30 Years Ago
November 1989
The sales tax in Iola will increase half a cent to 5.75 percent on Jan. l, voters decided Tuesday. The additional city tax revenue will be used to maintain and improve the citys streets and highways. The county half-cent sales tax increase was defeated by more than two-to-one.
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Kids care about little guys and gals. Thats the title that fifth-graders in Betty McCammons class at Lincoln Elementary School came up with for a project they started Wednesday. The 22 fifth-graders will spend eight half-hour sessions after school this month tutoring first- and second-graders in reading skills.
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Allen County Hospital is one of 180 hospitals nationally with fewer than 100 beds to receive a $100,000 Health Care Financing Administration Rural Health Care Transition grant to be paid over a two-year period to help expand its older adult services through the Best Years program. Jacki Chase, R.N., director of the ACH wellness program, and Nancy Maier, R.N., administrator of home health at the hospital, prepared the application with the assistance of the Research Development Group.
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An auction Sunday marked the last day of business at Fritz Auto Supply on the west side of the square. The store, owned by the Womacks first Fritz and then his son, John had been at the same location for 45 years.
