State Government Still in Business Ray Says
Gov Robert Ray assured Iowans that state government remains operating despite projections showing an $11 million deficit by June 30 The governor noted the economy weakened in fall reducing sales tax revenue and contrasted Republican and Democratic projections while comptroller Marvin Selden defended the finances and pledged school aid payments on time
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Ray
Des Moines
Robert Ray
Robert Fulton
Fulton
Fatal Scaffold Case Heads To Friday Ruling
Iowa City court weighs motions to drop charges against H L Todd of Albert Lea Minn for ordering unsafe scaffolding and hindering a state labor investigation after a fatal 45 foot fall at the University of Iowa music building site. Two workers died and two others were hospitalized. A second defendant, Robert A Johnson of Marion, pleaded innocent to hindering the investigation.
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Joseph Thornton
H. L. Todd
Albert Lea
Minn
William Tucker
Todd
State
Labor Bureau
Tucker
State Labor Bureau
Harry Hendley
University Hospitals
State Bureau of Labor
Robert A. Johnson
Marion
Hendley
Road Assn Raps Budget Diversion In Iowa
Iowa Good Roads Assn says Gov Rays budget dampens hopes for highway improvements. IGRA executive vice president C W Sloan warns diversion of road users tax funds will slash plans for road and street upgrades and jeopardize safety and economic growth.
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DES Moines
Ray
Iowa
Iowa Good Roads Assn
County Board of Supervisors Assn
IGRA
C. W. Sloan
Sloan
State Annual Budget Bill Filed in Senate
DES MOINES AP A bill to put state agencies and departments on an annual budgeting period was introduced in the Iowa Senate on Wednesday. Cosponsored by Sens. Hill and Potter the measure would shift the state budgeting system from biennial to annual for better planning and predictability of needs.
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DES Moines
Iowa Senate
Eugene M. Hill
Newton
Ralph W. Potter
Marion
General Assembly
Road Unit Employes Discuss Pay Raises
Atlantic AP says Iowa highway commission workers met to discuss state pay hikes and the merit system. Longevity pay, in place since 1958, may be kept as a line item. 60 percent of workers would be affected if frozen. A Senate merit raise bill and a House companion were discussed. poll shows 95 percent want to exit the merit system.
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Gus Lartius
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Highway Commission
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Commission
Senate
Sonja Egenes
Rstory City
Jacobs
Solon School Praised in Title II Pilot Program
The Title II advisory board comprising Benton Cedar Owa Johnson Linn and Washington counties commends Lakeview elementary Solon staff for a year long pilot using $8000 in audio visual materials. The Joint County program shipped these resources to one school yearly, to enhance learning and help districts budget materials for next year.
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Owa
Johnson, Linn
Washington
Lakeview
Joint County School System
Cedar Rapids
Joint County
Woman Held for Malicious Injury to Public Building
NORWAY Edette Unzicker age 18 of Norway is jailed in Benton county on a $1000 bond for alleged malicious injury to a public building. She was arrested by the Norway marshal after reportedly pushing her fist through the main window of the post office at about 10 pm Wednesday. She was treated at a Waterloo hospital for a hand injury and appeared in mayor's court without offering a reason.
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Edette Unzicker
Benton County
Vinton
Miss Unzicker
Waterloo
Oelwein Reinstate Seven Officers After Brief Council Meet
Oelwein council, after a nine minute session Wednesday, reinstated all seven police officers following illness concerns and a prior refusal to hire another officer or discuss raises. Officers returned to duty immediately once certificates from doctors were accepted, with an audit of city funds due February 1 and next council meeting set for February 8.
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Oelwein
James Fortsch
Ed McCarthy
Iowa
Oscar Smith 95 Dies. Orchard Operator Rites Saturday
Oscar O. Smith 95 owner of the Smith apple orchard near Manchester died Wednesday in a nursing home. Born August 8 1875 in Coffins Grove Township he began the orchard in 1906 and was a founding director of the Farmers and Merchants Savings Bank. Surviving are wife Elizabeth and a large family including son Herbert and five daughters. Services set for Saturday at 3 p.m. at Shelly funeral home.
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Oscar O. Smith
Smith
Coffins Grove
Elizabeth Marshall
Delaware County Fair
Farmers and Merchants Savings Bank
Iowa State Horticultural Society
Herbert S
Helen L. Smith
Murphysboro
Tenn
O. Kenneth Wilson
Garden Grove
Calif
Walter Hamer, Jr
Los Angeles
George Coles
Virgil Corll
Upland
Ind
Margaret Evans
Shelly Funeral Home
Shellsburg Library Adopts New Weekly Hours
The library in Shellsburg announces extended hours with Tuesday to Friday service from 2 to 5 p.m. and Saturday hours 1 to 4 p.m. This schedule aims to provide greater access to patrons during weekday and weekend periods.
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Shellsburg
Local Farm Bureau warns Iowa faces local government finance crisis
Iowa legislators and county Farm Bureau leaders heard that property tax pressure threatens local government financing. Farm Bureau President J Merrill Anderson warned net property taxes could reach 1 billion dollars in 1974, up from 593 million in 1970, if trends continue. He blamed taxpayer resistance for halting school bond proposals and called for action to relieve inequities in property taxes, especially for schools, amid agricultural economic stress and Gov. Ray's budget.
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DES Moines
Iowa
Farm Bureau
Iowa Farm Bureau
J. Merrill Anderson
F’arm Bureau
Tax Study Unit Pushes Own School Aid Plan
Des Moines Iowa lawmakers split over school funding proposals after seven months of work. The tax study committee backs a plan reducing property taxes and shifting more funding to state aid, aiming to start earlier, while Gov Ray favors a uniform 30 mill levy that would hold taxes steady. Some Republicans and Democrats support the committee plan and say the governor’s version delays foundation financing.
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Earl Flowers
Des Moines
UPI
Legislative Tax Study Committee
Robert Ray
Ray
Iowa
Sen
Bass van Gilst
D-Oskaloosa
Charles Grassley
New Hartford
Don Herder
Roger Shaff
Comanche
Holden
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U.S. Territories
Associated Press
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