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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1976
Page
4
The piece explains zoning as a misunderstood local regulation set, noting many owners assume broad use rights. It warns noncompliance can trigger penalties, delays, and costly fixes, urging early compliance with land use, construction, and exterior build standards.
A public notice explains the proper behavior around school buses. Drivers should stop for buses with flashing signals, while motorists must exercise caution and not let urgency override safety. The responsibility to avoid accidents rests with every driver and their adherence to the rules.
The Hochberger Hoeger cousin reunion was held Sunday at the Ed Springer home. Numerous Hochberger and related families gathered from Sumner Hawkeye Sutton North Dakota Montana California Wisconsin and other places for the event plus various weekend guests and attendance by relatives from across the region.
George Orr, newly named executive director of the Iowa Commission on the Aging, voices concern over the agencys heavy use of private consultants and vague contract language. Since July 1973 the agency has signed 57 consultant contracts totaling 993,299 mostly from federal funds. Orr has cancelled several contracts and notes two major projects under grants: model committee staff in health across six states and a legislative professional staff project in drug abuse and alcoholism across five states. The program costs Iowa about 65,000 over 20 months, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Iowa General Assembly.
Local Sumner items include wedding notices for Susan Reimler and Kim Pleggenkuhte. Meadowbrook Club golf results show Bernice Murphy defeating to win a women’s club tournament. City workers receive a Sept. 1 raise as Sumner Council acts. School openings and board election moves, plus local arrests, accidents, and community updates.
Mr and Mrs Ervin Schultz of Hawkeye return June 18 from a May 25 to June 18 tour of Germany and nearby areas to visit son M Sgt James Schultz and family. They flew Ozark to Chicago then Icelandic airline to Luxembourg and Kaiserslautern, touring Ramstein Base, Lorraine Cemetery St Avold, Berchtesgaden and salt mines, Eagle's Nest and Salzburg. They saw speed limits, base alerts, Dachau, and Bavarian sights before returning via Chicago and Waterloo with minor losses.
The Duane Kents of Aurelia report their German shorthair pointer Kerlacres Flash's Soot has 18 pups born but two died, leaving 16 mouths to feed. The litter required eight bottle feeds and four caregivers split duties with eight pups housed separately. Cherokee Daily Times.
Luian Dirksen, renowned Sumner poet, serves as Midwest Poet Laureate of the Chaparral Poetry Society and features weekly in the Sumner Gazette, with works published in national and state poetry venues.
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