City Council Ponders Site For Landfill
City officials continue investigation into a possible sanitary landfill site with multiple locations under review including the Martin Marietta quarry on Hawthorn drive SW and other options. The council aims for an economical, efficient site with good access and considers a joint landfill operation with the board of supervisors.
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Bob Johnson
Don Gardner
Johnson
Martin-Marietta
Hawthorn Drive
Gardner
Board of Supervisors
Army officer training school open to high school enlistees
Mr and Mrs Glen Messner invite application for Army Lt jg officer training for high school students considering enlistment. Applicant must be on leave or plan to graduate. program offers infantry or artillery tracks and commissions graduates as second lieutenants. The Army Security Agency also seeks qualified personnel to support defense electronics and communications security.
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Glen Messner
Dalewood Avenue
Navy
U.S.S. Piedmont
Army
J.g
James N. Shadle
Daleward W. Lucas
A. Shadle
Iowa City
Lucas
San Diego
Infantry
Artillery
Army Security Agency
ASA
Jaycees To Collect Christmas Toys in Local Schools
The Cedar Rapids Jaycees announced plans to place toy collection containers in elementary and junior high schools next week for needy children. Toys may also be dropped at the United Fire and Casualty building on A Avenue NE, with pickups available by calling 363-8474. Citizens Band and ham radio volunteers including Martin Messner SN will handle pickups.
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Cedar Rapids
Burglars Steal Cash Register From Maid-Rite
Burglars stole a cash register from the Maid-Rite Sandwich Shop at 1321 First Avenue SE in an early Friday break in. The register held about 15 in change, with a value around 1000. Entry was through an unlocked basement window. exit via the cafe rear door.
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East Side
Maid-Rite
First Avenue SE
Salvation Army Tree of Lights Drive Launched
The Salvation Army launched its Tree of Lights Christmas aid drive downtown after the noon ceremony turning on the first bulb for every $25 donated. Congressman-elect John Culver lit the initial bulb, with Inez Fisher of Altrusa and Cedar Rapids officials praising the effort.
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Salvation Army
Tree of Lights
Army
John Culver
Culver
Inez Fisher
Altrusa Club
Stewart, Shank
Cedar Rapids
Joe Irvine
San Francisco
Jefferson High School
Roger Pierce
Edward Douglass
First Baptist Church
Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Yi visits Indonesia secretly
Communist China’s Foreign Minister Chen Yi arrived in Jakarta on a Friday unannounced visit for talks with Indonesian leaders. He met with President Suharto and other officials to discuss regional security and Sino Indonesian relations amid rising Cold War tensions.
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Jakarta
Chen Yi
Two Cedar Rapids Boys Rescued From Cedar River Ice
Firemen saved Larry Numedahl and Curt Krog after they fell through thin ice about 175 feet from shore near the Quaker Oats plant. The youths, ages 15 and 16, were in 8 to 10 feet of water for 15 to 20 minutes before retrieval by rescue boat. Both were hospitalized for observation and released.
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Cedar Rapids
Western Railroad
Cedar River
Larry Numedahl
Third Street NW
Curt Krog
Sixth Street
St. Luke’s Hospital
Derald A. Carter
Robert Kraft
Num
Larry Cirkl
Bill Smejkal
Ttem
West Germany seeks imported labor amid population drain
AP reports the German Institute of Industry says East Germany seeks labor like West Germany as red Bulgaria shows interest. The shortage grows with young people fleeing west since the Berlin Wall was erected in August 1961. West Germany employs about a million foreign workers.
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Cologne
German Institute of Industry
East Germany
West Germany
Red
Bulgaria
Berlin Wall
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City Council
Ine
Paramount
Rko-Iowa
World Theaters
Central Retail Merchants Bureau
Officer Training
Jaycees
Bill McCool
Life Insurance
P.O.E
East Coast
General Motors
Germany
BUICK
Opel
Jeff
Sylvanias
New
C.R
Cirkl
Rand
Mitralsky
Sylvania
Third Ave
Milton Carter
Reeder Radio and Sound
Anzio
Willowood Brown
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