Iowa City Eyes Youth Jobs and Social Needs Steering Plan
Mayor Loren Hickerson will name a steering committee to design a city program addressing housing and employment for youths. The plan stems from a recent urban social concerns meeting and may form a Youth Council and a city human resources board to coordinate existing agencies and private groups. The effort aims for regional impact with St. Mark's church offering a site for youth employment activities. The Low Rent Housing Agency urges a state level conference on non profit housing and greater support for private developers and public housing reforms.
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Iowa City
Loren Hickerson
St. Mark’s Methodist Church
Lee Butherus
Robert Welsh
Rights Commission Audit Returned Over Travel Claims
DES MOINES AP The Towa Civil Rights Commission sends back an audit to State Auditor Lloyd Smith after commission chairwoman Merle Full says claims exceeding comptroller rules are not applicable to commissioners. Full cites law that commissioners are reimbursed not paid and says Ivie and Selden support the exception. She also condemns the commission for poor record keeping since 1965.
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Des Moines
Towa Civil Rights Commission
Lloyd Smith
Commission
Merle Full
Smith
Comptroller
Iowa
Full
Atty
Roger Ivie
Marvin Selden
County Nurse Office To Close in Delaware County
The Delaware county public health nurse office will close Monday and stay shut until a new nurse is hired. Nurse Beverly Raus resigned effective March 1. Clerk Mrs. Fred Schultz has also resigned to take other work.
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Manchester
Delaware County
Beverly Raus
Fred Schultz
Favorite Son Could Unite Fractured Iowa Dems
Gov. Harold Hughes might run as a favorite son to avert a split within Iowa Democrats. Factions fear Johnson backers vs McCarthy Kennedy supporters, with May 25 Iowa convention to decide delegate alignment.
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Des Moines
Harold Hughes
Iowa
Democratic Party
Hughes
U.S. Senate
Johnson
Eugene McCarthy
Minnesota
Robert F. Kennedy
New York
Harry Beardsley
Clark Rasmussen
Accreditation Troubles For All Area Colleges
Iowa lawmakers debate local versus state control as North Central Association denies accreditation to Mason City and Burlington campuses. Officials warn loss of accreditation risks federal funds and credit transfers. Baley urges possible legislative change while Hill supports keeping strong state oversight and Regents transfer authority.
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DES Moines
Iowa
William Baley
Eugene Hill
Newton
North Central Assn. of Colleges
North Iowa Area Community College
Mason City
Burlington
Southeast Iowa Area Community College
Mason City Junior College
State System of Area Vocational-Technical Schools
Baley
North Central
State Board of Regents
Board of Regents
Robert Birkhimer
Southeast
Iowa Area Community College
House Near Marengo Hit by Fire
Marengo firefighters battled two blazes Thursday night. A fire at the Dean Kenzenbaw farm house five miles west damaged the kitchen and much of the home with smoke and water damage. The blaze threatened nearby gas tanks and melted varnish on woodwork. the family dog perished. They also contained an east Marengo grass fire sparked by an earlier blaze near a shed storing dynamite, before the shed caught fire.
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Marengo
Dean Kenzenbaw
Here
East Marengo
Blaze Burns 400 Acres Near Lowden
A Thursday afternoon fire burned about 400 acres of farm land and timber southwest of Lowden. Originating on the Henry Niermeyer farm, sparks spread to the Norman Conrad farm and into timber on the Conrad property. It also reached the Herman Krutzfeld farm before firefighters extinguished the flames after remaining on scene from 2 to 5 p m and then again after being summoned back at 7 p m, staying until 10 p m.
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Lowdiun
Lowden
Leroy Hansen
Henry Niermeyer
Niermeyer
Norman Conrad
Conrad
Herman Krutzfeld
Tama Tamaa house fire damages garage and home
A Tama area blaze destroyed the garage and damaged the Mark Merrick residence on Thursday. The fire started in the garage then spread to the house, damaging a back porch and an exterior wall while the rest suffered smoke damage. Two Merrick children and their babysitter escaped.
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Tama
Mark Merrick
United Press International
Merrick
Waterloo farmer dies fighting grass fire on his farm
Waterloo authorities report Martin Renner 65 died of a heart attack while battling a grass fire that consumed several acres on his north edge farm. Firemen contained the blaze and kept it from reaching nearby structures.
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Waterloo
UPI
Martin Renner
Spring Fever Lands Two Dubuque Teens in Jail
Two 18 year old Dubuque youths William Kraus and James Geary were jailed after riding a freight car to Postville and taking a car from a stranger to Monona. They, students at the Mason City junior college, were stopped in McGregor where officials questioned them.
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The
Gazette Eleader
Dubuque
William Kraus
James Geary
Mason City
Postville
Monona
McGregor
Iowa City Council to Appeal Urban Renewal Ruling
Iowa City officials vote to appeal the district court decision voiding federal funds for the urban renewal project. Mayor Loren Hickerson and Councilmen Connell and Lind face potential conflicts. two appeals planned with prompt supreme court hearing sought. Atty Honohan and Meardon urge action despite costs as HUD deadline fuels litigation. Downtown conditions and private investment fears frame the debate. OELWEIN-Donaldson Co. employees win second straight company safety trophy at Saturday banquet.
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State Supreme Court
District Court
Robert Connell
Connell
Jay Honohan
William Meardon
Clair Hamilton
Loren Hickerson
Robert Lind
Hickerson
Honohan
Supreme Court
Meardon
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Oelwein
Donaldson Co. Employes
Minneapolis
Appointment to Iowa Small Business Advisory Council
John Q. Seale, a lawyer with his father H. J. Swift, has been named a member of the Iowa Small Business Advisory Council in Manchester.
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Manchester
John Q
Seale
H. J. Swift
Iowa
Iowa City Board Holds Line on Teachers Pay Rise
Iowa City teachers failed to win a raise above the newly adopted 1968 69 salary schedule with a $6 000 base. At a committee meeting the teachers argued the plan is inequitable and urged concessions to push the base to 6100 while critics noted relative district comparisons and higher raise percentages elsewhere.
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Iowa City School Board
Iowa City
Jaison Committee
Harry Dean
Teachers’ Organization
William Phelan
Dean
Urbana teachers raise funds amid board negotiation dispute
A contentious fund drive in Urbana has raised 117,968 toward a 150,000 goal for the St. Mary’s building, as teachers collect special gifts still being accepted. Campaign chairman Joe Allen Smith leads the effort amid ongoing negotiations with the school board.
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Mary’s
Joe Allen
Smith
West Delaware to consider three-grade junior high building
Gayle C. Obrecht of the state department urges a new three-grade junior high as the district grows. He cites enrollment rising from 2072 to 2156 and a University of Iowa projection of about 650 students in a three-grade high and junior high. Committees will study facilities enrollment and curriculum, reporting April 3. Population shifts in Dundee Greeley Manchester Ryan and Delaware noted.
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Manchester
West Delaware
Gayle C. Obrecht
State Department of Public Instruction
Obrecht
University of Iowa
U. S
Dundee
Greeley
Ryan
Delaware
Businesswoman 96 Hurt in Fall in Marengo
Lena Merrill 96, owner of a dry goods store in Marengo, suffered a broken arm in a Thursday fall and is listed in fair condition at Marengo Memorial hospital. Also injured Thursday, Jim Stursa 18, of Marengo, cut the tip of a middle finger off operating a meat grinder at a grocery. treated and released.
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Marengo
Lena Merrill
Marengo Memorial Hospital
Jim Stursa
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