Iowa calls for annual sessions to reform legislature
In editorial form the Iowa session advocates defend the proposed amendment to require yearly legislative sessions. They argue annual meetings improve lawmakers through increased familiarity with state governance, and contend costs are uncertain while noting broad legislative support. Opponents, including Iowa Farm Bureau and Iowans Against Unlimited Annual Sessions, critique expense and the idea of full time legislators.
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Iowans
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
End of Iowa DST era brings uniform time nationwide
Daylight Time in Iowa completes a second full season under national DST. Most opponents accept the switch, hardships proved lighter than expected, and ongoing nationwide DST eliminates past timing confusions for towns, travelers, and telephones. The single question remains why implementation took so long.
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Iowa
Absent candidates questioned at Cedar Rapids voting meeting
A reader criticizes local state race candidates for not attending a Cedar Rapids meeting hosted by the Cedar Rapids Marion League of Women Voters. She praises Zeller’s written and oral responses and urges Oxley Potter and Sorg to disclose positions before the November 5 election.
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Sorg
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Cedar Rapids-Marion League of Women Voters
Potter
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Oxley
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Ambition and Youth Leadership in a Divided Nation
Editorial urges commitment to ambitious youth programs to curb crime and taxes, arguing leaders should invest in youth from ages five to seventeen. It contrasts this with promises to cut taxes, warning higher spending and police growth follow weak leadership, and advocates building future citizens.
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America
Scouts
Boiling Issues May Bring Volatile Voting By Louis Harris
A snapshot of the 1968 campaign shows race and law and order shaping votes. Nixon leads on handling race questions among whites, while Humphrey heads in gun control and court issues. Voters split over Vietnam policy and Johnson’s record affects party support as November nears.
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John XXIII names Pope after secret conclave
Angelo Cardinal Roncalli is elected pope and takes the name John XXIII at age 76. The selection ends a secret conclave of cardinals and makes him the 262nd supreme head of the Catholic Church with half a billion followers.
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Roncalli
Venice
College of Cardinals
John XXIII
Nino Martini in Kangaroo Court Kiss Sentences at UI Campus
The piece recalls a 20 to 30 year ago event where county engineer W. H. Behrens penned an award for financing a blanket project over a year. It notes opera tenor Nino Martini performing a recital in Iowa City and being sentenced in a campus Kangaroo court during men's week to kiss two towns cofeds.
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Nino Martini
Metropolitan Opera
Iowa City
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