Iowa Lawmakers Fight Over 1971 Remap Plan
Des Moines AP describes ongoing questioning of Philip Burks, a senior researcher for the Iowa Legislative Service Bureau, about how the 1971 reapportionment plan widened population deviations and how lawmakers sought to preserve incumbents. Rep. Elizabeth Shaw defends the plan as meeting constitutional standards, while opponents argue rural areas remain over represented and the plan uses a de minimis standard.
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DES Moines
Philip Burks
Iowa Legislative Service Bureau
Burks
Rep
Elizabeth Shaw
R Davenport
Robert Fulton
Iowa
Golden Triangle
House
Senate
U.S
Supreme Courts
Fulton
Iowa Supreme Court
Shaw
Dubuque
Keokuk
Harry Smith
Sioux City
Dan Johnston
Legislative Service Bureau
Luther College Potter Heads to Korea as Lecturer
Luther College assistant professor Dean Schwarz spends five months in Korea at Keimyung College Taegu teaching Western pottery techniques while studying Korean methods. Funded by a Fulbright-Hays grant he will lecture six hours weekly and aims to bring back insights on glaze, kiln, and form. Schwarz, a Cedar Rapids native, studied at Iowa and UNI and has exhibited widely earning the Ross Memorial ceramics prize in Des Moines in 1970. He travels with his wife Geraldine Fromm and their four children.
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Luther College
Korea
Geraldine
Gunnar
Bill
Lane
Jason
Decorah
Keimyung College
Fullbright-Hays Grant
Schwarz
Keimyung
Taegu
Kyushu
Japan
U.S. Navy
Cedar Rapids
University of Northern Iowa
Don Finegan
Marguerite
Frank Schwarz
Eighteenth Avenue SW
ABC News Chief Urges Press Access at Attica Riot
ABC News president Elmer W. Lower told Wartburg College authorities should allow broader journalist access to cover events like the Attica prison riot. He said banning observers deprived the public of insights and accused obstructors of keeping the public ignorant of independent reporting.
Iowa plan to end Social Security for student workers
R Wayne Richey says a law change is needed to stop Social Security taxes for university student employees. He cites Iowa State University figures with Iowa City costs of 638 325 dollars paid by the school and a matching amount by students. The plan aims to save several million dollars yearly across Iowa's three state universities.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
R. Wayne Richey
State Board of Regents
Richey
University At
Short Named Lion of Year at Independence
Short named Lion of the Year by Independence Lions at its annual ladies night banquet. He organized twice weekly transport for Raymond Kelly who died last June after kidney disease at University hospitals in Iowa City. Arlee G. W. Blank received a This Is Your Life program for 40 years of service to Lionism. charter member since 1931, club president for two years and secretary 18 years.
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Independence
Gary Short
Independence Lions Club
Short
Raymond Kelly
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Kelly
Arlee G. W. Blank
Independence Club
Death of Roy E. Dickson in Huntington
Roy E. Dickson formerly of Shellsburg died Wednesday in Huntington West Virginia. Survived by three sisters Mrs Robert Mrstik Cedar Rapids Mrs Delmar Keith and Mrs Wayne Boyer of Shellsburg. two brothers Robert Cedar Rapids and Lee Cedar Rapids.
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Roy E. Dickson
Huntington
W. Va
Robert Mrstik
Lewellyn Drive
Cedar Rapids
Delmar Keith
Wayne Boyer
Robert
Hinkley Avenue
Lee
Twenty - Seventh Street
Hope To Test New Postville City Pool
Postville plans a new aluminum swimming pool to be tested this fall if schedules hold. Completion is set for next spring with bath house work finished first and dirt fill placed around the pool. Tests will occur after the water and sewer systems are connected and the pool may open next Memorial Day.
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Postville
Jail receives excellent rating from Iowa inspector
Winneshiek county jail in Decorah earned an excellent rating after inspection this month by William Swassing of the Iowa bureau of adult correction services. The report commended the board of supervisors and Sheriff Gene Simonsen for the manner in which the jail is maintained.
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Decorah
Winneshiek County
William Swassing
Iowa Bureau of Adult Correction Services
Department of Social Services
Board of
Gene Sijmonsen
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