Iowa IPERS overhaul eyed by study committee
A legislative study panel proposes sweeping IPERS changes including a two for one employer employee contribution ratio, integration with social security, removal of the $10,800 salary cap, and combined benefits totaling about 80 percent of final five year salary. The plan would raise employee contributions to about 4.5 percent and shift most costs to state and local governments, with a 50 percent boost for 23 000 retirees funded from the general fund.
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Sen
Warren Curtis
R-Cherokee
Tax relief for Iowa mobile home owners eligible ages 65 or disabled
A new law provides added tax relief for mobile home owners in Iowa starting January 1. Eligibility hinges on owner income and age or disability, with applications filed at the Washington County Treasurer's office in the courthouse. Wallace Fagen offers details.
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Wallace Fagen
Washington County
Court House
University of Iowa to Build Carver Pavilion Plan Approval
The Iowa Board of Regents approved phase two plans for a new University of Iowa hospitals and clinics facility to be named the Carver Pavilion. Roy J. Carver pledged 2 million dollars toward the 11.3 million project, with federal and Hill-Burton funds already secured and additional gifts expected to cover remaining costs. The pavilion will house a family practice clinic, trauma center, physical therapy, and a 96 bed nursing unit, starting as a one story clinic and faculty space with potential four story expansion.
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Muscatine
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Hill-Burton
Seek double budget for area colleges
The Iowa state Board of Public Instruction voted to double its appropriation for area community colleges for the 1975-77 biennium. They will ask the General Assembly for 90.5 million dollars in state aid, up from 49.5 million. They request 46 million in general fund aid, 167 million in vocational aid, 5.3 million for equipment replacement, and 3.7 million for new career education programs and enrollment growth.
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Iowa
66Th General Assembly
Powerful snowstorm sweeps East snarling roads and lives
A strong fall snowstorm blankets the eastern United States with over two feet on the Buffalo area. It halts highways and schools, causes several fatalities from heart attacks related to shoveling, and forces widespread travel disruption while North Carolina resorts report early season snow and sunken traffic.
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Great Lakes
Gulf Coast States
Canada
Sugar Mountain
New Kiwanis club to meet mornings in Washington
A morning Kiwanis club named the Washington A.M.ers was organized in Washington on Friday with Jack Eaton elected the first president. It will meet 6:50 to 7:50 a.m. at the Iowa Frontier Cafe, sponsored by the noon club to offer an alternative for busy members. Twenty one local business leaders joined. officers include Bob Burt and Chuck Gibson as vice presidents, Keith Williams secretary, Larry Behan treasurer.
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Chuck Gibson
Keith Williams
Larry Behan
Maynard Goff Jr
Clem Dold
Pat Malone
Eldon Brake
Darrell Borchardt
R. Wayne Tooman
Kiwanis International
Marv Tweeton
Kiwanis Noon Club
Washington Group
Weather Outlook for Today and Sunday
Partly cloudy today with mid 40s in the forecast. Tonight and Sunday will be clear to partly cloudy with lows in the lower 30s and highs around 50. Winds from the south to southwest at 5 to 12 mph today and tonight.
Israel, U.S. and USSR Seek Restraint as Middle East Tensions Rise
Diplomatic circles in London report urgent talks among the United States and the Soviet Union to avert a wider Middle East war. Israel warns of life and death stakes amid reported Israeli reserve mobilization and shelling in south Lebanon. Kissinger cautions that a regional conflict is possible while monitoring reports of UN force extensions on the Golan Heights.
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Simcha Dinitz
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Kissinger
U.N
Golan Heights
Beirut
al Safir
Defense Ministry
Aita Shaab
al Moharrer
Strike extends as coal talks paused after murder in Alabama
United Mine Workers suspend review of a proposed three year coal pact over a shooting death of Alabama union official Samuel Littlefield. The 120,000 miner strike continues into a third week with ballots mailed and district meetings delayed. pact includes $80 return bonus, raises, pensions, and cost of living protections.
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Washington
UPI
United Mine Workers
Alabama
Samuel Littlefield
UMW
Littlefield
James B. Allen
D-Ala
Bituminous Operators Association
Pittsburgh
BCOA
Guy Farmer
Auto workers idled as industry faces widespread layoffs
DETROIT reports show auto industry layoffs surpassing 90,000 with Chrysler rumored to halt U S car production for December. Ford confirms 9,250 more blue collar layoffs starting Monday, pushing total to 92,439 across GM, Ford, and Chrysler. Chrysler executives deny immediate confirmation amid possible Dec 2 shutdown to Jan 6.
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Chrysler
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General Motors Corp
Ford
Dearborn
Mich
Food parley backs aid prices but avoids binding pledges
At the U N world food conference in Rome the resolution urges broader access to markets for developing nations and price stabilization while avoiding mandatory global rationing. The United States rejected a one million ton grain pledge while agreeing to future aid of over four million tons and a global early warning system for shortages.
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Minnesota
George McGovern
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Dick Clark
Iowa
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Bangladesh
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