Cedar Rapids Wins Federal Bus Grant Approval
City officials announce that a labor certification obstacle to a federal bus grant has been removed after a meeting with Labor Department officials and the International Brotherhood of Transit Workers. Mayor Bob Johnson credited Congressman John Culver for facilitating the talks and expects HUD confirmation soon. Gardner met HUD to discuss open spaces program participation.
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Cedar Rapids
Department of Labor
International Amalgamated Transit Workers Union
Bob Johnson
Gazette
Washington
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
John C. Culver
Culver
Johnson
Donald Gardner
David McGuire
Labor Department
Regional Transit Authority
Elks club speaker to address Optimist-Steven Peterson
Optimist-Steven Peterson a Coe college student who spent a year with a French family under the Experiment in International Living program will speak at the Elks club Thursday at noon.
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Steven Peterson
Coe College
Elks Club
Opinion Rules Against C R Bus Service
The Iowa Attorney General ruled Cedar Rapids municipal transit cannot operate charter service without a legal certificate of convenience. The opinion, written for Linn County and city officials, states the city may not buy buses solely for charter work or transport schoolchildren under contract. The RTA may serve public routes but charter operations are not authorized.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
William Faches
Howard Hampton
City Bus System
Regional Transit Authority
RTA
Faches
Richard Turner
Hennessey Brothers Win Grading Contract
Hennessey Bros Inc of Marion was the lone bidder for the Waconia Avenue and Allis Chalmers Drive SW grading job. Their bid of 18300 undercut the engineers estimate of 18921 by 3.28 percent. Mayor Bob Johnson and Parks Commissioner Donald Gardner were absent, delaying council action as they were in Washington DC. the project covers grading excavating an 8 inch rock base and fence work west of Locust Street.
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Hennessey Bros., Inc
Marion
Waconia Avenue
Allis- Chalmers
Bob Johnson
Donald Gardner
Washington, D.C
Locust Street
Today’s Columnists and Feature Pages Listed
A compiled index from this newspaper page lists columnists and sections including William S White Russell Baker Jack Anderson Food Chuck Flynn Maddox Brownstone Dear Abby Dear Polly Gus Schrader Ogden preps Walton bowling Farm BUCS Entertainment Leonard Lyons Broadway Rick Du Brow Sylvia Porter John Cunniff Sam Shulsky General Bob Considine Jacoby on bridge Arts and humor columns by Buchwald and Reed.
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Chuck Flynn
Maddox
Brownstone
Mother
Dear Abby
Dear Polly
Gus Schrader
Ogden
Walton
Farm Bucs CO
Leonard Lyons
Rick du Brow
Sylvia Porter
John Cunniff
Sam Shulsky
Bob Considine
Es Coo Sdk Hall
Reed
Jacoby
Buchwald
Dr. Wayne Rohse 45 Dies in Iowa City
Dr. Wayne G. Rohse, 45, chemist with the state hygienic laboratory, died at home in Iowa City after a career spanning Loyola University Chicago and Rockford hospital work. Born in Bennett, he earned BS, MS in biochemistry and PhD in physiology from the University of Iowa. Survived by wife, son Daniel, daughter Debra, and father William. services arranged at Beckman-Butherus funeral home.
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Iowa City
Wayne G. Rohse
State Hygienic Laboratory
Bennett
The
University of Iowa
Loyola University
Des Plaines
Ill
Rockford, Till
Daniel
Debra
William
Rohses
Beckman-Butherus Funeral
Trial Pending on Assault Gauffer Accused of Breakin
Toddville man Theodore John Gauffer 26 faces a preliminary hearing on a murder assist charge after an arrest for breaking and entering Miska Supply Co Cedar Rapids The suspect surrendered without resistance after police stopped his car outside the building and found 23 ignition parts worth 50 in his pockets Bond set at 2000 with 1000 already posted Trial scheduled for November 6 before District Judge Harold Vietor
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g’Toddvilleman
Cedar Rapids
Theodore John Gauffer
Miska Supply Co
B Avenue NW
Gauffer
Miska Building
Harold Vietor
Vietor
Cargill Seeks Overhead Bridge Over Twelfth Avenue
Cedar Rapids city council heard Cargill Inc request to build an overhead bridge from its feed plant across Twelfth Avenue SW to a new building at 1103 Twelfth. The bridge would stand 43 feet above the street, be five feet wide and four feet high, with air rights assessed at $300 by chief deputy assessor James H. Sharpe.
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Cedar Rapids
Cargill, Inc
Twelfth Avenue
James H. Sharpe
Former Cedar Rapids Man Dies in Minnesota Auto Mishap
Roger E. Ayers 21, former Cedar Rapids resident, died in a Rochester hospital from injuries suffered in a one car crash near Oyota Minnesota on October 12. He married Doris Bowen of Dysart last February. Survives include his wife. Funeral and burial were held in Chatfield Minnesota.
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Roger E. Ayers
Cedar Rapids
Rochester
Minn
Oyota
Minnesota
Doris Bowen
Dysart
Chatfield
Hospital Board Names Three New Directors
At the St Luke's Methodist Hospital annual meeting three new directors were named C M Basile P F Geiser and F F Olberg Basile is president of Link Belt Speeder Co Geiser is vice president of Penick and Ford Olberg is executive of National Bank A Cedar Rapids city ordinance defining Nassau street SE heliports received its second reading and would make heliport operation a misdemeanor offense if violated.
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St. Luke’s Methodist Hospital
C. M. Basile
Lamp Lite
National Bank
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
St Luke's board reelects officers and expands nursing course
The St Luke's board re elected its officers and appointed Joseph F Hladky Jr to the executive committee. It backs a bill by Rep John Culver to fund nursing schools amid a growing nurse shortage. The board approves expanding Coe College chemistry courses for nursing students. Occupancy of parts of the new addition is set for April 15 1968 with final completion in October 1968 to meet bed demand. Medicare cost issues cut hospital revenue by about 35000 dollars in the past year as discussions with federal officials continue.
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Joseph F. Hladky, Jr
East Post Road
The
Gazette Co
St. Luke’s Board
John Culver
Coe College
St. Luke’s
Labor Assembly Objects to Economy Wall Ordinance
Cedar Rapids Labor Assembly criticized a city proposal to allow wall paneling in single and two family homes without backing by non combustible material. Officials argued the measure lowers fire safety and may reduce structural strength while builders see potential cost savings.
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Cedar Rapids
Frank Bush
Carson
Labor Assembly
Ed Winter
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