Oelwein Daily Register (Newspaper) - November 3, 1970, Oelwein, Iowa Superintendent hike spending 69 per cent IMI fiber a Of 75 A i By Harrison Weber KS stale of tion K is CO Pcr cent increase in bUlO School Spending plans to suggest to Hie Sid o Hoard of Ihal it ask tiie Legislature for million for the next two years an of mil lion The hoard is expected lr take on at its Nov 1213 meeting The largest pan of this nullum would he to finance the state equalisation aid program for elementary lml secondary schools Johnston is recommending that the direct state aid appropriation be increased from million to million for the next a jump of 753 per cent All signs point to the Legis lature changing the present hybrid formula which is basically pro sharing to a founda tion type program There have been charges main ly by Democrats that the level of stale school aid has dropped from around 40 to 30 per cent in the past few years licidcs the equalization aid ap propriation Johnston is counting on the Legislature continuing to funnel 40 per cent of the income tax back to the local school dis This amounts to about million a year He also is recommending a six able increase in funds to operate the area vocational technical schools from million to million for the 197173 The funds for the vocational ed programs at the elemen arid area schools have been lumped together in the past the current appropriation for the biennium is million Johnston would like to separate these programs and is seeking million for schools and million for area schools during the next two years In addition Johnston is recom mending million for capital improvements new buildings at the area schools The last Legis lature did not appropriate any funds for capital improvements at the area schools Johnston said the area school boards have developed the million figure as a min request The slate superintendent of pub lie instruction is proposing several new programs including school lunch assistance and drug educa tion Beginning July 1 Johnston explained slates must provide fi support for school lunch assistance to meet federal regula tions for receiving federal funds He is seeking million for the to fulfill this require ment The million appropriation would provide reimbursement for breakfasts lunches and some equipment About 30000 full and reduced price lunches are being served daily in Iowas public schools about onethird of the potential number Last school year the actual cost of serving each lunch averaged 59 cents while the average amount paid by children was 328 cents School districts contributed an av of 59 cents per lunch students lunch js the answer Johnston said shows that par hops and those who can afford to pay a affected most Johnston is also seeking lor each of the biennium for dni education Teachers he said arc being called upon increas ingly I do something about It is a task which careful prep and implementation John ston observed He feels the depart ment of public instruction has the major responsibility for ing the leadership in ibis drug education effort 11 is that the drug probe is not strictly a school problem and that preventative measures alone will not complete ly solve the drug abuse problem VOL 307 TUESDAY NOVEMBER 3 1970 TWO SECTIONS Per Copy lOc Iowa 50662 Expect 800000 lowans at polls today Goodwill worker Lack of consumer demand of year to visit Waterloo area Miss Nancy Louise Witherow Goodwill worker of year will be visiting Goodwill In of Northeast Iowa Wed November 11 She was seriously injured in an automobile accident in 1967 After a long period of hospitalization she received rehabilitation serv ices at the Harrisburg vania Goodwill Industries A varitype and teletype oper ator she is now employed by Michael Baker Jr Inc in the Har risburg Pennsylvania office Michael Baker Jr Inc bridge and road contractors has gener granted twentyfive day leave to serve as spokesman for Goodwill Industries The Read ers Digest Foundation is sponsor ing Nancy and her mothers visits to Goodwill Residents of Northeast Iowa are invited to an Open House Wed November 11 from 2 to 4 pm in the Goodwill Rehabilitation building 2640 Falls Avenue to meet and visit with Miss Witherow The Goodwill Auxiliary will serve refreshments 1 Concern for prisoners DES MOINES Gov Robert Ray Monday proclaimed the week of Nov 9 to 15 Concern for Pris of War Week in the state The governor also set aside Nov 15 as a day of prayer and con cern to climax the week in honor of American servicemen who are prisoners shrinks broiler prices WASHINGTON iff Broiler chicken prices in October aver aged the lowest for a single month in two years and the industry says part of the reason is a decline in consumer demand The Agriculture Department re ported last week that for the month ended Oct 15 live broilers averaged 128 cents per pound This compared with 134 cents in September and 148 cents in Octo ber 1969 Government records show the October average to be the lowest since October 1968 when it was 127 cents per pound Demand for broilers and other poultry soared last year as retail prices climbed Producers reacted accordingly boosting production to take advantage of the improved price situation But expansion cutbacks were urged this year and the broiler people say the industry responded There is still more broiler meat than a year ago but there has been a sharp slowdown The National Broiler Council speaking for the industry says that last March the marketable supply of broilers was 128 per cent more than the same month in 1969 By September the NBC said the margin had been cut to 43 per cent more than a year earlier But prices did not respond fa to this Supply cutback the council says Instead they continued to 3 per cent under the level in March to 124 per cent under the level in Septem ber The broiler council said reduc ing supplies may not bp enough to keep prices from sagging and indicated new marketing efforts may be needed to counteract weaker demand Steering committee meets Nov 5 The initial meeting of the steer ing committee of the Oelwein Com munity Drug Abuse Program will be Thursday Nov 5 pm at the High School library The steering committee will in clude the following representa tives students Randy Lansing Junior High Jeff Coselman Sa cred Heart Senior Highto be named parents Mrs Jim Van Denover Carl Recker Mrs Ronald Robbins educators Mrs Norman Stewart Jerry Fatck the Rev Don ald Bakewell Herb Haas law en forcement James Fortsch cians Dr A E Berry attorneys Darold Jack clergy the Rev Rich ard Emery news media Mrs Nancy Heldt The meeting culminates a month of orientation discussion and de by all of the interest groups The committee will evalu ate and discuss reports of each group in order to plan and nate future activities Offer for abductors OTTAWA W5 The Canadian government was moving today to ward less sweeping police powers despite lack of success in the search for kidnaped diplo mat James R Cross Rewards of were offered for his ab and the terrorists who kidnaped and killed Quebec La bor Minister Pierre Laporte Justice Minister John Turner introduced in Parliament on Mon day a to replace the War Measures Act which suspends most civil rights and gives police extensive search and detention powers Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau invoked the act on Oct 16 with general parliamentary support but the opposition Con party has stepped up criticism recently The replacement act which would expire on April 30 is a very substantial improvement over the War Measures Act said Conservative leader Robert Stan field The proposed legislation would cut from three weeks to three days the maximum time a suspect could be held without charge un less the provincial attorney gen eral extended the limit to one week low casualty mark WASHINGTON Fewer than 32 men died in Vietnam last week marking a fiveyear low in casual tics the Defense Department has announced Jerry W Friedheim a Pentagon press spokesman disclosed the new low in an unusual Tuesday preview of figures that normally are not released until Thursday of each week He did not give ac tual figures for last week they will be out Thursday Asked if the premature sure was connected with todays elections Friedheim said Why dont we leave it where I am Thirtytwo was the lowest week ly figure in the past five years recorded in January 1966 Also announced Monday was a U S troop strength in Vietnam of 374000 compared with a high of 543400 April 30 Allende becomes president today SANTIAGO Chile iT Dr Sal vador a Marxist Socialist elected with strong Communist support becomes president of Chile today in a cere mony that launches three days of celebration Before 200 congressmen anil representatives of 70 foreign gov outgoing President Kd Frei was to proclaim the re sults of last months runoff elec tion in Congress then drape the Handa dc OHiggins a silk sash signifying the presidency over Al shoulders DES W A cloudy chilly election day 1970 dawned oyer the Iowa Statehouse early Tuesday as political parly pre cinct workers fortified with hot coffee prepared to hit the pave ment statewide to mobilize their Supporters for victory eyed the golden domed Capitol here hungrily de termined to wrest control of it from the entrenched Republicans led by Gov Robert D Ray in his bid for a second term Republicans also were on the streets to get to the polls determined to drive the Democrats led by former Lt Gov Robert D Fulton in his challenge to Ray even farther into the elect ed minority than they now are lowans are electing a full slate of seven state officers seven US representatives 127 members of the 1971 legislature and a host of county officials Also on the ballot are three noncontroversial proposals to amend the Iowa Constitution all of which have bipartisan support and are expected to pass also are being asked a convention should be called to propose more amend ments to the constitution a ques tion on the ballot every 10 years as a matter of form It has drawn no noticeable support and is expected to fail Secretary of State Melvin D Synhorst who has built a reputa tion as an accurate tor of Iowa voter turnouts has predicted the lowest vote total for any general election in 24 years Synhorst has predicted only 790000 to 810000 eligible lowans will vote That would be just un der half the eligible voters and the lowest turnout since 631581 lowans cast ballots for gov ernor in 1946 The expected low turnout in volves many factors chiefly the lack of a election to arouse interest Another major factor is an apparent case of voter apathy toward the governors race hough some politicians say inter est has picked up some in the past couple of weeks If it has it can be attributed largely to Fulton who has been campaigning 18 hours a day across the state challenging Rays rec ord in office and telling the voters he can do better Ray has been busy as well though his campaigning has been limited by his duties as governor He has defended his record say ing he got the slate back on tlie right track after six years of the lax and spend philosophy of Gov Harold under whom Fulton was ant governor for four years The Republicans now hold all seven state elective offices five of the seven congressional seats and have a strong majority in both houses of the legislature lul because of the expected low turnout every vote takes on more how well the parties mobilize their sup porters before the polls close across the state at 8 pm could have a significant effect on the Johnston continued drug abuse is a problem which society as a whole will have to attack and it is evident that school personnel must be directly in Johnston is also proposing that the department underwrite the cost of the work study program some million for Die This program is designed to on courage urban and rural students in tin 1520 bracket to remain in school by providing employ ment as a supplement to school work Federal funds for as provided for in the Vocational Kd Act adopted by Congress in 1903 and amended in have been uncertain As a Johnston related a number of lo cal educational agencies have dis continued or have failed to ex pand their programs Consequently he is ing thai the state finance the Stu dent Employment a pro gram similar in kind to that or for vocational students but broader in scope so as to service both vocational and non vocational students Culver lone Demo winner at Jr High Second District Congressman John Culver was the only Demo cratic winner Monday in a mock election staged at the Oelwein Junior High School In a poll of over 400 students Culver defeated Republican opponent Cole AltMar tin 238213 The vote was handled by the Social Studies department Gov Robert Ray won by a big margin over Robert Fulton 213 157 with Robert Dilley 22 votes In other results Lt Gov Roger Jepsen 269 Doderer 163 Mclvin Synhorst 225 Sharon Rob inson 198 Lloyd Smith 218 Don ald Linduski 207 Maurice Bar inger 236 William Palmer 189 L B Liddy 232 Kenneth Owen 196 Richard Turner 281 Raymond Wal ton 155 NEWS ROOM OPEN TONIGHT The news department will be open tonight Tuesday at the wein Daily Register beginning at 8 pm Newsmen will be on hand to work results from todays general election Visitors are welcome Stock Market NEW YORK W Stock market prices continued their rise early this afternoon in a relatively list less election day rally Trading was moderate At noon the Dow Jones aver age of 30 industrials was up 527 at 76328 A RECESSIONAL closed ceremonies of the Joint Reformation Festi val Sunday at the Zion American Lutheran church in Oelwein Church members from and Buchanan counties totaled over 400 in program Nixon family first to vote Release hostages PINE BLUFF Ark A group of inmates at Cummins Prison Farnr abandoned a bid for freedom afler holding four men hostage for 13 hours The inmates armed with two pistols had originally demanded a car a full tank of gasoline and time o es cape threatening to kill the hos tages if their demands were not met SAN CLEMENTE Calif W President raced fellow Cali fornians to the polls today but his wife and daughter beat him there As Nixon with wife Pat and daughter Tricia entered their pre cinct voling place seconds before the 7 am opening of the polls sn election official Wilma Wil lington stepped to the door and cried out Hear Ye hear ye the polls are now open Mrs Nixon was the first to sign the voter registry receive a blue ballot and en ter a booth to mark her ballot Tricia voted second and the chief executive was third to vote in a precinct that has 637 registered voters Tiie polling place was a grade school about a quarter mile from the Nixons water front home Nixon and the other members of he family spent about two minutes each in the voting booths Their visit to the school house took no more than 10 minutes Then the first family drove to the Sm Volunteer Fire 3 out of 5 adults called IOWA CITY wi The Univer sity of Iowa hoard in control of athletics has decided not to sched ule additional football games with Iowa State University board chair man Samuel Fahr announced Tuesday Fahr said the board will wail it can determine the re sponse tn 197778 games already under contracts before the Iowa Iowa Slate game can he finally de The board gave much consid to the matter Fahr said but finally instructed athletic di rector Chalmers Bump to negotiate for another nig Ten game No Elliott said several days ago that Ohio State is presently con his proposal for a game with Iowa in 1971 Fa Mr said the board expressed regret that discussions last year about the possibility of extending the series after the two scheduled games and maybe playing in 1071 were premature Although both schools ed last spring that the series re beginning in 197778 would be extended four more years through 1982 Kahr noted that such games had neither been au or signed lowans should not he put in position of choosing between teams both of which more often than not are in an underdog posi tion in their respective confer ences supported less wel than their opponents and competing for players in the same area he added The basic argument in behalf of an State game is that it would be a great revenue pro ducer for the athletic programs of both schools The 197778 games should Iowa drops Cyclone grid plans PIMM or disprove this theory He In any ease the Iowa hoard is that monetary profit from Mich very well in Ions run be more than offset the illwill that can result what is perceived bv some most unpleasant of family fight frt The lie Health Service has reported evidence suggesting nearly one five American adults has experi a nervous breakdown or felt one com ins on In disclosing some findings i termed surprising the agency re ported nearly till per cent of the adult population is fidgety ami tense a times to the point of being bothered The ageney questioned adults represent in the tuitions population of civilian noninstitutional persons between and 7 per cent white It per cent Persons were nut only on their of actual or threatened nervous hut also on they had ever been in eili huuN mares p e v s p i v i n fainting or blackouts or heart palpitations In one of Us major findings the report declared The overall per cent bavins had nervous v as 1 1 per cent and an additions per cent reported fel ID nervous its actual occurrence for a combined rate of 177 per cent or almost one out f five with an estimated 0 million adults experienced such se psychological distress 1 lie survey found proportionate more than men reported nervous breakdowns bad a higher rate than v hite u omen Women r e p o r t e d breakdown threats almost twice as frequently a did men ml had significantly higher for tho 12 distress symptoms liV report found only two symptoms with differ ences by race for the same sex for both men and women were nervousness with men and women bavins a vate mure than per cent higher than and where in men and women had Slightly higher rates than The found more tom o distress among and lower income groups On a basis bad lower rates while Southerners had higher rates than av iMe findings Tallin Health Service reported lower rates of among Perkins who had never married white women and men and women compared with retired men and women housekeepers respectively Fanners and service workers tended to experience more symptoms than did profes and operating Department headquarters where Nixon thanked firemen for their successful efforts in quickly ex a small blaze in his home late last Thursday Voting with the Nixons and casting ballots for the first time were Mr and Mrs Manolo Sanchez personal servants The couple who came to the United States as refugees from Cuba be came naturalized citizens on the day of Nixons inauguration Voting lags behind 66 1 pm report Voting in four wards today Tuesday lagged behind similar reports from the election of 1966 In reports accumulated at 1 p m there were a of 1155 voling in the 1970 general election compared with at the same time in Colls close tonight at 8 pm in Oelwein and all county voting precincts There are 4387 registered voters in Oelwein There were 3100 voters in 1966 election year 6137 per cent of the registered eligible number in the community The I pm election totals in cluded first ward 232 second ward third ward 413 fourth wan The first voters in the wards in cluded first Charles Nicolay sec ond Maxine Teague third Mollie fourth Dale Wolf weather Cloudy with occasional light rain or snow Tuesday night lows low er 30s cloudy chance of enow flurries Wednesday highs lower 40s Rain chances in per cent 50 Tuesday night and 40 Wednesday LOSE SOMETHING See Todays Want Ads John Oelwein lost his ran tn ad and found it tin first dav Omega wrist witch Call residents CALL 2832144 Fur Fist AI A Low iost ill Js From A in where in Otal This Number Dial This Number 8006325937
