Iowa City Utility Rates Case Under Review
Iowa City and Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric face a Supreme Court review over disputed utility rates. Oral arguments were held, with no decision until the fall term begins September 17. The case hinges on whether the city rate ordinance is fair and yields proper company returns, potentially triggering refunds of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Des Moines
Iowa Supreme Court
Iowa City
Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Co
Theodore Garfield
Nona-l
Illinois
Sueppel
Supreme Court
Fort Dodge
Elderkin
T. W. Miles
Miles
High Court
Decorah Applies To U S for Old Postal Building
Decorah officials have filed with the General Services Agency in Kansas City to acquire the old post office for library use, citing overcrowded facilities. The county had proposed housing the jail there, but supervisors now eye the lower half for offices while seeking a plan for development and usage.
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Decorah
U.S
Thomas Lynch
General Services Agency
Kansas City
Lynch
GSA
Iowa NAACP Conference to Meet in Capitol Chambers
The Iowa Executive Council approved use of the house and senate chambers in the capitol for an NAACP civil rights legislative conference on July 27. Des Moines chair Mrs Rose H Johnson said many key organizations will be represented and that national lawmakers will join to discuss a nationwide issue.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa
Guttenberg Visitor Held on Check Count
Mrs. Jerry Horstman was charged with passing bad checks and jailed in Clayton county at El Kader after Guttenberg police said she wrote a number of worthless checks while visiting her husband’s parents. She formerly lived in Prairie du Chien.
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Guttenberg
Jerry Horstman
Clayton County
Elkader
Jerald Block
Horstman
Elkader Man Waives to Grand Jury in Drunk Driving Case
Glen Warner of Cedar Rapids, 29, waived to the grand jury after a Saturday Elkader Park arrest for drunk driving and was released on a $500 bond.
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Glen Warner
Cedar Rapids
Grand
Elkader Park
Decorah School Adopts 1963 64 Budget Hearing Set
Decorah The Decorah Community School board adopts a 1963 64 general fund budget of 892 030 up from 855 871 last year with a 36 159 increase. The school house fund remains about 60 215 and total expenditures reach 952 245. Salary raises of 200 for most teachers and addition of two elementary teachers drive costs, offset by reducing one high school position. Five new school buses and beginning equipment for new buildings also factor in. Aug 1 hearing set.
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Decorah
Board of Education
The
Decorah Community School
General Fund
Fees of City Manager Plan Call for Vote
Petitions with more than 12500 signatures request an election to end Des Moines city manager government. Citizens for Local Self-Government presented them to the city council amid mayor Iles’s critique of extremists. If certified, Iles must call a 60 day election. about 6680 signatures needed.
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DES Moines
Citizens For
Charles Iles
Iles
Council
One Youth Is Killed Six Hurt in Spencer Car Crash
AP report from Spencer states Gary Ness 16 died when his car went out of control on a gravel road two miles southeast of town. Six teens were injured including Georgia Howe 17 and her brother Gary 15 and others aged 14 to 16. The car plunged into a deep ditch and flipped end over end.
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Gary Ness
Here
Ness
Georgia Howe
Gary
Donna Mengelsen
Juanita Ingle
Ceryl Wischmeyer
Lynn
Gallup Chair in Journalism Named at Iowa University
Chilton R. Bush, professor emeritus and former Stanford journalism head, is the first George H. Gallup chair of journalism at the University of Iowa for 1963 64. He will lead a seminar, teach content analysis and public opinion courses, and guide quantitive research. the $30,000 grant from the Quill and Scroll Foundation funds the chair for ten years.
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Gallup
U. of Iowa
Iowa City
Chilton R. Bush
Department of
Communications and Journalism
Stanford University
George H. Gallup
University of Iowa
Bush
The
Quill and Scroll Foundation
International Honor Society For
Iowan Named SAN FRANCISCO Elks Leading Knight Installation
Arthur M. Umlandt of Muscatine Iowa will be installed Thursday as leading knight of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at its national convention in San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Arthur M. Umlandt
Muscatine
The
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
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