Local Option Tax Bill Advances to House Ways Means
Iowa bill allows cities or counties to impose a 1 percent sales tax or a 10 percent income tax surtax with a simple majority vote. Cedar Rapids could trigger city elections. countywide support could extend to the whole county. A separate measure would tax hotel guests up to 5 percent without a vote.
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Des Moines
House
Cities-Towns
Ways-Means
Joe Rinas
Marion
Cities-Towns Committee
Cedar Rapids
Linn
State Revenue Department
Rinas’ Committee
Iowa League of Municipalities
Rinas
City Briefs Highlights Local Meetings and Upcoming Tours
Local parents meet Tuesday at 7 30 p m in Prairie elementary for kindergarten discussion with speech clinicians and school psychologists. Bus tour to Washington DC Smokey Mountains Chesapeake Bay leaves Cedar Rapids May 5th. Community notices cover AARP Linn County meeting by laws and summer activities and various ads.
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College Community School District
Prairie Elementary
Washington, D.C
Smokey Mountains
Chesapeake Bay
Cedar Rapids
Peggy
Charter Coaches, Inc
AARP
Linn County
The
American Assn. of
Ambroz
Bidler to Address Eastern Iowa DPMA Meeting
Carroll L. Bidler executive director of TRACIS at the Iowa Department of Public Safety will speak to the Eastern Iowa chapter of the Data Processing Management Assn. Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the Longbranch.
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Carroll L. Bidler
Traffic Records and Criminal Information Systems
Tracis
Iowa Department of Public Safety
Iowa
The
Data Processing Management Assn
Longbranch
Winner's Circle Lounge Closes After Bond Failure
Sheriff confirms Winner's Circle lounge in North Liberty closed voluntary by management due to failure to meet drum shop bond requirements to keep liquor license. Earlier raid by state vice agents and Johnson county authorities seized about $9,000 cash and gambling devices. 15 employees were arrested. court actions pending. Also notes 1945 World War II events: Soviet forces entered Berlin and U.S. 7th Army captured Nuernberg.
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North Liberty
Johnson County
Gary Hughes
Hughes
Berlin
7Th Army
Nuernberg
Clark Plans Nationalization of ailing Rock Island lines
Des Moines with UPI reports Sen. Dick Clark announces drafting legislation to nationalize roadbeds of financially troubled railroads. Meeting with Rock Island railroad workers and shippers, he aims for $100 million in loans to avert collapse, though senators doubt the loan solves Rock Island's problems.
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DES Moines
UPI
Dick Clark
D-Iown
Rock Island Railroad
Clark
Rock Island
Inappropriate Nude Painting Removed From IE Display
A painting by University of Iowa graduate student Robert Barrett was withdrawn from the Iowa Electric Light and Power Co. sales room for being inappropriate. The work, one of 11 by U I artists, showed a woman combing her hair before a mirror. IE aims to display the piece elsewhere while keeping the other ten paintings on view.
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Iowa Electric Light and Power Co
University of Iowa
Robert Barrett
U. of I
Barrett
Cedar Rapids Art Center
Squabble over Iowa City police leadership unfolds
Iowa City faces questions over chief replacement as Police Chief Emmett Evans retires on July 16. City Manager Neal Berlin promotes David Epstein as acting chief, while Assistant City Attorney Bowlin questions the legality of the director of public safety role and Epstein’s qualifications.
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Iowa City
Emmett E. Evans
Neal Berlin
David Epstein
Berlin
Asst
Robert Bowlin
Bowlin
Epstein
Rites Set Tuesday For Ralph L Gunnison
Ralph L Gunnison 74 formerly of Springville died Friday in Glendale California where he had lived since 1966 He owned grocery stores in Springville Mechanicsville and State Center and managed a Glendale supermarket before retiring He was an all state basketball player at Springville High School and a Methodist church member Surviving wife Ther Esther Thuesen Services Tuesday at 11 United Methodist Church Burial Lutheran Cemetery Kimballton Visitation at Murdoch s after 1 p m Monday
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Springville
Ralph L. Gunnison
Glendale
Calif
Nebraska
Esther Thuesen
Mechanicsville
State Center
Springville High School
Methodist Church
United Methodist Church
Lutheran Cemetery
Kimballton
Murdoch's
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Pierson
William G. Hanan
Prairie High School
Banker's Life and Actuarial Club of
Barbara Jilovec
Western Fraternal Life Assn
Jack Hubler
Bowen KC
Bowen General Assembly
Knights of Columbus
KC Hall
Monticello
Jerome
Kiwanis
Montrose
Iowa City Area
St. Luke’s Hospital
Optimists
Duchess Cleaners
Montrose Hotel
Rotary Club
Lou Blair
Del-Ray Place
3Rd St. S.E
People’s Bank and Trust Co. East
Verna’s
Arco Building
Canopus Club
Charles Kriz
Louis Pochobradsky
Sixteenth Avenue
Islamic Center
Mike McCarty
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
Bishops Downtown
Diabetes Chapter
East Central Diabetes Chapter
Mercy Hospital
Eli Lilly Drug Co
Travel and Transport
Civic Club
South Side Civic Club
Csps Hall
Cedar Rapids Boys’ Choir
Dale's Fruit Baskets
Sertoma Club
the Elks
Holiday Inn
Temple Judah
Pella
Winner’s Circle
O.L. Miller
Palo Alto
Hawkeye Downs
Miller
al Schmidt
Glass Road
California
Americana
Times Camera Ke
eTay
First Avenue
Times Theatre
Ta E Americana
1St Avenue
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