Editorial on Iowa constitutional amendments and gambling ban
The Washington Iowa editorial discusses three proposed state constitutional amendments on the November ballot. It supports a four year governor term, favors a retirement provision for district judges under misconduct or incapacity, and expresses ambivalence about repealing the gambling ban allowing bingo and raffles. It urges voters to decide in coming election and to consider long term effects.
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Iowa
State Supreme Court
Corporate Farms in Campaign Debate
Prairie Farmer reports McGovern’s comment on agriculture as a lifeless corporate industry and the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union’s view that monster corporations threaten farmers. The magazine cites statistics: 85.3 percent of farms are single-family. 12.8 percent partnerships. 1.2 percent corporate. 0.3 percent nonfarm industrial corporations. Since 1960, corporate farms mostly limited to family firms. Only one industrial corporate farming venture has succeeded.
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George McGovern
Prairie Farmer Magazine
Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union
Prairie Farmer
Jim Thompson
Jar of honey and garden gifts brighten our town
Ed Olson presented a jar of fresh honey this week and several residents Fern and Pearl Cassatt Jimmy Cochran Dan and June Wood Don Kimballs and Fern Wood contributed garden produce. The column praises community generosity and champions free speech and a letter to the editor as a pillar of a free society.
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Ed Olson
Fern
Pearl Cassatt
Jimmy Cochran
Dan
June Wood
Don Kimballs
Fern Wood
Moulton Tribune
Prairie City News
Hensons return from Shrine tour overseas
Mr and Mrs Everett Henson have come home after ten days touring Denmark Norway and Sweden on a Shrine group trip from Davenport. Also noted are local activities including the Louisa County Farm Bureau Women meeting and retirement honors for A M Lee at Columbus Day events.
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Helene B. Dillon
Columbus Junction
Everett Henson
Denmark
Norway
Sweden
Davenport
Mayme Colton
Muscatine
Blanch Williams
Louisa County Farm Bureau
Columbus City
Hickory Drive
Columbus Community High
Sally Dailey
Tina Allen
Ray Conaway
Peggy van Auken
Phyllis McAfee
Cindy Haifley
Rita Wheeler
Miriam
Columbus
Russell Newell
Louisa County Republican Women’s Club
Ray Bieri
Dale Schlutz
Priscilla Club
Alta Jordan
Lyrell Norris
Max Gumm
Des Moines
Louisa County
CROP
Peoples National Bank
Silver Leaf Rebekah Lodge
Columbus Education Association
Robert Johnson
David Stanley
Johnson
Bill Rabedeaux
Eleanor Anstey
Postmaster Wits and Bored Neighbors in Abby Column
Readers share odd post office duty tales from South Carolina postmaster and a single man who visits a neighbor with nonstop erotic stories. Abby advises on keeping cool with quirky patrons and setting boundaries for explicit conversations.
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Abby
Sylvia's misapplied principle yields four notrump triumph
In a club bridge hand, Sylvia plies a hold up misread and refuses the heart trick. West leads ten of hearts and Sylvia preserves the loss, yet ends up making four notrump while partners struggle with her eccentric play and repeated instruction.
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Sylvia
West
East
Marriages that end in remarriage and other notes
The column surveys remarriages among 10 000 yearly divorces noting outcomes similar to first marriages with a quarter still miserable, a quarter regretful, and the rest glad. It jokes about clergymen and Onassis plural, then shifts to Tiger trainer Grebel Williams and a mixed group with two women and many tigers. It answers a reader question about carrageenan in cottage cheese, lists 14 000 table salt uses, and notes San Francisco Bay’s area shrinking by two hundred years due to bulldozer work.
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Onassis
Onassides
Gunther Grebel-Williams
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Nada
Washington, Iowa
Balaam
Forbes Magazine
By Booth Vallentine
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Iowa Weekly Newspaper
Hensons
Monroe, Mich
UPI
Rose Terassi
Robbie
Nancy
Blondie
Ugh
Chicago Tribune-N. Y. News Synd., Inc
South Carolina
Fire Department
L. A
Calif
Los Angeles
Cal
Dean Abby
B. Jay Becker
Heigh-Ho, Sylvia
South Dealer
North-South Vulnerable
South West North East
Ten of Hearts
King Features Syndicate, Inc
L. M. Boyd
Grebel-Williams
Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey
Grebel- Williams
San Francisco Bay
J. M. Boyd
P. O
Fort Worth
L.M. Boyd
Boner
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