State welfare plan seeks aid for families and children
The package would allow families to stay with relatives while receiving welfare and provide up to 750000 for medical care for poor children. It includes rental help for families with unemployed parents and frees five stalled House bills on bingo, pipelines, banking, elections, and municipal utility financing for final action. Senate leader Sen Calvin Hultman outlined next steps.
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Calvin Hultman
Red Oak
Senate
Legislature edges toward adjournment with tax and budget talks
Budget officials project a near balance for next year and a 7.5 million end year balance, while a cigarette tax increase advances in the Senate Ways and Means Committee. Lawmakers press for quick passage amid GOP faction tensions as House Republicans stay unified in the compromise drive.
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Hultman
State Comptroller
Legislative Fiscal Bureau
Senate
Ways and Means
House
Larry Pope
Des Moines
Hiawatha Council Advances Rezoning Amid Objections
The Hiawatha City Council approved a second reading to rezone about one fourth of Quaas Property Developers land to residential commercial or industrial despite objections from residents. A motion to waive the third reading failed 2-3, setting up likely final action at the June 3 meeting. The plan includes C 2 zones with no taverns under the new ordinance. The panel also adopted a new personnel policy establishing a weekly payday for full time staff and biweekly pay for part timers.
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Hiawatha City Council
Quaas
Hiawtha
Plan and Zoning Commission
Iowa House approves deadly force self defense bill
The Iowa House passed the measure 88 to 7 granting residents permission to use reasonable and deadly force to protect themselves and property. The bill, sent to Gov. Robert Ray, also lengthens rape prosecution limits to three years and tightens definitions around lascivious acts with a child and attempted sexual abuse.
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Des Moines
House
Conference Committee
Senate
Waterloo chief's son escapes three traffic tickets
Waterloo police officer chose not to reissue three tickets issued to Police Chief Junior Grimm's son Roger Grimm. The tickets for speeding and reckless driving were withdrawn after discussions at Grimm's home. Mayor Leo Rooff said the decision followed an officer's inquiry and noted the chief was reprimanded with five days pay forfeiture.
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Waterloo
Junior Grimm
Roger Grimm
Rich Harned
Grimm
Leo Rooff
Harned
Rooff
Cab near million miles hopes on Nellie the taxi
Madison driver Robert Bender owns a 1956 Cadillac taxi named Nellie with about 993000 miles. He aims to reach 1 million miles around June 1 and break the world record, noting a 1956 Ford in Atlanta reportedly holds 1,037,000 miles. Nellie was bought in New York City in 1957 with 40000 miles.
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Madison, Wis
UPI
Nellie
Robert Bender
Atlanta, Ga
Bender
New York City
Democrats Close To Tax Compromise Near Reagan Plan
House Democrats move toward a tax cut compromise near Reagan's three year 30 percent rate reduction. Four conservative Southern Democrats met with White House aides to discuss a possible 25 percent alternative and other reforms.
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Washington
Congressional
Max Friedersdorf
Treasury
Donald Regan
Capitol) Hill
Speakes
Montgomery
Reagan
House
Jim Wright
Eastern Iowans Earn Degrees From Numerous Colleges
Graduates from Loras College Creighton University Southwest Texas State University Miami University and Augustana College are listed with names and degrees. Cedar Rapids residents Theresa Coleman John Houser Peggy Kratoska Timothy J. Thompson Craig Fischer Patricia Merfeld Phillip Seidl Rodney Nowadzky Sean Dooley Holly Hughes Sherry Schuerman Lynn Oglanian Anne Jacobsen earned B A B S B S M D and juris doctor degrees.
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Phillip D. Seidl
Cedar Rapids
University of Santa Clara
College of Law
Santa Clara Calif
Rodney
R. Nowadzky
St. Louis University
St. Louis
John J. Brems
Southwest
Texas State University
San Marcos
Texas
Sean W. Dooley
Miami University
Oxford
Ohio
Holly L. Hughes
Sherry L. Schuerman
Augustana College
Sioux Falls
S.D
Lynn R. Oglanian
B.A
Anne L. Jacobsen
Decorah
Laws can curb elderly home repair scams Miller says
Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller urges local police and sheriffs to use existing state laws to combat door to door itinerant repair scams targeting the elderly. He cites Chapters 82 714 and 81A covering door to door sales theft and transient merchants with emphasis on the theft statute for deliberate deceit. An elderly Cedar Rapids case involving hedge trimming could have been charged under the door to door sales act.
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Iowa
Tom Miller
Cedar Rapids
Miller
Linn County
Ple
Everest Expedition Abandons South Western Face Attempt
An international climbing team abandoned its bid to conquer Everest by the southwest face. The decision followed challenging conditions and mounting safety concerns during the expedition.
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Mount
Everest
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