Kirkwood Board Reports Construction Progress on Projects
Kirkwood Community College board heard progress reports on Benton hall and the trades building with Sauer noting Benton hall is ten days behind but unchanged completion forecasts. Blong discussed gas heat viability and night control options while student services outlined self assessment, online registration goals, and plans to pre register students by next fall.
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Kirkwood Community College Board of Directors
Linnhall
Ed Sauer
Brown, Healy, Bock
Sauer
Trades and Skills
John Blong
John Gerber
Cedar Rapids
Blong
Don Page
Page
Kirkwood
ACT
KCCK Plans Recordings At Paramount Theater
KCCK-FM Kirkwood Community College will record and possibly broadcast Paramount theater performances after the theater granted an audio room and recording rights. The station will air Cedar Rapids Symphony programs, a conductor's show, and concerts by New York Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony with corporate sponsorships, plus opera and pops broadcasts.
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Kcck-Fm
Kirkwood Community College
Paramount Theater
College
Larry Patten
Media and Broadcasting Services
Exxon Oil Company
Chicago Symphony
Standard Oil
Patten
KCCK
Metropolitan Opera
Boston Pops
Philadelphia Symphony
Loud Cycles Top List In Crackdown on Noise
Cedar Rapids police report a ninefold rise in arrests for noise violations in four days under a new ordinance. Capt. Louis Stepanek notes 36 arrests, 70 percent of them motorcyclists, with normal weekly arrests at four to five. The crackdown targets vehicles producing over 80 decibels under 10 000 pounds or over 88 decibels if heavier, and will continue through the season. This is the first enforcement since the ordinance took effect last July 2.
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Cedar Rapids
Louis Stepanek
Stepanek
Cedar Rapids air service improves 21 percent since January
A consultant report to Cedar Rapids Airport Manager Roy Jameson shows air service deficiencies down 21 percent since the start of the year. Detroit and Omaha conditions worsened, while Dallas Des Moines and Los Angeles saw gains from United Airlines and Ozark schedules. Minneapolis remains the largest deficit among cities.
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Cedar Rapids
Roy Jameson
Edward MacNeal
Pennsylvania
The
Airport Commission
MacNeal
Chicago
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
New York
Dallas
Des Moines
Los Angeles
Detroit
Omaha
Ozark
United Airlines
United
David Ford Named Civitan District Governor
David Ford to be installed as district governor of the Minowa Civitan district at the Civitan International annual meeting in Cedar Rapids. Linn County Civitan Club hosts at the Ramada Inn with a banquet and installation of newly elected officers. Emmett Butler will speak as banquet presenter on humor and philosophy.
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Minowa
Civitan International
Cedar Rapids
Linn ‘County Civitan Club
Ramada Inn
David Ford
Dalewood Avenue
Emmett Butler
Second Theft Reported at Ramada Inn
A second television theft occurred at the Ramada Inn at 5560 Sixth Street SW. Between 11 p.m. Thursday and 1:45 a.m. Friday a color TV of undetermined value was stolen from a guest room, following a prior theft earlier in the week at the same hotel.
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Ramada Inn
Sixth Street
Motor Hotel
Ferris Proposes County Radio Watch for Linn Enforcement
Independent sheriff candidate George Ferris outlines a County Radio Watch CRW program to use private citizens as observers. Four groups would report emergencies via dispatch, REACT stations, amateur radios, or mobile phones to alert public safety without direct suspect apprehension.
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Linn County Sheriff's Department
Sheriff's
George Ferris
Gary Hinzman
Lauren Drive
Ferris
Sheriff's Department
CRW
Public
Public Safety Agency
Youth Listed Serious After Bike Accident
Mark W. Rock, 15, of Marion, was listed in serious condition at St. Luke's hospital with head injuries after his bicycle was struck by a car on county home road two miles west of the county home. Samuel T. Blondin, 55, of Manchester, driven the car and was reportedly passing the bicycle when the boy turned left into its path at 7:45 p.m. Thursday. No charge was filed.
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Mark W. Rock
Route Two
Marion
St. Luke’s Hospital
Linn
Samuel T. Blondin
Manchester
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Kirkwood Board
Building Progress
Mary Burke
Schoolhouse Fund
Lincoln Center For Community Education
Don Roby
Paramount
Massachusetts
Calvin Coolidge
U.S
Oliver Perry
Lake Erie
Tae
Civitan District
Peck’s
Cactus
Cardone
Haeger Pottery
Ees
I Landscape Designers and Contractors
Center Pt. Rd. N.E
Lowa
REACT
Radio Emergency Associated Citizens Team
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