Cedar Rapids service sector drives quality of life gains
Cedar Rapids Chamber official Harold Ewoldt reported Tuesday that local service establishments employ over 13 000 people with a payroll exceeding 20 million dollars. He noted housing up with 352 single family starts and 670 apartment units, plus 7 200 000 in commercial and 2 200 000 in industrial expansion, and 55 million of planned industrial expansion through 1978.
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Cedar Rapids
Chamber of Commerce
Optimist Club
Harold Ewoldt
Ewoldt
Midwest Research Institute of
Kansas City
Chamber
Hearings Held For Inmates On Gambling Counts
About 200 inmates at the Iowa state penitentiary faced hearings after allegedly violating the prison gambling ban. A food boycott by other inmates ended, while the policy against gambling had been reinstated last week. Only 100 of about 680 eligible inmates attended meals following the dispute.
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Fort Madison
UPI
Iowa State Penitentiary
Paul Hedgepeth
Jim Hardin
Flower Arranging Class Offered by Kirkwood College
Kirkwood Community College offers a three week flower arranging course titled Christmas Decor through Flowers. The class begins Tuesday at Kennedy high school, meets each Tuesday through December 16 at 7 p.m. in room 55. Instructor Julie Buline will teach with artificial and cut flowers. Cost is $5 plus materials. registration at the first meeting.
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Kirkwood Community College
Kennedy High School
Julie Buline
Yachtsmen Plan Small Craft Museum in San Francisco
A group of San Francisco Bay yachtsmen form a club to start a small craft museum dedicated to pleasure boats. They will collect and show yacht clothing early publications marine hardware instruments paintings and photographs from the region.
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San Francisco
San Francisco Bay
New Guidelines To Make Government Responsive
Washington UPI reports the Ford administration published 182 pages of consumer aimed guidelines to involve the public earlier and create consumer offices. President Ford ordered immediate implementation by 17 agencies with later tweaks if needed. Ralph Nader condemned the plan as window dressing and urged broader consumer protection legislation. The Social Security Administration outlined a pilot ombudsman program to aid claimants in select offices, with qualified staff assisting those who cannot resolve issues through standard channels.
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Washington
Ford Administration
Nader
Consumer Protection Agency
Ford
Congress
Social Security Administration
Ford's Thanksgiving Day Proclamation
President Ford extends Thanksgiving wishes and reflects on the holiday's meaning as America's Bicentennial year approaches. He emphasizes gratitude, peace, responsibility to families and neighbors, and trust in national ideals and the Creator.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
White House
America
Charles Boland Heads Chamber Fire Bureau
Charles Boland general maintenance superintendent of Cryovac division W R Grace Co was elected chairman of the Cedar Rapids Marion area Chamber of Commerce fire prevention bureau He succeeds Bob Williams The bureau runs the annual safety fair during Fire Prevention Week and supports fire safety schools and the junior fire marshal program.
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Charles Boland
W.R. Grace Co
Cedar Rapids-Marion Area
Burns warns of long term US decline without oil price drop
On this date in 1974 Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns warned that America's economic and political power would fall permanently unless world oil prices could be reduced.
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Arthur Burns
Federal Reserve Board
America
Kirkwood Expands Engineering Education Program Offerings
Kirkwood announces winter term additions to the engineering education program in Cedar Rapids. New courses include Introduction to Engineering Computation, Intermediate Algebra, Pre calculus I and Calculus II. Enrollment opened for the winter term with registrations during the week of November 30.
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Kirkwood University of Iowa
Linn Hall
Kirkwood
Bob Young
Young
University of Iowa
Cedar Rapids
University of Iowa Engineering School
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