Centralized Purchasing Bill Faces Senate Review
The Iowa Senate examines a house bill creating a general services department under a governor appointed director. The proposal extends to the State Board of Regents and the Iowa highway commission, risking added bureaucracy and potentially undermining anticipated savings of 2 to 3 million dollars annually.
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State Board of Regents
Iowa Highway Commission
Regents
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Highway Commission
Regents and Commission
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Des Moines
General Services
Economy Committee
Iowa City
Ames
Cedar Falls
Regents and Highway Commission
Cash for Trading Stamps Bill Returns to Legislature
The Iowa legislature again considers allowing cash redemption of trading stamps alongside catalog merchandise, arguing it would expand choice and reduce high retail stamp values. Proponents say dealers should be exempt from tighter rules, with a simple cash option at stamp centers. Critics warn it challenges the stamp system, but supporters push for a bill aiming to serve ordinary people’s interests.
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Senate
Inflation Tactics Argued By The Economists
Economists debate if inflation and growth trend up or down after a GNP milestone. Shultz touts a money supply rule while Fed critics warn the 5 percent 1969 rise did not lift GNP. Burns seeks a price wage board. White House resists formal jawboning amid rising fares and taxes. Moonlighting grows as families squeeze budgets. United Feature Syndicate.
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General Motors
George P. Shultz
Shultz
Arthur Laffer
Nixon
Burns
Los Angeles
White House
Parental duty in school discipline sparks forum debate
In Cedar Rapids, citizens discuss who should discipline children amid rising concerns about society and media influence. The letter writer argues schools must not replace parental responsibility, praising independent journalism and defending freedoms of religion, press, and public schooling.
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Cedar Rapids
If Kaiser Wilhelm had invaded America in history
Russell Baker imagines a counterfactual where Kaiser Wilhelm’s prewar plan succeeds. Government would be led by Germanic named officials, streets filled with Volkswagens, and American life altered by German brands, foods, and daily obsessions. The piece mixes whimsy with history to explore cultural consequences.
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Haldeman
Ziegler
Klein
Kleindienst
Schultz
Schlitz
Budweiser
Miller
Pabst
Johann Mitchell
Germany
Russia
Berlin
Seminar on draft fails to draw many attendees
A Gazette report from Vietnam coverage notes a seminar on the draft and related military matters drew only ten students and three parents. The observer wonders how those who protest and riot can claim concern while minimal attendance shows limited public interest.
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Vietnam
Cedar Rapids Low Bid For Parking Ramp Is Reported
This Day Abell-Howe Co bid 530095 for the general contract of a new parking ramp on First Street SE between Second and Third Avenues Cedar Rapids city council hired Ned Ashton Iowa City consultant engineer to inspect Cedar River bridges and report repairs and costs. A Chamber of Commerce board vote approved separating the Cedar Rapids Marion United Fund from the Chamber effective Jan 1 1961. About 1000 spec 1951 tutors witnessed a fire at May Drug warehouse 321 First Street SE causing about 250000 in damages. Memorial commission reported Cedar Rapids paid 7220.57 to not run the Memorial Building and 5294.82 in taxes for baseball stadium operations for the year ended March 31. Over four million people welcomed General MacArthur in a mammoth parade from Midway.
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Cedar Rapids
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Ned Ashton
Iowa City
Cedar River
May Drug
Memorial Commission
General MacArthur
Midway
1941 YMCA debt drive and Cedar Rapids water updates
Robert Armstrong announced a $60,000 all out campaign to clear the YMCA of debt and fund improvements. H F Blomquist reported Cedar Rapids laid over four miles of new water mains in the past year. Budapest reports claim four German motorized divisions massed at the Spanish French frontier for a swift advance against Gibraltar amid axis efforts toward the Suez canal.
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Chicago Loop
Robert Armstrong
YMCA
H. F. Blomquist
Cedar Rapids
Budapest
Gibraltar
Suez Canal
Kaiser's imagined America under German conquest
A satirical look at how American life might differ if Kaiser Wilhelm had conquered the United States. It envisions Germanized politics and industry, efficiency, surveillance, and war readiness, contrasted with stubborn American dislikes like Wagner, pickled pig feet, soccer, and trains, ending with a call to President Nixon to lead a patriotic chant.
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Kaiser
Nixon
Enterpriser Takes Odd View Published Dirt No Business of Publisher
William F Buckley Jr argues that ownership of The Village Voice should not dictate editorial policy. He reveals Carter Burden’s stance that stock ownership does not grant control over what gets published, framing responsibility as a right to publish provocative material regardless of taste or libel risk. The column critiques Kissinger pieces and contrasts Burden’s claim with ethical expectations.
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New York
Companion
Sonset Origo
Voice
Norman Mailer
Gloria Steinem
Dwight MacDonald
Robert Kennedy
Carter Burden
The
Holy See
Playboy
Burden
Henry Kissinger
Kissinger
Arthur Schlesinger
George Ward
Mr. Burden
Earl Warren
Soviet Union
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