Dilley Tax Plan Faces Practical Hurdles, Editorial View
The Cedar Rapids Suzette Editorial Page critiques Robert Dilley’s promise to cut Iowa taxes by 10 percent while maintaining services. It questions feasibility in employment security rules, aid to dependent children, and federal-state limits, urging clearer plans on which services to cut and how. It notes the need for convincing details before voters can take the proposal seriously.
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Roosevelt landslide defined in 1936 election recap
A reader asks about the Roosevelt landslide. The note explains that in 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt won the presidency carrying 46 states, missing only Maine and Vermont, and mentions contemporary figures to illustrate the era.
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Sales tax ceiling eyed to ease property tax burden
The article discusses city and state use of sales taxes to ease rising property taxes. Norfolk Virginia explores a 4 ceiling on a 2 basic rate, limiting tax on purchases over 200, affecting furniture appliances lumber and cars. The piece notes Iowa bans municipal sales taxes and urges scrutiny of ceilings and broader tax relief ideas.
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Virginia
People’s Forum Questions Dictatorship Risk Here
Letters warn the nation may be drifting toward one party rule under current leadership. Critics say unchecked spending, centralized power, and weak oversight threaten democracy and question the wisdom of leaders like Goldwater.
How to Vote If Out of Town in Cedar Rapids Primer
The League of Women Voters of Cedar Rapids advises absentee ballots for out of town voters. Obtain the ballot from the county auditor, mark it there or before a notary, and return it at least one day before the election.
Public debate on leadership and integrity echoes in acclamation
The passage urges continued support for legislators who backed what was seen as wise policy. It contrasts praise for a steadfast figure with critics who brand him as reckless one day and ignorant the next, while condemning the spread of ridicule and mischaracterizations.
Deterrent Plan Aired by Nixon Eisenhower Kennedy NATO Pact
The report quotes Nixon claiming Eisenhower and Kennedy set up NATO field commanders to use nuclear weapons if communications with the President fail. Johnson is said to carry the same plan. The piece notes the deterrent effect against a major European attack and comments on Goldwater’s stance versus others.
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Republicans Face Post Election Fight for Party Reins
Post election analysis foresees Thruston Morton guiding a centrist power shift in the Republican Party. Centrists like Gerald Ford Melvin Laird Charles Percy Robert Taft Jr and Mark Hatfield may steer a caretaker strategy to avoid internal schism while the West remains dominant. Western governors and northern strategists expect limited shift despite Goldwater supporters losing ground.
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Democrats Count on Business Leaders in Lyndon Johnson South Drive
The piece outlines a three-pronged Democratic strategy to win the South for Johnson by courting traditional southern voters, pragmatic business leaders, and newly enfranchised Black voters. It highlights Lady Bird Johnson as a key persuasive figure, notes the shift toward industrial growth, and weighs which group will prove decisive in states like Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, and Louisiana.
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Mayor E C Carnal Elected President Of League Of Iowa Municipalities
Des Moines convention selects Tama mayor E C Carnal as president of the League of Iowa Municipalities succeeding Waterloo mayor L A Touchae who becomes a three year trustee. Also notes Homecoming queen Janet Morse and attendants at Kingston stadium, Community Chest Sunday plans, and property lease to Montgomery Ward for postwar use. Cedar Rapids banks cash war bonds under new system. Memorial building costs rising. 1934 drive pledges total 32686 toward 65000 goal. nurses president-elect Myrtle McAhren heads to Des Moines for convention.
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Johnson shifts farm policy toward free market ideas
Roscoe Drummond reports that the Johnson administration appears to abandon rigid price supports and subsidies, favoring voluntary production adjustments, free enterprise farming, and less government intervention. Humphrey's Fargo speech signals a bipartisan push for policy review and a commission to guide reform.
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