Senate ends 1971 session in bitter all night clash
The Iowa Senate adjourned at 6 45 a m after a 24 hour marathon battle with the House over a large Board of Regents appropriations bill. The House passed an amendment that would block bonds for about 13 million in capital improvements, prompting charges of blackmail and rude behavior.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Senate
House
Iowa Board of Regents
Board of Regents
Arthur Nel
R-Carroll
Robert Ray
Ray
Gaudineer
Nell
Tom Riley
Cedar Rapids
Tower Chamber
Sen
Bass van Gilst
D-askaloosa
Regents
Nixon greeted by mixed crowds in Rochester and Birmingham
President Nixon rode through Rochester New York and Birmingham Alabama with wife Pat and Governor Nelson Rockefeller. In Birmingham crowds were larger and more exuberant while Rochester drew fewer than expected officials reported about 35 000. Some protesters voiced antiwar and economic grievances but no chants disrupted the visit.
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Key Biscayne
Fla
Nixon
Rochester
N. Y
White House
Birmingham
Ala
Pat
New York
Nelson Rockefeller
Birming
Iowa Senate approves funds for Dubuque vocational center
The Iowa Senate passed 38-0 a bill sending 200000 dollars to Gov. Ray for a Dubuque DELAWARE counties area vocational technical school attendance center. The move aims to serve Dubuque and Delaware counties and advances to the governor for signature.
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Dubuque Tech Des Moinel
Iowa
Senate
Cov
Robert Ray
Dubuque
Delaware
Washington
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Endeavor _ SPACE CENTER
Houston
David R. Scott
Social security benefits rise in Fayette County after law change
Fayette County residents averaged 91 dollars monthly in 1970 end benefits. Nixon signed a 10 percent increase March 17, with some elderly over 72 receiving 5 percent. First checks issued June 3. January–April increases mailed later. In Fayette, 3,106 retired workers, 944 survivors, 265 disabled or dependents. Bremer and Buchanan counties show 395 and 96 dollars respectively, with similar benefit breakdowns. One in four beneficiaries is under 60 in Iowa. nearly 36,000 under 60 statewide.
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Fayette County
Vernon S. Meyer
Waterloo
Nixon
Bremer County
Buchanan County
Meyer
Towa
Fayette County Unemployment Drops to 5.0 Percent
The unemployment rate in Fayette County fell to 5.0 percent in May from 5.6 in April, per Carl Bradshaw of the Iowa Employment Security Commission. May figures show an employment gain of 210 with agriculture up 140, trade up 70, manufacturing down 20, and services down 10. Compared with last year, agricultural work is down 260.
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Fayette County
Carl Bradshaw
Iowa Employment Security Commission
26 per cent fewer farms in last decade 1960s to 1970s
The Agriculture Department reports about 2,924,000 farms in operation in 1971, 26 percent fewer than 1960. Farmland acreage fell 5 percent to 1.1207 billion acres, while average farm size rose to about 489 acres. The decline varied by region, with New England hardest hit.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Statistical Reporting Service
New
Bnchind
North Atlantic
New England
House approves Area I funds for Calmar schools
The Iowa House approved a bill of appropriations sending 343,945 dollars for the 1971-72 year and 411,429 dollars for 1972-73 to Area I at Calmar. The measure, totaling 25.9 million dollars for merged area schools for the 1971-73 biennium, goes to the Governor for signature. Weather: clear to partly cloudy and warmer, highs near 90 north to mid 90s south. southerly winds 15 to 25 mph. tonight a chance of showers or storms with lows upper 60s and Sunday highs in the upper 80s. rain chances 20 today, 40 tonight, 30 Sunday.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Calmar
Iowa House
House
Infant found safe. two Omaha women linked to missing baby
A four day old infant girl was found unharmed at a Lincoln Sharon Motel after missing from Jackson Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Carol Goetz and her husband were told their child Michala was safe. Mrs. Perl Hale and Mrs. Donna Jean Stout were taken into custody on possible child stealing charges. The baby’s disappearance originated from Omaha's Clarkson Hospital. Police traced a car license to Stout and coordinated with Lincoln authorities to recover the infant.
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Omaha, Neb
Omaha
Mternity
Carol Goetz
Michala
Lincoln
Douglas County
Frank Pane
Perl Hale
Donna Jean Stout
Sharon Motel
Terena Hale
Joseph W. Gibbs
Clarksonospital
Gibbs
Stout
John Robards
Hale
Maurice Battell
Barrett
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