Citizens Guide To Iowa Taxes illuminates state tax history
The League of Women Voters of Iowa publishes a booklet explaining Iowa taxes, rates, and systems. It notes 1974-75 local property taxes supplied 47 percent of state revenue with 53 percent from the state general fund, and that individual income tax contributed 22 percent while the sales tax yielded 16 percent. It covers how local property tax revenue was allocated in 1975-76, earlier sales tax history, and other taxation facts.
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League of Women Voters of
Iowa
State General Fund
Editorial opposition to county radio system in Marion County
Marion County Sheriff Department disputes Knoxville Journal plan for a county wide radio network. They argue federal funding implies federal control, favor Sheriff Office as base, and caution against city run dispatching. They urge consideration of county and rural areas and oppose city headed management.
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Knoxville Journal
Knoxville Police Department
Marion County Sheriff Office
Marion County
Knoxville
Pella
Marion County Sheriff Department
Marion County Sheriff Dept
Public school Bible reading prayer debate letter
To the Editor we are still governed by a law banning Bible reading and prayer in public schools in the land of the free and the home of the brave. The Bible teaches the value of the person and the sanctity of the laws that govern him. Psalm 66 7. Mrs A H Van Haaften
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Free
A. H. van Haaften
Surviving D Day Paratrooper Accounts and Prison Camp Years
Paratrooper Mark Thomas details his capture in Germany on D Day and a brutal death of comrades as four P-47s strafed a roadway. He recalls the massacre near a town likely St Lo, the march to Chartres, and seven months in Faulkonau coal mines with Red Cross parcels and harsh Russian prisoner treatment.
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Mark Thomas
Germany
Eric-a
St. Lo
Chartres
France
Faulkenau
Czechoslovakia
Red Cross
Kom
Iowa House approves tax bill amid floor debate on sick pay
Dieleman explains Iowa tax bill as House backs conference committee report on Senate File 32 to align state law with federal changes. The rejected House amendment would have allowed sick pay deduction. debate continues on military personnel tax and retroactive application.
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Bill Dieleman
Iowa House
Senate
Iowa
Conference
House
Congress
Pella and Surroundings Through The Years
A brief retrospective lists notable events from 1907 to 1967 in Pella and nearby areas. It covers Nicholas P. Earp’s death in Los Angeles at 94 after Civil War leadership, a Knoxville wedding hall collapse injuring about 20, a 1927 check-forgery spree by a woman posing as a Central college student, local street graveling appeals, 1952 Pella Christian girls basketball state tournament run and seniors named, and 1967 changes with Reuben Buwailda at Lee's Variety and a new Farmers Co-op Lumber building in South Pella.
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Nicholas P. Earp
Pella
Los Angeles
Marion County
Southwest
Earp
Knoxville
Central College
Oskaloosa
Pella Christian
Franklin
Drake
Valley of Des Moines
Gladys Pethoven
Wilma Lourens
Bernice Memmelaar
Dorothy Rozenboom
Retha Vander Haar
Arlene Jellema
Dick Bruinooge
Reuben Buwailda
Lee’s
Farmers Co-op Lumber
South Pella
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Ake
Pella Publications, Inc
Pella, Ia
Richard D. Barton
Beverly A. Barton
Dick Barton
al Gabbage
Debra Girres
Marion
Mahaska
Poweshiek
Jasper
Pella Chronicle
Franklin St
C.C
Buck
Buerkent
Europe
Russia
Difiay
Dieleman
Alaska
Hawaii
Wanam
Sone
Tos
Continental. Telephone of
Lowa
Dale W. Bodart
Pella Community Hospital
Des Moines Area Community College
Knoxville High School
E.C. Nichols
Blarney
Britannia
Ireland
Scotland
Wales
England
Shannon
Dublin
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Oxford
London
Pastor John Frey
First Avenue
Adearr
Mens Nylon
Dacron
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