David's eighth birthday featured guests including Donald Page Richard Clark Roger Keyes Richard Conan Ralph Wilson Tom Davis Duane Smith Paul Chu kas and Stevie Keese. Mrs Bernard Keese and Anna Kelly assisted the hostess.
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David
Donald Page
Richard Clark
Roger Keyes
Richard Conan
Ralph Wilson
Tom Davis
Duane Smith
Paul Chukas
Stevie Keese
Bernard Keese
Anna Kelly
Youths Buy Beer Easily in Cedar Rapids Supermarket
A Cedar Rapids observer describes three teenage boys buying beer with no checks, entering a supermarket, selecting two six packs, paying at the counter, and leaving. The letter questions how often such underage purchases occur locally and elsewhere.
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Cedar Rapids
Robert Smith
Thirty-second Street
Controversial Move on Oversize Trucks Sparks Alarm
A press release from November 20 reports tentative approval by highway commissioners to allow oversized truck trailer combinations on interstate highways. The editorial tone critiques the decision as risky and questions weather reports and public memory of past forecasts.
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Commission
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Hubert Humphrey
Thurmond
Bell-McClure
By Rowland Evans
Robert Novak
Illinois
New York State
Nelson
Robert McNamara
Publishers-Hall Syndicate
Richard Gar
Eddie Anderson
University of Iowa
Irl Tubbs
Karl Leib
Anderson
H. R. Lubbenen
George Clark
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