Double taxation or double collection debate in Iowa tax plan
Readers dispute the editorial framing of withholding tax in Iowa in 1965. The piece explains that under current law taxes on 1964 income are due April 30 1965 while withholding could accelerate payment for 1965 income causing potential double collection for some taxpayers. The editorial notes politicians fear many citizens do not set aside paid tax funds and could lose votes.
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Iowa
Hughes
Republican Tax Commission
Legislative Study Committee
Two Sides Clash Over Mississippi Cabin Land near Marquette
The dispute centers on river bank land along the Mississippi near Marquette and Harpers Ferry with squatters facing removal while the state conservation commission asserts rightful ownership for public use. Both sides call for court resolution to settle deed and abstract proof and avoid waste of the vacant land.
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Mississippi
Marquette
Harpers Ferry
Allamakee County
Milwaukee Railroad
State Conservation Commission
Iowa native Gray tops Pan Am as hours claim debated
The piece questions Pan Am public relations on Harold E. Gray's flying hours. Ray Steele calculates that at age 58 Gray has lived about half the time Pan Am claimed he had been in the air by age 39. The column suspects the claim meant a million miles, not hours.
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Harold E. Gray
Pan-American Airlines
Pan-Am
Gray
Ray Steele
Cedar Rapids
Steele Fig
Mr. Steele
Mr. Gray
Disuse of capital punishment grows as states end executions
Capital punishment wanes not by broad abolition but by disuse. Nine states Alaska Hawaii Maine Michigan Minnesota North Dakota Rhode Island Wisconsin and Oregon have ended executions. With 41 states and the federal government the annual total has dropped, from 1935's 199 to last year's 21. The debate continues among experts, but trends favor a shift away from state killing toward different punishments.
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Alaska
Hawaii
Maine
Michigan
Minnesota
North Dakota
Rhode Island
Wisconsin
Oregon
Revanchist mood splits US Republicans over Goldwater fallout
Washington observers describe a party in turmoil as Republicans demand resignations from Dean Burch and blame shifts center on Nelson Rockefeller. John Grenier argues Rockefeller’s role harmed Goldwater and Nixon, fueling broader intra party recriminations amid a year end power struggle.
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Ashington
Washington
G.O.P
Dean Burch
Burch
Barry Goldwater
John Grenier
Alabama
Nelson Rockefeller
Johnson
Goldwater
Grenier
Rockefeller
Richard Nixon
John F. Kennedy
House factions rally over Goldwater and Johnson loyalties
The piece outlines threats of a Republican caucus led by Charles Halleck aiming to curb orthodox GOP power and a Democratic bid to eject Dixiecrats Williams and Watson who backed Goldwater. It argues intra party feuds will fail and politics will settle, urging restraint as cooler judgment prevails.
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Charles Halleck
Indiana
G.O.P. House
House
Johnson
Goldwater
John Bell Williams
Mississippi
Albert W. Watson
South Carolina
North
Williams
Watson
Burch
Rockefeller
New York
Halleck
Williams and Watson
Sorensen Emerges as Key Figure in Nebraska Two-Party Shift
In Nebraska politics the two party system expands as Gov. Frank Morrison backs a grass-roots Democratic drive led by Philip Sorensen, his lieutenant governor hopeful and Ted Sorensen’s brother. The plan includes a staffing push and a department of economic development, facing a conservative legislature wary of reform.
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Incoln
Neb
Philip Sorensen
Ted
Kennedy
Sorensen
Frank Morrison
Nebraska
Morrison
Carl Curtis
Omaha
Scottsbluff
Phil Sorensen
Sdrensen
State Department of Economic Development
Washingtons school reform could guide the nation
John Chamberlain highlights the Washington DC system as a model for national reform funded by Ford Foundation and Office of Economic Opportunity. He praises Dr. Carl Hansen and the Amidon and Cardozo programs expanding early language work, phonics, initial teaching alphabet, and color–coded materials to boost literacy and curb delinquency.
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Ashington
Washington, D.C
Ford Foundation
Sargent Shriver
Office of Economic Opportunity
Carl Hansen
Washington
Hansen
Amidon
Dorothy Johnson
District of Columbia
Johnson
Cardozo
Ford
New York
Harlem
Legion clubroom bowling alley plan approved
City council adopted a proposal to grant the American Legion a Fourth avenue clubroom bowling alley building and extend Fourth avenue for future street use.
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The
American Legion
Fourth Avenue
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Janet Connolly
William Connollys
Cresco
Westlawn
University of Iowa
High Twelve Club
Fred Stanford
David Linge
Miles P. Sutera
Roy Barnes
Morey Nassif
Ralph B. Colton
C. C. Hill
House of Cedar Rapids
League of Women Voters
Des Moines
Iowa League
Iowa City
Frank K. Hahn
Mt. Vernon
Margaret Hedges
Margaret Fussell
Cornell College
George Clark
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