County budget up four mills in Linn County plan
Linn County voters face a tax rise of about four mills next year to cover a proposed county budget of 10,502,03 dollars, up from 9,301,459 dollars this year. The levy is expected to raise 7,429,704 dollars via property taxes with the rest from balances fees state aid and other sources. Public hearing set for Aug. The county levy per mill is estimated to bring 963,000 dollars based on a 983 million taxable valuation.
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Linn County
County Board of Supervisors
Dudley Henderson
Cedar Rapids
Nixon Rules Out Viet Coalition And Desegregation Force
President Nixon ruled out an imposed coalition government in South Vietnam and rejected sending Justice Department agents to enforce desegregation in the South. He warned against sending ground troops to interdict the Ho Chi Minh trail and described concerns over Soviet weapons in the Middle East. He outlined plans for a major defense budget review and noted Paris talks with North Vietnam, stressing a government chosen by South Vietnamese people.
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Florida in Storm Path
AP report notes tropical storm Becky strengthened into a hurricane with 75 mph winds aimed at Florida panhandle. Hurricane warnings issued from Fort Walton Beach to Port St. Joe, gale warnings stretched to Mobile and St Marks as Becky predicted to cross the coast Wednesday morning. Dr. Robert Simpson urged residents to heed warnings.
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Herm Becky
Florida Panhandle
Fort Walton Beach
Port St. Joe
Florida Gulf Coast
Mobile
Ala
St. Marks
Becky
Robert Simpson
National Hurricane Center
Why people with nothing to do seek a busy helper
A humorous quip notes that someone idle often contracts to a busy person for aid, suggesting a playful paradox: needing others to fill their own unoccupied time. The line riffs on the social urge to project busyness onto others while implying shared, lighthearted folly.
Seven killed as bus crashes into embankment
In Allentown New Jersey Coroner Robert Weir reported seven deaths after a crowded charter bus plunged off a rocky embankment. Hubert Daye 44 Montclair NJ was arraigned on seven counts of involuntary manslaughter and pled not guilty as his wife died following his arraignment.
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Jentown Hospital
Robert Weir
Hubert Daye
Montclair
Daye
Dave
Viet Vet Trek Across Death Valley Honors Fallen Friends
Army Sgt. Jack Nelson, a Vietnam veteran from Cleveland on convalescent leave, trudged across Death Valley behind schedule to honor comrades who died. He hoped for 25 miles daily but covered about 23 miles, lacking proper clothing and sun protection. His support party tracked him by car, carrying water and first aid as he travels with an American flag.
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Cleveland
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Arlen
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Vietnam
Jeane Pierre Marquant
Bill Emerton
Boris Yankoff
Kidnaped Girl's Body Found After 12 Days in Lansing
A 16 year old Laur ie Murninghan, daughter of a former mayor, was found dead after a 12 day search. She was abducted from a gift shop by an armed man during a July 9 robbery. Her father Max Murninghan appealed publicly for the kidnapper to stop. Police described the captor as a 20 to 25 year old black man. An autopsy identified her by dental records. cause of death not released. A $5,000 reward was offered, and FBI agents pursued leads without success. A Flint man was charged with extortion in a separate incident.
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Rame
Mons Donor
FBI
Jar Tansine
Gerald Graves
Laurie
Flint
Walker Woman Killed in Rural Iowa Crash
Wilda Staton 48 of rural Walker was killed and Lyle Neuhauser 43 of Waterloo was seriously injured in a two car crash at a blind intersection one mile east and half mile north of here. Staton was en route to Winthrop when the grinding collision occurred as foliage obscured vision. Neuhauser was taken to Waterton hospital in serious condition with neck injuries. services for Staton pending at McCleery-Howe funeral home in Independence.
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Garetty Quasqueton
Wilda Staten
Waterloo
Here
Highway Patrol
Staton
Winthrop
Lyle ¢ Neuhauser
Watterton Hospital
McCleery-Howe
Independence
Living costs rise 0.4 percent in June
Washington AP reports living costs increased 0.4 percent in June, keeping the consumer price index at 135.2. The June rise matches May, marking a slowdown from April’s 0.6 hike and the 0.5 increases in February and March.
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Washington
Horse Fans Foil Mustang Trappers in Nevada
In Virginia City Nevada conservationists including townspeople and 23 Reno students disrupted a crude trap aimed at capturing wild mustangs to haul them to slaughter. The plan used a camouflaged wire and a wooden corral to herd horses into trucks.
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Virginia City
Nev
Reno
Ted
Michael Pontrelli
University of Nevada
Pontrelli
Anne
Velma Johnston
Nevada
Johnston
Anne Cathcart
University of
Vietnam to Renovate Tiger Cages at Con Son Prison
Premier Tran Thien Khiem announced plans to remodel Con Son Island prison’s maximum security tiger cages to improve sanitation safety and comfort. He ordered immediate repairs and said other prisons would be upgraded as budget allows after a government inquiry into reported conditions by two congressmen.
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Khiem
Interior, Justice and Information Ministries
Con Son Island
Saigon
Augustus Hawkins
D-Calif
William Anderson
D-Tenn
Interstate 380 second segment let in Iowa
Construction work on the second segment of Interstate 380 between Cedar Rapids and Iowa City was included in Tuesday's contract lettings by the highway commission but concerns arose over the schedule for the third section. Officials had questioned whether the second setting would occur as planned after a $42.3 million cutback in federal highway funds for Iowa in fiscal 1971, but federal officials approved the setting Monday.
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Dale Rutter
Gazetta Stan
AMES
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Highway Commission
Iowa
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