Reapportionment Plan Moves Toward Gov Ray
Iowa lawmakers approve a nonpartisan reapportionment plan defining new legislative and congressional districts. The House vote 90 to 5 reshapes incumbents with Neal Smith and Tom Harkin moved to new districts while Johnson and Poweshiek counties join the 3rd District. Senate had rejected earlier proposals. Ray expected to sign. Leaders on both sides see political benefit.
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Judy
Neal Smith
Tom Harkin
Johnson and Poweshiek
House
Service Bureau
Senate
Tom Tauke
James Leach
Ray
Don Avenson
D-Oelwein
Iowa
Avenson
Reagan says Soviets are squealing over neutron warheads
President Reagan, after signing budget and tax bills, denounces Soviet reactions as “squealing” for failing to stop the U.S. plan to produce neutron warheads. He defends the move as a turning point in U.S. spending and arms policy and rejects Soviet pressure at a mountaintop ranch press conference. He also asserts that striking air controllers effectively quit.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Reagan
Mountaintop
United States
Europe
Soviet Union
Geneva
Nine die as copter crashes near England coast
A Wessex helicopter carrying 11 passengers and two crew from Amoco U K Exploration crashed off the Norfolk coast near Great Yarmouth while returning from a North Sea gas rig. Nine men were killed, four missing, eight bodies recovered, and rescue operations continued as conditions were calm.
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Great Yarmouth
England
Royal Air Force
RAF
Leman
Norfolk
Coastguard
Norwich
Amoco
U.K
McKeown
Today's Chuckle Inventor blends razor and doorbell into humdin ger
An enterprising inventor crossed an electric razor with a doorbell. The device emits a hum and rings to announce shaving time, a quirky fusion of gadgetry and practicality. This playful invention hints at clever daily conveniences.
Senate approves rail bonding bill in Iowa
The Iowa Senate backed a bonding plan to raise IRFA authority to 200 million dollars and add an 8 cent per gallon diesel tax for railroads. The measure, amended to curb bidding by IRFA against private bidders, moves to the House with expected final approval today.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State
Senate
House of Representatives
Iowa Railway Finance Authority
House
69Th General Assembly
Richard Drake
R-Muscatine
Rolf Craft
Decorah
IRFA
Drake
Iowa Dot
Department of
Iowa House approves gas and diesel tax hike
The Iowa House voted 55 to 41 to raise gasoline from 10 to 13 cents per gallon and diesel from 11.5 to 13.5 cents on September 1, with diesel rising to 15.5 cents by July 1, 1981. Gasohol tax drops from 5 to 4 cents, narrowing its break to 9 cents. The bill now goes to the Senate for amendments.
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Des Moines
Iowa House
House
Senate
Five Miami women found wandering in Detroit hospital
Five elderly women missing from a Miami boarding house were abandoned at Detroit Receiving Hospital by a man and woman in a black Cadillac. The women tried to buy airline tickets home, officials said, as Florida and Detroit authorities pursue charges against operator Cora Galvin amid suspicions of large withdrawals from a boarder’s account.
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Detroit
Miami
Florida
Cora Galvin
Dade County
Thomas Petersen
Galvin
Gerald Hale
Linda Berkowitz
Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services
Harold Osbourne
Detroit Receiving Hospital
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