Custodial home shortage feared in Iowa as beds decline
DES MOINES IDPA state officials warn of a looming shortage after 51 custodial homes closed reducing beds by 692 while only two new homes opened for 65 beds. Despite 36 nursing homes closing, 31 new ones opened, netting 635 beds. The core issue is low state pay of 180 dollars per patient monthly, with 70 percent government aid, squeezing operators. Officials discuss raising compensation while aging standards and federal scrutiny loom for Medicaid and elder care funding.
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Des Moines
IDPA
Norman Pawlewski
Pawlewski
Offic
State Department of Social Servi
Robert Ray
Kevin Burns
Wilbur Johnson
Council Bluffs
Iowa General Assembly
Polk County
Association of Town Nursing and Custodial Homes
State Department of Social Services
Scouts Create Books for Waco Kindergartners
Two Waco Boy Scout groups earned bookbinding badges by making storybooks for kindergarten classrooms. Scouts dictated and illustrated All About Me tales to be read at home. Meanwhile kindergartners visited Crawfordsville’s new fire station during fire prevention week to learn safety.
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Wayland
Waco Boy Scouts
Crawfordsville
Plan Thieves Market at Iowa homecoming
Iowa City students and non-students can sell hand crafted art at a Thieves Market sponsored by the University of Iowa UPS Fine Arts Area from 9 am to 5 pm Saturday. It will be held on the Iowa River bank west of Iowa Memorial Union with no registration fee. If rain, event postponed to the next Saturday.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
University of Iowa Programming Service
UPS
Iowa River
Iowa Memorial Union
Kathy Marsh
Princeton, Ill
Highland Student Commended for Merit Program Honor
Highland High School student Michael T. Lord received a letter of commendation for high performance on the 1972 preliminary SAT and the National Merit Scholarship qualifying test. The National Merit Scholarship Corporation named 38,000 Commended students nationwide, about the top 2 percent of high school graduates in 1974, behind 15,000 Semifinalists. NMSC president Edward C. Smith said Commended students demonstrate promise for college, though they do not advance further in Merit Scholarship competition.
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Michael T. Lord
Highland High School
National Merit Scholarship Corporation
NMSC
United States
Edward C. Smith
Sailor Returns Early Finds Wife With Other Man
In San Sebastian Spain a young sailor discovered his wife with another man and seized her by the hair. He led her naked through Pasajes streets to his mother-in-law's house, while the companion fled.
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San Sebastian
Spain
UPI
Pasajes
Annual Cancer Society meeting honors and awards in Des Moines
At the Iowa Division American Cancer Society annual meeting in Des Moines attendees included Mrs. Witthott Mrs. Wagner and Mrs. Miller of Washington Ed Reimers acted as emcee for the awards luncheon Dr James O Brien of Dubuque and Mrs Trevor Baskerville received National Bronze medals in memory of her husband Robert C Moorman who chaired the 1973 Crusade Missouri Valley counties were cited for top per cent and dollars raised Washington County ranked 30th of 103 for memorial gifts and education goal Moorman will chair the 1974 Crusade Luncheon speaker was Dr Daniel Burdick of Syracuse NY who urged rehabilitation and home care and cited New York health insurance home care law A Polk County aging services update Quenten Emery noted federal program changes beginning January 1974 and Dr Harold Moessner discussed Iowa health care centers and physician training funding
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Iowa
American Cancer Society
Des Moines
Arthur Witthott
John Wagner
Fran Miller
Washington
Ed Reimers
National Education
ACS
Reimers
James O'Brien
Dubuque
Trevor Baskerville
Baskerville
Robert C. Moorman
State Crusade
Buchanan County
West Page County
Linn County
Poweschick
Washington County
Moorman
Daniel Burdick
Syracuse
New York
Quenten Emery
Dept. of Social Services
Polk County
Harold Moessner
Amana
Bible Fare festival planned by Henry County ministers
The Henry County Ministerial Association announces Bible Fare a National Bible Sunday event set for Sunday afternoon November 18 at the National Guard Armory Mount Pleasant. The event runs 2 to 5 pm features displays films and presentations by international groups promoting Biblical literacy with a continuous theater and a film There Shall Be Light from the American Bible Society. Major displays include The Gideons Bibles for the World and World Home Bible League plus a poster banner contest with cash prizes to be judged at the Armory.
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Henry County Ministerial Association
National Guard
Mount Pleasant
World Bible Groups
American Bible Society
Annie Vallotton
The
Gideons
Bibles For the World
World Home Bible League
Ministerial Association
Henry County
Key 73
Open House Monday at Washington High
Washington High invites parents to an open house Monday October 22 from 7 to 9 p.m. Teachers will greet visitors in their rooms and tours of the building will show changes from the past year. The Hi Fi's sing 7 to 7 30 in the auditorium and rehearsal for Our Town runs 7 30 to 9. American Education Week theme urges parent involvement.
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Pen House
Washington Senior High School
Tollisten
Des Moines
Record of Fines in On the Record Magistrate Court
List of defendants from Washington Riverside Iowa City Osage Fairfield and other locales who faced fines for traffic and related offenses including excessive acceleration speeding failure to yield disturbing the peace disobeying traffic signal and assault and battery with individual penalties ranging from 5 to 25 dollars and including defendants Daniel J. Dempsey Celeste N Horn Galen M. Staley Magdalena Linnenkamp Ronald G. Morrow Patricia J. Byrnes and Jerry Smith.
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Daniel J. Dempsey
Washington
Celeste N Horn
Riverside
Galen M. Staley
Iowa City
Magdalena Linnenkamp
Ronald G. Morrow
Fairfield
Patricia J. Byrnes
Osage
Jerry Smith
Weight Watchers class opens soon in Washington
Ethel Horowitz executive director for Weight Watchers in Central Illinois and Eastern Iowa announces a new Weight Watchers class at United Presbyterian Church 209 East Main Street Washington. The program offers three integrated phases for weight loss acceleration and maintenance with meals including spaghetti rice potatoes and salad dressing. Since 1961 Weight Watchers has aided over two million people through its structured eating plans and regular class attendance.
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Ers
Ethel Horowitz
Ilinois
Iowa
Washington
United Presbyterian Church
East Main St
Club Activities and Welfare Groups Gather for Meetings
Goodwill Club members met for a Thanksgiving dinner planning on Nov 21 after a poem or news item roll call. Secret sisters gave birthday gifts to Clara Brown Bertha Henry Mae Stokes and Mrs Palmer. refreshments with a Halloween motif were served. World War I Barracks Auxiliary held a post potluck meeting at the Legion Hall with 12 attendees led by Mrs Neva Johnson guest from Iowa City. Reports covered recent sales and conventions. 14 275 veterans died in the past year. local membership nears quota with gifts totaling 35 for hospitals and the YW Rotary Christmas party. coffee at Crawfordsville on Oct 31. Thirty Niners Club featured Sara Lou Morrison on The Changing Years at the YWCA. two new members joined. Edna Smith opened with The Feel of Fall. upcoming coffee at UP Home on Nov 7. VW Rotary gifts planned at next meeting.
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Legion Hall
Neva Johnson
Iowa City
Burlington
Miami Beach
Fla
Claude McCoy
H. W. Ramseyer
Wanda Rudolph
Yw-Rotary
George Canott
Crawfordsville
Thirty Niners Club
Sara Lou Morrison
YWCA
Ted Crone
Myrle Baird
Gladys Baird
Frances Patton
Bernice McCreedy Garrett
Marie Waldschmidt
Edna Smith
Glenn Dunbar
Edith Weidner
Vw-Rotary
Contracts Rosses to Woodes in Section 29 land transfer
Robert R. Ross and wife transfer property to James J. Wood and wife. The description begins at the southwest corner of the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of Section 29 in township 75 range 7, detailing the parcel boundary for this deed.
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Robert R. Ross
James J. Wood
Two Waco students earn commendation for high test scores
Steve Boal and Craig Dare of Waco High School received letters of commendation for top performance on the 1972 Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test and National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Principal L. L. Schrader announced that 38,000 students nationwide are commended, placing them in the top two percent of high school graduates expected in 1974, just below the 15,000 semi finalists named in September by NMSC.
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Steve Boal
Craig Dare
Waco High School
L. L. Schrader
Waco
United States
NMSC
Waco Counselor Attends National Counseling Conference
William Bean of the Waco Community Schools attended the first national conference on counseling minorities and disadvantaged at Michigan State University as chairman of the American School Counselors Association Human Relations- None-white Concern. He will also attend state conventions in Oklahoma City October 18 and 19 and participate in ISEA sessions. Bean and Bergstrom led 46 Waco students to Ottumwa for an open house at Indian Hills Community College, with students from Bergstroms accounting classes showing interest in agriculture, mechanics, and secretarial areas beyond the business machines department.
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William Bean
Waco
Michigan State University
American School Counselors Association
Counselors Association
Oklahoma City
ISEA
Iowa
Bean
Bergstrom
Indian Hills Community College
Ottumwa
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