Plan Drive for City Manager Government
Cedar Rapids citizens push to place the city manager form on the ballot via a petition drive led by the Cedar Rapids Tax Payers Association. The effort seeks a special election under Iowa law to decide whether to switch from a commission form to a council manager system, with significant timelines for signatures and potential January 1966 implementation if approved.
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Tom Kunel
Cedar Rapids
Citizen-Times
Commission
Iowa
Threat Of Suspension Keeps Firemen Mum
Fire fighters from Local No. 1 decline to comment on wage demands. Schmidt and two others were suspended a year ago for disclosing union wage requests, later reinstated and appealing. Chief Hunter said the union wage askings will be presented to the council before June 26 as part of the fire department budget request.
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Schmidt
Hunter
Fire Department
Lincoln area name bid for new Cedar Rapids high school
Cedar Rapids residents can submit name suggestions or speak at school board meetings for the planned north side high school. Officials say changing Lincoln Elementary to free the Roosevelt tradition is unlikely absent broad local support. Names under consideration include Calvin Coolidge John F Kennedy and Franklin D Roosevelt, though Roosevelt options risk duplication with Roosevelt Junior High.
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Cedar Rapidians
Mighty and Humble
New North Side High School
Citizen-Times
Lincoln Elementary School
Lincoln
Cedar Rapids
United States
Calvin Coolidge
John F. Kennedy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Theodore and
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Indigestion Complaint From Cedar Rapids Woman
A Cedar Rapids woman reported to police that a sex minded stalker is causing distress with dirty calls and unsolicited food deliveries. She noted six dollars in unordered sandwiches from a root beer stand, a taxi-delivered snack order, and five unsolicited pizzas, all sent to her address.
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Cedar. Rapids
Grant profile reveals arson charge impact on Citizen-Times
J W Grant co-publisher of The Citizen-Times faces arson charges linked to a plant fire nearly a year earlier. An in-depth interview by William Marks on page 2 quotes Grant’s responses about the incident and its aftermath.
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J W. Grant
Citizen-Times
William Marks
Grant
Paint and Nerve Foiled Auto Theft by Cedar Rapids Teen
Thomas M. Jepson, 18, was arrested on a charge of larceny of a motor vehicle after patrolmen observed him driving a 1965 auto with two county license plates. Police say the car stolen from McGrath Pontiac on June 3 had chrome and hubcaps removed and was repainted black to hide the theft.
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Cedar Rapids
Thomas M. Jepson
Jepson
Linn
Hardin County
Detective Bureau
John Kuba
McGrath Pontiac
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J. W. Grant
Jeanne Fischer
Lincoln School
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