Cedar Rapids council weighs seven bonds for library and more
The Cedar Rapids City Council holds a nine o clock public hearing on issuing seven industrial development revenue bonds totaling seven million for the Metropolitan Library Foundation to fund a new library with a six point eight million Hall Foundation grant and one million in public donations. The meeting also considers a rezoning for Shattuck Chemical to a molybdenum roasting plant and a first reading on housing code revisions with a planned public hearing.
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Cedar Rapids
Metropolitan Library Foundation
The
Hall Foundation
Armstrong Race Realty
MorAmerica Realty
Cast Inc
Gilbert and
Mary Boxa
Hawthorne Drive
Ron Godwin
John Nase
Elk’s Club
Charipar & Co
Robert Caldwell
Altorfer Machinery Co
Shattuck Chemical Co
Burlington St
Shattuck
Don Canney
Floyd Bergen
Murdock
Reinis
Schaefer
Scott Olson
Mayor's Citizen's Housing Code Review Committee
Olson
Two Arrested for Drunk Driving in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids police arrested James E. Jolliffe 35 of Iowa City Monday night for drunk driving and for driving the wrong way on a one way street. Thomas A. Ziegman 26 of 1626 B Ave NE was arrested Tuesday night for drunk driving and reckless driving and held at Linn County Jail.
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Cedar Rapids
James E. Jolliffe
Iowa City
E Avenue NW
Thomas A. Ziegman
B Ave
Linn County
Hypnosis in Police Work Demonstrated in Iowa Incident
Cedar Rapids officer William Kidwell demonstrated hypnosis to aid memory after a July Coralville robbery. A couple recalled via a taped-like memory to identify a mustached suspect in corduroy jeans. Kidwell described hypnosis as a tool to surface subconscious details, not admissible as evidence.
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Coralville
Cedar Rapids
William Kidwell
Iowa City Police Department
Kidwell
Chicago
Law Enforcement Hypnosis Institute of
Los Angeles
University of Iowa to form travel bureau sparks local pushback
Iowa City travel agents protest the University of Iowa plan to create its own travel office after bidding Beam Travel Center Inc of Ithaca New York. The university quotes annual travel spending of 2.5 to 3.5 million dollars and will take 87 percent of commissions to cover salaries for six to seven staff. Local agents say competition with out of state firm harms their business and question the move.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
New York
Alan Rossman
Meacham Travel Service
Dottie Kosik
Hawkeye World Travel Inc
Beam Travel Center Inc
Ithaca, N.Y
Beam
Isaacson Chosen as Iowa House Chief Clerk
The House Administration Committee selected Liz Isaacson to be the new chief clerk of the Iowa House succeeding Pat Harper who resigned last summer. Isaacson has served as acting chief clerk and handled duties during the second special session and helped prepare the House Journal. Salary not set. Harper earned 22000 annually. Also, on this date in 1899, actress Lillian Gish was born.
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Des Moines
House Administration Committee
Liz Isaacson
Iowa House
Pat Harper
Isaacson
Isaac
Son
House Journal
James Johnson
Harper
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Linn County Humane Society
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Blue Magic
Rere
Center Pt. Rd
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Flansburg Gazette
Johnson County Bureau
U of Travel Agency
Lillian Gish
fTeonar
Cate
Bika
Navy Beans
KE Rete
Bran “A
Honey Va
Soni
Papaya Pyalin
Lindale Mall
Westdale Mall
DialPlan
Industrial Loan Thrift Guaranty Corporation of
Iowa
State of
DialPlan Money Centers
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Carroll
Clinton
Council Bluffs
Davenport
Dubuque
Fort Dodge
Keokuk
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Ottumwa
Sioux City
Urbandale
Waterloo
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