Property Taxes: Farm Land Bears Bigger Iowa Load
Des Moines AP. Iowa Revenue Director Gerald Bair says farm land will carry more of the property tax burden due to assessment equalization orders. He notes the shift affects 97 of 99 counties and explains the change aims to balance taxation across classes. local millage and budgets will determine actual bills.
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DES Moines
Iowa
Iowa Revenue
Gerald Bair
Iowa Associated Press
Bair
Pair
Split Shift Feasible At Dubuque Overcrowded High Schools
Dubuque school officials may adopt a split shift to relieve overcrowding after voters rejected a 4 million bond for a new junior high. The plan would seat 750 students and move ninth graders from Dubuque and Hempstead high schools to the new facility. Superintendent Wessel said the district is 1,316 over capacity and may revisit the bond after six months, noting potential loss of student unity with split shifts. In Des Moines, Adel resident Doris Seidel sues Living History Farms Foundation for 60,800 over a finger amputation in a threshing event, seeking 800 for medical costs and 60,000 in damages.
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Dubuque
UPI
Dubuque and Hempstead
Carlyn Wessel
Wessel
Des Moines
Adel
Living History Farms Foundation
Doris Seidel
Counties outline broad 1976 legislative priorities in Iowa
Iowa counties presented a wide range of proposed laws to the 1976 General Assembly aiming to strengthen county government and streamline social services. The ISAC seeks a charter home rule, opposes new county land use commissions, and resists state limits on local taxing and spending.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa
General Assembly
Charles P. Miller
Burlington
Bill Hutchins
Guthrie Center
ISAC
Donald L. Cleveland
Association
Legislative Committee
The
Iowa State Assessors Assn
Iowa County Auditors Assn
Cleveland
William J. Hargrave
Lowa City
Hargrave
Not Discouraged During Seven Week Search
Cheryl Surber spoke of perseverance after a seven week, 13 000 mile search for her husband Bruce Warren Surber former University of Iowa medical student. She credited his questioning of de programmers and removal from a religious robe with renewed hope before he was taken from a cult camp near Tucson Arizona by Pima county officers who had obtained a writ of habeas corpus. A Tucson judge made Surber temporarily guardian finding him incapable of making decisions. The year included a World War I armistice note from 1918
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UPI
Cheryl Surber
Surber
Bruce Warren Surber
University of Iowa Medical
Bruce
Mrs. Surber
Tucson
Ariz
Pima County
Little Effect Seen From Action in ABP Case
Des Moines Iowa. An assistant state attorney general says the dismissal of federal charges against Robert E Lee will have little impact on the Iowa case against him and Frank West. The two American Beef officials were indicted last year on dozens of charges of conspiracy to obtain cattle under false pretenses. Iowa proceeds independent of the Nebraska federal case. Both men pled innocent and were to stand trial in Avoca on November 17, but delays have occurred. They remain free on $60000 bonds.
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API
Iowa
American Beef Packers, Inc
Robert E. Lee
Lee
Gary Swanson
Frank West
American Beef
Nebraska
Mer
Pottawattamie County
Swanson
Omaha
Iowa Genealogical Society to Meet at Ankeny Campus
The fifth annual Iowa Genealogical Society meeting will take place Saturday at the Ankeny campus of Des Moines area Community College. Guest speaker Dr. Ken Stryker-Rodda of South Orange New Jersey will discuss Dutch Colonial Period and Its Records, New York and New Jersey Genealogical Research, and You and Your Ancestors. The program starts at 8 a.m.
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Ankeny
Iowa Genealogical Society
Des Moines
States sue Postal Service over 13 cent first class stamp
Eleven states led by Iowa sue the U S Postal Service in a district court alleging the planned rise to 13 cents for first class stamps will force users to subsidize cheaper classes of service and seeks to block the Dec 28 rate change. Other plaintiffs include Maine Vermont Connecticut Arkansas Washington Louisiana Illinois North Dakota and Oklahoma. The Army Corps of Engineers endorsed a Bi centennial Trail along the Des Moines river from Saylorville dam to Des Moines as part of a greenbelt, a name proposed by Gov Robert D Ray.
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UPS
Iowa
U.S. Postal Service
Maine
Vermont
Connecti
Des Moines
UPI
Army Corps of Engineers
Des Moines River
Saylorville Dam
Robert D. Ray
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