Cedar Rapids Leads Biggest State Liquor Sale in History
Cedar Rapids and surrounding stores dominated a two week discount on Black Velvet whiskey, with 28 semitrailer loads purchased and Cedar Rapids alone selling 737 cases. The state moved 19 000 cases total, earning a gross of $324 000 on $1 267 000 in sales, while remaining stock should still bring in extra 9 percent at regular price.
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Judy Daubenmier
Des Moines
Ar Rapids
Bankers
Cedar Rapids
16Th Avenue SW
Rolland Gallagher
Iowa Beer and Liquor Control Department
Gallagher
Marion
Mount Vernon
16Th Avenue
Ceda Rapids
Center Point Road NE
Nebraska
Illinois
Iowa
Senator Mick Lura resigns from Iowa Senate
Senator Mick Lura, a Republican from Marshalltown, resigns from the Iowa Senate to join the Office for Planning and Programming's economic analysis unit. The resignation is effective immediately, Gov. Branstad will set a date for a special election to fill the vacancy. Lura represented Senate District 36 including parts of Marshall and Jasper counties.
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Gazette
Des Moines Bureau
Des Moines
Mick Lura
Marshalltown
Iowa Senate
Lura
State Office For Planning and Programming
Terry Branstad
Branstad
Senate
Marshall
Jasper Counties
Iowa ups sales tax and fees to offset tax cut
Iowa residents gained a 10 percent individual income tax cut effective Friday, while the state raised taxes and fees from 1983 through a series of measures. A 1 cent rise in the state sales tax to 4 percent will generate about 160 million for the budget, and a business assessment funds the unemployment trust and adds 211 million over five years. Unemployment benefits were trimmed by 87 million, gasoline taxes rise, court funding shifts away from property taxes, and marriage licenses rise from 10 to 15 dollars. Park fees and cigarette tax hikes failed to pass, while federal tax deductibility caps were debated but not enacted.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Terry Branstad
House
Senate
Grand jury indicts man in Wellman woman's murder
Pocahontas County grand jury indicts Gerald Lee Brown on two counts of first degree murder in the 1980 killings of Vicki Durian and Nancy Santomero. Bodies found in a Droop Mountain meadow. both shot with a rifle. Brown held on $50,000 bond per count. Morrison charged with aiding and abetting.
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Wellman
Marlinton
W.va
Pocahontas County
Gerald Lee Brown
Vicki Durian
Iowa
Nancy Santomero
Huntington
N.Y
Monongahela National Forest
Droop Mountain
Brown
Renick
Greenbrier County
Bobby Lee Morrison
Hillsboro
Wife admits poisoning two sons in divorce case
Gary McSparen testified in Henderson County Circuit Court that his wife Mildred admitted poisoning their two sons Michael 9 and Stephen 6 in late November 1981. The boys died at University Hospitals Iowa City in 1981 from arsenic poisoning. she was jailed in Iowa City and attempted suicide on Dec 4 1981.
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Oquawa, Ill
Mildred McSparen
Gary McSparen
Henderson County
Oquana, I
Michael
Stephen
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Steven
Gilbertville man convicted of second degree murder in grandmother's death
Joseph Lovell, 25, found guilty of the lesser offense in the death of Cecilia Pint, 78, at her Gilbertville home last November. District Judge Forest Eastman ruled first degree murder not proven beyond a reasonable doubt, while declaring Lovell legally sane and ordering a pre sentence investigation with sentencing set for August 12 at 1 30 p.m.
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Gilbertville
Waterloo
Joseph Lovell
Forest Eastman
Lovell
Cecilia Pint
Eastman
Black Hawk County
Pint
Baltimore Fire Destroys 2600 Buildings in 1904 Blaze
A historical note recalls a major Baltimore fire in 1904 that wiped out the business district, destroying about 2,600 buildings. It also mentions the US recognizing South Vietnam in 1950 and Thomas Edison patenting the phonograph in 1878.
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Baltimore
Thomas Edison
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