Utilities Tax Conundrum Hits Consumers in Bills
A study by the Environmental Action Foundation says 150 large U S private power firms overcharged customers on income taxes in 1974. It finds 122 firms billed more taxes than paid, with 57 paying no federal tax, citing credits and depreciation as phantom payments.
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Washington
UPI
Iowa Electric
The
Panies
Commonwealth Edison of
Chicago
Carolina Power & Light
Internal Revenue Service
Public Service Gas & Electric
Newark
N.J
Philadelphia Electric
Congress
Valuation Questions Muddle Cedar Rapids Linn County Appeals
As of Friday 52 assessing jurisdictions have appealed the state revenue department order to raise property values. The department must issue a final ruling by Oct 20. Linn supervisors hint at court if not satisfied. The state increased Linn agriculture land values 51 percent and residential values 27 percent in Cedar Rapids and 35 percent in other Linn areas.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Linn
State Department of Revenue
Donald Reed
Reed
Michael Cox
Property Tax Division
The
Revenue Department
Iowa
Cox
Senate
CIA Recorded Oswald Calls to Soviet and Cuban Embassies
CIA secretly taped calls between Lee Harvey Oswald and the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City about eight weeks before President Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas on November 22, 1963. The Soviet call reportedly alerted the CIA to Oswald’s presence, and the agency notified the FBI on October 10.
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Washington
Central Intelligence Agency
Lee Harvey Oswald
Mexico City
John Kennedy
Dallas
Texas
CIA
Oswald
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Ford to decide within a month on extending tax cuts
President Ford said he will decide within a month whether to extend the one year anti recession tax cuts that expire December 31. He warned against larger cuts than those already enacted and spoke at Pepperdine University about private gifts to independent colleges.
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Monterey
Calif
Ford
Congress
Los Angeles Times
Legisla
Firestone Field House
Pepperdine University
Malibu
Iowa Quality of Life Ratings for Iowa Cities
The Midwest Research Institute study rates Cedar Rapids Waterloo Dubuque and Sioux City as excellent and Des Moines as outstanding among 200 000 to 500 000 population metro areas. It ranks each city across economic environmental political social health and education with overall scores. The Davenport Rock Island Moline area and other national comparisons are noted in the year long study led by economist Ben Chieh Liu for the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Kansas City
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Dubuque
Sioux City
Des Moines
Midwest Research Institute
U.S
Davenport-Rock Island-Moline
Iowa
Portland
Ore
Eugene
la Crosse
Wis
Mobile
Ala
Laredo
Tex
Ben Chieh Liu
Environmental Protection
GOP at Lowest Ebbs Since World War II in Gallup Poll
Gallup survey of June to August shows only 21 percent of American adults identify as Republicans the lowest since before World War II. Democrats 44 percent and Independents 35 percent.
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Washington
Gallup
Robert Teeter
Detroit
Teeter
Nixon
Ford
Bombs Found in Harris Hideout Identical to Police Bomb
Police say four bombs found at Patricia Hearst allies Bill and Emily Harris apartment are identical to an unexploded pipe bomb found behind the Mission District police station on Aug. 8. Federal and local officials describe the devices as matching and color coded, while Hearst remains jailed after bail was revoked on banks, kidnapping, and weapons charges.
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San Francisco
Patricia Hearst
The
San Francisco Examiner
Bill
Emily Harris
Mission District
San Francisco Chronicle
Chicago Tribune
Harris
Red Guerilla Family
New World Liberation Front
California
Symbionese Liberation Army
Los Angeles
the Tribune
SLA
FBI
Charles Bates
Gary Kern
Miss Hearst
Chuckle about wishes and what to wish for
A reflective line notes that most people wish for things they lack and asks what else remains to desire, inviting readers to consider satisfaction beyond material wants. The brief ends with a playful nod to copyright.
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Environmental Action Foundation
Utility Project
By Nicholas Horrock
New York Times Service
Gazette
Poul Jensen
Shawn Cripper
Seventh Avenue
Tim Carson
Fifth Avenue
Taylor School
Kiwanis Club of
Jersey City
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