Iowa senator urges welfare reform to aid women in poverty
Iowa state Sen. Charles Bruner urges reforms after a 50 percent rise in families headed by women living in poverty between 1969 and 1979. He cites inadequate ADC payments and weak child support enforcement, proposing medical bill programs, support for job training, daycare, and better pay equity for women in state jobs. He warns of growing class of disadvantaged women and falling productivity.
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Judy Daubenmier
Des Moines
Charles Bruner
D-Ames
Bruner
Iowa
Ames
Terry Branstad
Appropriations
Iowa Development Commission On Economic Development
Woman in $15 parking ticket case praised by Reagan
Minnie Farr a 65 year old MS patient in a wheelchair fought a $15 ticket after Iowa handicapped plates were not recognized in Massachusetts. President Reagan called to congratulate and apologize he urged benefits for all handicapped people. Her son paid the fine and Iowa refund followed.
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Sioux City
Reagan
America
Minnie Farr
Farr
Kenneth
Danvers
Mass
Iowa
Massachusetts
Katie Roberts
Roger Jepsen
Jepsen
Senate
Hoover association elects new president
Richard C. Kautz of Muscatine was elected president and re elected chairman of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association. He replaces Donald Johnson of West Branch who is serving as an aide to U.S. Senator Jepsen.
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West Branch
Richard C. Kautz
Muscatine
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association
Kautz
Grain Processing Corp
Kent Feeds
Donald Johnson
U.S
Roger Jepsen
Iowa
Floyd T. Fawcett
Allan Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Greenwich
Mount Vernon
Joseph E. McCabe
Pope accepts resignation of archbishop James J Byrne of Dubuque
Vatican confirms Pope John Paul II accepted the resignation of Archbishop James J Byrne of Dubuque Iowa. Byrne turned 75 on July 28 and had led the Dubuque archdiocese since 1962.
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Vatican City
John Paul II
James J. Byrne
Dubuque
Iowa
Vatican
Byrne
Minnesota bill against Sackter files claim on estate
The Minnesota Department of Public Welfare seeks $9,863 from Bill Sackter’s estate for unpaid medical bills, sent to guardian Rabbi Jeffrey Portman after Sackter’s June death in Iowa City. Portman calls the claim insulting and notes Sackter’s 22,000 in back wages.
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Minnesota
Iowa City
Portman
Just
Sackter
Barry Morrow
Bev
Morrow
Minneapolis
Bill
Mickey Rooney
Denker
Famous sisters reunite at cousin’s wedding in Sioux City
Twin advice columnists Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren reunite with sisters Dorothy Rubin and Helen Brodkey in Sioux City at a cousin’s wedding. The Friedman sisters, born in Sioux City, are aged 72 and 70, and Abby’s column runs daily in The Gazette.
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Ann Landers
Abigail van Buren
Sioux City
Iowa
Dorothy Rubin
Helen Brodkey
Abby
Ann
Pauline Esther Friedman
Esther Pauline Friedman
Friedman
Central High School
Helen
Omaha
Dorothy
Palm Springs
Calif
The
Gazette
Waterloo dog racing plan meets county opposition
Black Hawk County supervisors show reluctance to spend 2500 dollars to aid a Waterloo Chamber of Commerce driven project to promote a dog racing track with pari mutuel betting. Three of five supervisors publicly oppose while one remains undecided. Field notes 7500 dollars already pledged and urges total around 10000 for engineers and consultants.
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Waterloo
Black Hawk County
County Board of Supervisors
Waterloo Chamber of Commerce
Sonia Johannsen
Hugh Field
Citizens Committee
Johannsen
Field
Rachel Fulton
Carroll Hayes
Frank Mollenhoff
Francis Messerly
Frank Dowie
Memorial for Iowans killed in Vietnam in 1966
Council Bluffs approves memorial in city park to honor 300 Pottawattamie County men who died in the Vietnam War. The proposal is from the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Ross Grego whose son Phillip, a Marine, died in 1966 in Vietnam.
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Council Bluffs
Pottawattamie County
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Ross Grego
Phillip
Vietnam
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