GOP gain shifts Iowa Senate control in Linn County races
Republicans netted one seat in eight Linn County contests helping recapture control of the Iowa Senate. Cedar Rapids Democrat James Redmond withdrew after nomination. A R Bud Kudart defeated Nick Berry 9 351 to 6 832 overall with Berry carrying Johnson County 1 244 to 1 211 but losing Linn County 8 140 to 5 588.
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Linn County
Iowa Senate
James Redmond
Cedar Rapids
A.R
Bud” Kudart
Redmond
Nick Berry
Mount Vernon
Berry
Kudart
Johnson County
Linn County Returns Clear Democratic Wins In State Elections
In Linn County the prior retiring Rep. Joan Lipsky Cedar Rapids was replaced by Robert M L Johnson Cedar Rapids in a tight 4184 to 3575 race. Democrats held six seats while incumbents kept key districts including Myron Oxley Marion in a close rerun and Sen Bob Rush Cedar Rapids winning 8844 to 7332.
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Joan Lipsky
Cedar Rapids
Robert M. L. Johnson
Burtine Motley
Cloyd Robinson
Linn County
Myron Oxley
Marion Democrat
Monty Bertelli
Center Point Republi
Can
Bob Rush
Steve Severn
Lloyd Humphreys
John Patchett
North Liberty
Michael Jones
Patchett
Jones
Johnson County
James Wells
Wally Horn
Demos win three Linn County offices in general election
Democrats retained control of the Linn County Courthouse winning three contested seats and two by default. Kenneth Schriner defeated Herbert Cherry to keep a supervisor at large seat, Joe Rinas won the supervisor seat, Eugene Kopecky captured the county attorney post, while James Hennessey and Recorder Pat Kane were reelected in uncontested races.
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Linn County
Linda Langenberg
Merle Kopel
Eugene Kopecky
Glenn Johnson
Kopecky
Kopel
Kenneth A. Schriner
Herbert Cherry
Schriner
Harriet Ave
Wilson Foods
Cherry
County Board of Supervisors
Joe Rinas
Life Insurance Company
Iowa House
Curtis Hayes
Palo
Hayes
Rinas
11Th St
Marion
Richard Wenzel
Oxford elects poetry professor
London AP reports John Jones a critic novelist and English teacher has been elected professor of poetry at Oxford University. He won the post over other candidates in a ballot by about 1,500 holders of Oxford s master of arts degree.
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London
John Jones
Oxford University
Oxford
Lecture and Panel on Raising Responsible Children Friday
Dr Don Dinkmeyer co author of Systematic Training for Effective Parenting speaks at a 7 to 9 30 p m event at the Grant Wood Area Education Agency. The workshop costs 2 50 and is sponsored by the Iowa Society of Adlerian Psychology with GWAEA. Ro Foege can be reached for more information.
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Don Dinkmeyer
Grant Wood Area
Iowa Society of Adlerian Psychology
GWAEA
Ro Foege
Folding-door telephone booth credited to Maurice Turner
Phillips Shield reports Maurice Turner, an employee, as the inventor of the folding-door telephone booth in Bartlesville Oklahoma. The piece cites a popular belief that A G Bell invented the telephone, contrasting it with Turner’s design.
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Bartlesville
Okla
UPI
A.G. Bell
Maurice Turner
Phillips Shield
County eyes Penick building move for offices
The board will consider buying the Penick building for 750000 plus remodeling funds to house county offices, with support from Supervisor Schriner and opposition from others amid space and potential city county consolidation concerns. Cedar Rapids voters approve a hotel motel tax 54 percent for recreation funding. Five Seasons Community Center will receive tax revenues. Linn County adopts home rule amendment, removing state imposed limits on county powers.
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Memorial Building
Kenneth Schriner
Penick
William Faches
Merle Kopel
Canney
Five Seasons
Linn Countians
Mixed Iowa votes approve hotel motel tax in some cities
In decisive races voters across Iowa approved a 5 percent hotel motel tax in Des Moines Polk County and surrounding areas Cedar Rapids and several smaller towns while Iowa City Coralville Cedar Falls Mount Pleasant and Iowa County rejected the levy Voter opposition centered on motel associations and concerns about broader rental taxes in university city Iowa City and Coralville totals cited defeat margins and local context crediting public notices and city officials for framing the issue
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Iowa
Des Moines
Polk County
Cedar Rapids
Sioux City
Sergeant Bluff
Indianola
Iowa City
Coralville
Area Motel Association
Neil Berlin
Iowan
Michael Kattchee
Iowa County
Cedar Falls
Mount Pleasant
Mount Vernon bar promotes election turnout with free beer
In Mount Vernon Franklin Township Democrats handed out beer coupons redeemable at the General bar after voting. About 1,150 of 2,060 registered voters in the precinct cast ballots, with roughly 300 beer redemptions boosting turnout to around 25 percent at the bar and 55 percent precinct turnout overall.
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Mount Vernon
Franklin Township
Democratic Club
Walter Leopold
General
Leopold
Franklin Demos
City Hall
Linn
Merle Kopel
Kopel
Fred Dumbaugh
Nick Berry
Cornell College
Art Kudart
Iowa
Cornell
Berry
Kudart
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Republican Central Committee
James Hennessey
E.F
Pat” Kane
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