Cedar Rapids Schools Seek 1968 69 Budget Boost Despite Tax Relief
The Cedar Rapids board of education proposes a 1968 69 general fund budget of 18 661 566 up 2 1 million dollars or 12 76 percent, aided by Iowa s new state aid to education plan. The total operating budget would reach 20 861 460 with the schoolhouse fund up 4 32 percent. Without relief the levy would rise about 11 mills in 1969, but the state aid system lowers the local tax burden.
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Six Inch Rain Drenches Iowa Across Regions
Heavy rains up to six inches focused on Ogden and Booney county as tropical storm Candy tracks northward. Forecasters warned of rising streams and potential flood threats across central Iowa amid thunderstorms and a tornadic outlook. Continued on Page 3.
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Abernathy Sentenced to 20 Days in Jail in Dusk Curfew Tension
In Resurrection City protests, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, 42, pled no contest to unlawful assembly after leading a Capitol Hill march and received a 20 day jail term. Hosea Williams, 42, pled innocent to similar charges and a trial date was not set. The city imposed a dusk to dawn curfew and 1,450 National Guardsmen were mobilized as police arrested 274 people from Monday noon to Tuesday 6 am.
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Jet Topples TV Tower In Sioux Falls Collision
An airliner with 22 aboard safely landed after colliding with a 2000 foot television tower near Joe Foss Airport. The tower collapsed, shutting two TV stations, while all 19 passengers and three crew escaped injury.
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Daniel Otten
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Steel Form Falls. Decorah Boy Dies
John Thingvold, 15, of rural Decorah, son of Mr and Mrs Gerhard Thingvold, was killed when a steel form fell on him at Carlson Construction Co yard east of Decorah. He died en route to Smith Memorial hospital. Sheriff’s office investigates. not employed by the firm. Funeral arrangements pending at Steine’s in Decorah.
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National Guard Kept Peace After Ohio Prison Riot
Ohio national guardsmen aided guards at the riot wrecked penitentiary in Columbus. About $1 million in damage, 59 injured, keys missing in inmates hands. 150 guards inside three shifts. 800 troops on standby at Fort Hayes. Fire and smoke injuries from five hour uprising, seven buildings damaged.
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Trudeau pressures simmer as Canada vote nears end
Montreal reports a riot ending a heated campaign with police clashing with demonstrators over Quebec's future. Police detained nearly 300 rioters, injured dozens of bystanders and officers, while Prime Minister Trudeau watched from the reviewing stand amid threats and bomb scare rumors.
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Canada
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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Travel Tax Plan Revised
The administration proposed a 30 percent tax on all expenditures above 15 dollars per day by American tourists outside the Western Hemisphere. Treasury Secretary Fowler presented the compromise to the Senate Finance Committee to curb the U.S. balance of payments deficit. Previously the House rejected a graduated tax from 15 to 30 percent on spending above seven dollars a day outside the Western Hemisphere.
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Humphrey and McCarthy Seek Iowa Delegates at State Convention
Two Minnesota candidates for president Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy plan to address the Democratic state convention at Veterans auditorium in Des Moines. They aim to woo Iowa delegates and meet the 52 delegates who will cast Iowa's 46 votes at the national convention in Chicago.
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Eugene McCarthy
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George O’malley
Five Down U S Thai Troops Die in Helicopter Crashes
Nineteen American and sixteen Thai soldiers died in five helicopter crashes around Saigon over two days as allied forces pressed to thwart a Viet Cong attack. One crash sparked a 12 hour battle leaving 46 Viet Cong dead. three helicopters were destroyed in a midair collision.
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Heart Attack Drug Eyed In Expanded Testing
A physician urged extensive testing of Atromid S by clofibrate shown to reduce heart attack frequency in a 3-year study of 1,400 men aged 40 to 60 at United Airlines. The study found fewer initial and subsequent heart attacks among those on the drug, with few mild side effects, and called for larger independent trials.
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Louis R. Krasno
United Airlines
San Francisco
Senate Committee On Appropriations
Krasno
National Heart Institute
Government to curb junk mail sparks housewife complaint
A young housewife peruses her mail and complains that the government has not acted on the issue of junk mail, despite expectations. The scene highlights consumer frustration with unsolicited bills flooding households.
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