Pesticide Regulation and RPAR Debate in Agricultural Policy
Lyle Borg argues that the EPA guidelines from July 1975 on registration deregistration and classification of pesticides, including the rebuttable presumption against registration RPAR, risk transforming science into a regulatory witch hunt that can unjustly bar vital pest control chemicals. He stresses paper based risk assessments and urges farmers to defend benefits and cite long standing safe use to counter RPAR actions.
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Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Federal Register
Lyle Borg
Iowa Farm Bureau
Iowa runaways and fugitives tracked by state computer system
Iowa Bureau of Investigation outlines a centralized trace system linking 135 agencies and the FBI crime center to monitor 127 runaways and 680 adult cases. Runaway entries require guardian consent for transport, with juvenile cases prioritized for return transportation.
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Iowa
Billy
Iowa Bureau of Investigation
Des Moines
Kim Reagh
Bureau Field Services
FBI National Crime Information Center
Reagh
Dennis Conroy
Bureau Data Processing Division
Missing Persons Procedures Emphasize Juniors in Iowa
Des Moines and Dubuque police outline runaway and missing person protocols focusing on juveniles. Lt Jasper Trout notes schools and counselors assist in locating runaways, while adults are usually left to fend for themselves amid marital or nursing home-related disappearances. An amusing case recalls a wife waiting two years for a husband who supposedly went to buy cigarettes.
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Conroy
Reagh
Puerto Rico
Dubuque
John Mauss
Des Moines
Jasper Trout
Trout
Iowa
Joan
POY
Warne
Desperate search for historic wedding record sought
A reader requests help locating a marriage record from 18 Oct 1881 for John Alvin Hefling and Mary Ellan Colton in Le Mars Iowa. The note cites a ranch setting near Le Mars and later residence with Hefling’s family in Avoca, mentioning Mary’s brother Frank the shoemaker. County records in Des Moines are said to be silent. reader provides Vallejo California contact.
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Plymouth County
Mary
le Mars
John
Avoca
Frank
County Court House
Des Moines
Donald L. Heflin
Kathy Ellen
Vallejo
Calif
Akron and Le Mars Families Welcome Firstborns in Late 1977
Mr and Mrs Robin Heeren Akron welcomed Wynette or and a Sayetter bom Béet1 weighing 7 pounds 15 ounces born in 1977. Deborah Weenink is mother, with grandparents Raymond Weenink Raymond Heeren and Maybelle Moir of Akron. In Le Mars Mr and Mrs Bill Beach welcomed Kimberly Ann born November 25 1977 at Floyd Valley hospital weighing 6 pounds 11 ounces. Grandparents Fred Hamann John Beach Jr and Theresa Hamann of Le Mars. Ason born November 28 1977 at Sioux City St Luke's Medical Center to Richard and Mrs Kluver Oyens weighing 12 pounds 15 ounces and named Richard Ryan. He has brother Chad and sister Heidi. Grandparents Roy Kluver Smithland Leonard Petersen Moville. Great grandparents Augusta Kluver Pearl Uhl Mapleton.
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Robin Heeren
Akron
Sayetter Bo Bom
Maybelle Moir
Clarence Weenink
le Mars
Bill Beach
Floyd Valley Hospital
Kimberly Ann
Fred Hamann
John Beach Jr
Theresa Hamann
Ason
Sioux City St. Luke’s Medical Center
Richard Kluver
Oyens
Richard Ryan
Richard
Chad
Heidi
Roy Kluver
Smithland
Leonard Petersen
Moville
Augusta Kluver
Pearl Uhl
Mapleton
Super car would light up and tell you who to pay
A quirky note notes a vision of a car with a digital display naming payments and recipients. It also mentions coal miners on strike, local humor about fashion and daily life, and a mix of small town items from Le Mars and surrounding areas.
Foreign investors buy up American farmland amid petrochemical dollars
A rising trend sees foreign capital, including Middle Eastern petrochemical funds, targeting prime Midwest and western farmland. Californians report 80 percent of buyers are nonresidents, while critics warn against rising prices and loss of local control. Farmers fear reduced access for locals and potential political influence as ownership shifts abroad.
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Congress
Midwest
California
Iowa
America
U.S
OPEC
Israel
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