Public health post split would harm county Sanitarian role
Residents urge against combining Bremer County Sanitarian with zoning administrator and insist on a full-time county sanitarian. They warn the three-way job risks underfunding staff, reducing focus on health and environment, and call for joint talks by Board of Supervisors, Zoning Commission, and Board of Health.
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Bremer County Sanitarian
Waverly Building and Trades
County Board of Health
Board of Supervisors
County Zoning Commission
Board of Health
Iowa Delegation Split Dominates Democratic Caucus Aftermath
Iowa Democrats delivered a split delegate result with neither front runner capturing broad enthusiasm. McGovern drew younger supporters while Muskie appealed to old-line loyalists. Hughes failed to consolidate power, leaving a divided delegation and uncertain prospects for future influence.
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Iowa
Towa
McGovern Quitte
Muskie
Town
Harold Hughes
Maine
McGovern
Lights
National Art Show Market in Houston Astrohall
An American first convention and market for artists and dealers runs April 5 to 8 at Astrohall Houston. The event features pottery painting sculpture weaving and aims to connect artists with North American dealers. Interested artists or dealers should contact market and show director Charles Beckendorf at P O Box 728 Fredericksburg Texas 78624 promptly.
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Artists and Art Dealers of America
Astrohall
Houston
North America
Charles Beckendorf
P.O
Fredericksburg
Texas
Gannon Declares Candidacy for Democratic Governor Nomination
Former State Representative William Gannon of Mingo Democrat has filed nominating papers for the Democratic nomination for governor. The 34 year old former river leader previously lost to Robert Fulton in a Democratic primary two years ago. He and his wife Kathleen Kennedy of New Hampton have a 4 month old son.
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William Gannon
Mingo
Flver
Gannon
Robert Fulton
Kathleen Kennedy
New Hampton
Sewage lagoon plan rattles Clarksville park concerns
Looking Around This Week raises alarm over proposed state park land used for a city sewage treatment lagoon in Clarksville Iowa. Critics argue the plan bisects park facilities and risks setting a harmful precedent while officials deny impropriety. The debate centers on land use conflicts, potential zoning issues, and the environmental stakes for future recreation and conservation.
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Jirh
Clarksville
Iowa
IJRH
JRH
L. W. Kehe
State Conservation Commission
Kehe
Cedar Valley Engineering
County Board of Adjustment
Board of Adjustment
Quotes On Courage Convictions And Cooperation In Nature
The excerpt cites Manuel F. Cohen on courage of convictions, Joseph J. Weed on thinking deeply, and Laurence M. Gould warning that humanity now faces its own danger. It also notes a Wayne County sheriff and wife receiving a felt Family Tree quilt from their two daughters, detailing lineage and zodiac signs, completed in 50 hours, plus a prior gift of a pennies family fortune.
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Laurence M. Gould
Jesse Hook
Wayne County
Sheriff
Hook
Iowa Supreme Court redraws reapportionment plan ruling
The Iowa Supreme Court unanimously rules the 1971 legislature's reapportionment unconstitutional for unequal population variances and retains jurisdiction to redraw districts before the June 6 primary. It orders all 1970 four year term senators to seek re election in 1972 and directs Burks to draft a decennial plan. The court dismisses the League of Women Voters plan but will build its own plan per constitutional mandate. The House approves a bill granting full rights in a separate action.
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Iown
Iowa’ Press
Iowa Supreme Court
Warren Rees
League of Women Voters of
Iowa
League
Philip E. Burks
Legislative Service Bureau
Burks
Iowa House
Board of Supervisors
Iowa considers lowering drinking age and home rule bill
The Iowa House debates would lower drinking age to 18 and allow 18 year olds to enter contracts sue or be sued and pursue various professions while Senate approval seeks a 19 threshold. The "home rule" bill passes 46 to 3, broadening city powers and charter options with new rules on form of government and fund consolidation. Franklin P. Jones notes compare truth to a girdle.
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Elmer den Herder
R-Sioux Center
Don Herder
Elizabeth Miller
Marshalltown
James Middleswart
D-Indianola
Daniel Bray
Davenport
Senate
Iowa General Assembly
House
Legislative report from L. W. Kehe District 12
L W Kehe notes week two of the session as settled with committees active. House debated House File 57 to close a session, voting 45 to 38, with a reconsideration motion filed. He discusses records disposal, reapportionment fallout, public television plans, and a proposed 1976 food fair and new fairgrounds near Des Moines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. W. Kehe
Bremer-Chickasaw
District 12
Environmental Department
Department of Transportation
House
Des Moines
Worthmann named Sumner Postmaster in 1971 bulletin
The appointment of Oswald K. Worthmann as Sumner Postmaster was announced officially on Friday January 16 in a bulletin from Harold S. Wagner Regional Director of the St. Louis Postal Services Region covering Iowa Arkansas and Missouri.
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Oswald K. Worthmann
Sumner
Harold S. Wagner
St. Louis
Eldon Frisch
Hawkeye Institute of Technology
August Pleggenkuhle
New Hampton
Fredericksburg
Gerald Steege
Red Riding Hood Story Turns Political Satire
In a fairy tale style piece from Christian Crusade Weekly, a woodcutter slays a wolf after a grandmother is killed and Red Riding Hood is saved. The inquest debates rights, self defense, and the wolf's fate, while officials and townspeople react with mixed judgments and a shrine is later dedicated to the wolf.
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Red Riding Hood
Grandmothws House
Hed Riding Hood
The
Civil Liberties Union
SDS
Grands
Sumner Poet Lillian Dirksen Honored by Contemporaries
Sumner poet Lillian Dirksen, renowned nationally, serves as Midwest poet laureate of the Chaparrel Poetry Society. Her work appears weekly in the Sumner Gazette and includes a 1947 verse praising steadfast pilots guiding humanity through a new age dawn.
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Lillian Dirksen
Sumner
Midwest
Chaparrel Poetry Society
Sumner Gazette
One Man Job Proposal Questioned By Reader
A reader questions a county supervisor plan to hire a full time position, arguing the county should avoid paying two men for travel to a new building site. He cites his Army sanitation experience at Fort Campbell to support a leaner staffing approach.
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County Board of Supervisors
U.S. Army
Fort Campbell
Neil Schwake
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