Cedar Rapids Levy Ranks Drop To 15th In Iowa Cities
Cedar Rapids holds No. 4 taxation among the state's five largest centers but slips to 15th in overall 1960 levy among 21 towns. The new rate hits 93.221 mills for property tax, with school levy at 51.042 and county 7.975. City services cost breakdown shows city government 35 cents of each dollar, schools 55, county 8, plus state and assessor shares. The article also notes historical photos, zoo bear culling practices, badge handling for former officials, and city officials scheduled Rotary talks.
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Art Heusinkveld
Gazette
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Insurance agent charged with theft ordered to pay judge
WHITCHURCH Wales UP I reports an insurance agent faced stealing charges from a prospective customer. He was ordered to post a dollar for a babysitter while the victim testified in court.
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Whitchurch
Wales
UPI
Scientists borrow Civil Servant name for British rocket project
London reports scientists working on a future British rocket have adopted the nickname The Civil Servant. They say the craft won’t work, it cannot be fired, and it wastes taxpayers’ money.
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London
UPI
Washington
Vanguard
Ford 1960 Industrial Arts Awards Prize Program Details
Ford Motor Company announces the 1960 Industrial Arts Awards offering about 50 000 dollars in prizes for thousands of student entrants from the United States Canada and Puerto Rico. The program spans 14 divisions and includes an experimental solar energy category with 32 Outstanding Achievement Award winners receiving expense paid trips to Dearborn Michigan. Participants must be under 21 by July 1 1960 and enrolled in public private parochial or technical schools.
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United States
Canada
Puerto Rico
Ford Motor Company
Ford
Dearborn
Mich
IAA
Explosion destroys liquor still building in Jackson
Police doubt they will find the owner of a concrete building that was destroyed by an explosion one night. The building housed a liquor still.
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Jackson
Miss
UPI
First Step Half the Trip Weather Delays Pan American Clipper
Pan American flight 215 from New York to San Juan is delayed by ice on New York roads. The Clipper remains grounded while departure slips an hour and eight minutes due to late arriving passengers.
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Pan American
New York
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Cedar Rapids sees record births outpace deaths in 1959
Cedar Rapids birth statistics show 1959 births at 1,978 to 1,900 boys and girls, with 714 deaths among 999 total, yielding a net gain of 1,693 and pushing city population to about 96,000 including recent arrivals. September leads births with 371. obstetricians totaled 507 deliveries, and twins numbered 58 across 29 sets.
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Art Heusinkveld
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Harold Schaefer
City Health Department
Walk Back Goes Swimming Amid Cold Wave
In Oulton Broad England Mrs R W Travers defied a record cold spell by swimming on the sixth day, saying the sea felt warmer than the air. The remark highlights the unusual persistence of frigid conditions in the area.
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Oulton Broad
England
UPI
R. W. Travers
NPA Warns of Atomic Club and Global Arms Threat
The National Planning Association warned that a world atomic club could form if major powers fail to agree on binding disarmament. It cited twelve nations with reactors as capable of pursuing weapons programs and urged a world control system to prevent new country programs. The list includes Belgium Canada Red China Czechoslovakia West Germany East Germany India Italy Japan Sweden and Switzerland.
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Washington
API
National Planning Assn
World “Atomic Club
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Britain
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Belgium
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East Germany
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Italy
Japan
Sweden
Switzerland
Nation’s golf greats battle in BING CROSBY finals
The nations golfing greats compete in the Finals of the Bing Crosby Golf Tournament at 4 30 Sunday televised on TV 9.
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Sun
TV 9
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