Iowa Legislature Ends Marathon Session With Tax Debate
Capitol notes recount a 29 hour Iowa session the first around the clock in state history. The tax reform bill would cut rates for 84 percent but raise top rates to 13 percent and affect families differently. A property tax tweak for farmers, capital-improvement funding, and a building name dispute followed. Unemployment tax changes prompted a forced funding fix.
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Iowa
State Board of Review
House
Senate
Ansel Briggs
Carolyn Campbell Pendray
Capital Planning Commission
Marvin Selden
Gerry Rankin
Robert Ray
State Employment Security Commission
Sonia Liaboe Receives Augustana Regents Scholarship
Sonia Liaboe of Rock Valley received a Regents Scholarship from Augustana College in Sioux Falls for outstanding high school achievement. The award, the college's top incoming student distinction, includes an automatic annual stipend for four years. Sonia is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Osborne C Liaboe.
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Sonia Liaboe
Augustana College
Sioux Falls
Augustana
Sonia
Osborne C. Liaboe
Rock Valley
Just-A-Mere Club Elects Officers for 1975 76
The Just-A-Mere Club, a civic group of local women, elected officers for 1975 76. Co chairs are Rose Sabers and Marge Stark weather. Carla Roozing was named treasurer and Janet Doorn also serves as treasurer. Linda Vande Weerd was chosen program chairperson. The Roozings are new in town and her husband will manage the K-Products plant.
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Rose Sabers
Marge Starkweather
Carla Roozing
Roozings
K-Products
Janet Doorn
Linda Vande Weerd
Jar lid shortage prompts consumer question from Berkley Bedell
Letter from Mrs Storm Lake and reader questions cite canned foods and the jar lid shortage. The article notes a Congressional subcommittee hearing on the issue, manufacturers Kerr Ball and Bernardin increasing production, and advice to contact makers if lids are unavailable. It also covers a query about metric system legislation and directs readers to write to Congressman Berkley Bedell.
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Storm Lake
Virginia Knauer
Office of Consumer Affairs
Kerr, Ball, and
Bernardin
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