Duty free and discount myths exposed by travel writer
A travel writer critiques discount pitches from hotels car rental clubs and duty free bargains. He recalls frequent brush-offs at motel desks argues promised discounts often beat by stand-alone deals and warns duty free stores can overprice items despite alluring labels.
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U.S
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Carmel
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Correction clarification on Center Point clerk pay and corrections
The Center Point city clerk earns 5.40 dollars per hour, not five dollars as report ed. Last year she earned 14 510 dollars, including 428 overtime hours, and seeks 85 cents hourly raise plus a part time deputy clerk for 15 hours weekly. The Gazette also clarifies a miscaptioned story on out of state couples seeking Iowa adoptions. The newspaper will publish corrections or clarifications for inaccurate or misleading reports and headlines.
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the Gazette
Attorney wages fight for Coopers
Vanessa Shelton reports Newton attorney Jane Harlan continues to fight for five Cooper children amid unpaid work and court battles. The case involves custody, parental rights, and a $75 000 movie-right sale to NBC Productions, with hearings in Jasper County and Newton.
Trust fund for Cooper children questioned in Iowa court
In Linn County District Court Judge Paul Kilburg heard arguments over a trust set up for the five Cooper children. Guardian James Cleverley Jr. and attorney Gilbert Caldwell argued the fund should stand. former guardian Jane Harlan and Dennis Cooper urged conservatorship. Initial $10,000 was deposited at Security Bank Marshalltown from a $75,000 NBC Productions contract, with the bank to administer the trust.
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Reasoner
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Gilbert Caldwell III
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Shepherd Reinstated at Vinton High School
Vinton High School librarian Rex Shepherd will return to work Thursday after the school board accepted an adjudicator’s ruling that he should be suspended without pay for 15 days rather than fired. Shepherd, 58, was dismissed Feb. 1 following a January incident in which he struck a student. the board plans no action on the adjudicator’s ruling.
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Rex Shepherd
Shepherd
Iowa Public Employees Relations Board
Everett Hidlebaugh
Vinton School
Farm share of food dollar declines for third straight year
USDA figures show farm value of food rose 2.7 percent in 1987 while retail prices for a standard market basket rose 5 percent and the price spread climbed 6 percent. Farmers received 29 percent of the consumer food dollar, the lowest level on record for the third year in a row.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
USDA
Department
Economic Research Service
Farmers gain little from consumer food dollar decline
Dr. Roger Ginder of Iowa State University argues farmers’ share of the consumer food dollar has fallen but subsidies soften the impact. He notes rising costs in transport handling and processing since World War II and says government commodity programs cushion farm income, preventing a sharper drop.
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Iowa State University
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