Iowa Senate rejects residency rules to curb college town voting
Iowa Senate defeated amendments to tighten residency for college town voters amid debate over student voting rights and dual voting safeguards. The body also rejected a package to raise campaign spending limits and require donor disclosure, arguing over whether such rules help or hinder elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Senate
Mowry
Robert D. Ray
John Tapscott
D - Des Moines
Richard Turner
Turner
Sen
Minette Doderer
Iowa City
Melvin Synhorst
Gene Glenn
D - Ottumwa
Glenn
John Walsh
R - Dubuque
Little Man
Walsh
Senate opens Kleindienst ITT probe amid graft allegations
The Senate Judiciary Committee drew into a probe over Richard G. Kleindienst and an ITT antitrust settlement amid a $400,000 committee-linked donation. Kleindienst sought to present a full account with witnesses, while lawmakers urged summoning Anderson, Hume, Geneen, and others to testify.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheraton Corp
ITT
San Diego
Judiciary Committee
Kleindienst
Senate
D-Miss
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
John V. Tunney
D-Calif
Edward. M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Mitchell
Kentucky
Louie Nunn
Richard W. McClaren
Felix Rohatyn
McClaren
Anderson
Rohatyn
Brit Hume
Geneen
Mrs. Beard
Drivers Needed for Stamp Recipients in Washington County
After June 30 the Emergency Food and Medical Service ends funding for the program. Low income residents rely on food stamps vouchers and medical aid and can purchase stamps twice monthly at the courthouse. Volunteers will be essential to transport recipients unable to provide their own transport, with Riverside Brighton and Wellman areas most in need.
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Washington County
Emergency Food
Office of Economic Opportunity
Emergency Food and Medical Service
Court House
Riverside
Brighton
Wellman
Iowa House approves plan for 1976 World Food Exposition
Iowa lawmakers back a planning authority for a $100 million World Food Exposition tied to 1976 Iowa milestone. Critics warn of an open ended, costly project, with estimates of state costs between 10 and 20 million and potential higher if funding falters. An amendment limits spending to appropriated funds and ends land tax exemptions to protect districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
UPI
Iowa House
House
Iowa
Hawkeye State
Senate
Charles Uban
D - Waterloo
Vernon Ewell
D-Waterloo
Herbert Campbell
Washington
Campbell
Nuclear powered artificial heart advances in NIH report
NIH officials announced a major advance in a fully artificial nuclear powered heart tested in calves. A total replacement model and a four chamber design show promising pumping efficiency, with animal tests in about 75 calves and an implanted calf example on February 14.
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Washington
UPI
National Institutes of Health
NIH
Theodore Cooper
National Heart and Lung Institute
Cooper
Waltham
Mass
Lowell T. Harmison
The
Heart Institute
Rath Packing Suit Alleges Short Weighing Bacon
A Riverside and Los Angeles action claims Rath Packing Co misweighed one-pound bacon packages by one quarter to one half ounce. The suit seeks civil penalties up to 1.8 million dollars and daily fines up to 100,000. Rath, based in Waterloo Iowa, maintains offices in Vernon California.
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OS Angeles
UPI
Rath Packing Co
Joseph P. Busch
Consumer and Environmental Protection Service
Louis V. Traeger
Rath
Traeger
Riverside County
Byron Morton
Busch
Waterloo
Iowa
Vernon
Calif
Changes in federal food stamp rules take effect today
Washington County social services director Milan K Thompson outlines major shifts in eligibility and benefits aimed at reducing abuses and guiding college students. New rules impose household relationship tests, work registration, income and asset limits, and stricter deductions, with options to buy partial monthly allotments and no cash change at stores.
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Milan K Thompson
Thompson
Washington County
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Iowa Senate
Lnto
John Mowry
Marshalltown
Probe Itt
University Extension Division
University of Iowa
Iowa State University
University of Northern Iowa
Washington Region
Donald Lindley
Ivan Maggert
YMCA
Washington, Town
Michael Kennedy
New Hampton
Brigitte Pluess
America Field Service
Washington High School
Suit
Social Services
Department of Social Services
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