Nuclear freeze gains unanimous support at Marion forum
About 100 attendees at Farmers State Bank Marion vote to back a bilateral nuclear freeze stopping deployment of all nuclear weapons. Speakers include professors Floyd Sandford and Tom Sweeney of Coe College and local activist Jon Wacker. sponsors are the Cedar Rapids Marion League of Women Voters, United Nations Association and American Friends Service Committee.
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Nina Bappe
Farmers State Bank
Marion
America
Floyd Sandford
Tom Sweeney
Coe College
Jon Wacker
Route 3
Sweeney
Cedar Rapids
The
Cedar Rapids-Marion League of Women Voters, the
United Nations Association and
American Friends Service Committee
Murdock pledges sewer priority at SUMPS meeting
Cedar Rapids public improvements chief Murdock Wayne Murdock promised that sewers will be his top budget priority next year after about 125 residents from across the city pressed for action on flooding and sewer backups. City engineer Richard Ransom agreed a comprehensive study would take time while jurists weigh a moratorium option.
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Wayne Murdock
Cedar Rapids
SUMPS
Citizens For Community Improvement Group
Murdock
Richard Ransom
CCI
Ransom
Greene Square
Vinton
Kenwood
Edwin Kral
Falbrook Drive
College district teachers push 12.45 percent pay rise
The College Community Education Association presented a 12 point proposal to school administrators, seeking a base salary increase to 13,800 and higher top-step pay, tighter class size limits, improved insurance, twice monthly pay, and expanded leave. The package totals about 427,146 annually, about 15 percent above current salaries. Negotiations resume Monday with a public counterproposal.
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College Community Education Association
Association
The
Education Association
Teachers’ Association
Trail bridge arson reward doubled on Cedar Valley Trail
The reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of arsonists who damaged a Bear Creek bridge along the Cedar Valley Nature Trail is doubled from 2000 to 4000 for 15 days. Report to Benton County Sheriff's investigative division at (319) 472-2337. Offered by Linn and Black Hawk county affiliates of Iowa Rails to Trails and the Linn County Conservation Board.
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Cedar Valley Nature Trail
Bear Creek
Benton County
Benton County Sheriff's Department
Linn
Black Hawk County
Iowa Rails To Trails
Linn County Conservation Board
Cedar Rapids man held on charges after motorcycle chase
Cedar Rapids resident Sandy C Frederickson, 21, is jailed in Linn County on eight thousand eight hundred dollars bond. He faces multiple charges from a police chase October 14 that reached speeds to ninety mph, including driving while barred, seven speeding counts, three reckless driving counts, two counts of attempting to elude officers, seven disobeying stop signs and lights and two failing to yield to emergency vehicles.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Sandy C. Frederickson
Mount Vernon Road
Linn County Sheriff's Deputies
F Avenue
Ellis Boulevard
Gazette
13Th Street
K Avenue NW
Frederickson
Williams heads gifts campaign for NAACP drive
Al Williams, General Mills plant manager in Cedar Rapids, named chairman of the NAACP major gifts campaign. Eugene Chism says the effort ties to a citywide membership drive and the Freedom Fund banquet at Stouffer's. Funds support Community Outreach, senior services, Afro Olympics youth programs, Our Fair Share jobs, and a prison work program.
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al Williams
General Mills
Cedar Rapids
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Eugene Chism
Stouffer’s
Chism
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