Iowa Tax Commission unveils five point efficiency plan
The Iowa Tax Commission announced a five point program to speed operations. It includes upgrading personnel, broader delegation to department heads, micro filming of records, expanded data processing use, and auditing of current tax returns.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa Tax Commission
Commission
Norman A. Erbe
Federal Internal Revenue Service
Erbe
John O'Connor
Strawberry Point
O'Connor
Andrew L. George
R-Waterloo
George
Republicans Urged To Hear Rockefeller at State Fund Dinner
Iowa Republicans organize a Des Moines fundraiser on February 1 to hear Gov Nelson Rockefeller of New York. Tickets cost 25 dollars with Ed Day and M Robert Everetts selling. Rockefeller planned to meet county leaders before his 6 30 p m speech and a 9 p m nationwide closed circuit rally with Eisenhower Nixon Goldwater Miller.
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Washington County
Des Moines
Nelson Rockefeller
New York
Robert Day
M. Robert Everetts
Rockefeller
Iowa
Kant Theater
Dwight Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Len Barry Goldwater
Arizona
William E. Miller
Beef Producers Banquet Ticket Sales Near 400 Mark
Ticket sales for the Washington County Beef Producers annual banquet and program were expected to total 400 before sales ended today. The banquet will be held Thursday evening at the Washington Methodist Church with Verne Martin as the featured speaker.
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Washington County
Washington Methodist Church
Verne Martin
Anniversary Program Planned at Local Y
The Washington YMCA arranges a Saturday program for YMCA Week and its Golden Anniversary. A noon hamburger and bean feed costs 60 cents with a Disney cartoon. Open house and a gym show, awards, swimming demo, and a social for juniors follow in the evening with nonmember 45 cent and member 10 cent fees.
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Washington Ymca
YMCA
Rites Thursday For Joel Guengerich 89
Funeral services for Joel Guengerich age 89 will be held Thursday at 1 30 p m in the Wellman Mennonite Church with burial in the Mennonite Cemetery. Noel Landis Max Yoder and George S Miller will be in charge. The body will be at Powell Funeral Home in Wellman until noon Thursday when it will be taken to the church. He was the son of Samuel PD Guengerich and died Monday at Pleasantview Home in Kalona.
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Wellman
Joel Guengerich
Wellman Mennonite
Noel Landis
Max Yoder
George S. Miller
Powell Funeral Home
Mr. Guengerich
Samuel PD. Guengerich
Pleasantview
Kalona
Chamber Sees 1962 as Outstanding Year Plans
Washington Chamber of Commerce board outlines a busy year with updated records a budget committee soon and broad committee assignments. Leon Hillman chairs the membership drive while Eldon Brake leads the Retail Trade Committee and a new secretary is sought.
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Washington Chamber of Commerce
John Myers
Chamber of Commerce
Myers
Eldon Brake
Chamber
Leon Hillman
Chamber of Commerce Office
Rusk Battles For Anti Cuban Stand At Meeting
Secretary of State Dean Rusk pressed to salvage a hemispheric foreign ministers meeting by building support for sanctions against Cuba. Haiti and Uruguay opposed action, leaving 12 nations against Cuba with two more needed for a 14 nation majority as the conference opened with a call for unity and democracy.
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Uruguay
UPI
Dean Rusk
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Rusk
Haiti
China
Castro
el Salvador
Caracas
United States
Mexico
Brazil
Bolivia
Argentina
Chile
Ecuador
Eduardo Victor Haedo
America
Fire Devastates Helmick Farm Barn and Corn Crib
A devastating blaze at the James B. Helmick farm seven miles southwest of Columbus Junction destroyed a barn and a corn crib around 3:30 pm Monday. About 2,000 bushels of corn, three tractors, a corn picker, other equipment, and 20 tons of hay were lost. Firefighters from Columbus Junction contained the fire to the two structures. insurance partly covered the loss.
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Columbus Junction
Washington County
James B. Helmick
Helmick
Debate on Underground Gas Storage Hearing Opens in Cairo Area
The court hearing in Cairo began at 10 am on a petition by the Natural Gas Storage Company of Illinois to establish underground storage near Columbus Junction. Officials from Iowa Commerce Commission and the company attended as submission outlines potential permits and a winter 1963 1964 operation target with large storage capacity and daily withdrawal and injection rates discussed.
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Cairo
Columbus Junction
Iowa Commerce Commission
State Commission
Natural Gas Storage Company of
Ilinois
Junction
Orval C. Davis
Natural
Federal Power Commission
Commerce Commissioners
Bernard J. Martin
Local Firm Wins Tax Case in Appeals Court
The Hanson Construction Company of Washington wins a tax case in the U S Court of Appeals for the Eighth District. Allan L Hanson and his wife claimed a $472 54 deduction for meals while supervising construction work in 1954 and 1956. The court rules for Hanson and orders refunds, clarifying travel expense deductions for construction crews.
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Hanson Construction Company
Washington
Allan L. Hanson
Hanson
Revenue Department
U.S. Court of Appeals
Eighth Judicial District
Hanson Company
High Court
Postal and urban bills press for House passage
Washington reports the administration pushed two bills for House approval. A postal rate bill would raise first class letters air mail stamps and post cards by one cent to reduce the post office deficit. An urban affairs bill seeks cabinet status with supporters urging Republican votes to clear the Rules Committee.
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Washington
UPI
House
House Rules Committee
Kennedy
Robert Weaver
New Urban Affairs Department
Weaver
Senate Armed Services Committee
Adult Farmer Class Topic Is Announced
The Washington Adult Farmer Evening School will meet at 7 30 p m Thursday in the vocational agriculture room at the local high school to discuss feeding of roughage to beef cattle. The meeting is open to all interested community members.
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Washington
Adult Farmer
Vocational Ag
Adults Enrolled in Washington High School Classes
Sixty one adults attended the first in a series of adult education classes at Washington High School Monday evening. Only three classes will run this winter due to low enrollments in four others. Investments drew 35 students, typing 12, and art painting 14. golf, woodworking, welding and chemistry classes will not be held.
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Washington High School
Russell Bannister
Glenn May Wait Until Next Week For Orbital Flight
NASA evaluated the troubled Friendship 7 capsule as Glenn and mission teams weighed postponing the first U S manned orbital flight from Wednesday to at least Saturday The environmental control system fault and oxygen regulator issues sparked the delay while Ranger-3 and Composite-1 launches also faced adjustments in the pursuit of space milestones.
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Spaceman
John H. Glenn Jr
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Glenn
UPS
U.S
America
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Space Agency
Space
Navy
Mercury
Eisenhower Says Officers Should Not Be Muzzled
Former president Eisenhower urges military officers to resist communism without backing calls for censorship of official statements. Senate hearings open on charges officers are muzzled by the Pentagon while Adm. Burke argues for limited partisan speech and civilian control.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Washington
UPI
Eisenhower
John C Stennis
D-Miss
Senate Armed Services
Pentagon
Adm
Arleigh A. Burke
Naval Operations
Burke
Stennis
Robert A. Lovett
Defense
Truman
Lovett
Preliminary Plans For Rifle Club At YMCA Meeting
Washington residents discussed forming a rifle club at a YMCA meeting sponsored by the YMCA Izaak Walton League local police and Boy Scouts. The club would be supervised by the YMCA with help from volunteers and may build a range costing about 250 dollars if community interest justifies it.
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Rifle Club
Washington
YMCA
Izaak Walton
National Rifle Association
Joe Cochran
Myron Salladay
Second Crawfordsville House Fire Strikes Twice in Three Days
Crawfordsville volunteers battled a blaze Monday at the Alvin Hahn home on the south edge, damaged downstairs and ruined drapes, a Davenport, a wool rug, and a piano. Neighbors recalled a prior Friday fire at Leroy Conrad’s residence that gutted the interior. Mr. Hahn was hospitalized briefly but returned home. Fireman comment hoped a third fire wouldn’t occur.
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Crawfordsville
Alvin Hahn
Leroy Conrad
Hahn
Memorial
Mt. Pleasant
Haha
Masonic Lodge to Honor Past Masters Friday Night
Washington Masonic Lodge No 26 will honor past masters Friday night January 26 at 8 oclock. The third degree will be conferred with past masters performing the work. A final oyster stew will follow.
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Washington
Iowa Weather: Fair Tonight Then Partly Cloudy Midweek
The forecast calls for generally fair conditions tonight in Iowa, becoming partly cloudy on Wednesday with rising temperatures. Lows drop to zero to 5 above, highs reach the 20s, then Thursday brings more clouds and warmer temperatures.
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Iowa
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