Onassis Will Lets Jacqueline Receive 250000 Annually
Greek newspaper reports handwritten will dated January 3 1974 allocates Jacqueline Kennedy 100000 dollars yearly plus 25000 dollars to each child until age 21 when benefits revert to her totaling 250000 dollars annually with further gifts to Christina and control of Victory Carriers and Olympic Airways shares. The estate is valued near 947 million with additional Olympic Airways takeover cash. Christina vows charity per Aristotle Onassis wishes in memory of Alexander.
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Athens
UPI
Jacqueline
Acropolis
Onassis
John
Caroline Kennedy
Alexander
Athens Court of First Instance
Acapulco
New York
Christina
Victory Carriers
Olympic Airways
Scorpios
Chii
Greece
Aristotle Onassis
Brighton Seeks Two Missing Foster Boys Tony and Tim Sotelo
Brighton authorities continue a search for Tony Sotelo 14 and Tim Sotelo 13 who vanished Saturday afternoon from the Cletus Sieren foster home. Marshal Cliff Elmore asks anyone with information to contact him in Brighton. the boys were last seen about 4:30 p.m. northwest of town and are described as 5 ft 3 in and 4 ft 6 in, with dark brown hair.
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Shighton
Brighton
Marshal Cliff Elmore
Tony
Tim Sotelo
Cletus Sieren
Tim
Elmore
Supreme Court to Hear Des Moines Magistrate Petition
Des Moines UPI report says Warren County challenges Towa magistrate selection law in state Supreme Court. Full court to hear June 18 petition seeking to overturn district court change from three part time jurists to one full time magistrate amid Turner opinion that 250 magistrates may have been illegally appointed by commissions or judges. Britain votes to remain in European Common Market in historic referendum amid worst economic crisis since 1990s. Harold Wilson calls decision historic.
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Des Moines
UPI
Towa
State Supreme Court
Warren County Board of Supervisors
C. Edwin Moore
Iowa
Richard Turner
Robert D. Ray
London
Britain
Harold Wilson
No. 10
Downing St
Iowa House Names Briggs Building Amid $33.4 Million Capital Bill
The Iowa House approved a $33.4 million capital expenditures measure to fund equipment, construction, and renovations for all state agencies over the next year on a 78-2 vote. The chamber chose to name the new state office building after Ansel Briggs and the new state agricultural building after Henry A Wallace, despite objections over dedicating facilities and concerns about funding and long term costs.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa House
Ansel Briggs
House
Senate
State Agricultural
Mary O'Halloran
Cedar Falls
Chamber
Iowa
Carrie Chapman Catt
O'Halloran
Catt
National Women's Suffrage Association
League of Women Voters
John Clark
R-Keokuk
Briggs
State Historical Department
State Agricultural Building
Henry A Wallace
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
Franklin D. Roosevelt
State Board of Regents
Dunton
Thornburg Democrat
Henry A. Wallace
Iowa House Approves Bill to Raise Gasoline Tax
Iowa lawmakers move a transportation bill raising the state gasoline tax to 11 cents per gallon by July 1 to boost road funding by about 467.6 million next year and adjust distributions for primary, secondary, and municipal roads. The measure ties the tax to 25 percent of the pump price, forecasts 676 million into the fund next year, and 77.4 million more the following year, with allocations shifting over time to primary, secondary, and farm to market roads.
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Des Moines
Iowa
John Brunow
Centerville
Department of Transportation
Victor Preisser
Department of Revenue
Brunow
Preisser
House Deadlocks on Iowa Income Tax Bill Dispute
The Iowa House refused to concur with the Senate version on Friday in a 16465 split, likely sending the matter to a conference committee. The Senate plan would cut taxes for filers under 20000 dollars by up to 100 dollars, while those above 20000 would pay more to offset revenue losses, with some high bracket taxpayers facing over 1000 dollars extra. The House version ties state tax to 20 percent of federal income tax.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa House
Senate
Iowa
House
City youngsters get a look at farm life contest winners
The Charleston Daily Mail held a farm life contest for city kids with over 200 entrants. Winners Teresa Bradshaw and Danny Perkins will spend part of a week on a plain country farm run by Mr. and Mrs. Guy Wilkins. Contest judges Agriculture Commissioner Gus Douglass and Vocational Agriculture Supervisor Guy Cain said the letters provided an education.
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Chanuston
W. Vaur
Charleston Daily Mail
Ross Coberly
Danny Caldwell
Ravenswood
Danny
Teresa Bradshaw
Danny Perkins
Teresa
Guy Wilkins
Young Perkins
Gus Douglass
Guy Cain
Jennifer Johnson
Jennifer
Martha Reynolds
Martha
Dunton Battles Spending Opposes ADC Increase
Iowa Rep. Keith Dunton clashed on the Town House floor over a proposed extra 1 million for the Aid to Dependent Children program within a 38 million ADC total in a 160 million Social Services package. He urged tightening the program to curb abuses and curb rising annual funding, while the House moved toward capital improvements and seed lab planning at Iowa State University.
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Moe Vererry
ADC
Keith Dunton
Town House
Department of Social Services
Dunton
House
Robert Ray
Appropriations Committee
Belgium selects F16 fighter jets in $20 billion deal
Belgium's Prime Minister Leo Tindemans announced the cabinet's decision to order 102 General Dynamics F16 planes to replace 116 F101s, paving a path for the Netherlands Denmark Norway and Belgium to acquire 334 F16s in total. The deal, worth about $20 billion, faced months of delay over military and political factors.
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Arussels
UPI
United States
Belgium
General Dynamics
Leo Tindemans
Netherlands
Denmark
Norway
Schwengels Seeks Tax Break Amendment for Families
State Senator Forrest Schwengel of Fairfield pressed an amendment to the state income tax bill to let parents deduct half of tuition and textbook costs. Democrats blocked the measure, which would cut revenue by 4.2 million dollars. Schwengel argued the deduction would aid middle and low income families with students and warned the bill could make Iowa one of the highest tax states.
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Forrest Schwengels
Fairfield
Senate
Schwengel
Weather outlook with mixed skies and scattered storms
Increasing cloudiness in the west with mostly sunny conditions in the east. Thunderstorm chances rise in the extreme west later today, with highs in the 70s. Tonight, thundershowers in the west and south, partly cloudy in the northeast. Lows in the 50s, highs Sunday around 70.
Community Center seating donation announced in Washington
McCleery Cumming Company will furnish auditorium seating for the new Center at the county fairgrounds, a gift worth about 25000 dollars that helps keep the project closer to original plans. Earlier gifts include site leveling by Leichty Construction and landscaping by Clarence Zieglowsky, with sod work by the Washington Future Farmers of America chapter. Excavation for the basement and foundation is underway.
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al Guard
Washington
McCleery-Cumming Company
Leichty Construction Co
Clarence Zieglowsky
Washington Future Farmers of America
County Fairgrounds
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Ansell Briggs
U.S
Ray
Iowa State University
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