Discrimination by sex dominates Iowa civil rights complaints
A year end report shows 268 complaints filed with the Iowa Civil Rights Commission, 87 alleging sex discrimination. Des Moines led with 27 cases, Sioux City 15, and Dyersville 10, with workplaces spanning manufacturing, retail, packing, unions, and colleges. Most charges involved hiring or firing, and 36 were filed by the commission on behalf of parties or a class. Some male applicants allege sex bias in traditionally female jobs.
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Des Moines
Sioux City
Dyersville
Davenport
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Iowa Civil Rights Commission
Lahr reunion highlights diverse attendees in Richland
The annual Lahr reunion at Mother Cabrini Parish hall drew relatives from across the region. Tony Lahr of Washington was the oldest relative at 80, with Cynthia Jackson the youngest at six months. Farthest travel came from the Peck family of Miami Florida. Officers for the coming year were Mr and Mrs George Everhart of Rock Island Illinois. Plans called for the next gathering on the first Sunday in August at the Richland Parish Hall.
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Peck
Miami
Florida
George Everhart
Rock Island
Ilinois
Richland
John Hesseltine
Dolores Spray
Haviland
Kansas
Ted Spray
Ainsworth Girls Take Fourth in League Tournament
Ainsworth defeated rivals in a league tourney for the women’s softball team and earned a fourth place trophy. Local visits highlight weekend happenings as families and friends traveled between West Chester Dunlap and Eldridge with travels to Iowa and Colorado noted.
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Ainsworth
Haskins Feed
Bill Stout
C. A. Thompson
Royal
Crystal
Wellman
Dunlap
Ill
Ed Stout
Gene Stephens
Chippewa National Forest
David Stephens
Susan
Sara
Eldridge
Iowa
Scott Orris
Jennifer
Lisa
Pomona
Calif
Fred Orris
Carl Roberts
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
John Frame
Jim Frame
Cdar Rapids
Jim
Loveland
Colo
Bill Frame
Denver
Carl Greiner
Shari
Edwin Peiffer
W. R Murphy
Problems that must be faced by ranchers and moms
A Denver court case discusses escalating living cost based wage clauses in steel and railroad contracts, arguing that price controls and distant unions threaten farmers liberties. The author urges ranchers to engage, cites USDA reports as flawed, and urges imports restraint to protect domestic beef. Eddie Col.
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Uncle Sam
Denver
Martin Luther King
John P Dowley
Greeley
USDA
CIA
Hitler
Usda Statistical and Market
Howsare advances beef campe for special heifer award
Kirk Howsare of Crawfordsville has been chosen by the Iowa Beef Producers Association as one of four contestants in Iowa to be interviewed for a prestigious beef heifer award. He is son of Mr and Mrs Raymond Howsare and member of the Crooked Creek Cyclones 4 H Club, selected to represent Washington County before August 1. He is currently hospitalized at Mt Pleasant following an emergency appendectomy earlier this week.
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Kirk Howsare
Crawfordsville
Iowa Beef Producer's Association
Iowa
Kirk
Raymond Howsare
Crooked Creek Cyclones
Washington County
Mt. Pleasant
Birds Get Airlift Of Peanuts To Honolulu
United Airlines ran a mission of mercy shipping 100 pounds of peanuts from Los Angeles to Honolulu to feed birds at Pa. The supply cut by a West Coast longshoremen strike forced the temporary airlift, a relief effort reported by the Washington Evening Journal on August 12, 1971.
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Los Ancs
UPL
United Airlines
Los Angeles
Honolulu
Hawaii
All-American Nut Co
Richland 5 & C Club Hosts August Meeting
S and C members at Richland gathered at Steve and Judys in Riverside for the August meeting with Mrs Gordon Denton as hostess. Prizes went to Mrs Hazel Yoder for second high, most 14s, and the lucky plate, while Mrs Pete Geret won the high prize. Richard Frank, son of Mr and Mrs Robert Frank, arrived home on leave from DavisMonthan AFB Tucson for a fifteenday visit before returning to Arizona.
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Wilburkiene
Riverside
Steve and Judys
Gordon Denton
Hazel Yoder
Pete Geret
Leroy O'Conner
Richard Frank
Robert Frank
davis-Monthan Air Force Base
Tucson
Arizona
Richard
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