Armed guards rule at Ottumwa airport sparks taxpaying debate
Ottumwa Courier questions federal order mandating armed guards at the Ottumwa Industrial Airport after Feb 6 1973. Local officials will cover costs while readers urge a congressional response and international hijacker policies rather than ground security, calling the measure wasteful.
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Ottumwa
Big Brother
Washington
Qumwa
Mason City
Fort Dodge
Cuba
Algiers
O’hare
Kansas City
St. Louis
Ottwawa
Stamp proposal lampoons privy history from Burlington Hawk Eye
Portland greets a fish farmer advocating a U S Postal Service stamp commemorating the privy. Easley Weatherall designed the stamp featuring an outdoor toilet with a horned moon, a wasp, weeds, and a path. The piece argues a stamp for indoor plumbing designer would be more apt, noting the privy shaped rural memory and education.
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Burlington Hawk Eye
Portland
Gre
Citizens Stamp Advisory Conmnties
US Postal Service
Easley C. Weatherall
George Washington
If parents smoke the effect on children
The Mason City Globe-Gazette notes rising cigarette use in the United States with Americans averaging 202.5 packs per person this year, up 2.5 from 1971, despite health risks and rising taxes. It argues parents who smoke risk shaping their children’s attitudes toward smoking and urges greater regard for kids’ lives.
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Frem
Mason City Globe-Gazette
United States
U.S
Virginia
Alaska
Maryland
Iowa
Connecticut
Letter on Muscatine hospital occupancy and new health center
A reader explains how physician shortages in Muscatine have driven patients to other hospitals and voices hope the upcoming Muscatine Community Health Center will ease the strain. The letter notes staffing gaps, policy changes at Muscatine General, and urges attendance at the January 9 health association meeting.
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Sadie
Muscatine
Mississippi
Muscatine’ General Hospital
Town City
Quad-Cities
Mercy Hospital
Davenport
Mercy
Town
Muscatine Community Health Center
Muscatine General
Muscatine Community Health Association
City Hall
University of Iowa College of Medicine
What good are the cages? Prison reform ideas raised
James J. Kilpatrick argues that more than 200000 people are jailed in the United States and examines prison reform proposals from a Cambridge conference. The piece notes critics like Gerhard Mueller who question imprisonment's effectiveness and advocate alternatives. It concludes with a call to rethink punishment, rehabilitation, and the use of prison as a deterrent.
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Washington
United States
Cambridge
Mass
Roscoe Pound American Trial Lawyers Foundation
Gerhard O. W. Mueller
New York University
Mueller
Fever related infant convulsions respond to short term phenobarbital
Mrs C C asks about brain damage from phenobarbital used for fever convulsions in an infant. Dr Thosteson notes most infants outgrow fever convulsions by age two to three and phenobarbital is usually needed briefly. The drug does not cause brain damage even with long use, as epilepsy patients often take it long term. Readers' questions are used in the column when possible.
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Dr. Thosteson
C.C
Senior Citizens Speak Up for River Pier Preservation
Readers urge action to preserve a river pier and high bridge landmark citing early steam threshing engines, family memories, and aging communities. The letter mixes personal history, nostalgia, and a push for preservation while noting time is limited.
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Jake Gonse
High Bridge
Wells H. Gunse
Rt. 5
Muscatine
You’re Not Any Younger By Hal Boyle
A humorous reflection on aging in which the speaker lists habits and memories that mark the passing years. The piece notes nostalgia for the past, gradual health concerns, and a preference for traditional ways over modern trends, ending with the refrain that the reader is no longer the boy they once were.
Cedar and 6th Sts gain two new frame homes
A 100 year ago note reports partial street improvements with two new frame dwellings planned at Cedar and 6th Streets, one for C Nicolson and another for George Parkin.
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Cedar and
6Th Sts
C. Nicolson
George Parkin
Ralph Neidig
Salt Lake City
Journal
S. A. Clifford
3Rd and
Cedar Sts
Today in History December 23, 1972
A historical digest notes Washington’s 1783 resignation, Maryland’s 1788 land ceded for the national government, Joseph Smith’s 1805 birth, Antwerp’s 1882 capture and Belgium’s independence, the 1947 Bell Labs transistor, Tojo’s 1948 execution, Nasser’s 1960 warning, Bay of Pigs prisoners’ 1960 airlift, Johnson-Pope VI Vatican meeting, Nixon 1971 bill passage, and birthdays of Jose Greco and James Roosevelt.
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Associated Press
George Washington
Mount Vernon
Virginia
Maryland
Joseph Smith
Sharon
Antwerp
Halland
Belgium
Bell Laboratories
Murray Hill
Hideki Tojo
Japan
Tokyo
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Egypt
Israel
Cuba
Miami
Lyndon B. Johnson
Far East
Vatican
Paul VI
Muscatine Journal Publisher and staff list
The Muscatine Journal announces its publishing team with William L. Fahy as publisher, Max Christy as controller, Gil Dietz as editor, Harold Blake as managing editor, David White as advertising sales manager, and Wendell Grinstead as circulation manager.
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William L. Fahy
Max Christy
Harold Blake
David White
Wendell Grinstead
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New York
Literary Digest
Collier’s Magazine
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Atty
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St. Mary’s Dutchmen
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