Taxi Reduction Sought by 1200 Senior Citizens
The Cedar Rapids mayor's office reports about 1200 requests for discounted taxi IDs for seniors on fixed incomes. Roughly 300 cards issued. applications processed quickly. The 50 cent rate, 25 cents for trips under 10 blocks, applies through a bus strike or until mass transit is created. four cab companies participate.
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Century Cab
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Yellow Cab
Ace Cab
A-i Cab
Marion PTA book fair plans announced at First Methodist Church
Marion plans a three day PTA council book fair at First Methodist Church Thursday through Saturday. Books from Sanford's Cedar Rapids, records from Marion TV and Records. Mrs Ronald Wood leads arrangements. Thursday and Friday 1 PM open. Saturday 9 30 AM to 3 PM. Also notes public relations conference attendance and a Marion fire incident recap.
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Marion
Sanford
Cedar Rapids
Marion TV and Records
Ronald Wood
Richard M. Sorensen
Marion Independent Schools
Boone
Iowa Lane
Leland Newcomer
Newport-Mesa
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Las Vegas
Marion Public Library
Children’s Department
Arthur Kemper
City Spraying for Dutch Elm Disease Begins in Marion
Spraying to combat Dutch elm disease started Saturday night in Marion per City Manager Peter F Crivara. Work continues as weather allows with two city employees ahead to notify residents about car movement and inform drivers to avoid sprayed streets.
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Peter F. Crivara
Crivara
Tractor accident claims life of 65 in Calmar area
Joseph Korbel 65 of Maquoketa was killed when a tractor tipped over in a field one mile east of Calmar. Authorities say the machine crushed him. Survived by sister Mae Tuma Calmar and brother Bill Spillville. Body to French's funeral home.
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Joseph Korbel
Maquoketa
Linus and
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Bill
Spillville
French
Hold Two for Theft Of Gumball Machine
Two juveniles were charged with larceny after a gumball machine was stolen from Town Crest Launderette. A local React member chased a car bearing the machine, later police stopped a matching vehicle on Sand Road and arrested the occupants. The boys were bound over to juvenile court. Police recovered two gumball machines along a gravel road east of Iowa City.
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Johnsons Served Korean Cuisine at State Banquet
President Park hosted the Johnsons at a Korean state banquet. Menu items included fried seaweed pulgoasi kimchi aba lone soup Korean ginger tea and Korean rice wine.
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Chung Hee Park
Johnson
California
Park
Rules Independence Plant Allowed to Operate Under Stay
A stay order lets Quality Ready Mix Cement Co. operate the Independence plant through Nov. 10 while paying $24 per day to plaintiffs Mr. and Mrs. James Bates as extra damages from May onward. A further hearing set for New oat 3oom. Bates seek larger damages for property damage and plant dust injuries.
Cedar Rapids Man Sentenced to 160 Days for Intoxication
David W. Hall 45 of Cedar Rapids pled guilty to intoxication and received a 160 day term at Linn county jail. Judge Howard Mc Laughlin revoked suspensions on prior intoxication counts from 1963 to 1965 and on a 1964 vagrancy sentence. Hall was arrested at 1:25 am Sunday in the 200 block of Second Avenue SE. address 605 Fourth Street SW.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Howard McLaughlin
Hall
Second Avenue
Fourth Street
Sign Without Words Warns of Traffic Signal
The city traffic engineering department tests a picture only sign on the Avenue Viaduct indicating traffic signals ahead. A diamond sign with a traffic signal image replaces the usual words to measure if visuals better alert drivers than text.
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C R Man Charged In One Car Crash
Cletus D. Gallager fifty three, of 1827 Wilson avenue SW, charged with failing to have his car under control after a one car crash on county road 31 two miles south of Cedar Rapids. Nathen R. Thomas of 416 Seventeenth street SE treated for minor injuries at Mercy hospital and released. The 1956 model car was damaged beyond repair. The accident occurred about 1 am.
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Wilson Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Linn ‘County
Nathen R. Thomas
Seventeenth Street
Mercy Hospital
Gallager
Two Hurt in Crash Not Badly Injured
Two men injured in a truck car collision on highway 1 near Martello Saturday night escaped without serious injuries. Russell D. Skagen, 24, of Mt Horeb Illinois, was treated at St. Luke's hospital and released. David R. Goodnecht, 24, of Rock Island Illinois, was admitted at St. Luke's but released Sunday. Skogen was driving the truck and Guodnecht was driving the car.
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Martello
Russell D. Skagen
Mt Horeb
St. Luke's Hospital
David R. Goodnecht
Rock Island, IL
St. Luke's
Skogen
Guodnecht
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