City council acts on development code and budget items
City officials push to enforce building setback rules as several homes risk encroachment. Amsterdam Corp Hazel Street plan rejected for code noncompliance, needing rectifications. Council approves Garden Engineering contract for 1974 street program and raises salaries for police and council members, with changes in per meeting and yearly limits after elections. The CIACC participation and $25 monthly shares are approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boyd Boehlje
Neil
Amsterdam Corp
Hazel Street
Garden Engineering
Public Safety Committee
Ed de Jong
Central Town Area Crime Commission
CIACC
Marion County Crime Commission
Letters to the Editor about government control and fairness
The writer criticizes regulatory agencies and eminent domain while urging residents of Marion county near Pella to inspect a ditch washing out a road. Cites a 1972 statement by Robert R. Lauer warning against environmental control and increased taxation, urging concern for property rights and small business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tower of Babel
Marion
Pella
Bob Terpstra
R.R. 2
Robert R. Lauer
Fredericksburg
Iowa
Centerville High School Thanks Papers for Preview Support
A Centerville High School athletic department letter thanks local newspapers for publishing the Preview 73 feature in early September. The department expresses appreciation for cooperation and hopes for future conference newspaper support and a winter sports preview.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Centerville High School
Carol Schouten to wed Mark Bandstra in June wedding
Mr and Mrs Peter Schouten of Sioux Center announce the marriage of their daughter Carol to Mark Bandstra, son of Mr and Mrs Ray Bandstra of Otley. A June wedding is planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Schouten
Sioux Center
Carol
Mark Bandstra
Ray Bandstra
Otley
School Lunch Menu Week of October 15
School lunch menu for the week of October 15 lists daily meals with options and sides. Monday offers Weiner winks with potatoes and coleslaw, Tuesday serves Lasagna with pudding, Wednesday features Barbecued beef on a bun with corn, Popeye salad and cake, and Thursday and Friday expect vacation and no meals.
Marion County Magistrates docket shows fines for assorted offenses
Docket lists Linnie McCarl fined ten dollars and costs for fighting. Richard Laird four days in jail plus costs for littering. Larry Goemaat twenty five dollars plus costs for reckless driving. Vander Kamp twenty dollars plus costs for stop sign violation. Vos fifteen dollars plus costs for illegal U turn. Exline twenty five dollars plus costs for intent to injure. Rose White ten dollars plus costs for disturbing the peace and ten dollars plus costs for fighting. Allen two days jail and one hundred dollars or twenty days jail for license violations. Van Rees ten dollars plus costs for missing fire extinguisher. Bender ten dollars plus costs for muffler. Keith Knoxville twenty dollars plus costs for speeding. Klootwyk ten dollars plus costs for defective equipment. De Jong, McDaniel, Peterson, Smith cited for speeding and related violations. Binns and Abbas cited for muffler and improper muffler, Green intoxication, Risely beer in public, Ford lack of vehicle control, Marrow ten dollars plus costs for intoxication, Marshall twenty five dollars plus costs for unsafe distance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion County
Dwaine Meyer
Norman Hays
Linnie McCarl
Richard Laird
Larry Dean Goemaat
David R. Vander Kamp
Stuart Lee Vos
Thomas Exline
Rose Ellen White
Jack Dean Allen
Ken van Rees
Gary Wayne Smith
Knoxville
Barbara Jean Binns
Des Moines
Gordon Abbas
Alfred Green, Jr
Senior Citizens Go Camping Near Madrid
Forty one senior citizens from Ottumwa Extension District enjoyed a four day camping trip at the State 4-H Camping Center near Madrid. Led by Mrs. Mary Paulsen, with Alex Erickson teaching whittling, the group joined bird watching, stargazing, cookouts, crafts, and tours of the Ledges and Iowa State University. Camp staff noted the enthusiastic turnout as a highlight of years of youth camping experience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottumwa
Madrid
Extension Home
Mary Paulsen
Oskaloosa
Alex Erickson
Pershing
Erickson
Marion County
Avis van Zemeren
Gertrude DeZwarte
Nellie Cochran
Edna M. Jones
Tonnie Nichols
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Pohlmann
Irance
Consul '& Son Agency
Johnny Dwight Risely
Robert Dewayne Ford
Joe Marrow
Harry Eldon Marshall
Chester Bruce Perkey
Dennis Eugene Sage
Earl Ray Shepard
Coralee Sue Timmons
Norman Dean Simmons
Dennis Paul Williams
Albert Winfrey, Jr
Clarence Wittenberg
Theresa L. Kingma
Richard Lee Daugherty
Dennis Eugene McDaniel
Daniel D. Leeper
Ardel Henry
Pella Chronicle
We Lifejackets
Leo Dale Cowman
Douglas Leo Brees
Daniel C. Berhow
Johnnie Madison
John Joe Clarke
William Allen Chambers
Millie Schakel
Marcella Awtry
U.S. Air Force
Larry D. Barber
Wayne Barver
W. First St
Southeast Asia
Travis Air Force Base
Calif
75Th Military Airlift Squadron
Military Airlift Command
Dolores M. Macario
FFA Tractor Rodeo
Mazda
de ' Pella Belle
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