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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 29, 1969

Page

10

Senate Votes For Regents' Bonds Bill

DES MOINES UPI The Iowa senate approved a long-range deficit financing plan for three state universities by a 38 to 18 vote, sending the measure to the house. The bill would let the board of regents issue bonds paid from student tuition and fees, with court approval needed before bonds could be issued and legislative control over each project.

Des Moines UPI Iowa Senate Senate House Ray Board of Regents Sen David Stanley R-Muscatine Stanley Alan Shirley D-Perry Hill General Assembly Chester Hougen Cedar Falls Ex- Stanley Regents State Board of Regents Reputer Anderson Arbuckle Balloun Benda Briles Clarke Curran DeHart DeKoster Flatt Frey Gilley Griffin Kosek Kuhl Laverty Leonard Lisle Lucken Messerly Mowry Nicholson Parker Potgeter Potter Rigler Shaff Thordson Walsh Denman Doderer Gaudineer McGill O'Malley Palmer Reichardt Weimer Conklin Hougen Keith Klink Korn Lange Lodwick Mogged Smith Stephens Sullivan Coleman Dodds Frommelt Glenn Hilty von Gilst Erskine Hammer Neu Ollenburg Schaben

It Depends on What Is at Stake

Cincinnati AP reports Jack Delany recalled a business executive telling his secretary he would go to the Bluegrass Stakes in Lexington. The secretary, not a racing fan, asked if they were better than T-bone steaks.

Cincinnati Jack Delany Lexington

Grain Signup Final Five Days Crucial for Iowa Farmers

DES MOINES AP Enrollment of Iowa farmers in the 1969 feed grain program has picked up but the final five days of signup are crucial says ASC Chairman Leon Werner. He notes 116,257 farmers have enrolled to divert 3,656,730 acres and calls for 8,000 more signups to match 1968 levels and stabilize prices amid the delicate supply-demand balance.

DES Moines Iowa Iowa State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee ASC Leon Werner Werner

Bill To Simplify Iowa's Income Tax Explained

Des Moines AP report notes a bill in the Iowa House Ways and Means Committee to simplify returns. Rep Edgar Koch says about 60 percent would save, 37 percent would pay more, and the rest similar. The plan would cut half the returns handled by the revenue department and removes tax for under 4000. For 4000 plus, tax on a graduated percentage of federal tax. Under current law thresholds, under 1500 single and under 2250 married pay none. The plan would shift tax to brackets for 4000 to 20000 and above 20000.

DES Moines Iowa House Ways and Means Committee Edgar Koch Sioux City Koch State Department of Revenue Iowa

Telephone Workers Honor Two Retirees

A retirement dinner honored two Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. employees. Frank L. Hird began Sept. 20, 1926, in Cedar Rapids and worked in Waterloo, Mason City, Davenport, and Sioux City districts. William C. Johnson started Jan. 11, 1949, and spent his career in Cedar Rapids. Both received gifts and lifetime memberships in CWA and Pioneer organizations. Des Moines Area Office attendees were present.

Cedar View Country Club Northwestern Bell Telephone Co Frank L. Hird The Telephone Company Cedar Rapids Waterloo Mason City Davenport Sioux City William C. Johnson Northwestern Bell CWA Pioneer Des Moines

Plane crash near ANSELMO kills six students and faculty

FAA investigation reports the January crash near Anselmo disintegrated before impact. Four Augustana College students and two faculty members from Sioux Falls died. Wreckage found by coyote hunters twelve miles west. Plane, en route from Colorado Springs to Sioux Falls, went into a steep out of control dive after dark. Cabin rupture likely threw at least one victim from the aircraft.

Anselmo Neb Federal Aviation Agency Here Mike McCurdy Nebraska Civil Air Patrol FAA Augustana College Sioux Falls S. D Colorado Springs

Mariner 7 Heads Toward Mars After Brief System Glitches

In Pasadena, an AP report notes Mariner 7’s trajectory toward Mars following a Cape Kennedy launch. Minor computer ad libs and two power drops did not derail the 901 pound craft, which will approach within 15,000 miles by August 1 and may undergo a midcourse adjustment to skim about 2,000 miles above the surface.

Pasadena Calif Mariner 7 Mars Mariner 6 Cape Kennedy Mariner Earth Jet Propulsion Laboratory Vega

It May Be Good Thing Lost Humphrey Quoted

Former Vice-president Humphrey says his loss may benefit the country and that Nixon has had time to prepare. He teaches at the University of Minnesota and says he would not have pursued Nixon's anti ballistic missile plan. He adds Kennedy would have won the nomination if not assassinated.

Humphrey Minneapolis Richard Nixon University of Minnesota Daily Nixon the Daily Robert Kennedy Kennedy

Papakee Denies Break in Charge in 1967 Barrel Inn Case

Rudy L. Papakee, 19, of 1443 Third Street SE, denies a breaking and entering charge refiled after the county attorney found he did not enter the armed services. The Barrel Inn break in at 227 Fourteenth Avenue SE on Oct. 15, 1967 is linked. bond set at 2,000, ROs granted at arraignment, Loren M. Hullinger to represent him.

Rudy L. Papakee Third Street SE Papakee Warren Rees Harold Vietor Barrel Inn Fourteenth Avenue SE Loren M. Hullinger

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