Cedar Rapids City Council Acts on Land purchase and Zoning
City council meets with mayor and all commissioners present. Actions include purchase of land along the Vinton ditch for $100 down, bids for air conditioning repair, water pollution control design grants, street and water facility engineering agreements, road and street work approvals, annexations, traffic and street light orders, zoning reclassifications and hearings, taxicab license hearing, and protests over utility rate hikes and street changes. Public hearings show rezoning requests for multiple parcels and final plats approved for Cottage Grove Acres First Addition and Tow's Second Addition. Protests on stop light arrow, speed bumps, and Aspen Lane closure noted.
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Cedar Rapids
Resolution
Duane L
Beverly J. VanHorn
Johnson Avenue NW
Vinton Ditch
Fresco Refrigeration Co
Howard R. Green Co
St. Luke's Methodist Hospital
Twelfth Street
First Avenue E
Tenth Street
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Cedar Rapids Asphalt and Paving Co
Cottage Grove Avenue
Thirty
Bernard F
Yvonne E. Beranek
First Avenue
Elmer
Judith McCoy
Oakland Road
Benner Tea Co
Mt. Vernon Road
Forty-second Street
Center Point Road
R.W. Rinderknecht Co
Glass Road
JDR Development Co., Inc
F Avenue NW
Kenneth R. Harstad
Cottage Grove Acres
Riley N. Crawford
A Avenue
Thirty-second Street
Hogan Avenue
Leola M. Baierlein
White Pine Drive
Aspen Lene
Oldest U.S. Prisoner Dies Sanza at 83
Vicente Sanza, once the federal system’s oldest inmate, died at 83 in the federal prison hospital at Springfield Missouri. He began his life sentence in 1926 for second degree murder tied to a card game killing at a Rose Inlet cannery in Ketchikan Alaska. His parole bid after 50 years was nearing consideration.
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Washington
Vicente Sanza
Sanza
Federal Prison Hospital
Springfield
Philippines
Lanza
Rose Inlet Salmon Cannery
Ketchikan
Alaska
Grant Wood AEA Wins Publication Award
Grant Wood AEA earned a first place in the 1976 school and college publications contest by Nation's Schools Report for its tri monthly educational publication Profile. Over 1500 entries came from 246 schools, 286 colleges, and 25 state education departments and school board associations. Wayne Haddy at 4401 Sixth Street SW invites requests for a copy of the award winning entry.
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Grant Wood Area Education Agency
Wayne Haddy
Sixth Street
Miss America Pageant Wins Ratings Crown
NBC's Miss America Pageant topped the week's TV ratings with about 26 million homes, while CBS Ford campaign ads drew roughly 3.7 million homes. Nielsen ranked the top 20 shows for the period ending Sept 12, with Laverne and Shirley and Starsky and Hutch also high.
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Los Angeles
NBC
Notso
Ford
CBS
A.C. Nielsen Co
Republican Party
Nielsen
van Dyke and Co
Dog's Life: Pulling Loads Of 500 Pounds
In Seattle a 1-year-old boy uses his 2-year-old Doberman Brutus to pull a 3 by 2 foot dog cart to the grocery. Brutus learns commands and can haul up to 500 pounds while enjoying a couch and treats. In Detroit a $2 million Horace E Dodge fountain, designed by Isamu Noguchi, opens with computerized water shapes funded by a Dodge family bequest.
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Seattle
Cleo Smith
Smith
Brutus
Detroit
UPI
Horace E. Dodge and Son Memorial
Isamu Noguchi
Dodge
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Mae Ae
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