Benton High adds chef salad to lunch menu
At Benton Community High School Van Horne the lunch staff replaced standard hot meals with chef's salads to boost participation. Principal Jim Blackledge reports lunch participation rising from about 85 to 95 percent, with cooks adjusting salad orders based on daily hot lunch offerings.
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van Horne
Benton Community High School
Food Service
Jim Blackledge
Blackledge
Lucille Krewson
Michele Schumacher
Atkins
Melanie Sonka
Newhall
House votes to raise Social Security taxes by 27 billion
The House approved a bill by 189 to 163 to increase Social Security taxes by 27 billion dollars over the next decade, the largest peacetime tax rise. The bill shifts higher contributions to middle and upper income workers and employers with the maximum high income payment rising from 965 to over 3,000 dollars. Opponents mainly Republicans warned of reduced spending and possible recession.
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Vigor
Senate approves Social Security tax hike amid college credit concession
The Senate passed the Social Security tax increase by 56 to 21 after conferees dropped a $250 college tuition tax credit. Delegates Blouin supported higher Social Security taxes while Grassley Leach and Culver opposed in the vote.
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Blouin
Grassley
Leach
Senate
Clark
Culver
Workers fired over ornaments at gas plant site
About 40 construction workers at Blount Construction Co in Mobile were fired for refusing to remove Christmas decorations at the Northern National Gas Liquid Natural Gas plant construction site. The decorations included stars and lights on work shacks.
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Ventura
UPI
Blount Construction Co
Mobile
Ala
Northern National Gas Liquid Natural Gas
Area libraries offer farm and radio show collections
More than 50 libraries across a 10 county Eastern Iowa region loan free collections of old time radio programs and musical comedies. A new farming collection is available through the East Central Regional Library with a full holdings list shared with local libraries.
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Iowa
Nelle Neafie
East Central Regional Library
ECRL
Benton
Clinton
Cedar
Jackson
Johnson, Jones, Linn
Poweshiek
Tama
Man Injured In Head-On Crash On Narrow Bridge
Steve Miller 23 of Luana is in fair condition at LaCrosse Lutheran Hospital after his pickup collided head on with a rendering truck on a one lane gravel bridge five and a half miles northeast of here. Deputies say the crash is under investigation. Also noting that Kurt Waldheim was chosen U N secretary general on this date in 1971.
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Luana
LaCrosse
Wis
Lutheran Hospital
Here
Clayton County
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Rich Etscheidt
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Iowa City
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Inne
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