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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg / The Bulletin
April 23, 2009
NEWTON, Iowa — “This was a Maytag town,” said Rick Tiedje, a 63-year-old corn and soybean farmer and Jasper County supervisor. “We have a Maytag Dairy, a Maytag Park, a Maytag Bowl. ... Maytag ran the town, but they were good to the town.”
Now,....