Cedar Rapids tax hike to raise about 13 mills in county and city
Linn county supervisors anticipate about four mills more for county operations and Cedar Rapids city functions will add about five mills, with one mill for four county schools and three for Cedar Rapids schools. If estimates hold, Cedar Rapids homeowners could see a total millage rise to about 13 mills, yielding an estimated $705 tax on a $5 000 assessed home.
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Linn County
County Board of Supervisors
Cedar Rapids
Four County School Board
Kirkwood
Cedar Rapidians
Iowa Highway Commission Seeks 26 Percent Budget Increase
The Iowa highway commission proposed a $139 million biennial budget covering administration planning capital improvements maintenance and other expenses requiring legislative approval. Construction and right‑of‑way purchases fall outside this funding need. The plan was delivered to Gov. Ray amid ongoing state fiscal discussions.
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Des Moines
Iowa Highway Commission
Robert Ray
Highway Commission
Coupal
Commission
Viets Not Forced Into Ditch In My Lai Testimony
Lt. William Calley’s platoon witness Maples testified that a group of Vietnamese went into a ditch on Calley’s orders where they were shot. Maples said Calley asked him to fire. Maples refused and described seeing Calley and Meadle fire into the ditch. The trial raised questions about orders and responsibility in the My Lai massacre.
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Fort Benning
William Calley
Calley
My Lai
Reid Kennedy
Robert Maples
Lt. Calley
Maples
Pfc
Paul Meadle
Meadle
Ziegler
Nixon
State and Transportation Departments
Congress
William Macomber
Administration
String of Shellings By Enemy
Communist gunners conducted a night of shellings across South Vietnam targeting airbases provincial capitals and district towns. Casualties were light overall with Americans killed at Cam Ranh Bay and wounded at Phu Cat while civilians suffered two deaths and sixteen injuries in attacked towns. U.S. and Vietnamese forces pushed into the U Minh forest as B 52 bombers struck nearby woods and Cambodian troops claimed counteroffensives north of Phnom Penh.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Cam Ranh Bay
Phu Cat
Holloway
U.S
Laotian
Panhandle
Vietnam
Delta
Phnom Penh
Iowa conservation board buys Upper Iowa tract east of Decorah
The Iowa conservation commission voted to purchase a 464 acre tract along the Upper Iowa river for 67352 dollars about 145 dollars per acre. The land may fit a plan to designate the Upper Iowa as a federal scenic river. Other actions included buying two miles of abandoned railroad right of way through Shimek state forest for bicycle trails and continuing a summer water skiing program on Green Valley lake near Creston.
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DES Moines
Iowa Conservation Commission
Iowa River
Decorah
William Brabham
Commission
Acre
Upper
Iowa
Shimek State Forest
Green Valley Lake
Creston
Boston to honor Cardinal Cushing with joint memorial
Mayor Kevin White announced a joint venture between Boston city government and the Roman Catholic archdiocese to erect a memorial honoring Cardinal Cushing. The project seeks communal recognition and lasting tribute within the city.
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Boston
UPI
Kevin White
Archdiocese of
Cardinal Cushing
Bonn Consul Kidnapped by Basques in Spain
Basque terrorists seized the honorary West German consul Eugene Schaefer in San Sebastian and claim he is held for 15 Basques on trial Thursday. The Basque Anai Artea group in Bayonne says ETA sent word that Schaefer is in its hands.
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San Sebastian
Spain
Anai-Artea
Brothers Assn
Bayonne
France
ETA
Eugene Schaefer
Pope Paul I presides as protests greet ecumenical service
In Sydney 10000 packed Town Hall for the Pope’s ecumenical service while about a dozen protesters outside carried placards denouncing Rome. Rev. Frederick Channing led a quick outside interruption inside the hall. no violence ensued amid tense Catholic Protestant exchanges.
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Sydney
Paul I
Christ
Rome
Frederick Channing
New Zealand
Jesus Christ
Channing
Bible Presbyterian Church
Marcus Loane
Happy Hunting Begins at Home
Burdette Clutter hunted two days without success in the woods near Waynesburg Pennsylvania. He returned to his farm and shot a seven point buck in the yard with a single shot.
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Waynesburg
Burdette Clutter
Town Fights for Survival and Wins
Oxford Nebraska overcame a plant closure and population decline by forming the Oxford Industrial Council and the non profit Oxford Development Corp. Residents secured SBA loans and private funds to lure new firms including an iron forging plant a toy maker and a church furniture producer. The town plans a Main Street face lift and now houses more than 1100 residents.
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Oxford, Neb
Nebraska
Campbell Soup Co
Oxford
Ed Sherwood
Campbell
Small Business Administration
Sherwood
Bill
Oxford Industrial Council
Oxford Development Corp
SBA
Sherwoods
Sherwood and His
Fel
Michigan
Oxford Corp
Legislature study backs ROTC on campuses urged by panel
A Iowa legislative committee on student unrest tentatively endorses ROTC on university campuses while noting objections at meetings across Iowa, Iowa State and Northern Iowa. The panel plans further talks with university presidents and regents before finalizing its report to the legislature.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa State
Board of Regents
Arthur Neu
Nixon Calls Coast Guard Asylum Case Outrageous
President Nixon criticized the coast guard for denying political asylum to a Lithuanian sailor calling the action outrageous. A final report due later, with a policy review for defector cases after the report, while Congress schedules hearings.
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Washington
Nixon
Coast Guard
Ronald Ziegler
Massachusetts
Ziegler
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Bob Riley
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