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Newspaper
Humboldt County Republican
Location
Humboldt, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1981
Page
2
A damaged OCR reading shows partial line items from a Humboldt newspaper. It lists publisher imprint, postal details, subscription rates and contact telephone, with stray misspellings and broken addresses. Insights are limited to a small local notice fragment and pricing structure for Republican subscriptions.
The letter compares potential 1982 Iowa governor contenders Robert Ray and Harold Hughes. It discusses voters with long memory of past races, the impact of a Hughes candidacy on Ray, residency concerns for Hughes in Maryland, tax and license issues, and the idea that a Ray Hughes contest would thrill political junkies while noting constitutional residency limits.
The 1974 Iowa law ends strikes and sets a procedure for impasse resolution including mediation fact-finding and binding arbitration. Mediation is state funded, with cost sharing for fact-finding and arbitration. The process must finish before March 15 to certify the next year’s school budget, as Humboldt negotiates the 1962-83 contract with the Humboldt Education Association.
A reader weighs in on the December 6 1981 Des Moines Sunday Register piece Counties Eye Tax Increases to Help Poor. He argues federal budget gridlock will force counties to cut services and urges restraint from public employee wage demands while detailing county equipment shortages and repairs at Mudland Maintenance garage as justification for needed budget discipline. He notes deteriorating farm prices affect the agricultural county and stresses grounding settlement talks in reality. He urges patience until new equipment arrives and urges readers to stay informed and practical about tax funding.
A reader shares a family visit to Humboldt's Christmasland with near perfect weather. The Kiwanis Club ran the display, guiding groups through exhibits while visitors noted Santa and the decor. The letter recalls Winters of the Past from the Des Moines Register and a 1950s blizzard when groceries ran low and a father walked four miles along cleared tracks to town for supplies.
Karen May recalls a winter with no phone or TV, surviving by radio and games. She details a severe blizzard experience driving home for four miles, with poor visibility, drifting snow, and a perilous return to a numb, nearly frozen house. She vows not to attempt such weather again and hopes for milder winters.
Lori Lane of Renwick is among 24 Buena Vista College students named to the 1981 82 Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. A physical education major set to graduate in May she plans to teach and coach. She is active in basketball intramurals and Letterwin ner's Club and has honors including Order of the Keys and the Dean's List.
The Humboldt Republican reports the Women's Relief Corps at the Legion Building elected Mys. Orvilla Wittman as president Myrtle Green as senior VP Martha Marcellus as junior VP Grece Flemig as treasurer Phoebe Hutchinson as chaplain Harriet Rohning as guard and Mrs Lottie Rolling as conductor Edith Scott named delegate and Tillie Leland as alternate to the convention.
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