Iowa Faces Unequal Benefit From Three Point Tax System
AP survey shows smaller Iowa counties gain more from sales income and corporate taxes than larger counties after administration. Polk and Scott counties pay in and receive varying amounts. southern counties see higher pension and relief benefits.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Associated Press
Pension Division
Polk County
Scott County
Black Hawk
Cerro Gordo
Woodbury
Pottawattamie
Dubuque
Adams
Apanoose
Ayne
Monroe
Davis
Louis E. Roddewig
Veteran Lisbon official mixes law and music in lifelong career
Albert M. Floyd, 73, veteran magistrate and newspaperman in Lisbon, has served as justice of the peace for 37 of his 73 years. He runs a combined office and shop, plays an old foot pump organ, writes columns, and recalls a career rooted in Cedar Rapids papers and Lisbon life. He was first appointed after a prior tenure as a publisher and foreman, and remains a fixture in the community.
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Apple
Cedar Rapids
Mount Vernon
Lisbon
Mr. Floyd
Atherton B. Clark
William E. Dennis
Linn County
Republican Central Committee
William Glenn
Charles W. Kepler
Louis Kepler
Mack J. Randall
Iowa I. O. O. F. Lodge
Frank T. Davis
Charles Wheeler
Hugh Whittemore
Floyd
Old
Surrenders Field
The
Sun
Arthur Brisbane
Peter Heller
John R. Wetherell
Wetherell
Justice of the Peace
Iowa Unemployment Fund Balance Varies Across Years
Washington AP reports the Social Security Board expects Iowa balance in the unemployment trust fund to fluctuate due to tax revenue and unemployment payments. A drain may come from WPA policy excluding eligible recipients. Iowa’s June 30 1938 fund stood at 9.92 million with specific deposits and earnings listed alongside neighboring states' totals.
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Washington
Social Security Board
Iowa
Works Progress Administration
Illinois
Missouri
Nebraska
South Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Potter kills sweetheart before wedding in Indiana tragedy
Mason W. Potter, 27, an embalmer from Mediapolis Indiana, shot and killed 19 year old Dorothy M. Libonati on the eve of their wedding. Potter then attempted suicide and was hospitalized with a self-inflicted gunshot wound but expected to recover. The inquest was postponed pending his recovery.
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Los Angeles
INS
Mason W. Potter
Mediapolis
Dorothy M. Libonati
County Hospital
Potter
Court Curkhs Strikers At Sioux City
Sioux City AP reports strikers at the Swift and Company packing plant were enjoined from interfering with operations except peaceful picketing by ten men after a hearing led by Judge O S Thomas. The order limits crowding the gate and allows only ten pickets at a time. The company plans talks with strikers.
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Sioux City
Swift and Company
O. S. Thomas
Rock Rapids
E. F. Kaderabek
R. H. Matt
F. F. Kerr
Standards Department
Kerr
Gambling Machine Operators Say State Was Fixed
Seven cigaret gambling machines were seized in Vinton in a raid by State Agent W. P. Haley and Night Marshal George Briggs. No charges were filed, but operators were warned future violations would incur fines or jail. The raid followed claims the state was fixed, which the agent denied.
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Gazette
Vinton
W. P. Haley
George Briggs
Winton
Farmer Killed by Bull Near Elgin as Wife Tries to Help
ELGIN A R Ernst 48 a farmer seven miles east of Elgin was gored to death Friday evening in his barn yard while performing chores. His wife Mrs Ernst rushed to aid him with a pitchfork but could not drive off the bull. Neighbors rescued her. He died soon after. Survived by wife and three children. Funeral at Highland Lutheran Church today with burial at Sioux City Tuesday.
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The
Gazette
Elgin
A. R. Ernst
Highland Lutheran Church
Sioux City
Designer Creates Homecoming Badge For 1938 Iowa Event
Richard Gates designed the old gold and black homecoming badge for the University of Iowa's 1938 celebration. The graphic arts student and Grant Wood assistant won a $10 prize. Sororities Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Xi Delta, and Chi Omega will run badge sales with the slogan A badge for every student and for every member of every family in Iowa City.
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Owa
University of Iowa
Richard Gates
E. T. Gates
Sixteenth Street
Cedar Rapids
Rudolph A. Kuever
Gates
Graphic and Plastic Arts
Dean Kuever
Iowa City
Alpha Delta Pi
Gwen Tudor
Olin
Alpha Xi Delta
Betty Coffin
Farmington
Chi Omega
Alice Erickson
Grant Wood
Treasury Department
Harlan
State College Library
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Iowa
College of Engineering
Thomas Caywood
Wisconsin
Donald Ultang
Iowa Voters Rebuff PWA Grants Bond Issues in September
A survey of Iowa election reports shows voters rejected 1.7 million dollars in PWA grants tied to 2.4 million dollars in bonds, while 2.1 million in grants were accepted with 2.87 million in bonds. Fifteen projects failed vs nineteen approved, with Davenport skewing totals.
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New Deal
Iowa
PWA
Davenport
The
Gazette
Cerro Gordo County
Guthrie County
Jackson County
Union County
Sioux City
Fayette
Manchester
Manley
Vinton
Fort Dodge
Keokuk
Shellsburg
Mason City
Audubon County
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George 8. Mills
Albert M. Floyd
As Tait Cummins
Iowa State Teachers Association
Montrose Hotel
P. C. Lapham
Charles City
Rena Nelson Tesch
Osage
Supt
R. N. Skinner
Ridgeway
Carl Dieser
Amsberry
Elizabeth Murray
Marengo
Walter B. Pitkin
Columbia University
Pitkin
Middle West
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