Marion City Council tentatively approves 1.2% tax hike
Marion's budget for the next fiscal year, presented by City Manager Carl Ramey, calls for a 1.2 percent property tax increase with no new services or personnel. The plan includes a building department, a higher garbage fee to 3.50 monthly, and a sewer rate rise over 50 percent, funded by a projected 170000 rise in Cedar Rapids plant costs. Total levy set at 9.96 per 1000, with 7.82 general fund, 0.70 trust and agency, and 1.45 debt service. final decision postponed to next Friday noon.
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Carl Ramey
Ramey
Linn County
Total City
Cedar Rapids
Ottosen farmer pays record price for 160 acres
Ottoosen area farmer Fred D. Kampen paid 4350 dollars per acre for a 160 acre quarter section in Humboldt County estate of George A. Cooper. Iowa State University survey shows Humboldt County average 3048 per acre and statewide average 2066 per acre.
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UPI
Iowa
Fred D. Kampen
Humboldt County
George A. Cooper
Iowa State University
Man jumps clear as freight train crushes car
Mike Lavely twenty of 1861 Eighth Street NW escaped injury when a slow moving Chicago and North Western freight train struck his 1976 Datsun on a Cedar River bridge near Quaker Oats. Lavely said he jumped out as the engine smoked and the roof collapsed. the train carried fifty cars at about ten mph. He avoided ambulance transport and recalled his sister narrowly missing harm.
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Mike Lavely
Chicago and North Western
Cedar River
Quaker Oats
Lavely
Eighth St. NW
the Gazette
First Street
Lovely
Hubbard Ice
Shelly
Collins lays off 20 as FMC weighs cuts
Twenty office employees were laid off by Rockwell Collins Cedar Rapids Friday. The Telecommunications Products Division laid off engineers, lab techs, draftsmen and staff. FMC Corp officials said they are reviewing office cutbacks with no workforce reduction for at least two weeks. total Collins employment remains near 9,000.
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Telecommunications Products Division
Rockwell-Collins
FMC Corp
FMC
Collins
Rockwell- Collins
Education meeting draws 250 to Marion school
About 250 people attended a Marion town meeting at Mentzer Elementary to press for more state education funds. Speakers urged families to lobby in Des Moines as the state Senate studies aid. Districts fear layoffs if funding remains unstable.
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Mentzer
Marion Independent
Linn-Mar
Ken Pfile
Iowa State Education Association
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
State Senate
Cedar Rapids Education Association
Lawmakers deny lobbyist influence over vote
Three congressmen who shared a Florida vacation house with lobbyist Paula Parkinson said there was no link between their stay and voting against the Federal Crop Insurance Act of 1980. Rep. Tom Railsback, Sen. Dan Quayle, and Rep. Thomas Evans denied improper conduct and said they voted against the bill on merit.
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UPI
Florida
Tom Railsback
B-Ill
Thomas B. Evans Jr
R-Del
Dan Quayle
R-Ind
Paula C. Parkinson
Evans
Railsback
Quayle
Paula Parkinson
Wilmington
Del
Delaware
Parkinson
Congress
Washington Post
Maxine Chesire
Wally Cezna
Cezna
Atlantis
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U.S. House of Representatives
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