Cedar Rapids Traffic Study Shows Pedestrians Defy Signals
A state planning board report based on WPA-led fieldwork by Russell Paul maps Cedar Rapids traffic patterns. The study notes 45 percent of pedestrians cross against lights at Second Ave and Second St SE, analyzes accident hotspots, peak hours, and cordon counts, and outlines data uses for city agencies and business groups.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa State Planning Board
WPA
Russell Paul
Planning Board
Ames
Second Avenue
Second Street
City
Traffic Safety Commission
Police Department
First Street
First Avenue W
Fifth Street
Fifth Avenues
Iowa
Benton
Linn
Jones
Johnson
Cedar
Iowa City
Cedar County
Highway 161
Linn County
Johnson County
Paul
City Safety Commission
City Planning Commission
City Engineer
County Engineer
Chamber of Commerce
Public Library
Robert Vlach
Gordon Hughes
State Planning Board
Former Local Residents To Celebrate Golden Wedding
Mr and Mrs E L Morrison longtime Cedar Rapids natives will mark their golden wedding with an open house at their Santa Ana home next Sunday They still have many Cedar Rapids and Lisbon ties from visits last summer Both natives of Iowa he born near West Branch she in Jones county Married in Cedar Rapids they moved to California about twenty seven years ago Mrs Morrison has sisters and nieces living in Cedar Rapids and nearby addresses listed for reference
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E. L. Morrison
Cedar Rapids
Santa Ana
Calif
Lisbon
Mr. Morrison
West Branch
Morrison
Jones County
California
Farmers’ Insurance Company
W. S. Hooper
Ethel Mahon
Third Avenue SE
R. E. Wilhelm
Eighth Avenue SE
Iowa State College officials chair state planning board
The state planning board, a non partisan group appointed by the governor, lists H. H. Kildee dean of agriculture at Iowa State College as chairman, T. R. Agg dean of engineering, Dr. W. L. Bierring state health commissioner, J. N. Darling president of the General Wildlife Federation, and Mrs. Henry Frankel as chairman of another committee. The board reviews land use studies in Webster City and Muscatine surveys in Iowa cities including Davenport Keo kuk Ottumwa Burlington Dubuque Fort Dodge Council Bluffs Sioux City Cedar Rapids Webster City Muscatine and Clinton.
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Cedar Rapids
State Planning Board
Davenport
Keokuk
Ottumwa
Burlington
Dubuque
Fort Dodge
Council Bluffs
Sioux City
Webster City
Clinton
Muscatine
H. H. Kildee
Iowa State College
T. R. Agg
W. L. Bierring
J. N. Darling
General Wild Life Federation
Henry Frankel
Iowa leaders named to national resources planning panel
The article lists prominent Iowa officials and academics including P. F. Hopkins director of PWA in Iowa C A Phillips dean of commerce at the University of Iowa A C Trowbridge state geologist Miss Agnes Samuelson state superintendent of education Fred White chief engineer for the Iowa highway commission George Kel Jer administrative adviser to the Iowa works progress administration A H Wieters sanitary engineer F H Corliss field secretary P H Elwood head of landscape architecture at Iowa State College assigned by the national resources Sanenlariis as planning consultant.
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Iowa State Conservation Commission
P. F. Hopkins
PWA
Iowa
C. A. Phillips
College of Commerce
University of Iowa
A. C. Trowbridge
Agnes Samuelson
Fred White
Iowa Highway Commission
George Kel Jer
Iowa Works Progress Administration
A. H. Wieters
State Department of Health
Bond
F. H
Courthouse Parade Sets Ballot with Eight Parties and Independents
Linn county voters will see eight organized parties on the November ballot with independent Jane at the bottom. Ballot order lists Democrat Republican Farmer-Labor Communist Prohibitionist Socialist Socialist-Labor Union, per County Auditor Vesely from Des Moines. September license demand slips slightly from 1935, with 572 licenses year to date through Oct 1 versus 548 last year, while all party lanes will be filled.
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Linn County
Bob Vesely
Des Moines
Jane
Ballot listings show wide party candidate counts across states
The piece notes the state ballot with over ten listed candidates including national aspirants. It cites nineteen each for Republicans and Democrats, fifteen for former laborites, eleven for Prohibitionists, seven for Socialists, three for New Union, and others. It also covers a missing 335 warrant found in a wastebasket, HOLC mortgage cases, a sheriff’s ad aiding a dog search, and marriage licenses tallying seventy one for the month and 110 in June.
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New Union Party
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Dial
Sam
Uncle Sam
HOLC
Jim Smith
Gazette Want
Smith
Cap
Jim, Jr
Jim
Ed Lundquist
Ed Zisko
F Ave
Nue, N. W
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Cedar Rapids Gas CO
Midland Mortgage Company
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