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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1957
Page
5
A column links Iowa's suicide concerns to mental health gaps and calls for early detection and treatment of mental disorders. It notes polio and tuberculosis immunization and chest X rays as preventive tools, and suggests timely care could reduce deaths. An Andrew farm report mentions a goose-sized egg with a second inner egg.
By Mahoney , DES. One of Iowa's old residents died February 6. She was Mrs. Pauling Bichemel, born in Canada in 1959, and lived many years in Texas in the Algond area.
A patrolman finds a man parked beside a highway where a fatal accident occurred. The driver, upset and tearful, says his wife was killed there three years earlier and that he returned to the site for the first time since. He explains he was the driver on the day of the crash.
Data from the Vital Statistics Division shows suicide as a leading cause in Iowa, with 884 deaths in 1955 out of 26,672 total. Iowa’s suicide rate stood at 13 per 100,000, above the national rate of 10, reflecting a long-standing higher-than-average rate since 1923.
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