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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1955
Page
3
A Q and A explains why southern annexation to Cedar Rapids benefits tax load shifting toward industrial and commercial property. It cites 1955 assessed values showing industrial and commercial combined over 52 percent, residential about 47 percent, and farmland under one percent, with no planned revaluations for annexed areas.
The note explains that county state and school district taxes remain unaffected by the ex corp setup. It adds that exemption from municipal taxes does not reduce costs for municipal services extended to properties over 10 acres.
In Amado Arizona Mr and Mrs Raymond Bliss and their three daughters live in a framed cottage now described as a fully heated solar house. Two large tilted mirrors gather sun energy under a mesquite tree near Madera canyon to provide winter heat summer cooling and year round hot water. Behind the mirrors are air fans and other solar apparatus marking them as pioneers of the Solar Age of Tomorrow.
Bliss and wife Donovan build a rock pile heat store under their desert house using solar mirrors and fans to heat rooms in winter and cool in summer. The 10 by 12 foot pile holds four inch rocks. a rooftop pool concept cooled by night evaporation may follow. Bliss notes high cost yet annual fuel savings and cites six years of study. Open house linked to the world conference on applied solar energy in Tucson. conference moved to Phoenix.
A fragment quotes engineers and officials discussing factors behind progress in atomic research. Michale Michaelis says people determine the rate, not uranium or money, while a light aside from Japan and Los Angeles police notes appears in the garbled text.
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