Dear Abby letters on movies lie and grace
A reader contests Abby’s stance on film dirtiness, asking if Valenti can fix it. Valenti replies that there is no censorship and parents must judge content. Another reader counsels against lying to a daughter about her baby, and a mother recalls a blessing anecdote about a father. Additional items offer personal replies and Abby contact details.
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Abby
Jack Valenti
Motion Picture Association
Mr. Valenti
Merit system merger faces delays over federal funds
The consolidation of Iowa’s Merit System Council with the Merit Employment Department stalls after an inadvertent House amendment cut federal participation. Howell seeks a $60,000 annual emergency appropriation, but the legislative budget committee defers action to April 8.
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Airman John A Widmer Completes Basic Training
Men in Service WIDMER AIRMAN JOHN A WIDMER son of Mr and Mrs Glenn Widmer Washington Iowa has completed basic training at Lackland AFB Texas He has been assigned to the Air Force Technical Training Center Lowry AFB Colorado for specialized schooling as a munitions specialist
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Glenn Widmer
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Iowa
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Texas
Air Force Technical Training Center
Lowry Afb
Colorado
Horak Funeral Services Held For Charles Horak
Funeral services for Charles Horak were held at Jones Funeral Home on Saturday March 23 with Rev Milan Thompson officiating. Burial followed at Elm Grove Cemetery with pallbearers Wayne Horak Delbert Grecian Maurice Alvine Dale Horak Robert Quinn and Earl Kolosick.
No grazing period starts on April 1
Farmers were reminded that the no grazing period for diverted acres under the 1968 Feed Grain Program will start April 1 and run for five months until September 1. Howard Lins, Chairman, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service.
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Howard Lins
Agricultural Stabilization and ‘Con
Farmers Agree Not to Graze Diversion Plots in 1968 Program
Washington County farms signing up for the 1968 Commodity Diversion Program for corn and grain sorghum number about 959. Participants in the Conservation Reserve and Crop land Adjustment Programs vow not to graze diverted land or harvest crops from it during the agreements' lifetimes, and farmers diverting acreage under the program will refrain from grazing during a five month growing season.
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Servation County Committee
Washington County
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