Agriculture fuels Iowa economy says Farm Bureau report
A civic update notes eight in ten Iowa workers rely on agriculture either directly or indirectly. The study cites direct farm jobs at about half, with 30 percent in agri-business support, and portrays farming as the foundation of Iowa’s expanding economy. It lists typical farmer metrics, state production values, export shares, and investment figures across crops and livestock.
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Iowa Farm Bureau
Iowa
Pleckers Lead Ys Mens Pinochle Marathon After Seventh Round
Mr and Mrs Lloyd Plecker hold a commanding lead in the Y's Men’s pinochle marathon with a net score of 8680, ahead of runners-up Mr and Mrs William Jones at 6080. Top ten includes Crile, Bates, Ray, Gallagher, Young, Freel, Havel, and Mangold with cumulative scores.
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Lloyd Plecker
Pleckers
William Jones
Clyde Crile
Joe Bates
Rex Ray
Verle Gallagher
John Young
Arden Freel
Richard Havel
Leo Mangold
Highland School calendar and booster notes for February
Highland Community Schools publish a February calendar with events including a junior high musical, sectionals, a school board meeting, booster club meetings, basketball and choir activities, a bus drivers workshop, and a superintendent report. Weather-related makeup day on February 21 replaces a vacation day, and Pancake Day fundraiser is planned for March at Highland High School with booster club support noted.
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Lone Tree
Highland
Calarus
Highland School
Ainsworth
Wartburg
Iowa City
Regina
Washington
Highland Community
Booster Club
Highland High School
Area School Lunch Menus Week of Feb 14
Weekly lunch menus from Washington Keota Waco Columbus Junction and Highland mid prairie list daily meals for each district. Entries include main dishes sides desserts and milk, with some OCR errors in dish names and spellings.
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Washington
Columbus Junction
Mid-Prairie
Rotary exchange student joins Mid-Prairie High School
Maria Silvia Pitombo from Sao Paulo, Brazil, arrives as a Rotary Exchange student and enrolls at Mid-Prairie High School. She will live with multiple Kalona-area families during her year, while local community notices include a Beta Iota Sigma Phi meeting, bridge club results, and several local birth and visiting by foreign guests.
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Carbondale, Ill
Linda Pence Condry
Washington
Southern Illinois University At
Carbondale
SIU
Mid-Prairie High School
Wellman
Condry
University of Iowa
Eugene Way Kalona
Mid-Prairie
Maria Silvia Pitombo
Sao Paulo
Brazil
Miss Pitombo
Rotary
H. E. Peterseim
Iowa
Steve Reif
D. G. Sattler
C. W. Beckman
Carolyn
Orr
Juanita’ Shade
Jan LaVille
Hazel Coffey
Ladies Bridge Club
H. L. Walker
August Dieckmann
W. D. Hochstetler
A. A. Jackson
Walker
Bean Feed at Y This Saturday for Schoolboys
A bean feed is planned at the YMCA on Saturday February 12 at noon for grade school boys. The 75 cent youth price covers beans hot dogs or hamburgers chips a drink a dessert and a fun time. Trophies and certificates will be awarded to basketball league winners. All players are invited sign up at the main desk and pay before 10 30 Saturday morning. A YMCA membership is required.
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YMCA
Davenport mother of five cleared in murder case
A Davenport mother of five, Rosemary Ann Littleton, 23, was cleared of first degree murder charges in the stabbing death of her estranged husband James Littleton, 37. The Scott County Grand Jury returned a no true bill after she said he dragged her from the home despite a court order to stay away.
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Davenport
UPI
Scott County Grand Jury
Rosemary Ann Littleton
James Littleton
Costs of educating Iowa students rise 44 percent
State Auditor Lloyd Smith reported Iowa University costs per student climbed from 1605 dollars in 1966 67 to 2314 dollars in 1970 71, a 44.2 percent rise. The university spent 47.5 million dollars last year on teaching for 20 520 students, with the student body growing by nearly 3 000 over five years.
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Iowa
DES Moines
UPI
Lloyd Smith
University of Iowa
Smith
Iowa City
Des Moines Dealer Loses Vehicle Inspection License
Iowa Department of Public Safety revoked the vehicle safety inspection license of Des Moines Dodge, Inc. after a car inspected there was involved in a traffic crash. Public Safety Commissioner Michael Sellers said this marked the first action under the new motor vehicle inspection law that took effect January 1.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa Department of Public Safety
Public Safety
Michael Sellers
Des Moines Dodge, Inc
Mid-Prairie forms committee to improve teacher evaluation
Mid-Prairie Superintendent Dean Curtis forms the CITE committee to define what constitutes a good teacher before setting evaluation criteria. Members include Ray Schrepfer, Sibyl Christensen, Richard Van Hoozer, Marlene Gaston, and others. Students and parents were invited to share views as discussions stressed improving instruction.
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Mid-Prairie
Dean Curtis
CITE
Ray Schrepfer
Sibyl Christensen
Richard van Hoozer
Marlene Gaston
Chris Christensen
Barb Adams
Mary Greiner
Corrine Duvall
SS Satler
Charles Vincent
Jael Droz
Mid - Prairie Junior High Parent Council
Glen Hershberger
Junior Maas
MacGregor
Dyer
NCA
Mission conference planned at Wayland
Wayland Independent Bible Church completes plans for its tenth annual missionary conference February 16 to 20 with 7 30 and 8 45 p m services each evening. A teen conference runs February 18 to 19 with speakers Ruby and Earl Ressler from Evangelical Alliance Mission Bonaire Peru Peru Wycliffe translator Carol Whisler and Dr Richard Scheel medical missionary to East Africa. a potluck on February 20 at 12 30 p m invites attendees to bring service and a dish to pass.
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Wayland
Wayland Independent Bible Church
Frida
Bonaire
Jack Manly
Baptist International Mission
Carol Whisler
Lima
Peru
Wycliffe Bible Translators
Richard Scheel
East Africa
Soddo Wallamo
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Lloyd V. Fry
Columbia, S.C
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Tempe
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Doug Staubaugh
Orie Yoder
Marvin Eimen
Mercy Hospital
Erna Eimens
Everett Coxsall
Siaconarutting Pliers
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Wolf's Flower Shop
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Osincup's
Non-Robinson Tax Service
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