First a Friend Then a Host holiday safety program
The Motor Club of Iowa launches Bring Em Back Alive with First a Friend Then a Host a party hosting etiquette campaign running through New Year’s Day. It urges hosts to moderate guest drinking and provide transportation or breaks to prevent alcohol related traffic fatalities. AAA emphasizes giving guests an hour’s break before driving and arranging a sober ride home for those who overindulge.
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THE
Motor Club of
Iowa
Motor Club
AAA
Large Taylor County dam and widespread terracing projects
Twelve people met to discuss recreation and wildlife potential in Taylor County. The county ranked high in hunting and overall recreation with projects including a large dam in Marshall township completed this year and more than five miles of terraces on Kopete Farms Company lands. Officials credited the County Board of Supervisors and engineers, with support from the State Conservation Commission and Soil Conservation Service. Emergency and erosion projects included dams on Nodaway township farms and multiple waterways and diversions. An upcoming Commission erosion and conservation election was scheduled for December 9.
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Taylor County
County Board of Supervisors
Marshall Township
Board of Supervisors
State Conservation Commission
The
Soil Conservation Service
Kopete Farms Company
Clayton Township
Ed Whitehill
Olaff Coffey
Grove Township
Darrell Roush
Washington
Flavel Murphy
Gay
P. E. Firkins
Nodaway
Martin Pederson
Dallas
W. Donald Bennett
Platte
Troy John
Ross
Raymond Sneed
Des Moines
Leonard Calhoun
Francis Frey
Wetlands Purchases and Programs Protect U S Canada Waterfowl
The article outlines a pancontinental effort to save waterfowl habitat through federal programs in the United States and Canada. It highlights the Small Wetlands Program, acreage goals, and conservation funding from hunting licenses. It notes state led efforts in Minnesota Wisconsin and South Dakota and Canada’s 4 million acre goal under the Canadian Wildlife Service.
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United States
U. S
Canada
U.S. Bureau of Sport Prehenices and Wildlife
Congress
Prairie
Minnesota
Nebraska
Montana
Dakotas
Bureau
National Wildlife
Wisconsin
South Dakota
High Plains
Great Lakes
North Central
Canadian Wildlife Service
CWS
Dominion
General Treasury
Prairie Provinces
Ducks Unlimited
Conti
Ducks Unlimited and private clubs protect wetlands nationwide
Ducks Unlimited since 1937 has spent about 13 million dollars to establish 850 duck education areas in Canadian provinces and created or improved over 14 million acres of wetlands. Private hunting clubs, numbering over 6,200, protect 3.3 million acres of wetlands including key wintering grounds in California, Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas.
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Nentaide Conservation Organization
Mammoth del- Mar
Pas
Manitoba
California
Texas
Louisiana
Arkansas
Athelstan Social Notes Highlight Local Visits and Church Events
Athelstan residents share Sunday visits among families including Eva Byrns Verna Jenkins and Welcoming guests from Grant City Shenandoah and Geo Booker. Holiness Church activities list Sunday School Bible Study and Friday services led by Rev Ward Campbell.
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Oso
Wilbur Byrnes
Bob
Bill
Grant City
Eva Byrns
Wibbur Byrns
Verina Jenkins
Leona Williams
Alice Ann
Date Williams
Michael
Shenandoah
Paul Gene Williams
Geo Booker
Glenn Craighhead
Harry Stout
Clarinda
Ward Campbell
Mt Ayr
Robert Cordell
John Frazier
Weekend guest visits and funeral attendance noted
Lineville Iowa hosted a weekend guest at Mr. and Mrs Wilmer Kitterman. Mr and Mrs Leon Oxley and Mr and Mrs Paul Oxley attended an aunt Emma Melvin's funeral in Bedford. Burial occurred in Hopkins Missouri. Mrs Gerald Boydston dined with her mother Belle Phelan. Pete Richey and Fred Blood joined Lenox senior citizen meeting with a noon pot luck. Tom Grimm and Verl Walston were ill at home in Sharpsburg last week.
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Leon Oxley
Paul Oxley
Bedford
Emma Melvin
Hopkins
Gerald Boydston
Belle Phelan
Pete Richey
Freef Blood
Lenox
Tom Grimm
Verl Walston
Sharpsburg
Rutledges Plan Christmas in Nebraska City and Texas
Sharpsburg items report Mr and Mrs Ralph Rutledge travelling to Nebraska City to visit their daughter Mrs Leonard Hoskins and family for Christmas before heading to Texas for the winter. Also noted are visits by Mr Court Leaventon of Nebraska City to his brother Carl Leaventon and Mrs Bessie Underwood visiting Mary Underwood in Clarinda nursing home.
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Hershel Scott
Deloris
John Frazier
Eugene Cavin
Ilinois
Wesley Cavin
Victor Chandler
Kansas City
Jerry Chandler
Victor
Nellie Morris
Viola Chandler
Blockton
Zollmans
Sharpsburg
Ralph Rutledge
Nebraska City
Nebr
Leonard Hoskins
Texas
Thhey
Court Leaventon
Carl Leaventon
Bessie Underwood
Clarinda
Mary Underwood
Barbara Millson
Lucky 44H Club Holds Christmas Party Meeting
The Lucky 44H Club met December 16 at 4 p.m. in the New Market Flite School Home Ec room with fourteen members two leaders and three visitors. No business or demonstrations due to the Christmas party. A grab bag exchange and games were arranged. Lunch was served by several members. The next meeting is set for January 20 1900 at New Market School.
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Lucky 44H
New Market Flite
Diger Whipp
Nancy Marsh
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Arthur Dinwiddie
PARTY
Donald Hoskins
Bedford Livestock Auction
Conservation News
Raymond Aneed
Drexel
Soil Conservation District Office
Merle Travis
Des Moines Register & Tribune
Clifford Nelson
Ivan Burwell
U.S
Chuck Griffith
Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife
Prairie Pothole Country
Game and Fish Departments
Pittman-Robertson
I LA Esas
Athelstan
Vernonkine Athelstan
Verna Jenkins
Sickels Appliance Store
Bedford, Iowa
Lineville
Wilmer Kitterman
Ray Nerne
LUCKY
Noez
AVON
Avis Bowers
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