Iowa State Tax Receipts Beat Estimates First Half 1974-75
State Comptroller Marvin Selden reports Iowa tax collections for July through December reached 354.7 million, 6.2 percent above expected, with individual income taxes rising 19.5 percent to 145 million. Corporate, sales, and use taxes topped forecasts, while use taxes ran 4 million ahead. total receipts, including federal sharing and fees, stood at 415.4 million, 36.1 million more than the prior year six months.
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Des Moines
IDPA
Marvin Selden
Iowa
Soluen
Selden
Tis
Three Killed by Suitcase Bomb in Cleveland Home
A suitcase bomb exploded inside a Cleveland home killing Maryanne Bigley 21 and her son Michael 2 and Burdell Offitt 26. Three others including 9 month old Steven Sigley and Deborah Slepko 14 with husband John 21 were critically injured. Offitt, a visitor who found the suitcase, died after warning authorities.
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Cleveland
Maryanne Bigley
Michael
Burdell Offitt
Metropolitan, General Hospital
Steven Sigley
Deborah Slepko
John
Offitt
Gerald Nalini
Fire Department
Gazette Building Editor Wins Award
The Cedar Rapids Gazette and its reporter win The American Mart national journalism prize for home furnishings reporting. Sandra VanAmburg receives the Dorothy Dawe award for outstanding reporting of home furnishings. The 27th annual ceremony in Chicago honors works across 13 categories.
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
American Mart
Dorothy Dawe
Sandra VanAmburg
Chicago
VanAmburg
Gazette
Margaret Yankey
Building and Homes
Demo Group Decides On Tax Cut Remedy
Washington AP reports house Democrats, holding an overwhelming majority, are drafting an economic package featuring a sizable tax cut for low and middle income earners, credit allocations, rate cuts, and public works jobs. The task force aims to present the plan to Speaker Albert and push action within 90 days, as Ford weighs a State of the Union address timing.
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House
Albert
Richard Fulton Dtenn
Congress
Democratic Task Force
White House
Ford
Ford Administration
Jim Wright
Texas
Democratic
Oil Talks Extended as Some Refineries Strike
Port Arthur and Gulf refineries saw strikes despite union not calling a general strike. A F Gropiron urged continued talks after contracts for 430 bargaining units expired at midnight. About 3,500 workers at Gulf and 4,000 at Texaco faced work stoppages while management staff prepared to operate facilities. 60,000 union members oversee 60 to 70 percent of U S daily gasoline output across Shell Mobil Atlantic Richfield Phillips Continental Exxons single covered refinery.
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Oil Workers Union
Prion
Gulf and
Texaco
Port Arthur
Texas
Brezhnev Not Admitted to Boston Cancer Center
Boston AP report says Sidney Farber Cancer Center official denies any truth to claims Leonid Brezhnev would enter the hospital for treatment. Willian Kuster calls the reports unfounded while The Boston Globe cites a police source. Tass notes Brezhnev’s mother funeral in Moscow.
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Boston
Sidney Farber Cancer Center
Leonid Brezhnev
The
Boston Globe
Tarket Center
Tass
Brezhnev
Moscow
Ford Slips in Self-Criticism
President Ford slips in a tongue error during a National College Athletic Association event, joking that both athletic directors and the president share a common shortcoming and noting a misworded line about permanence in his job. The remark followed a claim about shared challenges in performance.
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Ford
Funchion
National Collegiate Athletic Assn
United States
U.S. Fleet Heads to Indian Ocean Amid Vietnam Tensions
A six ship task force led by the nuclear carrier Enterprise sails toward the Indian Ocean from Subic Bay, with Long Beach and two destroyers. Pentagon says it is on an operational mission not tied to South Vietnam actions. White House notes Ford will observe the law on any Indo China action. Saigon asks for U.S. aid to halt the communist offensive while Vietnam officials urge U.S. support.
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Washington
Indian Ocean
Enterprise
U.S
Seventh Fleet
Subic Bay
Philippines
Pentagon
Long Beach
William Beecher
South Vietnam
Beecher
White House
Ford
Indo- China
Congress
Indo-China
Release of Kalmbach Ordered Too Release of Kalmbach is Ordered Too
Washington AB ULS District Judge John Sirica ordered John Dean Jeb Magruder and Herbert Kalmbach released from prison. They had pled guilty in Watergate related crimes and were serving sentences for conspiracy obstructing justice and campaign law violations. All testified at the Watergate cover up trial.
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Washington
ULS
John Siira
John Dean
Jeb Magruder
Herbert Kalmbach
Dean
White Howe
Medard Nixon
Magruder
Committee
Jesat
Kalmbach
Nixon
Sirica
John Mitchell
I. R. Haldeman
John Ehrlichman
Robert C. Machian
AMI
Turnbuckle Failure Topples KHAK Tower Near Cedar Rapids
One of four 200 foot transmitting towers at KHAK collapsed during maintenance, causing a power reduction but no injuries. The fall occurred near Cedar Rapids on Highway 30 at Ely road after a turnbuckle failed on a guy wire. Repair work by Utility Tower Co. of Oklahoma City is expected to take about ten days.
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KHAK
Cedar Rapids
Highway 30
Ely Road
Tom Uttermark
Utility Tower Co
Oklahoma City
Oklahore
Ford Backs FAA Head Nessen Suggests Butterfield Would Have Gone
President Ford would have replaced Alexander Butterfield as federal aviation administrator if he had not wanted him to stay. Ron Nessen indicated Butterfield would have been removed had the president not supported him.
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Washington
House
Ron Nessen
Alexander Butterfield
Ford
Seattle plane wreck survivors tell tale of 50 hours in snow
Two survivors of a Central Washington to Seattle flight endured 50 hours in snow damaged wreckage in Cascade foothills. Marilyn Foos, 49, and pilot Chepory Bennett, 25, were rescued after a long search hindered by storm and terrain. Foos recalled the crash and a struggle to contact help as others perished nearby.
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Seattle
Marilyn Foos
Mra. Foos
Jay
Washington
Wings
Jilant
Cascade Foothills
Foos
Chepory Bennett
Renton
Ford Plans Gas Price Rise and Energy Policy Steps
President Ford outlines an energy policy aimed at raising gasoline prices to curb demand while avoiding direct rationing. The plan includes voluntary auto mileage improvements, possible insulation subsidies, and tax changes. Proposals feature a $3 per barrel oil import tariff, domestic oil excise tax, removal of old oil price controls, and coal production boosts.
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Washington
Ford
U.S
State of the Union
Republic
Anlo
Chuckle Beaply and Capittnds Face Their Problems
A garbled message reflects unclear woes and tentative solutions. Names and places are unreadable, but the text hints at efforts to settle issues amid confusion and misprints.
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