15 Dec 1971
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Newspaper
Iowa Le Mars Daily Sentinel
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1971
Page
1
An editorial recounts three youths, under 18, who attempted bad checks at several Le Mars shops just before Christmas. Despite failing to complete purchases, they fled by car as police warn merchants to use a city warning system costing around 200 dollars for stores and about 400 for schools, with a monthly 15 dollar maintenance.
Rioting students and increasing muggings along Columbia University's fraternity row have prompted calls for stronger police coverage after a group of three gunmen invaded a house and robbed nine students. A letter from fraternities warns that growing brutality risks paralyzing campus life and underscores the need to protect members.
A 1950s and 1960s critique links public schooling, VISTA, and Teacher Corps to aiding disadvantaged youth. It cites studies by Goldfarb, Bruner, Prugh, Harlow, MacMillan, Bourne and others showing early institutional care, unstable maternal relations, or sensory deprivation harming intellect.
Virgil Dorweiler argues that intellectual development mirrors family status with groups from disadvantaged homes showing lower IQs. A 1937 Stanford-Binet study cited fathers’ occupation, ethnicity, and immigrant status as factors, linking poverty and lack of motivation to academic failure and hostility toward the system as indictments of the American way of life.
Donald Fowler from Lake City captured the senior cutting class world championship at Lincoln Nebraska riding his 8 year old Appaloosa stallion Revels Delightedly. He added 38 trophies from horse shows across several states in the past two years.
Calendar notes upcoming Le Mars FHA caroling for shut ins on December 15. Junior high band concert in Carey gym on December 15. Friday club gathers December 17 at Mrs. Fred Hamann’s home. American Legion Walmer post presents children’s Christmas movies December 17 at 7 31 p.m. Le Mars Community high Sno Ball December 18 at 8 p.m. Floyd Valley nurses Christmas potluck December 20 in the hospital assembly room at 7 p.m. One dollar per person funds Christmas baskets for the needy in lieu of gift exchange. Mr and Mrs Wayne Mitchell guest performers.
A legislative committee urges the state to cover counties 42 percent of aid to the disabled, replacing 21 percent, due to few counties hosting nursing homes. It also proposes restricting aid to dependent children to high school age up to 20, cutting vocational education aid. The piece also notes GOP convention delegate allocation shifts for Iowa and focus on women delegates, plus school aid loopholes and budget amendments under House File 654 and related appeals to the state appeal board.
Fragmentary text lists rates and periods such as two weeks by carder sixty cents three month sis months one month sla monthy one years creaee etvicemen year veg shts 910 40 dollars twenty dollars. No coherent event or names present, making precise summary difficult.
An Town radio station announces a program titled great moments in Indian history despite notes that much of post contact history has involved exploitation and suffering. The piece by On The Side from Manchester Press presents a critical view of colonization and its impacts.
Reader questions nitroglycerin safety after a relative’s death from myocardial infarction. Dr Lamb explains angina history, refills, and that four tablets in 24 hours is not unusual for severe long term disease. Advises discussion with the doctor and, if needed, contact the county medical society grievance committee.
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