State plans to consolidate reform schools and close facilities
The proposal aims to relocate most of the 63 women inmates to a 4 bed unit at Mount Pleasant and house maximum security prisoners at Oakdale. It recommends merging boys and girls training schools into Town Youth Development Center with north Eldora and south Mitchellville campuses. Toledo home remains temporarily. Davenport Annie Wittenmeyer Home to reduce beds and eventually close.
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Toledo
Annie Wittenmeyer
Davenport
Burns
Iowa Soldiers
Marshalltown
McGregor
Yellow River Forest
State Conservation Commission
Newton
Fort Madison
Anamosa
Belief and Hope as We Enter a New Year
A reflective piece links the Christmas angelic message to 1973 peace efforts and the Watergate era, noting prisoners of war returning home and political upheaval. It asks if 1974 will bring peaceful gains in medicine and shared humanity, urging individual responsibility to foster goodwill toward men.
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Christ
Christ the Lord
America
Eoen
Wwe
Waterfowl funds aid Manitoba wildlife project in Canada
Pred A Briewert presented John Spence a $34,000 check from Iowa migratory waterfowl stamp sales to support waterfowl and non game species. Funds support the Mandesley Wildlife Management Area in Manitoba with water control and ditching to improve marshes and bolster habitat for game and non game species. The Iowa ICC contracts with groups like Ducks Unlimited and uses proceeds for acquisitions and restoration. Also notes high housing costs abroad versus U.S. prices and reports college team stats and upcoming games. Hunters and fisher licenses expire Dec 31. renewals urged.
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A. Briewert
Iowa Conservation Commission
John Spence
Iowa
Ducks Unlimited
Canada
ICC
Duck Unlimited
Priewert
Mandesley Wildlife Management Area
Pas
Manitoba
Around the World with Foods Linda Ostrander
The feature traces the wassail bowl origin from a toast in medieval England to Christmas feasts and drinking customs. It notes hot apple cider recipe with brown sugar cider spices and a cloth spice bag, and mentions wassail as a toast and greeting tradition.
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Vortigern
Hengist
Rowena
Swith
Henry VII
England
Skol
Deer hunting trip recounted in Tribune file from 1963
In the December 26 1963 Tribune item John Lande and Grant Ostrander took a final deer hunt last week at a location not specified. A Cedar Falls obscenity law, 64 years old, was ruled unconstitutional as 30 vague in a suit against an adult bookstore owner and two employees.
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Laura Faldick
Bisonettes
Peggy Smith
Carl Geiken
Cindy Holtorf
Dixie Gelken
Marlys Ubben
Marlys
Osage Sextet
Forest City
M. R. Elman
Tribune Files
John Lande
Grant Ostrander
Towa
Cedar Falls
Buffalo Center
Iowa
August Winkleman
Lakota
Mie
J.C. Koppen
Tribune
Local fishermen haul big Missouri River catch near Pierre
Four area anglers Marvin Weaver Ray Balvance Ray and John Benjamin fished north of Pierre South Dakota and brought in 23 Northern Pike weighing 105 pounds. In a holiday note Mrs Ann Weaver reports her son Corporal Leftoy Weaver messaged from Tokyo Japan. Other items recall veterans returning from Korea and a 1943- era ice skating opening and local shop sales.
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Bnifwocontee Tribune
Sergeant Bluffs
Missouri
Piemre
South Dakota
Marvin Weaver
Ray Balvance
Ray
John Benjamin
Ann Weaver
Cpl
Leftoy Weaver
Tokyo
Japan
Buffalo Center G.1
Donald Johnson
Sgt
Lar Swartz
Korea
Tribune Files
Costigan
State to Close Iowa Reformatories and Mental Health Institutes
The Iowa Department of Social Services outlined a sweeping plan to restructure penal and mental health care. Commissioner Kevin Burns said the Rockwell City women’s reformatory and the Clarinda mental health institute will be closed by June 20, 1975, with Mount Pleasant Cherokee and Independence centers absorbing patients from Clarinda.
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Social Services Department
Clarinda
Calvin Hultman
K-Red Oak
Burns
Clarinda Institution
Social Services
Iowa Department of Social Services
Kevin Burns
Legislative Council
Rockwell City Women’s Reformatory
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US News & World Report
Zurich
London
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