A Good Place to Spend It Our View on Welfare State Costs
Our View discusses the Mahaska county health survey showing high chronic illness rates and large shares of hospital bills paid by public or voluntary agencies. It notes nursing home reliance on welfare, questions tax use, and argues health spending reflects communal care and reciprocity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ours
Iowa State College Statistical Laboratory
Mahatka County
Veterans Service
Mahaska County
Welfare Department
Monticello Express Official Monticelia Newspaper
The Monticello Express, established July 10 1865, is published Mondays and Thursdays. It is entered at the Monticello post office as second class mail matter under act of March 3 1852 and serves Jones county and surrounding areas. Subscription rates run 450 in local counties and 550 elsewhere in the United States. Advertising is handled by Newspaper Advertising Service Inc in Chicago and Iowa Press Advertising Service in Des Moines. Official newspaper of Monticelia and Jones county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Laws
Monticello Express
Iowa Press Association
National Editorial Association
Newspaper Advertising Service, Inc
Chicago
Til
Iowa Press Advertising Service
Des Moines
Iowa
Jones
Clinton
Cedar
Delaware
Dubuque
Jackson
Linn
United States
Monticelia
Jones County
Rebuttal Letter Defends Satchmo Armstrong Across Music Styles
A reader defends Louis Armstrong against claims his music isn’t music and praises his heartful playing. The writer contrasts bop and jazz with classical giants, questions the columnist’s stance on teens and Cliburn, and ends with playful self labeling and a salute to Satchmo.
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van Cliburn
Elvis Presley
Louis Armstrong
Cliburn
Satch
Satchmo
Heeren clan reunion and local social notes in Sand Springs
Twenty members of the Heeren family traveled to Deer Grove Illinois for the annual Heeren reunion with about 120 attendees overall. Iowa participants included Mrs. Mary Sandhagen and several Heeren families from Prairieburg Onslow and Strawbery Point. A bridal shower at Immaculate Conception church honored Bette Husak before her June 21 wedding to Clarence Turnis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sand Springs
Floyd Darrow
Wyoming
E. Charles Martin
Archie Olson
Charles Martin
Bill Redmond
Maidhead
England
Redmond
Jean Hart
Felix Picray
Vince Redmond
Shirley Redmond
Charlotte Shaw
Los Angeles
Calif
Bill
Onslow
Elmer Heeren
Paul Heeren
Immaculate Conception Church
Bette Hueak
George Turnis
James McGovern
Local 4-H Club Meetings Report May Activities
Scotch Grove Sunshine 4-H hosts May 10 meeting with 13 members, planning Aug 1 achievement day. Hale Wapsie Wanderers hold mothers tea and style show May 9 at Pleasant Hill church. Olin Hawkeyes meet May 19. talks on budgets livestock terms and organization. Livewire Lassies review listening records May 17. Rally day tasks assigned for June 3.
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Scotch Grove Sunshine 41H
Ruth Ann Helk
Jill Husmann
Poppe
Austin Spahr
Barbara Colling
Patty Ahlrichs
Glenn Goldsmith
Glenda
Henry Hefken
Lester Collings
Jeffery
Hale Wapsie Wanderers
Pleasant Hill Church
Carol Robertson
Carol Brener
Donna Rohwedder
Carol
Carmen Robertson
Olin Hawkeyes
Gary Waggoner
Richard Becker
Don Patton
Lee Kregar
Linda Ballou
Janice Freeman
Sam
Richard Hamed
Olin Legion Hall
Patty Weseman
Livewire Lassies
Carol Neff
Floyd Hodgdon
Happy Hustlers
Pat Murray
Sharon McCreight
Karen Kleineck
Mona Kay Benhart
Joyce Bicknese
Jones 4-H Girls from Jones County Pick Convention Delegates
Twenty three 4 H club girls from Jones county will attend the 29th annual state 4 H convention at Town State college campus in Ames June 18 21 about 1 600 girls and leaders from across the state will be present Aileen Smith Cascade Melda Oltman Anamosa Nancy Mardt Hopkinton Roseann Larkey Onslow Florence Duncan Morley Marilyn Nost Martelle Virginia Nost Martelle Alice Butterfield Olin Karen Edwards Anamosa Virginia Tuetken Monticello Elaine Husman Wyoming Jeanne Guhl Olin Mardonna Rutenbeck Mechanicsville Sharon McCreight Oxford Junction Carol Neff Lost Nation Freda Kromminga Monticello Sharon Schneiter Monticello Elaine Ricklefs Center Junction Mary Ann Grant Cascade Mary Manternach Monticello Fern Blume Wyoming Rosalie Dusanek Wyoming Andria Meeks Martelle will attend a pre convention workshop June 15 and participate in creed activities at the convention The theme is Learning to Live in a Changing World with speakers discussions and project sessions onsite
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Jones County
Maxine Hunt
Town State College
Ames
Aileen Smith
Cascade
Melda Oltman
Anamosa
Nancy Mardort
Hopkinton
Roseann Larkey
Onslow
Florence Duncan
Morley
Marilyn Nost
Martelle
Viginia Nost
Alice Butterfield
Olin
Karen Edwards
Virginia Tuetken
Monticello
Elaine Husman
Wyoming
Jeanne Guhl
Mardonna Rutenbeck
Mechanicsville
Sharon McCreight
Oxford Junction
Carol Neff
Lost Nation
Freda Kromminga
Montice
Andria
Giatha Guhl
Hopkinton Social Notes From Mrs Reggentine
Mrs. George Healey and family visit in Dubuque with Mr and Mrs Jess Healey. Rev Leo O Connell honored on 30th ordination anniversary by St Luke s parish with a pot luck and gift. Guests at Maud Joseph Smith home include Roy Crosby Minnie Butsche and M L Byerly. Thomas Joseph confined to St Luke s hospital Cedar Rapids for back injury.
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George Healey
Dubuque
Jess Healey
Leo O'Connell
St. Luke's Parish
Maud Joseph Smith
Roy Crosby
Minnie Butsche
Coggon
M. L. Byerly
Davenport
Theresa Albany
California
Cyril Albany
Petaluma
R. E
W. B. Willard
Gerald Rohr
Monticello
Alan Murray
Glen Hardin
Loras
Virginia Williamson
Ronald Neil
Dubuque University
Oxford Junction Bible School and Community Notes
Oxford Junction reports multiple Bible schools with summer sessions at local churches. Attendance numbers range from 35 to 71 with several named teachers and priests guiding programs. The article also notes 1,440 acres sold in Hancock County for $2,460,000 to Dan Kuntz of New Boston Illinois.
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Hancock County
Davis
Dan Kuntz
New Boston, Ill
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la Verne Hall
Waukon Republican- Standard
Oneita Fisher
West Branch
Times
Alfred E. Smith
Bach
Beethoven
Liszt
Debussey
Verd
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New York Philharmonic Symphony
The
Sunshine Girls
Livewire
Marillinerzy
Stan Fue
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Ce Ane
MFG
Western Auto
Elton Copley
Haly Olioe
OAS Segi
Assembly of God Bible School
Edmund Chapman
Evelyn Jeffrey
Norman Tosten
Robert Jeffrey
Albert Marter
Wayne Zaruba
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Mount Mercy
Barbara McCreight
Sue Close
Louis Ingwersen
Anna Rehmke
Waldo Hansen
Cedar Rapids
Methodist Bible School
Kenneth Harden
Julie Mizaur
Diane Hall
Bonita Larkey
Karen Ahrendsen
Pat Struck
Dorothy Fritz
Louis Vacek
Oxford
George Balichek, Jr
Ed Benhart
Robert Barth
Bonnie Balichek
Diane Hodgden
Oxford Livewires
T. G. Murray Farm
Joe Legg
Murray Farm
Ford Erickson
Robert Mizaur
Leland Barnhart
Acil Catlett
Paul Rohwedder
Cyril O'Hara
Wilbur Barnhart
Vernon Gibbe
Jim Murray
Herb Rohwedder
Elizabeth Yvanicek
Wapsie Unit 473
American Legion Auxiliary
Edward Ledvina
Walter Juehring
L. E. Christensen
Junior Koranda
Merlin Lazare
Mabel First
Gale Peters
Floyd Hodgden
Otto Lasack
Ervin Hansen
L. B. Christensen
Laura Close
Christensen
Charles Sheldon
Elizabeth Vanicek
Emma Klahn
Anna Lasack
Mary Hronik
August Petersen
Ray Sobotka
Stanley Coon
Robert Fowler
Elijah Brinkman
Mittee
Thomas Hanwardson
Paul House
Tillie Wosoba
R. E. Hill
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Anna Peckoshi
Maquoketa
Emma Hronik
Allen
Fred
Frank
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Louis Benhart
Lena
Clarence
Lgon
Mary Lasack
Neal Bright
W.S.C
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Adolph Moeller
Gaylord Moeller
Denison
Peter Moeller
Roland Emerson
Toronto
Wayne Benhart
Mary Powelka
Oakland
Rose Mizaur
Betty Tholen
Arlette Oster
Dalchow
L B. Christensen
Harold and
Diane
Karla
Kenny Emde
Mort Emde
West Chester
David
Emde
Loren Kula
Tex
Louis Kula
Richard Fritz
What Cheer
Ray Mowry
Miller’s
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