Cedar Rapids Strikes Linger as Council Probes Bus Fixes
The Cedar Rapids city council held a lengthy informal session on the bus crisis without decisions. Mayor Bob Johnson voiced frustration over talks with Cedar Rapids City Lines and the striking drivers union. Proposals floated included city leasing buses, a volunteer pickup program, designated ride spots, and forming a regional transit authority. The panel favored a regional approach, but warned of time and factors needed. The strike enters its 12th week.
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Cedar Rapids
Bob Johnson
Cedar Rapids City Lines
Union
Johnson
National City Lines
Raymond Bagley
Trickey Wins Area 10 Seat in Cedar Rapids School Board Race
Trickey led with 2 608 votes and will serve an incumb ent term, carrying 27 of 37 precincts. Bjornson, the sole woman candidate, will replace Nye and win 2 135 votes. The Area 10 levy failed 2 577 to 857 despite strong local support, with voting light across 37 precincts and officials planning an official canvass Monday.
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Ron Moore
Donald L. Stoecker
Robert J. Moes, Jr
Trickey
Bjornson
Moore
Stoecker
West Side
Frank Nye
Knollwood Drive
League of Women Voters
Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra
Cedar Rapids
van Buren School
Jane Boyd
YMCA
Tax Levy Approved for Vocational Schools in Iowa Areas One and Seven
Voters in Area 1 approve a 4 mill levy to fund a Calmar vocational school with 4 747 to 1 812 in 23 districts across six counties. Area 7 approves the measure 6 159 to 2 785 to construct a Waterloo site named Hawkeye Institute of Technology.
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Iowa
Area 1
Calmar
Area 7
Waterloo
Hawkeye Institute of Technology
Boy injured after car bicycle collision in Mt Vernon area
Brian J. Good, 7, son of Donald and Mrs Good of 321 Thirtieth Street SE, suffered multiple bruises and abrasions in a Monday 4:39 p.m. crash on Mt Vernon Road SE after riding into a car driven by Glen O. Fly, 52, of 1131 Crestview Drive SE. Mercy Hospital treated and released him. no charges were filed.
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Brian J. Good
Donald L. Good
Thirtieth Street
Mt. Vernon Road
Mercy Hospital
Glen O. Fly
Crestview Drive
Boys Joy Ride In Stolen Auto Ends Quick
Two youths aged 16 and 14 took a car from St Luke's hospital in Independence for a brief joy ride. Police stopped them 16 minutes after the theft was reported at 6 51 p m. The vehicle owner was R E Straw. They were charged as juveniles with larceny of a motor vehicle and released to parents for probation review.
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R. E. Straw
Independence
St. Luke’s Hospital
Straw
William Serbousek
Second Avenue
Seventh Street SE
Linn County
City Council To Review East Post Road Rezoning Proposal
The council will have the first reading on Bjornsen Investment Co. plan to rezone 77 acres from R-1 to R-36 near East Post road and Trail Ridge road SE for garden apartments. Residents protested at last week’s public hearing. two further readings would follow if approved.
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East Post Road
Trailridge Road
Bjornsen Investment Co
Passenger Hurt In Area Crash
Marilyn P. Bremer of route three Cedar Rapids was charged with failure to have her car under control after her vehicle went off Linn Junction road two miles west of Hiawatha on Monday evening. Passenger Madge Ford, 66, also of route three Cedar Rapids, suffered a laceration to her left hand but refused hospital treatment.
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Marilyn P. Bremer
Cedar Rapids
Linn Junction
Hiawatha
Linn
Madge Ford
Wednesday Deadline on Elm Disease Proposals
City officials and the mayor’s Dutch elm disease advisory group must present burning site recommendations by the Wednesday council meeting. The effort aims to destroy dead elm wood before beetle hatch, with four quadrants targeted and seven sites discussed.
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Bob Gardner
Carl Smith
Don Gardner
Advisory Committee
Council
Des Moines
Iowa State University
Man Attacked in His City Apartment
Frank F. Tvrdik, 60, of 1519 Sixteenth Avenue SE, was beaten and robbed by an unidentified assailant at about 2 a.m. in his apartment. Tvrdik sustained a fractured rib and a broken jaw, and $17 was taken. He described the suspect as about 35, 5 feet 10 inches, with a crew cut, wearing black boots with pointed toes. the attacker fled before officers arrived.
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Frank F. Tvrdik
Sixteenth Avenue SE
Tvrdik
Mercy Hospital
Tordik
Water buffalo rider killed by mine in Saigon area
Police report Pham Van Ho aged 51 died when the water buffalo he rode stepped on a Viet Cong mine. The animal also died in the blast.
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Saigon
UPS
Police Today
Pham van Ho
Voters endorse Area 10 levy for community college plan
Voters in seven counties approve a five year three fourths mill levy for Area 10 financing a new network of community colleges. The measure, yielding at least 450000 annually, backs building sites equipment and initial construction set to begin in 1967.
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Area 10
Area Board of Directors
Selby Ballantyne
Ballantyne
Area 10 Board
Center Point
Linn County
Highland
Washington County
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