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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1970
Page
4
The celebration is hosted by their children Mrs. Marvin Egther Mouw and Mrs. R. Evelyn Vander Velde of Rock Valley. Relatives friends and neighbors are invited and gifts are not expected.
The Iowa Inspection Bureau reports higher home and campus property insurance costs due to worsening loss experience and storm damage. Public and Institutional Properties plan discounts were cut, raising premiums for extended and fire coverage. colleges fall under this plan. General rate hikes across the state reflect increased fire loss and hail damage, with observer notes on campus disorder impacts.
Two Rock Valley youths Fey Clausen and Ron Holsoff joined about 1000 scholars at the annual farm business conference hosted by Ohio State University in Columbus. Sponsored by Partners Elevator, the students learned business methods for marketing farm products and obtaining services. Notable speaker Donald McDowall of the FFA Foundation spoke on Cooperatives The In Thing as part of a full educational program for future sophomores at Rock Valley High.
The report Poverty Amid Plenty notes that in 1966, 3.1 million full time workers earned less than $1.60 per hour and that in 1967 nearly half the labor force held jobs not covered by the minimum wage. It emphasizes workers’ strong work ethic and the failure of wages to lift families out of poverty.
The article notes that the official unemployment rate would be higher than current estimates if the government had not altered its method of computing unemployment figures. George C. McChier of the Urban Coalition Action comments on the change.
The prehistoric Stegosaurus weighed about six and a half tons, yet its brain measured only two and a half ounces. The contrast highlights how dinosaur intelligence did not scale with body mass.
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