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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1981
Page
7
Five Sioux City firefighters respond to a blaze under a mobile home. Investigators determine the fire started from a water heater malfunction and caused minor damage.
DES MOINES Governor Robert D Ray questioned a senate backed sales tax on newspapers saying he does not expect it to become law He called it a points making gesture and urged studying the measure which would apply the 3 percent tax to initial newspaper sales and offset by removing taxes on newsprint and ink The plan would yield about one million dollars yearly and Ray noted reapportionment plans remain unsettled with no effort to affect passage of the district redraw proposal involving Jim Leach and Tom Tauke.
Iowa authorities report four weekend deaths on roads across the state. Riverton youth Robert Leslie Rose 17 died when his motorcycle went out of control in Shenandoah. Gerald F. Murray 65 of Phoenix was struck by a car near De Witt. John Natelberg 7 of Prairie City died after bicycle collision with a pickup driven by Robert Flaws 28 of Des Moines. Wendy Anderson 16 of Alta died in a one vehicle crash east of Cherokee. Robin MacKay 16 of Aurelia was injured in the same incident.
Des Moines Iowa April receipts rose 7 percent from a year earlier driven by a 17.6 percent jump in personal income tax. Comptroller Ron Mosher cautioned that optimism must be tempered by higher interest rates and uncertain federal policy while outlining needed May and June growth to reach revenue targets.
Iowa City reports the death of 18 month old Tana White, the youngest kidney transplant recipient at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. She received a kidney March 3 from a deceased 6-year-old donor and died Friday after contracting pneumonia. Dr. Robert Corry led the transplantation.
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