Honest Abe on Illinois income tax forms
Illinois Department of Revenue mails 46 million income tax return forms with Abraham Lincoln’s picture on the cover as a bicentennial tribute. Director Robert Allphin cites honesty and fairness as US founding ideals and notes mailing early saves 73000 dollars in postage amid a USPS rate hike.
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Abe
Springfield
Ill
UPI
Iiineis
State Department of Revenue
Abraham Lincoln
Robert Allphin
Lincoln
Mllnois
United States
Allphin
U.S Postal Service
County officials eye 5 percent pay hike plan
Washington County compensation board recommends roughly 5 percent raises for elected officials with the auditor set for an extra 4480. Public hearing set for 7 p.m. Dec 17 at the county courthouse before final Board of Supervisors action. Increase timing July 1, 1976.
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The
Evening Journal
Washington County Compensation Board
County Board of Supervisors
Grand jury probes former Iowa liquor commission
A federal grand jury investigates the old Iowa Liquor Control Commission for alleged corruption in liquor distribution. The probe, directed by U S Attorney Allen Danielson and a Kansas City strike force, focuses on relations with out of state distributors from 1965 to 1971. The commission was restructured in 1972 as the Iowa Beer and Liquor Control Department.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa Liquor Control Commission
U.S
Allen Danielson
Kansas City
State Liquor Commission
Iowa Beer and Liquor Control Department
Old Liquor Commission
Danielson
Federal Strike Force
Ers
Justice Department
Internal Revenue Service
Rolland Gallagher
Beer and Liquor Control Department
Grand Jury
Towa
Iowa
Towa Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Craig Beck
BCI
Beck
Liquor Control Commission
Lquor
Jake Moore
Iowa farm land values rise record $233 per acre
ISU survey shows Iowa average farm land value at $989 per acre as of Nov 1 up 30.8 percent from 1974, with 51 of 99 counties at $1,000+. Strong gains seen across districts with increases driven by farm enlargement, crop prices, land as investment, and higher livestock prices.
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Ames
Iowa
UPI
Iowa State University
Grundy
Hamilton
Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station
ISU
Duane Harris
Larry Walker
North Central District
West Central
Northeast
Central
Northwest
Southeast
East Central
Southwest
South Central
North Central
Ford arrives for visit in Indonesia
President Ford lands in Jakarta for a one day largely ceremonial stop after talks in China. He is greeted by Suharto and thousands of school children as artillery salutes echo at Halim Airport. Ford says U.S.-China relations are healthy and expects a slow drift toward possible normalisation with Peking.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
UPI
Ford
China
Peking
Suharto
U.S
Taiwan
Halim Airport
State Palace
St James School Suspends Classes For Holy Day
Washington's St James School will not hold classes Monday in observance of a Catholic holy day. The St James Board of Education voted to resume the former practice of dismissing on holy days, with classes returning to the regular schedule Tuesday.
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St. James School
Washington
St. James
Bettendorf businessman sues Des Moines Register over defamation
James Howes seeks 20 million dollars in Polk County District Court from the Des Moines Register and Tribune Co. and four staffers. He alleges a December 1973 Sunday Register story about Hynes and Howes, Davenport financial firm dealings, was false and defamatory. The suit targets writer James O Shea, Michael Wagner, Publisher David Kruidenier, and Editor Kenneth MacDonald for 5 million in actual damages and 15 million in punitive damages plus 150,000 special damages. An executive claimed the paper had not been served and rejected the allegations as untrue, noting the article relied on information on file with state and federal agencies.
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DES Moines
UPI
Bettendorf
Des Moines Register and Tribune Co
News
Polk County
James Howes
Des Moines Sunday Register
Howes
James O'Shea
Michael Wagner
Hynes and Howes
Davenport
O'Shea
Wagner
David Kruidenier
Kenneth MacDonald
Today's Register
O'Sheaf
FBI tracks new leads in Hoffa disappearance
FBI agents searched a 47 acre landfill under the Pulaski Skyway near Jersey City in a probe tied to Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance. Officials sought the body of Armand Faugno as a possible cover for Hoffa’s burial, while Detroit investigators named Salvatore Briguglio and three New Jersey Teamsters as suspects in Hoffa’s abduction.
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Jersey City
UPI
FBI
Pulaski Skyway
Jimmy Hoffa
Armand Faungno
Long Island
Newsday
Faungno
Hoffa
Union City
Briguglio
Detroit
New Jersey
Robert Ozer
U.S. Organized Crime Strike Task Force
Ozer
James Churchill
China to return ashes of U S pilots from Vietnam era
The State Department says China will return the ashes of two U S Navy airmen shot down in the Vietnam era and confirms the deaths of two others from a 1952 CIA mission. Names include Lt Cmdr James Buckley and Kenneth Pugh, with Snoddy and Schwartz buried at the crash site.
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Washington
China
U.S. Navy
CIA
State Department
Ford
Peking
Pentagon
James L. Buckley
Sioux City
Iowa
Kenneth W. Pugh
Lancaster
Calif
Robert C. Snoddy
Roseburg
Ore
Norman A. Schwartz
Louisville
Snoddy
Schwartz
John T. Downey
Richard G. Fecteau
Downey
Fecteau
Henry Kissinger
John H. Trattner
U.S
United States
Harvard Law School
Nixon
Buckley
Pugh
Chinese Red Cross
American Red Cross
State official blasts Iowa school aid formula
State Superintendent Robert Benton told a legislative study committee that the Iowa school aid formula strains small districts by tying funding to enrollment. He urged creating a school reorganization commission as a top priority and suggested changing the formula to reduce enrollment as a budgetary factor. The committee will send its findings to education panels.
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Des Moines
UPI
Robert Benton
Benton
Alona Benton
Weather turns colder with clouds and NW winds
Mostly cloudy and much colder tonight and Saturday. Lows tonight in the upper 20s. Saturday highs near 30. Winds shift to the northwest at 20 to 30 mph tonight. A 30 percent chance of measurable rain this evening.
Dukakis Faces Suit Over Campaign Promises
A Suffolk County suit by two American Party candidates seeks a ruling on whether campaign promises bind a governor. Dukakis was served with summons alleging a 1974 pledge of no new state taxes and noting two major tax increases since January.
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Dukakis
Suffolk County
University of Iowa horseback riding classes teach balance and control
University of Iowa students, many with little horse experience, take horseback riding to meet the physical skills requirement. Instructors Florence Hayslett and Richard Rogers guide 78 beginners through Western and English horsemanship from basic to advanced levels, emphasizing safety, balance, and gradual jumps.
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OWA City
Universty of Iowa
Florence Hayslett
Prairie Knoll Stables
West Branch
Richard Rogers
Sugar Bottom Stables
Iowa City
Hayslett
Rogers
Debra Logue
Ottumwa
Debra
Steve Welk
Muscatine
Welk
Iowa
U OF
Adelaide Preister
Davenport
U of New Service
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Kalona
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Michael Dukakis
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