Energy Tax Breaks Dropped From Big Tax Bill
Senate finance committee drops a $500 million energy conservation package from the tax revision bill and plans to reintroduce it in a separate energy measure. A gasoline tax is raised by a half cent for three years to offset losses, but chances of passage before adjournment look slim. The energy plan would have offered up to 225 dollars off tax bills for insulation and similar home improvements, plus incentives for geothermal solar and wind projects.
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Washington
Senate-House
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
Congress
Senate
House
FBI Arrests Fringe Follower of Manson
Acting on a tip FBI agents arrested Susan Murphy 34 and Diane Louise Ellis 33 at a downtown intersection in Portland Oregon. The two women escaped 13 days earlier from a Los Angeles area federal prison and were taken into custody without incident by two agents.
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Portland
Ore
FBI
Susan Murphy
Charles Manson
Miss Murphy
Diane Louise Ellis
Oregon
Canada
Miss Ellis
Terminal Island Federal Prison
San Francisco
Sandra Good
Lynette
Squeaky” Fromme
Ford
Manson
Sharon Tate
Fire Destroys Cedar Rapids Garage and Car Rescue
Two motorcyclists who rode by early Friday alerted Mrs. John Gray of Cedar Rapids to a garage fire behind her home. They left as she and her husband moved the late-model station wagon from the burning structure, averting damage to the car just before a gasoline flash. Firefighters fought the blaze about an hour. the garage owner is John B. Turner. Cause under investigation.
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Cedar Rapids
John Gray
First Avenue
Malone Says Cedar Rapids School Board Shares Blame
Francis E. Malone told the Metro Kiwanis club that the Grant Wood Areas Education Agency board bears responsibility for morale and administrative conflicts. He criticized the convention-based selection of trustees and called for training for volunteers on the Cedar Rapids board of education in director district three. Election is September 14.
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Cedar Rapids
Francis E. Malone
Malone
Metro Kiwanis Club
Toddville
Grant Wood Ares Education Agency
Grant Wood
Massone
Te Cedar Rapids Board of Education
Preliminary Sketches Okayed For New Kirkwood Building
Kirkwood Community College board approves preliminary design for a 39 000 square foot center to house welding Skills Center and carpentry. Budget 1 109 999 with completion hoped June 30 next year, but architects warn October possible.
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Kirkwood Community College
Linnhall
Rockford Road
Selby Ballantyne
Vietnam veteran frees hostages after TV story at Terminal Tower
A Vietnam veteran in Cleveland took 13 hostages during a nine hour siege at Terminal Tower to protest Chessie Systems veteran policies. After seeing news coverage of his story on television he released the hostages and surrendered. He faces charges of kidnapping and possible extortion and threats to a interstate commerce company.
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Cleveland
Landmark Terminal Tower
Ashley Leach
Huntington
W Va
Charles McKinnon
FBI
Leach
Cyrus Eaton
RC McGowan
Chessie
McGowan
Television Listings for Cedar Rapids and Des Moines
TV schedule excerpts show channels 5 WGI 9 KCRG 13 WHO and 10 News with late night movies, CBS offerings, and a Midnight Special. Included are Roden and Perry Mason titles plus Rio Grande, War Gods of Deep and Mission: Impossible style segments.
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WGI
Anes & — Wast
McCrosse
KCRG
Cedar Rapids
WHO
Des Moines
Perry Mason
Mary Horta
CBS
Tomer Conan
Rio Grande
WMT
WHAF
Rockland
WOC
Davenport
KWWL
Waterloo
KCO
WOAD
Moline
KTTC
Rochester
KIN
Iowa
KRIN
CBS Reports
Donny & Marie
Sanford
News
Chico
Man
Vila Megre
Wall Street
Consequences
Chico and
Mar Ble
Little Rascals
Hee Haw
NBC
Chmielewski
ABC
Marth Game
Washington
State Fair
Kirkwood Community College Board Urges Driving to Convention
Kirkwood Community College board members are urged to drive to the Association of Community College Trustees meeting in St. Louis at the end of September to save money. Board chair BA Jensen notes driving can save the college funds even at 15 cents per mile. Jensen plans to drive and invites riders, though some may not have time to spare.
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Kirkwood Community College Board of Directors
St. Louis
BA. Jensen
Si Dent
Assn. of Community College Trustees
Jensen
Reflects French Roots on Grand Portage Trail Name
The Smile overland haul between Lake Superior and the Pigeon River in northeast Minnesota earned its name from seventeenth century French speaking Canadian fur traders.
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Lake Superior
Pigeon River
Minnesota
Kirkwood to Expand Sewage Plant With New Federal Funds
Kirkwood Community College wins federal funding boost after Sen. Culver announces Senate Public Works Committee approved increasing the maximum Water Pollution Control Act grant from 250000 to 500000. The college will expand its wastewater training center and may add a new building next year.
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Kirkwood Community College
John Culver
Iowa
Senate Public Works Committee
Culver
Kirkwood
Selby Bal
Lantyne
Midwest
Ballantyne
Japanese Teacher To Visit in Cedar Rapids
An English teacher from Japan will visit a Cedar Rapids Community School District home for two weeks starting Monday. Susumu Shinada stays with Leslie Santee at 1900 Chandler Street SW through a program by ISEA and the Council on International Education Exchange. He is one of 43 Japanese English teachers visiting Iowa schools to learn about the American education system.
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Japan
Cedar Rapids
Susumu Shinada
Leslie Santee
Chandler Street
Iowa State Education Assn
ISEA
Council On International Education Exchange, Inc
New York
Iowa
Patchett Names Diane Krivo Campaign Coordinator
Mt Vernes resident Diane Krivo is named campaign coordinator for Representative John Patchett in the 25th district. The appointment aligns Krivo with Patchett’s reelection efforts in North Liberty and surrounding areas.
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Diane Krivo
Mt. Vernes
John Patchett
North Liberty
Cedar Rapids woman fined for drunk driving in Linn County
A Cedar Rapids woman, Elsine Landa, 161 Elev enth avenue SW, was fined 300 dollars and costs and given a suspended 10 day sentence in Linn district court after pleading guilty to drunk driving for the July 2 incident. Several others also received deferred sentences after guilty pleas to drunk driving with listed addresses and arrest dates. ON THIS DATE in 1963, Charles de Gaulle arrived in Ethiopia from Somaliland after rioting marred his visit.
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Pamela Sue Collins
Cedar Rapids
Linn
Women’s Reformatory
Rockwell City
Collins
Callins
Elsine Landa
Eleventh Avenue
Norman Hartwig
Avenue
Gerald Mathews
Bowling Street
Jacob Sayers
Central City
Charles Hynek
Fairfax
Charles Petersen
Vinton
Charles de Gaulle
Ethiopia
Somaliland
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C.R. Garage
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Rome
By Judy Daubenmier
Lafer
Ed Sauer
Carpenters
Linn Hall
Vernon Pickett
Saner
Sauer
State Department of Public Instruction
Tom Bowker and Sons, Inc
Brown, Healey, Bock
Benton Ball Construction
Loomis Brothers
Fandel Electric
Bentonhall
Trimpe’s, Inc
Lisbon
Iowa City Learning Center
Tom Merrye
Todd Koza
Ed Koza
Prairie Drive
Cedar River
Mowhawk Park
Amy
Koza
Veterans’ Rights
Chessie System, Inc
Television
Adlai Stevenson
Estes Kefauver
Patchett
BankAmericard
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