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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1959
Page
4
An Echo office notice states all 10e cards are to be closed out now at five cents each. The brief item provides no additional details on quantity, dates, or terms.
State News reports the regents want 72 million dollars partly for immediate construction and partly funded by a state bond issue. A 50 cent per thousand property tax would back a 50 million bond, drawing GOP opposition over long 20 year tax payments. A governor committee reapportionment bill would set house seats at 127 and senate at 54 based on population, with 50 and 108 current respectively, among about a dozen proposals in draft.
The house approved a measure to establish a state civil service system for most state employees outside the board of regents and board of.
About 10,000 employees would be covered by the bill. Republican lawmakers on appropriations committees were instructed to question treasurer auditor and controller about investment practices. Iowa Farm Bureau President E. Howard Hill opposed financing a state building program with bonds paid by property taxes, calling it unfair to farmers. Hill urged repurposing legislative apportionment and full payment of agricultural land tax credit. Nyhan elected vice president of the Town State Education Association, succeeding Dr. Ray Bryan and Dr. Oscar Thompson in the chain of leadership.
Mr and Mrs Raymond Lofts gard are the parents of a son Randy Lynn born Friday Feb 13 at Prairie Du Chien General Hospital weighing 9 lbs 8 ozs. Mr and Mrs Gerald Shaffer are the parents of a daughter born.
A daughter Rebecca Sue was born Wednesday February 11 at Palmer Memorial Hospital West Union weighing 7 pounds. A son Mark Allen born February 12 to Mr and Mrs Carl Cousins Cedar Falls formerly Florence Hofer. Mrs Hagerty of Toledo recently celebrated her 103rd birthday despite declining sight and hearing. Bruce Jewell near Storm Lake sustained facial injuries when a cement mixer crank flew off while starting the machine crushing his nose and bruising his face.
Baumgartner returned home Thursday from Rochester Minnesota after surgery. Steven Hermen, son of Mr and Mrs James Hermen, was a patient at Postville hospital from Wednesday to Thursday. Floyd Patterson Sr returned home Saturday from Mercy Hospital in Oelwein after a week under observation. He is confined in Wadena with a broken leg and will wear a cast for six weeks. Mrs Libbie Larson fell on the ice Monday and broke her right side.
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