Opinion-tribune (Newspaper) - April 30, 1975, Glenwood, Iowa New Editor loins Staff Of HISTORY A PES MOINES IA 503II ft l Publisher Ron Barnes announced to day the addition to the news paper staff of John Turner as news Turner fills the position left by Dan Turner attended the Univer sity of Missouri in and graduated from the school of journalism there in May of Turner then served in the po sition of editor on Valley a small weekly paper in close to He held that position from August until February of this and was hired by Barnes in Turner has been in Glen wood only since April but already can find numerous dif ferences in the Pa was a dormant com Its one big mining silica had clos ed a few years back the big Chrysler plant in Fenton that employed about half the town had been shut down for I can is not a dormant Its a growing and its like stepping onto another plan he Turner and his have moved into an apartment on Hazel a grad of Drake University inDes is an art and hopes to be able to work in the Glenwood district next The Turners have been married since June Franchise Vote Coining Up electric demands are Citizens of the community will have an oppor to assure that their growing needs are met in the years ahead by granting Iowa Power a new electric May Randy Area Sup for the point ed out that in the last eight Glenwood has more than doubled its electric Wil liams And in the next ten electric needs are expected to at least double With a new fran we at Iowa Power can plan now to meet this doubling of electric Williams also noted that Iowa Power is happy to be a part of such a progress ive community such as Glen He said the company has actively supported the com munity and its payment of taxes in 1974 of in Mills County made Iowa Power one of the countys largest Williams commented that all employees are taking an active part in the upcoming election and they hope that the Glenwood citizens will respond with a vote of City Council Raises Pool Rates At a regular meeting April 22 the Glenwood City Council agreed to schedule a public hearing May 28 to discuss the paving of the Mintle and Deit chler additions and portions of Fourth Streets in those sections of the city had been included in a paving project proposed last but eventually were the board also voted to ter minate its contract with Glen wood and will accept bids for establishment of another ambulance to be opened by May A Certificate of Appreciation was presented to seniors of Glenwood High School for their work in cleaning the streets on April Fees for the public swimming pool in Glenwood were raised by the council at the Family rates for a season were raised from to single tickets for a season were raised from to and individual admission rates were raised from 75 cents to a dollar for Childrens rates of 50 cents remained Revenue Agents to Offer Help with Tax Forms Assistance in filing property tax and rent relief forms will be available May 8 for Mills County County Assessor Alice Ship ley Monday said representa tives of the Iowa Department of Revenue will be at the court Unofficial weather statistics are provided by the Water Pol lution Control They are as follows High Low April 22 76 43 trace April 23 74 51 April 24 74 53 0 April 25 76 46 0 April 26 76 55 trace April 27 76 60 60 April 28 71 51 house next Persons who are over 65 or totally disabled may obtain help from 8 to noon and 1 to 4 in the basement meet ing Shipley advised appli cants to bring information on their incomes to the Tornadoes in 1974 Set New Records The year 1974 produced the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded any where in the according to meteorologists of the Na tional Weather who recently launched their annual The outbreak of 148 lor in 13 states on April 3 and 4 was unprecedented in Opinion IOWAS MOST COLORFUL NEWSPAPER TWO SECTIONS 24 PAGES Tribune Volume Number 18 April 1975 Price May Soon Become Relic Of Past Clarence Mass Named as 1975 Rural Homemaker those hold ers with the multicolored sheafs of paper sit in front of almost every business in No one seems to know when the practice of supplying checks to businesses for the convenience of their customers began were always like cash But the day they disappear will be much easier to pin for it could happen with in the have been here for a long for use by people that did not have per checks or who came in from neighboring communit while making it eas ier for people with accounts to write it also made it very easy for people without bank accounts to write bogus Especially during tne Christmas there were a number of Glenwood businesses that got bumped fairly well by people writing noaccount I was approached by area merchants to see what could be done about the situa There was a meeting held on April 7 of the retailers com of the Glenwood Chamber of where we dis cussed the possibility of ing out the checks The businessmen agreed unan to quit using and we stand behind and endorse the said Jack president of Mills County State We would like the program to begin right and cer tainly by May We are pro viding sighs at our own expense to businesses that want saying they no longer carry counter We want to encourage personalized check and we would like busin esses to make use of the Ident iseal a method of ing bougus checks sponsored by the Iowa Jaycees Criminal Jus tice These systems will not halt the of overdrawn but it will go a long way to stop the writing of noaccount checks in the Patrick John president of the Glenwood State was not available for comment on the countercheck As sistant Cashier Vaughn Wasen ius said that the bank would continue to provide counter checks to those who want though we do suggest that they be kept off the counter and available on Some peo ple would like to see counter checks disappear and that is possibly a good But we will not dictate to the busin esses in the community what they can and cannot We will provide signs at our ex pense to those that want them saying they no longer carry counter Wasenius went on to say that he had not noticed any upsurge in the writing of bogus checks in the but that per checking would make if harder to do Glenwood State Bank Pres ident John Dean said later that the bank feels some people who have always used counter checks will not and that the only way the merchants could protect themselves is to limit the use of just by saying they dont have This would make it a lot harder for someone to just float through and write a no account When asked if he was aware of a problem with no account checks in Dean an basically not by But now if youre a merchant and youve had even one bogus check written against you for a sizeable youd feel there was quite a Betterment Council Backs Spring Clean up Campaign A monthlong spring clean up campaign is being sponsored by the Glenwood Chamber of Commerce and the ed Glenwood Betterment Coun The Betterment Council is a group organized for the pur pose of promoting and expand ing projects already underway by civic organizations for the betterment of The Council will continue its activ year and will ac cept ideas and This first project they and the Chamber of Commerce are backing is the first monthlong cleanup says Bus Damaged A southbound Continental Trailways bus was vandalized April 23 on Highway 275 near Bus driver Green told authorities the commercial bus was damaged when an object was thrown through the wind Board Accepts Project Bids Low bids from three con struction companies Monday were accepted by the Mills County Board of Supervisors for two road Henningsen Construc tion Company of Atlantic offer ed the low bid of for an asphalt seal coat ance surface Road rock maintenance resurfacing will be done in a second for a net price of which was bid by Kaser Construction The remainder of that sec ond project will be done for which was the low bid submitted by Schildberg Construction Council Spokesman Jerry Glenwood Mayor Har old Radford will declare May as cleanup Among plans for the month are a dead tree cleanup in the city park by the National Guard retail tff cleanup items and materials by local merchants a painting project at the city ball park involving stu dents from the high school and the Glenwood State School construction of highway signs promoting the Glenwood Tentatively scheduled is the construction of a picnic shelter at the but help and mater ials are needed for this The Betterment Council will also work in conjunction with the Jaycees tree plant ing which will begin in Individuals with or projects for the betterment of Glenwood are asked to sub mit their ideas to the Better ment Council by contacting Jer ry Debbie Kahl Named Delegates A set of twins will repre sent Mineola at Girls State sessions this Dan and Debbie both 16 and children of and Duane have been selected for the The Mineola American Le gion Post 705 will sponsor Dans June 18 Debbie will participate in Girls State activities June 814 after being chosen by the American Legion Auxiliary to Post The both juniors at Glenwood Community High will attend the sessions at the University of Northern Iowa at Cedar A Silver City woman Monday was selected as Rural Home maker of the Year by the West Pottawattamie County Farm Bureau Clarence Delia a former Nebraska rancher and was honored at a luncheon in Council Sam Mc the 1974 Rural Home and Lloyd president of the Farm Bureau Womens Com made the award pre A native Mass and her family lived for a time on a Nebraska ranch before returning to She graduated from the Sil ver City high school in 1931 and later attended a beauty In she married Clarence The couple and their all belong to the Farm Bureau and to the United Meth odist Church in Silver Mass serves as secre tary to the Farm Bureau Wo mens the Silver Senior and the Silver City American Legion For Mass raises chicken and gar dens and May 3 Town Meeting Will Bring Representatives To Glenwood Mills county residents are reminded that they will have a unique opportunity to voice their opinions on critical and local issues at the Town Meeting scheduled next May Mills County Republican Chairman Rafael Roure of Glenwood said the Town Meeting will begin at 2 May 3 at the Savings and Loan Hospitality All interested Mills county residents are encouraged to at tend the Town Meeting to dis cuss the listen to de bate and make their views known to State Senators Cal vin Hultman and Jim State Representatives La Verne Schroeder and Lillian and possibly State Senator Kevin Kelly of Sioux Those attending will have an opportunity to participate in a poll on key issues which will be compiled and forwarded to legislators and electee We feel that the Town Meet ing concept is a great oppor for people who are fru with government or have an opinion on issues facing the nation or state to make their views Roure It is this kind of direct citizen participation and citizen input that has been lacking in the past and caused the erosion of confidence in the political pro Roure said he was proud that the Republican Party is taking the initiative in showing people that they can still make a difference in the political I would en courage anyone interested in government and the quality of life for all lowans to at New Law Instituted to Curb Child Abuse Cases Social workers and legisla tors have taken two steps in the past year to help curb child abuse Mike a member of the Mills County Department of Social Services Monday said a hotline has been insti for reports of suspected child A LAW ENACTED last sum mer grants immunity from pro to persons who report incidents of child Across the we think theres more abuse or neglect than what is reported to Monfils Child abuse is a growing problem in our state and other And an effort is being made to deal with the he THE HOTLINE which is open 24 hours a seven days a is The Iowa Central Child Abuse Registry takes the reports and turns them over to local welfare agencies for The which began in operates from Monfils According to the new legis which took effect last any person who reports child abuse is immune from any civil and criminal THE KEY TO THE LAW is that a report must be made in good Monfils pointed You cant just mad at your neighbor because his dog did something on your the social worker There are two categories of people who make reports of child INCLUDED among those per sons required by law to make reports are social police men or employes of day care or mental health Those who usually come in contact with abused are subject to meanor charges if they dont make reports to So that law has some teeth in Monfils OTHER PERSONS who make reports are not subject to legal sanction if they fail to do CHILD ABUSE CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 Police Chief Kenny Mead Discusses Job First in a series of pro files of members of Glen wood police In his first year on the chief of police learned law enforcement in a small town is not limited to issuing parking tickets and cat ching KENNETH MEAD recalled in an interview When I first came on the po lice I think it was my first I went out by the golf course with a deputy who had a guy there that had been beaten We had him at the doctors and went to his house to investi A car drove by and a man You have a dog dead up But it was a guy lying in the road who had been stabbed in the That was my first and I began to wonder whether Id like the job or OVER THE NEXT Mead was involved in two chases in which drivers were In he helped pursue a car theft gang which had been working out of and one man died in the ensuing Less than a year 1 was in a chase with a man north of and he missed a curve and it killed I was never so happy to get a blood test back in my because it showed he was very intoxicated at the the chief Most of the the 36yearold Glenwood native leads a less exciting He and his officers work with traffic and issue parking tick ets around the square usually once a MEAD WORKS with in breakins and stuff like and helps merchants who receive bad We dont collect We take the have an informa tion signed by the county attor make arrests within the city and take the check writer to he Mead also helps coordinate court appearances by his The magistrates send him a court and he tries to arrange the appearances during his officers AS POLICE a job which he has held since Mead is responsible for compiling and filing monthly reports to the state and the He also must work with at which is one reason the mayor and city council vot ed to guarantee him an 8 to 4 shift so that he is available during regular office In the he had rotated hours with his and he still prefers the busier 4 to midnight BUT OF ALL his Mead feels his respon is the worst aspect of his Thats my pet 1 hate that worse than the former National Guardsman He added that most of the complaints he handles are re lated to The chance to meet people is the most enjoyable part of Meads Ninety per cent of the peo ple are nice to be but we deal with the same 10 per cent over and he com IN A desire to help people led to Meads job with the police He and Don Blezek had been partners in a Phillips 66 filling station in 1958 and When Blezek eventually bought him I started and cat He credits former sheriff Don Rhoden and Highway Patrolman Gene Kennedy with interesting him in law got me more or just being around the 1956 graduate of Glenwood High School MEAD CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 I I
