Keota Group Establishes Tent City at Des Moines Fair
At the Iowa State fairgrounds east of the fair, a Keota community has formed a sprawling tent city with 1,500 to 3,400 units including tents, motor homes, and travel trailers. Cy Schmit notes plans to elect a mayor as the makeshift town grows each year with families from Keota and visitors from California among the residents.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Cy Schmit
Schmit
Kenneth Hahn
Dennis Conrad
Keota
Iowa Tax Equalization Alters Property Assessments
The Iowa tax equalization plan uses a 50 50 mix of market value and production for agricultural land. Assessors must finish reassessments by May 15 1978 with state review midway to decide on adjustments. Linn County faced cuts of 21 percent agricultural and 15 percent commercial, Cedar Rapids saw agricultural down 39 percent and residential up 22 percent, while urban and commercial gains reached 31 and 38 percent respectively in the equalization order. Iowa City and others held reassessments with varying outcomes.
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Revenue Department
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Allamakee
Benton
Buchanan
Cedar
Clayton
Delaware
Dubuque
Fayette
Howard
Iowa
Johnson
Jones
Keokuk Linn
Muscatine
Poweshiek
Scott
Tama
Winneshiek Washington
Allamakee Benton
Buchanan Cedar
Delaware Dubuque
Howard of
Jones Keokuk
Linn
Muscatine Poweshiek
Washington Winneshiek
Iowa Streams Hit Century-Scale Flood Flows in Iowa
Washington reports central Iowa streams rose to century level after heavy rains. Timber Creek near Marshalltown reached about 8.4 billion gallons per day, far above its 22 million normal, while Richland Creek near Haven logged 3.2 billion gallons, both with 100 year recurrence intervals per the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Washington
Iowa
U.S. Geological Survey
Timber Creek
Marshalltown
Richland Creek
Haven
Tama County
Geological Survey
Plane Forced Landing Near Wyoming in Jones County
A one engine plane flown by Gerald Simonds of Rockford Illinois was forced to land in a pasture three miles west of here around 2 30 p m Thursday. Simonds uninjured. About 3000 damage. FAA investigating cause suspected fuel transfer error.
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Wyoming
Jones County
Here
Sheriff's Department
Gerald Simonds
Rockford
Ill
Simonds
Federal Aviation Administration
Rain Occurs Across Northeast Iowa With Scattered Storms
Scattered showers and thunderstorms hit much of northeast Iowa as a weak low pressure system and an upper disturbance move through. Showers may continue in the east through early Saturday with unseasonably cool temperatures expected to persist into next week. Overnight lows ranged from 53 to 60 and highs from 68 to 77 with several towns reporting heavy rainfall in the 24 hours ending Friday morning.
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Iowa
National Weather Service
Spencer
Des Moines
Fort Dodge
Dubuque
Fayette
New Hampton
Mason City
Coors Plans Iowa Distribution Amid Labor Dispute
Adolph Coors Co plans intensive promotion to boost sales during a labor boycott that led to replacements in production. The brewery will distribute beer in Iowa next month and aims to expand to other states as capacity doubles.
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Coors
Iowa
Golden, Colo
UPI
Adolph Coors Co
Joseph Coors
The
New World Liberation Front
Golden
Denver
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S&trideRite
Lindale
Killian
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