21 Jan 1971
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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1971
Page
1
With focus on air and water pollution, Iowa lawmakers will consider easing or tightening controls on waste disposal and sewage treatment. Environmental committees will confront pressure to relax rules, while public health and clean waterways demand stricter standards despite costs.
Readers are urged to write a signed letter and mail or drop it off. The paper invites opinions on all sides and will publish letters that avoid personal attacks. Sign name, ensure credibility, and expect publication if the view is valid and logical.
The Sumner Commercial Club held its annual meeting and director elections this week. A letter from Sunset Theatre management urged support for the remodeled venue, described as a key 1970 business change and a community asset offering clean, varied films and fewer interruptions.
The Sunset Theatre reports a marginal 1970 last quarter with seven nights and ads boosted to cut overhead. Overhead, film selection, and flat-rate rentals push losses. readers urged to attend locally rather than travel to Waverly to sustain a first-rate town theatre and help plan Sumner’s 1973 Centennial.
A reader recalls a January Friday collision at Third and No Railroad, where snow piled high blocked visibility and the southbound car hit another after a yield sign stop. The writer questions why authorities charged only one driver for failure to yield and urges snow removal before enforcing the right of way law.
Kehe reports the 64th General Assembly convened last Monday at 10:00 am, with committees formed and many bills filed mainly from interim committees. Inauguration ceremonies for the governor dominated week, drawing public interest and debate over their necessity for a second term. The House, with membership reduced from 124 to 100, projects a busy term while interior renovations proceed and floor action included a resolution urging the federal government to consider lump sum tax sharing with states.
The 64th General Assembly opens with swift committee actions and early bill introductions. Governor Ray outlines education gains and economic concerns, while Lt. Gov Jepsen and Speaker Harbor deliver welcoming addresses. The tone is cautious optimism about tax policy and bipartisan progress.
This clipping lists several local notices and events in Sumner and surrounding Bremer County. It notes deaths including George H. Meier and William H. Ganske, a near CO incident at a Sumner home, a school bond approval, a two-vehicle collision, a barn fire, driveway and speed ordinance on First Street, White Elephant Days sale weekend, local appointments and transfers in companies and clubs, new marriages and births, a birthday party, skating notes amid ice harvest, an update on the Hoth repair shop, and a truck collision involving Frank Harding with minor injuries.
Poet Aillian Dirksen, windly-known umner author, is featured as pre sent poet laureate of the Chaparrel Poetry Society. In a reflective verse, pride and hardship collide as a narrator battles ego, thirst, and the sea, finding inward light after confronting outer arrogance.
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