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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1978
Page
6
Iowa legislators face income tax implications as IRS guidance notes expense pay must be included in gross income. A 1977 78 law raises daily expense to 30 dollars from 20 and limits payable days to 120 odd years and 100 even years, while salary rises to 12000 dollars.
Harley Steele, 82, who spent 45 years in the private sector and then devoted himself to humanitarian work, died last Monday. A Northwestern Bell retiree and active volunteer, he was named 1977 City Humane of the Year by B'nai B'rith for his decades of service, delivering newspapers to hospitalized friends at Mercy and St Luke's daily.
The House passes a broad tax cut plan with estimated family gains from 61 to 146 dollars and broad reforms. Senate aims deeper cuts. The piece questions debt levels at 747.6 billion and wonders if future steps should retire the debt rather than further tax reductions.
Brzezinski rushed a halt request after reading a Washington Post headline about a $140 million Dresser drill-bit plant sale to the Soviets. Kreps replied it was not too late to reverse, but the plan proceeded amid administration ambivalence on using tech as leverage. Senator Jackson warned the policy irony as energy tech transfers expand.
A rambling column from North Platte Nebraska mixes travelogue with sharp sketches of Iowa and Nebraska highways. The narrator compares flat terrain to endless majesty, satirizes highway signage and truck culture, and digresses on local names and a radio editorial against white collar crime.
A Cedar Rapids note from Beth Stuart of Bob Zimmerman Ford attached a corrected rental agreement showing an overcharge for 74 miles corrected to 56 miles. The letter praises decency found during a long tour of the U.S. and notes the amendment has been implemented.
A Cedar Rapids reader praises local integrity and urges better coordination among federal state and municipal aging programs. The writer seeks Linn County candidacy for the November Senior Citizens Legislature, proposing a volunteer committee to cut duplication and save tax money, while noting the Smathers Retirees Club offers death benefits and yard work services since 1975.
The excerpt notes a playful comparison of wheels and water as early human inventions. It describes them as well greased when they squeak and suggests someone is always riding them, reflecting on enduring mechanical progress.
The piece reviews Simone Signoret’s take on Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used to Be and surveys Irish bulls noted by Robert A. Fawkes in Verbatim. It cites examples from Jefferson, a Dublin court, and a death’s door miscue, and reflects on Irish origin myths.
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