Iowa Farm Bureau Adopts Resolutions At Annual Meeting
Iowa Farm Bureau delegates at the Des Moines annual meeting approve measures on property tax relief and school funding. They back Shaff plan reapportionment, per pupil state aid funded by new revenue, and caps on future tax increases while urging tax base broadening. They oppose extra road fund changes and mandatory checks for red meat promotion, and endorse National Live Stock and Meat Board activities.
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Iowa Farm Bureau
Des Moines
Bremer County
Allen Casady
Farm Bureau
Allen
Senate
General Assembly
National Live Stock and Meat Board
Fee
State Board of Public Instruction
Tripoli Leader Deliberates on Farmland Policy and School District
December 19 1962 Tripoli Iowa delegates from 100 county Farm Bureaus discuss policy on an intermediate school district system and hog cholera eradication. They urge Rural Electric Cooperative protections, Kerr-Mills medical care funding, and farm program reforms under national legislation. Delegates call for balanced federal budget and government power balance while opposing Social Security medical care and broad federal education aid.
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Public Utilities Regulatory Commission
Towa
General Assembly
Kerr-Mills
Lown
American Farm Bureau
Singing Carols Through the Ages at Christmas
Researchers trace carols from Roman Saturnalia songs to early Christian hymns. Simple, touching carols became widely popular in the 14th and 15th centuries.
Christmas Program at St John’s Lutheran Crane Creek
A detailed church program from St John’s Lutheran Crane Creek on Monday December 24 at 7 30 pm led by Pastor Geo J Gundel with Mrs Clarence Buchholz at the organ. The service features scripture lessons prayers carols and a Christmas program by Sunday School children and confirmation class including many named participants and a gift distribution.
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St. John’s Lutheran
Crane Creek
Geo. J. Gundel
Clarence Buchholz
Carol
Doris Schneer
Judith Schuldt
Pegey Edwards
Bethlehem
Manger
Duane Blasberg
Dale Boevers
Richard Schneer
Gary Zander
Randy Lindner
Bruce Keding
Diane Keding
Kathy Boevers
Debbie Edwards
Debbie Liddle
Lyle Reding
Craig Beevers
Dean Harmening
Bradley Buss
Steven Kohagen
Lloyd Zander
Susanne Zander
God
Marshall Barkhoff
Gerald Zander
Barbara Deterding
Diane Buchholz
Darrell Mixdorf
Larry Schuldt
Paul Zander
Donald Hinrichs
Darwin Harmening
Michael Lindner
Roger Heidemann
Rise’ Barkhoff
Methodist Frederika Christmas Pageant at Sunday Service
On Sunday December 23 at 8:00 p m Lloyd Bair pastor leads a service with a song prayer The Star Lighted Path and a pageant including the entire Sunday School Offering funds go to Christmas treats Remarks by the pastor and songs by the congregation followed by benediction.
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Methodist
Frederika
Lloyd Bair
Candle in Window Tradition Attributed To Irish Roots
The custom of placing a candle in the window on Christmas Eve is linked to Ireland. The candle symbolizes Christ’s light and guidance as He travels the earth. Historically lights and beacons marked joyous celebrations, and the Irish origin explains why homes display a lit window on Christmas Eve.
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Christ
Retired Grand Junction secretary leaves 34 years at firm
Retired Mrs. Bertha E White, longtime secretary for the insurance firm T R Watts & Son, ends a 34 year tenure in Grand Junction. The note includes a Thackeray quote about reading the paper as history.
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Bertha E. White
T. R. Watts & Son
White
Grand Junction
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