Depot closings spark hearing on rail service cuts in Iowa
A Thursday hearing at the Waverly Courthouse before the Interstate Commerce Commission will hear arguments over Chicago and North Western Railroad plans to close depots and drop agents in Iowa including Sumner. Critics warn cutbacks signal broader abandonment of the Great Western line and urge shippers to demand retained depot service and closer scrutiny of overall rail service.
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Waverly
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago Northwestern Railroad
Sumner
ICG
Northwestern
Great Western
President Nixon Misses Retarded Children's Poster Girl Photo
The piece laments President Nixon’s unavailability and failure to pose with the National Retarded Children's poster girl of the year, highlighting the social issue of mental retardation and noting the honor went to a black child for the first time. It questions sincerity after a outspoken young critic pressed the president.
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Nixon
Irly
Grocery countdown and oddities mark week ahead
This week notes the 13 shopping days until Christmas and jokes about superstition, a Iowa dispute over lead free gasoline led by L B Liddy, and a memorial for cartoonist Rube Goldberg. It comments on state oversight of fuels, young protests, and the ease of change.
Insurance rate regulation debated by University of Town expert
Professor Alan Wittliss argues against state controls on property and casualty insurance rates. He says regulation often yields artificially low rates and prompts withdrawals in risky classifications. He notes inflation raises risk for insurers and critiques a proposed federal-style protection body for Iowa carriers.
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U.S
University of Town
Alan Witliss
College of Law
Emmett J. Vaughan
Property and Casualty
France
United States
Vaughan
John E. Partington
University of Town College of Business Administration
Iowa
U of I
Omaha
Lincoln
Neb
University of Nebraska
Jepsen Presses No Nonsense Budget Stance In Iowa
Lieutenant Governor Roger Jepsen urged a pragmatic approach to state spending at a Des Moines luncheon, warning budgets will exceed income by a billion dollars if unchecked. He pressed limits on tax growth, cited rising school costs, and criticized “spenders” while urging a positive Iowa unity to improve schools, roads, and services. Governor Robert Ray attended a separate I 35 bridge ceremony opening 13 miles of new freeway along the Iowa Missouri line.
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Jepsen
Roger W. Jepsen
Des Moin Young
Iowa
Iowa- Missouri State Line
Iowa 2
Missouri State Line
Robert Ray
Derby Thompson
Highway Commission
Bryan W. Rhea
Souih Maple Street
Sumner
Everett C. Garland
Allen Memorial Hospital
Waterloo
Tripoli
Elkacer
Upper Iowa
Mitchell Grahiman
Plum Creek Bridge
Daryl Copp
Hawkeye
Grahlman
Allen Hospital
Inter State 34 Opens in Iowa and Nobel Prize Honor
Interstate 34 is now opened from the Missouri line to U S 20 in north central Iowa. The portion of Interstate 36 north from U S 20 is expected to be opened in 1973. The Census Bureau reports Iowa population at 2 846 920 in 1970, up 89 288 from 1960, a shift linked to congressional seat losses and potential redistricting. Cresco honors Norman Borlaug, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, with a Dec 19 celebration and Crestwood High reunion for the 1933 Cresco High School graduate. State officials report alarming dieldrin levels in fish from Iowa streams and lakes, prompting governor’s action.
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Missouri Line
U.S. 20
Iowa
Census Bureau
Washington
Borlaug
Cresco
Norman Borlaug
Oslo
Norway
Cresco High School
Crestwood High School
Robert Ray
Towa
Federal Food and Drug Administration
Social Security Q&A on Disability and Benefits Growth
A reader asks if VA disability affects Social Security. The answer: eligibility depends on Social Security rules, VA benefits do not impact Social Security. It notes Social Security disability requirements differ from VA. It also confirms benefits rose since 1940, with a retired worker average monthly check rising from $220 in 1940 to about $116 today, and additional health insurance and survivor benefits added over time.
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Leonard
Campbell
Social Security Administration
B.O
Stn
Waterloo
Town
Social Security
Sumner area notes include sports results and local births
Sumner and nearby communities report a busy period with girls basketball return after 40 years, local accidents and notices, Mr Fogarty leaving Green Bay yard, new substation, fire trucks moved, and multiple deaths including Frisch and Haag. Also winners of emblem sale, baby born to Bock, and local civic updates across Sumner, Tripoli, and Hawkeye.
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Rey A. Fogarty
Green Bay Lumber Co
Peter B. Wilharm
Green Bay Company
Fogarty
Army Air Corps
Iowa Children’s Home Society
Orville Ellis
Roger Callanan
Anderly Creager
Stanley Waterman
Mary Heyer
Elmer Haag
Sumner Township
Sumner
Jimmy Whitmire
J. E. Whitmire
University Hospital
Iowa City
Ernest Judisch
Robert Judisch
Otto Buhr
Jerald Lee
McIntyre
Poet and Tourist Dream Of A Storied Land
Poet Lillian Diensen, a Sumner poet, appears in national and state poetry publications and is featured weekly in the Sumner Gazette. A lyrical verse contrasts travel longing with a dream of crossing Jordan and meeting leaders there, inviting readers to meet and talk there in unity.
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Lillian Diensen
Sumner
Lmutedta
Chaparrel Poetry Society
Sumner Gesette
Jordan
Met
Iowa lawmakers urged for soil standards to curb water pollution
Immediate recommendations from the chemical review board and the water pollution control commission aim to curb lake and stream pollution. Ray urged the Legislature to pass legislation creating machinery to set and enforce siltation standards with options for landowners. CHECK-OFF Town launched a beef cattle check off on Dec. 1 after a 72 percent vote. B F Eason Jr. said administrative forms have been mailed to all market participants in Iowa.
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Chemical Review Board
Water Pollution Control Commission
Ray
Iowa
B. F. Eason, Jr
Battle Creek
Iowa Beef Industry Council
Executive Named to Lead Beef Checkoff Program
John B. Peterson of Sioux City has been named executive director of the beef industry council to administer the checkoff program. Money collected will fund research and education programs aimed at better and more efficient production marketing and utilization of cattle and veal calf products.
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Executive Committee
John B. Peterson
Sioux City
Beef Industry Council
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L. B. Liddy
Secretary of Agriculture
State Department of Agriculture
Rube Goldberg
Sumner Gazette
Sumner High School
Ernest Guger
Gagers
Alpha
Floyd Bishop
Mitchellville
U.S. Postal Service
Bishop
Herman W. Frisch
Sumner Community Memorial Hospital
Connie Ray Weber
Richfield Road
Carol Ann Snyder
Ralph Schulz
Fourth
Division Sts
Hazel Chapin
Judy Ann Gritton
West Fifth
Madison Sts
Howard Wedemeier
Robert C. Duhrkopf
Mary Humpal
Ernest Pries
Uarda Lauterbach
L.S T.C
Cedar Falls
Iowa Power Company
Heyer
John Bock
E. W. Farrand
G. E. Afflerbaugh
J. M. Murphy
H. W. Dickman
Cere
Poet's
Shawver Well Co
P.G
Fredericksburg
Duane Holm
State Farm Insurance Companies
Bloomington
Trade
Bremer County
Dave Derringer
Sherburne Farm Equipment
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