Neighbors oppose housing plan for mentally retarded in two areas
About 200 people in Hiawatha meet to review Linn County plans for a five bedroom house at 9014th Ave to house six mentally retarded children. In Cedar Rapids, 25 discuss Discovery Village a Knights of Columbus project on a 38 acre tract north of Boyson Road. Concerns focus on zoning property values and integration with the community.
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Hiawatha
Northbrook
Cedar Rapids
Hiawatha School
Linn County Mental Health Services
14Th Ave
Edward Stein
Boxwood Lane
Discovery Village
Knights of Columbus
Boyson Road
Hiawatha City Council
John Thomas
Iowa Department of Public Instruction
Johnson
Woodhaven
Helen Hall
Federal officials tour sewage plant in Cedar Rapids area
EPA Region 7 administrator Dr Kathleen Camin and Col C A Selleck Jr toured the new $70 million water pollution control plant with city officials and engineers. The project covers 75 percent federal funding, 20 percent city, and 5 percent state under a 1979 deadline with May completion target.
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Environmental Protection Agency
Army Corps of Engineers
Kathleen Camin
EPA
Camin
Corps
Cedar Rapids
Public Improvements
Richard Phillips
Region 7
John Sadler
University of Iowa security rules unlikely to hinder officers
Randall Bezanson and Casey Mahon co authored a report on campus security changes saying the proposals will have little practical effect on daily patrol operations. The panel urges shorter questioning times and limiting requests to go to headquarters without arrest, with feedback from university committees before final decisions.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Randall Bezanson
Iowa Memorial Union
Bezanson
Security Patrol
Smith Heads Truck Group In Iowa Association Election
Herald A. Smith Jr. of Cedar Rapids was elected president of the Iowa Motor Truck Association. Smith, with 30 years in trucking, chairs the board of CRST, a Cedar Rapids carrier. On this date in 1789 the U S Department of Foreign Affairs was renamed the Department of State.
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Fort Dodge
UPI
Herald A. Smith Jr
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Motor Truck Association
Smith
CRST
U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs
Department of State
Teens charged in burglary at Vanessa Boots residence
Police arrested three teens ages 14 and 15 on burglary charges for stealing a television and stereo from 1430 Fourth Ave SE earlier this month. Two others face theft charges for receiving stolen goods. additional arrests include Thomas F. Kenney for taking more than a dozen $50 savings bonds from a Waterloo residence.
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Vanessa Boots
Fourth Ave. SE
Jacqueline Rae Spinler
Bobbie Y. Chambers
Bever Ave. SE
Thomas F. Kenney
Third St
Kenneth Rainey
Waterloo
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D Ave
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First Ave
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