Campus or Prison How Secure Should Security Hospital Be
Des Moines AP report on the Iowa state board of control planning a new Oakdale security hospital with 2.6 million dollars. They debate a compromise between high security and a campus like atmosphere, considering midway houses and a phased transition for patients. Board members cite community pressure and consult Menninger Clinic for security guidance.
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Des Moines
State Board of Control
Oakdale
Board of Control
Menninger Clinic
Kansas
Menninger
Wilson
Harrington
Carroll Price
Paul Huston
University of Iowa
Robert Hardin
University of Iowa Medical College
Frank Bunker
James O. Cromwell
Joseph Coughlin
John Hege
Anamosa
Moving Day Opens New Waukon Elementary Monday
The Allamakee Community district prepares to move students from the old elementary to the new west Waukon building. Furniture and classrooms shift rooms while buses transport pupils and high school items from storage in the gymnasium. High school classes resume Tuesday in the old building and lunch service ends for the year with students carrying their meals.
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Gazette Waukon
Waukon
Allamakee
West Waukon
Supt
E. P. Reher
Elmer Kewley
Reher
Robert Campbell
Highway 21 Crash Blocks Road Overnight
Two trucks collided on highway 21 north of What Cheer causing long delays in freezing conditions. Carl Provin of Barnes City stopped to adjust furniture when a semi loaded with meat rear ended him. The pickup and cargo were pushed off the road bank and the semi overturned.
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Sigourney
What Cheer
Highway 21
Carl Provin
Barnes City
Lester Walker
Oelwien
Morrell’s of
Ottumwa
Sherriff John
Bud’’ Wallerich
Provin
D. M. Mather, 49, Perishes in Blaze
Des Moines reports a deadly fire in a bedroom where D. M. Mather, 49, died. Billie Jean Laurenzo, 49, was found dead by firemen, possibly asleep in bed. Autopsy ordered. Mather in poor health. husband and three sons survive. damage estimated at 2500 dollars.
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Des Moines
Billie Jean Laurenzo
Laurenzo
How To Pick A Fight With Your Wife On TV
On KCRG TV Channel 9 Friday at 6 30 PM the Flintstones segment titled How To Pick A Fight With Your Wife Without Really Trying explains simple verbal tricks and miscommunications to spark domestic quarrels with lighthearted tone for a cartoon audience.
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Kcrg-Tv
Rockefeller grant funds University of Iowa Center for New Music
A $100,000 Rockefeller Foundation grant will establish the Center for New Music at the University of Iowa, starting next September. Prof. Richard Hervig will direct. James Dixon will advise. The program will recruit seven musicians next year and later expand to include vocalists and more instruments. The center will tour Midwest art centers and universities and aim to sustain operations after the grant ends.
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U. of I. Center For New Music
Iowa City
Rockefeller Foundation
University of Iowa
Richard B. Hervig
Center For New Music
James Dixon
U. of S. Symphony Orchestra
Midwest
U. of S
Howard R. Bowen
Hervig
Rockefeller
Himie Voxman
School of Music
Boards approve Dysart Geneseo merger plans
Dysart and Geneseo school boards approve a merger involving Dysart Geneseo and rural districts in Eagle township Black Hawk county after trimming area in Eagle and parts of Bruce townships. Original plan spanned 152 square miles with a $12 million assessed valuation and about 240 high school students. Objections cited distance to LaPorte City and Hudson and concerns over higher taxes. boards set to meet Monday to decide election date.
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Dysart
Geneseo
Eagle Township
Black Hawk County
Tama
Benton
Black Hawk Counties
Bruce Township
Benton County
LaPorte City
Hudson
Delaware county board names new chair and stewards
Charles Schwartz was elected chair of the Delaware County Board of Supervisors, succeeding Dale Patton. The board also appointed new stewards for the county farm and the county engineer.
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Manchester
Charles Schwartz
Delaware County Board of Supervisors
Dale Patton
Airman First Class Earl Snitker in Vietnam
Vietnam report notes Airman First Class Earl Snitker son of Mr and Mrs Leonard Snitker is now serving in Vietnam.
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Wallkon
Earl Snitker
Leonard Snitker
Vietnam
Steel Boycott Order to Road Unit Rescinded
The Bureau of Public Roads in Ames rescinded a order requiring Iowa highway contractors to certify steel prices. Rex Whitten, BPR head, announced normal federal aid procedures would resume. The steel price dispute, settled in Washington, raised Iowa highway costs by about 24 200 annually with 8800 tons of structural steel needed in 1966.
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Ames
UPI
Bureau of Public Roads
Iowa
BPR
Rex Whitten
Whitten
Bethlehem
Steel
Washington
L. M. Clauson
Iowa Highway Commission
Fire Destroys Repair Shop in Sigourney
Fire destroyed Earl Schumacher's Radio and TV Repair shop in southwest Sigourney. The 24 by 40 foot building sat 50 feet from his house as Sigourney firefighters battled the blaze for three hours. The shop housed tools multiple TV sets radios a piano organ record player and records. Origin of the fire was not known and it was discovered about 8 p.m.
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Sigourney
Earl Schumacher
Record Iowa driver license suspensions top prior year
Iowa safety department reports 15 242 licenses suspended revoked or cancelled in 1965 a record high. About 50 000 temporary first time licenses issued last year 2 791 canceled for moving traffic violations and 47 revoked under a drag racing law. Former safety commissioner William Sueppel had begun a policy of one year temporary permits cancelled after a moving violation. The 1965 legislature approved a law adopting this policy.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa Safety Department
Jack Bubon
State Safety
William Sueppel
Iowa City
Sueppel
Evan Owen Named Manager of Area REC
Evan Owen, acting manager since the death of Ker mit James in August, has been named general manager of Allama kee Clayton Rural Electric Cooperative by the board. The appointment awaits Rural Electric Administration approval. Owen joined the firm in 1960 as office manager and has 20 years with rural electric cooperatives.
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Gazette Postville
Evan Owen
Allamakee-Clayton
Plea Deadline Set for WAUKON Jail Escape Suspect
Francis Gelo 24 recently returned from Texas to WAUKON faces jail escape charges. He has until Thursday to plead to counts of breaking jail and escape.
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Waukon
Francis Gelo
Texas
Exhaust Fumes Kill Two Lenox Teens Working on Car
Two 16 year old Lenox high school students, Jerry Lauridsen and Dean Neuhardt, died of carbon monoxide poisoning after running a car engine in a garage to keep warm. Classmate George Ahenen found them slumped in the front seat. Authorities noted putty used to patch the car as part of the scene.
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Lenox (Ap
Lenox High School
Max Myers
Lenox Community High School
Lauridsen
Neuhardt
Ahenen
Randalia Woman Paroled After Guilty Plea
Nancy Bark 22 pled guilty to obtaining money under false pretenses and was sentenced to 180 days in Rockwell City. Judge Blair Wood paroled her to Glenda Mabrey of Waterloo for two years on good behavior after the August incident involving a fraudulent check at Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank for 90 dollars.
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Manchester
Randalia
Women’s Reformatory
Rockwell City
Blair Wood
Nancy Bark
Glenda Mabrey
Waterloo
Farmers and Merchants Savings Bank
Keota Plans Early Closings for TV Parade of Stars
Keota businesses will close early at 8 p.m. this Saturday to accommodate KCRG TV color telecast of a Hollywood deb star parade. The 9 p.m. program on Channel 9 begins Friday and ends April 1.
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Ness
Kcrg-Tv
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