Summer residential speech clinic aids 57 Iowa children
At the University of Iowa 57 children aged 8 to 16 participated in a six week summer residential program ending August 2. Led by Lee Fisher, the effort includes therapy up to five hours daily, social work support, and evening recreation at the Wendell Johnson center.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Lee Fisher
Department of
Speech Pathology and Audiology
Joint County
Cedar
Linn
Johnson
Washington
Charles Ellsberry
Boone Mobile Homes
Boone
Jolene
U. of I
New Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Center
Mike Gengler
Mike
al Gengler
Route 1
Remsen
Fisher
Clifton Kauffman
Clifford Kauffman
Strawberry Point
Clifton
The
Easter Seal Society
Mary Lou Starkweather
Duane van Demark
Increase in Theft of Iowa Welfare Checks Reported
Des Moines officials say that over the last eight months 44 welfare checks averaging $200 each have been stolen in Iowa, the most in the program's 30 year history. Thefts target aid to dependent children and old age assistance, with investigations by welfare officials and the state bureau of criminal investigation.
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Iowa
Des Moines
State Department of Social Welfare
Carl Arvidson
Arvidson
U.S
Shapiro
Marvin Selden
State Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Millen Suffers Broken Leg in Bike Mishap
In Farmington AP reports State Rep Floyd Millen of Farmington is nursing a broken right leg after his bicycle skidded on loose gravel downtown. The three term lawmaker and former house majority leader in 1967 also fractured the same leg in a 1964 traffic accident.
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Farmington
Floyd Millen
Millen
School Share Of State Tax Up $2 Million
DES MOINES AP Local school districts will share 17.6 million this fall, about 2 million more than the last payment. In spring they received 15.7 million as their 40 percent share. State officials cited 1967 tax data and noted timely reporting thanks to a new data processing facility.
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Des Moines
William Forst
Marvin Selden
Millers' Disputes Hurt Iowa Economy, IMA Says
Iowa manufacturing and grain milling strikes idled 2,300 workers at Penick and Ford Cedar Rapids Hubinger Keokuk Clinton Corn Processing Clinton Belmond Central Soya Belmond plant since June and July. Payroll losses run about 350000 weekly with 2 million weekly drop in corn and soybean sales, per IMA official J S Craiger. A separate Des Moines crash left David Challenge McKinley dead on arrival and James Boals injured after a car hit a guard rail on Interstate 235.
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DES Moines
UPI
Iowa
J. S. Craiger
Iowa Manufacturers Assn
American Federation of Grain Millers International Union
Penick and Ford
Cedar Rapids
Hubinger Co
Keokuk
Clinton Corn Processing Co
Clinton
Soya
Belmond
Craiger
Lowa
David Challenge McKinley
James Boals
Labor Paper Attacks Hughes For Not Backing Humphrey
The Iowa Federationist accuses Gov. Hughes of being out of touch with organized labor for not backing Hubert Humphrey. It praises Humphrey’s labor voting record and notes Democrats’ caution in Iowa for the presidential selection. Also reports on delegate changes and toll road feasibility study.
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Labor
Hughes
Hubert
Des Moines
The
Iowa Federationist
Harold E. Hughes
Hubert Humphrey
Organized
Humphrey
Organized Labor Movement
Highway Commission
Harry Bradley Jr
Iowa
Kentucky
Delegates Challenged by Alabama Democrat Chief
Robert Vance, head of Alabama's Democratic executive committee, challenges 15 Iowa delegates to the Democratic national convention over party loyalty in letters to Iowa Democrats. The action targets delegates previously slated for the 21-member slate.
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Iowa
Robert Vance
Alabama
Democrat Executive Committee
Vance
Open house draws 2500 at Monticello Senior Home
About 2500 people attended the weekend open house at the new Senior Home Inc facility in Monticello. Administrator Mike Goettsch said residency begins officially next week.
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Monticello
New Senior Home, Inc
Mike Goettsch
Nab 8 Boys in Calmar Breakins
Eight Calmar youths aged 10 to 14 were turned over to Winneshiek county juvenile authorities after multiple breakins in Calmar over three weeks. Four boys were arrested by the sheriff inside Brueckner's drug store as they forced a door and took items. they implicated others and admitted three breakins.
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Calmar
Winneshiek County
Brueckner
Nicholas backs Jepsen for lieutenant governor post
CLEAR LAKE UPI Former Republican Lt. Gov. William Nicholas of Clear Lake endorsed State Sen. Roger Jepsen for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor. Nicholas praised Jepsen for leadership on Iowa fiscal issues and his stance against the last session tax bill.
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Clear Lake
UPI
William Nicholas
Roger Jepsen
Davenport
Nicholas
Jepsen
Iowa
Schwengel urges unity and youth role in American dream
Rep. Fred Schwengel told Northeast Missouri State Teachers College graduates dissent signals strength and the dream should be strengthened for all. He praised youth and community leaders as the real architects of growth and urged wholehearted effort from Iowans and others.
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Kirksville
Fred Schwengel
Iowa
Schwengel
Northeast Missouri State Teachers College
America
Urges Young To Take Lead in Business
Donald Johnson, a Republican gubernatorial candidate, told Waterloo Junior Chamber of Commerce that Iowa’s young business and professional people must lead the state’s industrial and business growth. He urged initiative to spur growth and development.
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Waterloo
UPI
Donald Johnson
Iowa
Johnson
Tax Loophole Critic Says It Hurts Iowa Farmers
Audubon State Sen. David Stanley of Muscatine urged Congress to plug a tax loophole he says gives large corporations and absentee owners an unfair Iowa advantage. He backs Senator Miller’s bill and cites 1965 data showing wealthy absentee farmers reporting farm losses to dodge income tax, then profiting on capital gains from sales.
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Audubon
David Stanley
Muscatine
U.S
Congress
Iowa
Jack Miller
Audubon County Fair
Stanley
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