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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1977
Page
4
Bonnie Lucido of Project PERSN in Mason City will lead an in service on Down’s Syndrome Children on Friday January 28 in Cylinder at 9:00 a.m. A slide presentation on the center base program and infant program will be included.
The Fine Arts Department of Iowa Lakes Community College announces the Fifth Annual Jazz Festival on Tuesday February 1 at Roosevelt Auditorium. Guest clinician and soloist Dominic Spera will lead a day clinic at 3 p.m. and perform at 8 p.m. with Stage Bands from Estherville Lincoln Central of Grover Emmetsburg Algona Mapleton and the ILCC Jazz Lab Ensemble. Tickets are on sale from the college music department, music students, and Krafft Music Estherville.
U S Senator Dick Clark announces three U S Senate Agriculture Committee field hearings in Iowa to gather farmer input on the new farm bill. Sessions are January 28 in Fairfax and Ankeny and January 29 in Sioux City, with times and venues at local sales barns. Testimony by farmers and groups is invited, with written copies encouraged for record inclusion. Each hearing becomes part of the committee’s official farm bill deliberations.
Buena Vista College was awarded a 700 grant from the Sears-Roebuck Foundation as part of 20,700 distributed to 23 privately supported Iowa colleges this week. The funds, part of 1,250,000 nationwide for 1976-77, may be used unrestrictedly by the college. The foundation also runs special education programs and spent over 2,500,000 in 1976 on education activities.
The January Respect For Life meeting will be held on Monday January 31 at Holy Family Hospital Estherville. Sister Rosina will present Birthright a state group aiding alternatives to abortions. The public is invited.
Local visitors on Thursday evening included Merle Petersen and spouse from Kenosha Wisconsin, Ken Petersen and spouse, Ervin Wikert, and Elaine Oliver visiting at Hazel Petersen's home.
Garden Talk recounts Tack Johnson’s years riding with Pancho Villa, detailing raids, a saved fortune, and a final fading memory of the West. Villa’s generosity to loyal followers contrasts with Tack’s later quiet life in Arkansas and New Mexico before death.
Clark states hearings will be held in Washington before legislation finishes. The remark echoes Mark Twain's line hunger is the handmaid of genius.
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