Cedar Rapids Annexation Aims at Fringes for Growth and Health
City officials argue annexation west and south of Cedar Rapids would fix intolerable west area sanitation, control the south trunk line sewer, and guide orderly growth. They say fringe areas may face haphazard development without annexation and that expanding city services near existing lines is more economical than creating separate districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Prairie Creek
St. Louis
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Marion
Hiawatha
Linn County Citizens Health Committee
Sanitation Committee
Car Industry Expects to Break Records in 1955
AP dispatch reports the auto industry predicts record output and sales through 1955 and into 1956. GM and Ford push to lead production while Buick Plymouth contend for third. expansions and higher capacity aim for up to a million cars annually, with hints of a ten million industry future.
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Harlow H. Curtice
General Motors
T. H. Keating
Chevrolet
United States
Ford
Buick
Chrysler
Plymouth
John P. Mansfield
Ivan L. Wiles
Annexation map outlines Cedar Rapids扩 city expansion proposal
A proposed annexation plan for Cedar Rapids details west and south districts totaling about 122 square miles outside the current city, with 8 000 residents, landmarks Hawkeye Downs REA plant College Community school and Worthington acres, outlining boundaries starting Edgewood Road and looping along 218 30 and 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
West Side
Thirtythird Avenue
Prairie Creek Valley
College Township
Hawkeye Downs
Lincolnway Village
College Community School
New Prairie High School
Worthington Acres
REA
Hoover School
Seach
Lege Township
Eade Rapids
District Court
Edgewood Road
Westwood Drive
Wiley Boulevard
E Avenue
Johnson Avenue
Highway 30
Wilson Avenue
Thirty Third Avenue
Thirty-third Avenue
C Street
Cedar River
End of Daylight Time Brings Postal Changes in Cedar Rapids
Daylight Saving time ends affecting air and rail mail in Cedar Rapids. Air deadlines shift: flights 202 309 318 201 320 314 333 340 with new times. Milwaukee North Western and Great Western train dispatches adjust to later or earlier deadlines. Rerouting trims next day service to some towns. HPO service expands on North Western train 7 with later 1 30 a m deadline for westbound letters.
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Union Pacific
Milwaukee Road
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Charles Seda
Milwaukee
North Western
Chicago
Great Western
Marshalltown
Fort Dodge
Des Moines
Western
Highway Et
LaCrosse Hpo
Postville
Decorah
Statue of Elijah Unveiled on Mt Carmel Israel
Hundreds of tourists attend a ceremony on Mt Carmel Haifa as Nagib Nufi a Nazareth sculptor unveils a white Nazareth stone statue of the Prophet Elijah near the Carmelite monastery The Place of the Burning marks Elijahs triumph over Baals priests and the blessing is led by Very Rev Father Anastasio who travels from Rome for the event.
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Haifa
Elijah
Mt. Carmel
Israel
Nazareth
Nagib Nufi
Carmel Range
Ba’al
Anastasio
Rome
Mediterranean
Jezreel
Russia awards Lenin Order to Mig aircraft designer
London reports Radio Moscow said last week the Order of Lenin was awarded to Artem Mikoyan, designer of the Soviet Mig fighter. The broadcast said Mikoyan received the honor from a Soviet official.
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London
Radio
Moscow
Artem Mikoyan
Mikoyan
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David J. Wilkie
AP Automotive Editor
Wilson
Hawke Cow
Wacona
Yeins
Lincoln Way
Vernon
Hunter
U.P
Seda
W. W. Raistora
Third Avenue SE
Russia
Hermes Zone
Typewriter Exchange
First Avenue
Oviet
Kliment Voroshilov
Acousticon
John Monaghan
M.N.B. Rilde
Lowa
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