Volunteer Ambulance Reform Signals Shift Toward Self-Reliance in Iowa
The Cherokee Daily Times notes Iowa volunteers form IVARA to influence ambulance law, amid concerns over rural neglect and the push toward standardized but costly paid services. About 200 units operate statewide, with debate over stricter staffing and funding rules. IVARA seeks legislative voice to protect unpaid firms and rural access.
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Iowa
General Assembly
Iowa Volunteer Ambulance and Rescue Assa
IVARA
Antique oak breakfront value and age inquiry
A reader seeks manufacture date and value for a large oak breakfront 434 feet long 2 feet wide and over 6 feet tall with original finish. An answer estimates manufacture around the turn of the present century and values around $800 plus, noting golden oak’s popularity late 19th to 1930s and durability.
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Dorothy Hammond
M.J
Sugar devil auger identified by Brickman as rare tool
The item is described as an 18 inch sugar devil or sugar dog with a wooden crossbar handle and two 2 inch curvate-end tines used to loosen bulk sugar. Once sold in Ohio about 30 years ago for a quarter, it is now scarce but not rare with early models valued around $100 and later patent-bearing examples typically $45 to $55, distributed by Columbia Features Inc.
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Ohio
West
Columbia Features, Inc
CARE praise letters highlight aid to the poor worldwide
Readers commend the press for CARE programs supplying food medical help and self help support to the world's needy In the coming year CARE aims to raise 8000000 in individual contributions to feed about 27 million people mostly children Public funding from governments plus U S food for peace aid allows CARE to deliver over 5 dollars of aid per donor dollar Frank L Goffio executive director CARE New York 10016.
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Africa
Asia
Latin America
Middle East
Care Food Crusade
U. S
CARE
Frank L. Goffio
New York
N.Y
Le Mars Daily Sentinel Local Edition and Postal Note
Local Le Mars newspaper email stamp indicates the Le Mars Daily Sentinel serves as Iowa's only completely local daily paper. Published weekday afternoons except Saturdays and legal holidays with a postal pool and city notices on December 2, 1975.
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le Mars Daily Sentinel
Iowa
le Mars
Lowe
Energy price plan could harm U S oil supply and raise costs
The congressional energy conference committee backs a 40 month composite price plan to keep crude oil controls. It would raise dependence on OPEC, boost imports, and fail to deliver claimed gasoline cuts while risking lower domestic production and higher consumer costs. The plan faces congressional disapproval risks and could shift oil pricing power to Congress.
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Congressional Energy Conference Committee
House of Congress
Congress
OPEC
U.S
Habeas corpus and its uses across courts
A public service feature explains habeas corpus as freedom’s ultimate weapon, tracing its role from guarding against arbitrary detention to child custody cases. It notes the concept’s origin in constitutional law and emphasizes the judge’s duty to justify custody or release. The piece references the American Bar Association and the Iowa Bar Association.
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American Bar Assn
Iowa State Bar Assn
We would be exporting American jobs plan critique
Robert L Schulz of the Iowa Petroleum council argues the plan would cost oil exploration in Alaska and other frontier areas, curtail high-cost recovery projects, and create regulatory chaos with likely congressional vetoes, urging the president to veto a non workable national energy policy.
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Alaska
Continental Shelf
Robert L. Schulz
Iowa Petroleum Council
Des Moines
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Leslie Hemmingson
America
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Mary Gregory
F.H
A.M
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Haviland
Theodore Haviland
Limoges
France
Dennis
Ketcham
The
Small Society
Brickman
Mars Daily Sentinel, Inc
Carter A. Buin
Glade Koerging
Fredench P Vertun
Manger Verlu Maledarif
Ofer
Pray
Jock Litzmann
Wayne Schipper
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Remsen and
Kingsley
Dey Sentinel
Plymouth
Petroleum Council
Zemin
Hinton
Arie J. Bomgaars
Ane
Jerry Scholten
New York Life Insurance
Plymouth St. NW
Ane Onal Lawy
Is Bernard
Freedoms
Naef Building
Twin
Gide
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