Signs of Spring at United Presbyterian Home Garden
The United Presbyterian Home notes spring growth with crocuses and daffodils as residents claim garden plots and birds return. Evensong featured a post Easter message on the disciples joy and power, with visitors including Dr. and Mrs. Winter and Rev. and Mrs. Jongewaard visiting after Mrs. Milne’s passing. Nearby events include visits from Mrs. van Lierop and Mr. Siegle, and recollections of Hesston era with Verna Cummings and Ed Yoder.
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Copeland
Ross Copeland
Helen Buchanan
Jesus
M. D. Winter
Miles City
Montana
Lawrence Jongewaard
Bel Air
Maryland
Milne
Peter van Lierop
Eleanor Cresswell
van Lierops
Korea
Washington, D.C
van Lierop
Charles Willming
Verna Cummings
Hesston
Kan
Ed Yoder
Wellman
Yoders
Willming Brothers
Hesston College
Washington Mennonite Church
Area School Lunch Menus Week of April 17
Weekly menus list daily meals for multiple towns including Washington Keota and surrounding schools. Dishes range from soups and sandwiches to roasts, pastas, and desserts with milk served daily. Local notices report community visits and a planned Iowa Homes for the Aging administrators meeting in Ames.
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Washington
Ames
Iowa Homes For the
Plan ticket sales for symphony season
Advance tickets for the 1972-73 Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra season will be sold at the door of the final concert of the present season in Mt. Pleasant and Ottumwa Sunday April 23. Concerts feature Dr Joyce Gault performing Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 at Ottumwa Heights College and Iowa Wesleyan Chapel. The program includes Schubert Symphony No 5 and Russell Peck Paper Tiger. Renewal of tickets for the next season is offered for convenience and to ease the fall campaign workload.
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Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra
Mt. Pleasant
Ottumwa
Ottumwa Heights College
Iowa Wesleyan Chapel
Joyce Gault
Russell Peck
Ruth Keraus
Washington Man Fined for Stop Sign Violation
Steven Lance Carroll of Washington was fined $10 plus costs in a justice of the peace court for failure to observe a stop sign. Washington Jaycees offer zip code books for $1 at local businesses.
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Steven Lance Carroll
Washington
Justice of the Peace Court
Jaycees
Horak Insurance Real Estate
Osincup Drug and Drug Fair
Enrollment plans change Fewer future students
Cedar Rapids Iowa community college officials warn that birth rate declines and out-migration will shrink college-age populations from 1978 onward. Kirkwood and state figures show live births dropping from 64 473 in 1959 to 48 406 in 1970, signaling an enrollment crisis. Ballantyne urges broader programs for handicapped dropouts and older adults while planners reassess curriculum and facilities.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Selby Ballantyne
Kirkwood Community College Board of Directors
Ballantyne
Kirkwood
State Department of Health
Area Ten
Dutchettes 4-H Club Hosts Meeting and Demonstrations
Cindy Booth led the Dutchettes 4-H Club gathering with roll call on new foods and opinions about them. Members shared cookies and recipes while Linda Barnes presented an illustrated talk on a good breakfast, Rosemary Booth demonstrated cherry cobbler, and Jean Vittetoe showed hard cooked eggs.
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Cindy Booth
Linda Barnes
Rosemary Booth
Jean Vittetoe
Hall couple attend Hubbard Milling seminar in Cedar Rapids
Mr and Mrs C Marion Hall of Hall's Feed Service Inc Washington attended a two day Hubbard Milling Co professional management seminar in Cedar Rapids. The sessions stressed business planning processes management techniques and evaluating key results areas budgets controls and measurement. The Halls learned about market potentials trade area penetration and development of marketing strategies as part of planning.
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C. Marion Hall
Hall’s Feed Service Inc
Washington
Hubbard Milling Co
Cedar Rapids
Hubbard
Hall
Twain on Work and Play Moral Insight
American humorist Mark Twain offered a concise distinction between duty and leisure. He stated work is what one is obliged to do while play is what one is not obliged to do.
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Mark Twain
Columbus Community High honors third-quarter on honor roll
Columbus Junction school officials announced the third quarter honor roll for Columbus Community High School. Freshmen include Kathy Allison and Jeanne Bloomquist among many others. sophomores, juniors, and seniors list multiple named students across disciplines.
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Columbus Community Schools
Columbus Junction
Columbus Community High School
Kathy Allison
Jeanne Bloomquist
Robert Brown
Aura Lea Carrell
Bob Omelik
Vicki Currie
Roberta Dircks
Roger Edkin
Frank Edwards
Julia Edwards
Dave Griffin
Tony Hammons
Terry Herr
Debbie Hillmann
Debbie Hills
Ellen Hoback
Linda Jennings
Mary Lynne Kelley
Pam Lowe
Arla Manley
Patsy McAfee
Randy Murry
Sharon Rees
Becky Richman
Chris Schlapkohl
Laura Skubal
Charlotte Warren
Carol Wehr
Iowa teen wins National Nutrition Scholarship in Betty Crocker program
Bloomfield Iowa high school senior Emily Brown won the first National Nutrition Scholarship from the Betty Crocker Search for the American Homemaker of Tomorrow. She earned a $1,000 grant for a nutrition related college major and is Iowa's 1972 Homemaker of Tomorrow. She is the daughter of Mrs. Marvin Brown of Bloomfield.
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Minneapolis, Minn
UPI
Bloomfield
Iowa
Emily Brown
Miss Brown
Marvin Brown
Senator Miller to Speak at Republican Dinner in K C Hall
U S Senator Jack Miller of Sioux City will headline a Republican dinner at the K C Hall on Saturday April 15. Miller, first elected in 1960 and re elected in 1966, carried all 99 Iowa counties. He has served in the Iowa General Assembly and chairs and sits on several committees including Finance and Agriculture.
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U.S
Jack Miller
Sioux City
K.C. Hall
Miller
U.S. Senate
Iowa House
Iowa Senate
Senate Committee On Finance
Senate Agriculture Committee
Senate
House Economic Committee
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
Southeast Asia
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