Opinion-tribune (Newspaper) - June 14, 1978, Glenwood, Iowa 47RHIEVES LEw iA 0311 Iowa A growing community Volume 114 Tribune 24 June 1978 Price 15c group gives to ambulance Money to help pay debt on equipment for service The Pacific Junction Community Im provement Council has contributed toward the purchase of a heart monitor by the citys ambulance according to Gladys council The improvement which assists in many areas of community has funded many local Last Pacific Junction won first place in its class in the state Community Betterment Association The ambulance service is getting a Life Pak V which will prepare a tape on a heartattack patient and will allow a paramedic to transmit information to a The doctor will monitor the patient and send the paramedic medical The equipment will cost more than but purchase was funded in part by federal funds through the Emergency Medical Services Health Planning Council of the More than had to be raised The volunteer ambulance service also is receiving a federal grant which will pay half the cost of an advanced lift support Union accuses Swift of plotting shutdown Pacific Junction residents have scheduled community center to reduce its debt on the Concert at Courthouse A plays during the noon hour m displays for art exhibit of die Mills County Arts during the first hour of the art which ran until late By Mike Anders editor The union representing workers at Swift plant accused the company of suspending employees to repair the not because of a deliberate work as Swift In our the company is carrying out a preplanned maneuver designed to shut the plant down for the purpose of making said a Tuesday release from Amalgamated Meat Cutters of North The local met Tuesday afternoon in from where more than half the Glenwood plants workers Local union president Max who works at an Omaha plant represented by says Swift is doing considerable work on the kill chain that leads hogs to and is making other common The only comment from plant supervisor Hauge came three days after suspensions in a typewritten He said Swift temporarily had suspended operations because of a work slowdown begun on the dressing followed by refusal of employees to do assigned Hauge says about 150 of 170 nonsalaried workers have been A union steward from Tabor says the supervisor has laid off more than 20 disregarded grievance procedure and ignored seniority Trouble he when Hauge came to Glenwood in He just doesnt want to cooperate with one of several Bunion its The band played SomS to mn his waX no matter The union statement says that Swift cut crews to unreasonable levels and failed to train properly those newly assigned to critical jobs on the kill Workers were unable to meet production the statement Managements the union created safety hazards and the necessity for federal inspectors to stop production throughout the work The company then closed the the union who has been with the Glenwood plant since it opened in says Swift last Monday suspended employees on the killing On he cut workers were suspended after they refused to be shifted to the killing The management on Wednesday sus pended more workers down the as they ran out of work and refused to take the places of those Shepard On Shepard says he got a letter from the plant manager who said that if the union promises no more work slowdowns and no mutilation of the plant will Shepard too says the work slowdown was caused by overloading of Art says it was done deliberately by some workers to slow down the kill last We had to do something or theyd just keep on violating our says Florian who began working at the Glenwood plant shortly after it They were doing things that had never been done to test the Among complaints Florian and Shepard list is lunch particularly last The union which expires When work started as it did last Shepard past management has allowed workers to eat before five hours were sometimes before He says n the management didnt want them to eat until they had worked five or past 1 The most serious contract Shepard is that Hauge did not take into account seniority rights when shifting persons to other jobs to replace workers who had been laid The he would not discuss grievances at He started violating our contract as soon as he got Shepard Its a contract all the past supervisors have honored without any Hauge replaced Art who came to Glenwood in 1974 and retired earlier this Hauge has been with Swift since and was supervisor at the companys Marshalltown Everything was going fine until this new guy Hauge got says He says that work sometimes slowed down under past but that workers were not On the inside Lester has been carving wood as a hobby for 16 Since his retirement four years Hunt has taken up something teaches wood carving for the Iowa Arts For see the feature on page Record items page 2A Etcetera page 3A People pages 5A Sports pages 14A ads pages legal notices 6 2C Farm pages 7C Election costly in small precincts Last weeks primary election was expensive in a couple of small precincts with poor voter according to statistics from the election I know it will be in the neighborhood of a at where they only had 10 says county auditor Glenn who runs elections in Mills Only nine persons of 68 13 voted in rural Marys precinct in the northwest corner of the In which has 66 registered only 10 or 15 The cost of the election board alone in Marys precinct is Johnson or a Add to that the rent for polling supplies and printing and holding an election in a populated precinct is even more Johnson estimates the cost of the election in all 16 precincts to be Divide that by the persons who voted and the cost per voter is On election the number of voters was estimated at a 20 percent voter With the revised voter turnout in Mills County was 23 Results of the primary remained the same after Mondays canvass of In the only contested Creighton rural won the Republican nomination for supervisor and incumbent Walter Pacific won the race as the partys county attorney Little can be done about the cost of an election in small Johnson Law states that precincts may be consolidated with another if it has less than 50 registered and if the poll is moved no more than a mile from its corporation he At one the county had 23 some as small as 50 Johnson Over the they were made into 16 Voters in Marys precinct petitioned to be consolidated four years he but the poll would have been moved more than a mile from its corporation Residents of the small precincts need not fear they will lose their right to vote because of Youve got to have it the election even if only one shows says Canvassed vote totals in county with the number of votes awarded on election night in parentheses County supervisor ton Miller 536 Karl Hertz 386 Clyde Patton 256 County supervisor Wood 178 County attorney Walter Green 602 Tim Markel 556 County Asmussen County Robinson 985 Canvassed vote totals for Mills County in contested state races senator Jepsen Maurie Van Nostrand Joe Bertroche senator Clark Gerald Baker Robert Governor Ray Donovan Nelson Governor Fitzgerald Tom Whitney Warren Strait representative Garrett George Opperman Lieutenant governor Branstad Hansen Brice Oakley Lieutenant governor iam Palmer Minnette Doderer Secretary of state Griffen Neal Hines Fewer loose police chief says More persons are abiding by the citys leash law than were earlier this says Police Chief Kenneth The dog calls really have gone says The chief says there were only eight calls made to the police station during the past four compared to two or three a day Of the recent Mead says two were about lost dogs and another was about a dog that already was The City Council in January passed a tougher ordinance for owners whose dogs are caught running Pickup are for a third offense it was regardless how many times an animal was picked After more complaints about dogs running the mayor hired a dog catcher to patrol in the citys yellow He barely had started when he broke his another Mead says the dog catcher is back on and hopes to be patrolling Dogs or other animals caught running loose inside the city limits are taken to the old city where they are If not claimed after seven Mead the dogs are given to an Osceola The chief says he thinks the man sells them to universities for Glen Haven to be host for community health fair Glen Haven will sponsor a June 25 community Health fair at the homes dining The fair will include CPR demonstrations and blood sugar as well as blood pressure The which will run from to is open to the The following organizations will have representatives to furnish slides and demonstrations of their services Mills County Health Nursing American Cancer Mills County Red Meals on Ambulance Service of Mills Mills County Social American Diabetic Glenwood Volunteer Fire Physical Therapy speech thera occupational River Bluffs Alcoholism Glen Haven Special Three Glenwood Community School District administrators Jon Dan Tuma and Keith among those to attend a daylong workshop at Council Bluffs to discuss federal regulations regarding special The workshop was sponsored by the Loess Hills Area Education Agency and the Administrators Advisory Creative arts k Among the workshops to be offered at the Creative Arts Day on June 23 are coil wood tie and nature collage and pencil according to the county extension Children ages 8 through 19 are eligible for the which will be from to at the county The extension service and the Mills County Arts Council are sponsoring the The fee covers cost of supplies and is required to make sure supplies are To persons may call the Malvern extension office at Deadline is Burglary charges Two 20yearold Malvern Eddie Hall and Marlene been charged with burglary in the second according to the county attorneys Roundup of news The two are charged with the theft of a a a typewriter and other items from the rural Glenwood home of Audrey who reported the theft late Monday Both were released from the county jail on recognizance the attorneys office Democrats The Mills County Democrats will meet at 8 Monday at the Mills County State Bank Courtesy reports county chairman Howard Vine bridge Bengtson said the guardsmen mentioned two one of which would be cheaper but would not permit traffic across the temporary bridge during construction of a permanent Guardsmen said that the earliest their company could put the bridge in would be according to He said there may be another company that can do it highlight efforts being made to conserve soil and two of Iowas precious Preventing soil erosion is an important jask of farm Amemiya ages farmers to select land use practices that reduce soil and water losses and minimize the entry of plant nutrients and other organic and inorganic material into streams and On row crop Amemiya advocates contour strip grassed terraces and conservation tillage systems that leave soil surfaces rough and protected with plant Accepted plats Honorary degree nf The county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday accepted the final plat of Oak Hill Subdivision and the preliminary plat of Sixth the of lots in Anthony Public Works Director Mike Bengtson and Mayor Dale Harper met with Iowa National Guard engineers Saturday to Soil and Water Conservation Week in discuss plans for putting a temporary jowa be Sept 17 through reports bridge across the Keg Creek to replace the Min extension agronomist at closed Vine Street jowa State The observance will Ruth director of development therapy at the Glenwood State Hospital was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Drew She was recognized for developing training techniques for profoundly retarded and for overcoming her handicap of cerebral She was graduated cum laude in psychology from Drew in 1948 and got advanced degrees from Syracuse University and the University of Her doctoral Ruth Webb dissertation at Illinois dealt with the social acceptance of physically disabled college In Webb received the Handicapped lowan of the Year That she also won Drews annual Alumni Achievement Award in the i
