Pentagon Admits It Misled Contractors
The Pentagon acknowledged that civilian RMK-BRJ contractors were misled about Vietnam War project funding. Officials said the firm faced a possible $200 million cost overrun after being told to prepare for $960 million but awarded $780 million, with finish plans continuing through early 1965.
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Washington
Pentagon
Vietnam
Defense
Rmk-Brj
U.S
Raymond International Inc
New York
Morrison- Knudsen
Boise
Idaho
Brown and Root
Houston
Texas
J. A. Jones Construction Co
Charlotte
N. C
Air Force
Navy
Army
Defense Department
Saigon
Nine enlistments reported by Cedar Rapids Navy and Marine recruiters
Nine enlistees are listed including Peter R. Sheets Iowa City Glenn E Minor Central City and John E Ramsey Montezuma who are shipping to San Diego for Navy training. Marine delayed programs include David D Jones Cedar Rapids Richard N Wieneke Cedar Rapids John J Tilton Coralville and Thomas L McLachlan Coralville.
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Cedar Rapids
Marine
Navy
San Diego
Peter R. Sheets
Iowa City
Glenn E. Minor
Route 2
Central City
John E. Ramsey
Montezuma
Robert C. Little
Palo
Milo E. Kearns
Vinton
David D. Jones
Yuma Drive
Richard N. Wieneke
Route One
John J. Tilton
Sixth Street
Thomas L. McLachlan
Coralville
Crash Involves Four Vehicles Injuring One Woman
Doris Chapman, 38, of 1501 Eighth Street NW, suffered minor facial injuries when her car hit a parked car on Ellis Boulevard NW and pushed a chain of three more parked vehicles. She was treated at Mercy Hospital and released. The damage totaled about $1,150. Chapman was charged with failing to have her vehicle under control.
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Doris Chapman
Eighth Street NW
Mercy Hospital
Chapman
Ellis Boulevard NW
Emma J. Caldwell
Fred H. Caldwell
Caldwell
Noreen C. Kamberling
AMS Names New President
George Hickey, administration manager of IBM, elected president of the Administrative Management Society of Cedar Rapids. Officers include Shirley Bollhoefer, Blake Bales, Mary Randall, and Louise Safley. Board members include John Gavin, Walter Powers, Charles Vermeersch, Les Wilson, and Bob Wray. Fall golf outing planned at Indian Creek CC with a 1966 Masters film shown.
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George Hickey
IBM Corp
Administrative Management Society of
Cedar Rapids
Shirley Bollhoefer
Washington High School
Blake Bales
Merchants National Bank
Mary Randall
Rapid Placement Service
Louise Safley
the van Meter Co
John Gavin
Manpower, Inc
Walter Powers
IBM
Charles Vermeersch
National Oats Co
Cedar Rapids Island Complex Highlights in Urban Feature
American City Magazine profiles Cedar Rapids public buildings on a six acre island sharing with Paris a unique use of an island for city offices. It notes an 83 car underground garage beneath the topsoil and plans to expand parking to 140 spaces after the Third Avenue Bridge project.
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Cedar Rapids
American City Magazine
C. D. Mullinex
Howard R. Green Co
Paris
Bridge 85 Percent Finished by Ashton Report
The August progress report by Ned L. Ashton consulting engineers states the Third avenue bridge is 85 percent complete with monthly progress of 8 to 10 percent for the last three months. Four months remain to the January 1, 1967 completion date. arches were finished in August along with the basement slab for the underground parking on May's Island.
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Third Avenue Bridge
Ned L. Ashton
Plete
May’s Island
Dead Elm Toll Reaches 1 230 In Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids reports 1230 dead elm trees due to Dutch elm disease as of 1966 per City Forester Bob Gardner. Of the total 489 are on city property and 741 on private property. Fall spraying plans aim to curb beetle population after leaves fall and before freezing.
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Cedar Rapids
Bob Gardner
Gardner
Hickerson Named Iowa Community Relations Head
Loren Hickerson named director of the University of Iowa’s department of community relations by the state board of regents. The 48 year old previously served as secretary of the Iowa Alumni Assn. since 1948 and was executive director of the University of Iowa Foundation. His $17,000 annual salary remains unchanged. Hickerson recently announced retirement from the alumni post. Dr. Richard M. Jacobs, 41, head of the orthodontics department.
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Council Bluffs
UPI
State Board of Regents
Loren Hickerson
University of Iowa
Hickerson
Iowa Alumni Assn
University of Iowa Foundation
Richard M. Jacobs
Iowa names new education and dentistry administrators
Wesley A. Erbe, former Iowa State Education Association president, named director of the elementary and secondary laboratory schools at the University of Iowa, effective February 1, with a salary of 19 500. An assistant dean and curriculum coordinator position at the University of British Columbia is created in Vancouver with a 23000 annual salary.
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Ment
British Columbia University
Vancouver
Canada
August Comried Dies at 77 in Center Point
CENTER POINT August Gus Comried 77 a retired Collins Radio Co. employee and lifelong Linn County resident died Friday morning at a Cedar Rapids hospital. Born February 5 1889 in Cedar Rapids he married Gladys Fee February 12 1919 in Minneapolis. Surviving are his wife a daughter three sons two sisters two brothers and six grandchildren. Services 2 p.m. Monday Murdoch chapel Center Point conducted by Rev. Wayne Baker burial Center Point cemetery. Friends may call after 1 p.m. Saturday.
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Center Point
Gus” Comried
Collins Radio Co
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Gladys Fee
Minneapolis
Gifford Mee- Cright
Coggan
Donald
Marion
Jack
Richard Comred
Nursery Grass Placed On New Squaw Creek Course
Elmer Delaney parks superintendent says nursery grown Old Orchard Bent Grass is being laid on the greens of the new Squaw Creek 18 hole course. The work should take three weeks with water hauled in and a new well being drilled to ensure ample supply. The course is slated to open in late 1967 or spring 1968 and Delaney claims it will be the toughest in the city.
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Elmer Delaney
Squaw Creek
Jones Park
Delaney
Prairie High Senior Leaves After Altercation
Prairie officials say senior David Hickey did not return to class after an argument with faculty member Kenneth Marsh over driving near the grounds. Superintendent Samuel Wiley said Marsh reportedly lost his temper. Principal Clarence Bergman noted Hickey has not attempted to return to school and a staff report will go to the school board next week.
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Prairie High Schools
David Hickey
Kenneth Marsh
Hickey
Marsh
Samuel Wiley
Clarence Bergman
Prairie High
Culver to Open Headquarters in Cedar Rapids
Second district Congressman John Culver returns from Washington to formally open Citizens for Culver headquarters at 309 Third Avenue SE Cedar Rapids at 8 p.m. Friday. The public is invited and soft drinks and pretzels will be served. Culver will stay in the district over the weekend visiting Winneshiek Delaware Dubuque Linn counties.
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John Culver
Washington
Citizens For iCulver
Third Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
Culver
Cedar Rapids City Briefs Summary of Local Notices
Hospital patient at Mercy Hospital Mrs Paul T Ho ran of 327 Eighth Avenue SW. visitors allowed. A window at H Lee Wilts residence 401 Cottage Grove SE damaged by pellet gun vandals. A piano recital preview by Harold Barlow at Coe College Auditorium. Community notices include indoor sports club talk at YMCA, Lutheran workshop for day school principals in Cedar Rapids, and a house damage report at 3210 Terry Drive SE. Siren tests scheduled for Cedar Rapids and Marion with a debris cleanup note from John Zachar Jr and theft report involving Pioneer Litho Co photocopier from Holiday Inn Cedar Rapids.
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H. Lee Wilts
Cottage Grove Avenue SE
James E. Wasta
Pioneer Litho Co
Kenneth Burns
Des Moines
Holiday Inn
Cedar Rapids
Time Tunnel Color Premiere on KCRG Channel 9
A COLOR advance premiere of theTime Tunnel airs 7 PM Friday on KCRG TV Channel 9. The special invites viewers to join a strange odyssey through time space dimensions.
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Kcrg-Tv
Channel 9
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Steven R. Alt
Robert M. Alt
Twentyfifth
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Marine Corps
Sfc
Berkeley F. Holmes
William H. Holmes
Monticello
Korea
Leon C. Thomsen
Ervin Thomsen
Ft. Sill
Okla
Michael A. Stevenson
Charles T. Stevenson
Ninth Street
Puerto Rico
William B. Griffin, Jr
Charles Mills
Charles W. Mills
Fourth Avenue
New London
Conn
AMS
C.R. Island
Ashton
Iowa
America
Security
Braska
Ray Kohl
Wm. E. Linstrom
Commerce Exchange
1St Ave
Iseri
August Comried
Charlie
ACE Furniture Mart
44Th St
Mt. Vernon Avenue
S.E
Prairie
C.R
Paul T. Horan
Eighth Avenue SW
Kenny’s Food
Nineteenth Avenue SW
Harold Barlow
Coel Auditorium
Adv
Frank Mulhern
Keen
YMCA
Embassy Club Shrine
Lutheran Workshop
Lutheran Christian Day Schools
Cedar .Rapids
Martin Wessler
The
Missouri Synod
Executive Plaza
Iowa District East
Condon Real Estate Co
Terry Drive
Hiawatha
Marion Civil Defense
John Zachar, Jr
Dempsey’s Shoe Repair
Second Avenue SE
Lang
Sci
Scotland
Golan Import Company
Beverly Hills
California
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