Reapportionment Ruling Splits Iowa Supreme Court Decision
The Iowa Supreme Court issued a split decision on legislative reapportionment. It orders multi‑legislator counties like Polk and Linn to subdivide into single‑member districts while allowing the 1967 legislature to use the 1965 temporary at‑large plan for this year. The court notes Senate size remains 59 now and 61 in 1967, with 124 House members constant. it acknowledges timing limits and supports subdistricting to satisfy one‑person one‑vote principles.
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Black Hawk
Scott
Woodbury
Senate
U.S District Court For
Iowa
Iowa Senate
Iowa House
Polk County
Linn County
U.S. Supreme Court
Federal Aid for Buses Shows Mixed Results for Small Cities
Cedar Rapids debates bus funding as federal aid flows to smaller cities and 37 demonstration projects from 1961 to 1965 test mass transit ideas. Grants range from $49,000 to $324,000 for towns like Terre Haute Vallejo Zanesville Coral Gables Kenner Skokie Rome Anchor age and New Castle while Dallas secures $8 million with $4 million locally.
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Cedar Rapids
Dallas
Nation’s Cities Magazine
Terre Haute
Vallejo
Calif
Zanesville
Ohio
Coral Gables
Fla
Eral
Skokie
Ill
Rome
U S Hospital Loan from Kremlin by Dr Matthew
John Chamberlain comments on Dr R Thomas W Matthew a Negro neurosurgeon who built a non profit hospital in Queens through interfaith aid and voluntary support He seeks a 10 million loan from Kosygin as a dramatic appeal while critics label him unpatriotic He compares Kraus long denied justice to Matthew and notes hypocrisy in foreign and domestic responses to self help efforts.
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R. Thomas W. Matthew
Interfaith Health Association
New York City
Queens
U.S
Dr. Matthew
Alexsei N. Kosygin
Soviet Union
Russia
Kremlin
Matthew
Kosygin
Arthur Kraus
New York
City College
Warsaw
Kraus
Washington
Elinor Wylie
Simon Gerty
Elinor
Smalltown Futures and the Rise of Metropolitan Towns
A national survey argues both sides of small town prospects amid urban growth. While many counties lose population and farms decline, smaller cities near metros surge, prompting calls for regional planning, federal support, and shared leadership to sustain jobs, services, and governance.
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United States
Resources For the Future, Inc
R. L. McNamara
University of Missouri
Congress of Cities
Robert T. Nahas
The
Urban Land Institute
Nahas
Leonard D. Yaseen
Fantas Co
New York
America
W. B. Murphy
Campbell Soup Co
Area Redevelopment Administration
Ing
Washington
Johnson
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Economic Tax Hike Teases Inflation Cure in Wax Plight
Vermont Royster argues in The Wall Street Journal that inflation is planned and will be fought by higher taxes. He blames government policy over five years, cites Vietnam war pressures, and warns tax increases will merely shift demand, keeping the government’s spending high while households cut purchases.
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Vermont Royster
The
Wall Street Journal
Economic Council
Eisenhower
Washington
FBI
Japan Adopts Metric System For Land Measures
The Milwaukee Journal notes Japan switched to metric on April 1, converting tsubo to square meters and sho, shaku, and kan to liters, meters, and kilograms. Tradition lags as carpenters still frame doorways 1.7 meters high, but sake bottles keep one sho at 1.8 liters.
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Japan
Associated Press
Bureau of Standards
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Donald W. Lief
Nation's Cities Magazine
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CEA
Tsubo
Shaku
Sho
Milwaukee Journal
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