Editorial on health board powers and local governance
Gazette Editorial argues the County Health Department is being undermined by the Board of Supervisors and the Zoning Board. It warns that approvals for housing and industry bypass health planning, risking water quality and sewage conditions. The piece urges recognizing health planning as essential to residential and industrial development.
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En Wwiron
Brenier
Board of Health
Board of Supervisors
Zoning Board
County Health Department
Looking Around This Week review on ego and memory
A nostalgic reflection on personal ego, small town figures, and a late childhood memory of Frank Kerr the night watchman. The piece links vanity to failures, recalls Kerr’s quiet stewardship, and questions why a radio program with similar ambition faltered, noting unmet editorial rewards.
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Frank Kerr
Sumner
Frank
Hawkeye Valley Week Menu at Tripoli Town Hall
The Hawkeye Valley Nutrition Project in Tripoli Town Hall submits a weekly menu. Monday offers beef with gravy, whipped potatoes, buttered peas, salad, raisin bars. Tuesday features baked pork chop, parsley carrots, corn relish, applesauce, ginger peach cake. Wednesday serves Swedish meatballs, buttered noodles, vegetables, pear salad, ice cream. Thursday presents crisp chicken, glazed potatoes, cabbage salad, California cocktail. Friday ends with cod, parsley potatoes, tomato slices, cucumbers in cream, tapioca pudding. For details call Liz Klein at 319 882 3575.
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Tripoli Town Hall
California
Liz Klein
New DOT policy 267 communities wiped from map
Iowa DOT releases a new 1970 77 map highlighting transit info yet omitting 267 unincorporated communities. Map includes rail lines airports county road numbers and bike data with satellite photo background. Larger versions priced five and two dollars respectively.
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Iowa Press Association
Iowa
State Department of Transportation
Earth Resources
Don Reid
Iowa Department of Transportation
Marjorie Slater and Lester Blame wed in Iowa church
A June 9 wedding joined Marjorie Slater of Omaha and Lester G. Blame of Sumner at the First Unitarian Church. Other items note a July 12 ceremony in Brooten, Minn., a Kids Fish Derby with prizes, personnel moves in fire and security services, weather impacts on hay, a worker’s accident in Sumner, and local civic updates including a defense fund for a mental health association and political notes on Iowa Republicans.
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Marjorie Slater
Omaha
Neb
Lester G. Blame
Sumner
First Unitarian
Mary Cole
Richard Frisch
Brooten
Minn
Rod and Gun Club
Kenneth Moehlis
Mahlon Hammetter
Sharon Poock
Leon Korte
Janice Zell
Lillian Zell
Andy Johnson
Jerry Scrugg
Armin Pipho
Lavern Aegerter
Fairmont
Westover Field
Mass
Greenland
North Atlantic Constructors
Iowa State Telephone Co
Mental Health Association of Town
Mount Pleasant Health Institute
Mental Health Association
Sumner Deaths and Local Events Highlight Week
Fred Seehase 67 of Sumner dies at home after illness July 13. Arlene McKinney wed Dennis Van dersee Saturday at Salem E A B Church. Culver says Volga Lake project in Fayette will receive lower priority than NW Iowa targets. Kenneth Niemann 55 funeral held at St Peter’s Lutheran Richfield. Voling machine demo planned in Sumner Friday. Car crash damages exceed $1200 at First and Pleasant. Roger Neil Jones 21 Sumner driver.
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Fred Seehase
Sumner
Arlene McKinney
Dennis Vandersee
Salem E. A. B
John C. Culver
Volga Lake
Fayette
Iowa
Volga River Project
Kenneth Niemann
St. Peter's Lutheran Church
Richfield
Roger Neil Jones
First and
Pleasant Sts
Survey maps progress of women across Sumner region
The Sumner Gazette notes a statewide survey on women's status, with Cindy Jackson as project director and 13 of 72 communities visited under 2,500 population. The report emphasizes where women are and where they aim to be, urging readers to shop locally in Sumner to save money.
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State Commission On the Status of Women
Iowa
Commission
Cindy Jackson
Jackson
Hawarden couple both retire after long service
Dorothy Johnson has taught 30 years in Hawarden and her husband Lloyd Johnson plans to retire after more than 30 years at the Hawarden Post Office. The pair’s combined 60 plus years of public service is noted in the Hawarden Independent.
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Dorothy
Lloyd Johnson
Hawarden
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