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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1962
Page
4
A local analysis urges citizens to attend annual budget hearings as school districts push tax asks up to 50 percent over last year. It notes reorganizations in Milla county, state mandates increasing costs, and inflation since 1940 driving higher property taxes, urging public input before budgets are adopted.
National Farm Safety week prompts discussion on farm hazards. The piece argues safety has improved since horse-powered days but accidents persist, urging constant care in farm, home, and highway settings. It recalls runaway horses and stresses ongoing safety programs and personal vigilance.
In the North Central district including Towa, bluegrass seed harvests are two thirds larger than last year but still only a fraction of the 10 year area average. Forecasts show 18,000,000 lbs, with imports totaling 9,878,000 lbs a record. Exports were 701,081 lbs. Imports came mainly from the Netherlands and Denmark, which supplied over 9 million lbs. Although minor for Iowa, the crop could double and still sell well.
An editor chronicles a visit to the United Nations complex and talks with Tanganyika's envoy Mr Malecela. He notes Tanganyika’s enthusiastic UN stance, U.S. mission security costs, and the envoy’s view that smaller nations hold global balance. The piece reflects on Peace Corps aid and Tanganyika’s modernization needs.
In a Malvern Leader column from July 1962, a country editor recounts a visit to the UN secretariat building bench encounter with a well dressed Afro-Descendant woman seeking Tanganyika work, her white husband joining, and a discussion revealing shifting attitudes toward interracial marriage and immigrant heritage among Iowans and Easterners, with a note on UNESCO Race and Biology and future writing.
Former Malvern resident Harlan W. Foulks writes to the editor recalling early town days and the First Baptist Church bell dedication in 1904, past railway events, local figures, and summers with grandparents. He shares personal memories of church, family, and community life in Malvern and Omaha era notes.
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