Cedar Rapids City Hall notes council actions outlined
Wednesday's Cedar Rapids council acted on purchases and zoning. A 4400 ft chain purchase was approved, various depositories named, street lights installed, and multiple permits for gatherings and construction granted. Public hearings covered rezoning requests, land condemnation for urban renewal, and leaf burning petitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Richard Phillips
Stan Reinis
Martinsons Zeck, Inc
Robert E
Carolyn R. Berry
Thirty-second Street
First Avenue
Wiley Boulevard
Midwest Development Co
Yuill and
Canfield
Annce Rossey
Twenty-ninth Street Drive
Edgewood Baptist Church
Edgewood Road
E Avenue
Feder Development, Inc
Merchants National Bank
Hazel Johnson
Ellis Road
Eighteenth
Twenty-sixth Streets
Chester Hagan
Johnson Avenue
Jack E
Inez Knaack
Iowa Storage and Construction Co
Twenty-ninth Street
Man Must Pay Taxes on Bomb in West Virginia Case
Charles William Cavender, 41, of Boone County is found guilty by a federal jury of failing to register or pay taxes on a bomb built from three sticks of dynamite. The device was placed at the Liberty Sandwich Shop in Whitesville and set to explode when the screen door opened. Cavender faces up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine on each charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W.va
UPI
Charles William Cavender
Boone County
Whitesville
Liberty Sandwich Shop
Don Williams
Reenactment of Hiroshima Bomb Draws Japanese Protest
In Harlingen Texas the Confederate Air Force faced protests from Ichiro Moritaki head of the Japanese Congress Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs after a weekend Airshow reenactment of the Hiroshima bombing. The event featured pilot Paul Tibbetts in Fiji the CAF’s remaining B 29 and a ground explosion creating a mushroom cloud before about 40 000 spectators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlingen
Texas
Hiroshima
Confederate Air Force
Ichiro Moritaki
Japanese Congress
Moritaki
Nagasaki
CAF
Paul Tibbetts
Air Force
Enola Gay
Tibbetts
Fiji
Also Mentioned on This Page
C.R. City Hall
Resolution
Industrial Engineering Equipment Co
Cedar Rapids Five Seasons Center Commission
Iowa Electric Light and Power Co
Salvation Army
Third Avenue
Loomis Brothers, Inc
Second
Third Avenues
Third Streets
Center Point Road
Oakland Road
Coe Road
Thirteenth Street
First Street
Automobile Dealers’ Assn
Second Street
First
Vinton Ditch
Roy Malarek
Lorrayne B. Bezanson
Pioneer Village Commission
Robert H. Doll
David and
Carolyn McAnally
Rushmore Drive
G Avenue
Twelfth Street
Illinois Central Railroad
First Assembly of God Church
Forty-second Street
Chicago and North Western Transportation Co
Metropolitan Kiwanis Club
Dad
Moon Landing
On Wheels
Tomy
Tuney
Ville Choo-Choo
Aong
Hazel Pearson
Erates
Teries
Breyer
Macrame
Des Moines
Wakonda Shopping Center
Ames North Grand Mall
Cedar
Lindale Plaza
Rshalltown
Marshalltown Mall
Mickey
Wotor
Rystal
Electric Bell
Actu
Sioux Falls
Cedar Falls College Square
Eas
Muscatine Muscatine Mall
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