Coralville Mayor Twins Roles as City Leader and Teacher
Coralville’s mayor Michael Kattchee balances city duties with teaching algebra to about 60 eighth graders at Northwest Junior High. A former radio technician and council member, he speaks of the demands and plans needed to manage both roles, reflecting on his path from war service to public life.
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Coralville
Kattchee
Over City
Iowa City
Korea
Japan
Signal Corps
Iowa
Collins Radio
Cedar Rapids
U of T
Tom Walsh
Johnson County
Northwest
Michael Kattchee
Katchee
City Hall
Dolores
Anamosa warden Cal Auger keeps firm hold on Iowa reformatory
Calvin Auger, 53, head warden at the Iowa State Men's Reformatory in Anamosa, oversees 1,050 inmates and 350 staff. He emphasizes staff stability, daily inmate contact, and a streamlined bureaucracy to run the medium-security facility while defending corrections as a necessary societal tool. He traces his career from Michigan guard to deputy director of state corrections before arriving in Anamosa.
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Anamosa
Calvin Auger
Iowa
Iowa State Men’s Reformatory
Auger
O-Jay
Reformatory
James Cagney
Michigan
Fort Madison
Des
Loneliness Haunts Imprisoned Mothers of Newborn Babies
In Mitchellville Iowa two mothers Nancy Cabbell and Tamara Campbell seek permission for prisoners to raise their babies in the Iowa Women’s Correctional Facility. The Department of Social Services has until May 6 to respond. Campbell’s son Hunter is in a foster home, Campbell laments loneliness and inability to breastfeed.
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Judy Daubenmier
Des Moines
Gureau
Mitchellville
Iowa
Romanique D’monde
Cabbell
Nancy Cabbell
Tamara Campbell
Cedar Rapids
Altoona
Campbell
Iowa Department of Social Services
Iowa Women’s Correctional Facility
Clear Lake
Hunter
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Colfax
Iowa Supreme Court
Decorah nurse leads free health screening center for cancer detection
Arlene Houlihan runs the Minowa Health and Cancer Detection Center in Decorah, offering free, volunteer led education and self examination training. Open 8:30 to 4:00 Tuesdays and Thursdays September through June, the center emphasizes prevention over diagnosis and serves as a bridge to regular medical care.
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Deb Wiley
Iowa
Decorah
Minowa Health and Cancer Detection Center
Arlene Houlihan
Houlihan
Old Smith Hospital
Montgomery Street
Gazette
Nan Wilson
Luther College
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University of Iowa
Lithuania
Munich
West Germany
Anamosa Warden
Tia
Son
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