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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1975
Page
7
The Iowa House passed a bill 66 to 21 raising the reportable auto accident damage threshold from $100 to $250 with a 72 hour filing window. The chamber also sent numerous measures to the Senate, including name changes for school districts, a revised adult foster home term, and a price ceiling reform for state auto purchases.
In Des Moines the grain markets show slow trade with demand good while butchers rise 50 to 1.00. Prices for cattle range from 44.50 to 45.75 for lighter weights and 41.75 to 44.25 for heavy loads, with sow prices up 25 to 75 cents. Estimated receipts today total 45,000 compared with 41,000 Monday and 71,000 a week ago.
A Washington County student, Sharon Mullet Jones, will display senior art works at Eastern Mennonite College in Harrisonburg, Virginia from May 4 to 23. She is among two senior art majors presenting pieces in media spanning four years, completing EMC’s 1974 75 year show series.
Brian Proctor of Washington has been awarded the Westmar College Merit Scholarship for 1975 76 academic year. The recipient, a Washington High School graduate and son of Mr and Mrs Arnold Smothers, was chosen for outstanding academic achievement and potential as shown in prior records and national tests.
Dr. George E. LaMore Jr. of Iowa Wesleyan College repeats as speaker at the Washington Kiwanis Honors Night for high school seniors. The talk titled Renewal Arises from Yesterday explores how societies renew by returning to their foundational energies, with examples from the Renaissance eighteenth century reforms and America's founding era.
A Democratic-backed bill to replace Iowa’s income tax with a 20 percent of federal tax rate, making the tax progressive at all levels, would be debated in the House Tuesday. It would allow joint federal-like filing, raise taxes for high earners, and aim to raise similar revenue to current law. House Speaker Dale Cochran indicated a two day debate.
Dennis Ralph McAllister son of Mrs Emma McAllister Washington graduated from Gem City College Quincy Illinois on Saturday May 3. He completed clock repairing and watchmaking courses and works part time at Blessing Hospital while pursuing jewelry study before seeking full time work in his trade. Mrs McAllister and Lee Murray of Washington attended the commencement in Quincy.
For April 24 to 30 reporters report no days fit for field work to four days. Rainfall ranges from .23 inch to 1.3 inches, averaging about half an inch across the county.
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