Algona Upper Des Moines (Newspaper) - August 19, 1982, Algona, Iowa 99 IOWA THURSDAY 19 AUGUST 1982 33 ENTIRE CONTENTS BY THE PUBLISHING USPS 013220 32 2 2 SUPPLEMENTS ENDS MacDonald Remembering ow would you like to write an Odds and Ends column about your class reunion 1 just dont have the You know I have 2 teenagers to keep tabs plus a a and a You need it by Tuesday But I have a library board meeting on and it has been years since Ive done any newspaper and stop you knew I was hooked the minute you mentioned Even if I have to stay up all night the journalist in me just cant resist having a whole column to myself The Class of been 25 years since we graduated from Algona High School Twentyfive years filled with accomplishments and triumphs and excitement and the elements that comprise Some in the class remained in Algona all this Some tried their wings in other places and then chose to And some have anchored their lives in other towns and But this past nearly onehalf of the class 57 came together to reminisce and to recapture for a little while that time in our lives with the arrogance of we knew all the We met Saturday afternoon a 2 bus tour pf Thats there was that much to did you As we gathered in front of the Middle School which was the high school in we were suddenly 25 years younger as we greeted each other with exuberant hugs and cries of I cant believe it For it was the first meeting in 25 Others hadnt seen each other in 10 or 12 Even for those who live here and see each other there was something special about this We went into the school to wander through the familiar halls and comment on but mostly to savor what hadn i reechoed through the rooms as we resurrected anecdotes that had been buried in our memories for a quarter of a For this brief period of the present was suspended and conversations related to the happenings we had lived through within these Each room sparked a flood of memories which we eagerly shared with each The predominant feeling which settled on all of us was one of joyful belief that we were really together again in this building where we did much of our growing We finally filed out of the school and onto the bus for a tour which included a stop at the present high school and a spin through Woodlyn Riverview Royale the east side of Smith and and the shopping new additions since While there were many exclamations on the new as at the it was that which was the old familiar that evoked the warmest The bus tour ended and we parted for a few hours to get ready for the banquet at Charlies Supper Here there were fresh waves of excitement as classmates we hadnt yet seen After each member of the class briefly described how he or she had spent die intervening years since Our are as varied as our We are corporate businessmen and farmers and are and one modesty precludes me bom mentioning her name Members of the class traveled from Colorado and Washington to be a part of this special Aa disparate as our lives have we all share a common grew up we went to school we graduated As eager as most of us were Selling A Candidate Cost Is High My Big Brother Photo By Dorothy Here have a Brian shared his stopped at the ice cream shop last They are the ice cream sandwich with his sister after they of Richard and Teresa Blocker of West Bend Fires Burn Kill 150 Hogs In Barn By Jeremy Powers and Art Cullen Like everything else these the cost of getting elected to public office is some cases double what it was 10 years The Algona Upper Des Moines surveyed candidates ranging from county supervisor to representa tive and found campaign budgets this year ranging from to If youre running for a hot county plan to spend over If you want to get elected to the Iowa House of prepare to spend around And if you want to spend the next 2 years in Iowas 6th District congressional seat in you might have to dole out or The costs of winning are Consider District 15 Representative Sue Mullins and her Democratic Ray Morgan of both working fulltime to get on with the Iowa Mullins and Morgan plan budgets between and Although Mullins said she was hoping to get by on the approximately she spent last she noted it wont go as far as it did 2 years The House candidates plan on most of their money coming from individual contributions and fund The other source of money to campaign treasure chests comes by the way of Political Action or Neither anticipate any large contributions from but they admit they would be glad to I tell them youre not getting any guaranteed said AU that money means to me is Ill allow them access to Morgan also said he doesnt actively solicit money from All of them send out I fill those out and if they want to send me well accept Morgan I dont initiate As is true with its easier to spend money than to get Mullins and Morgan project then largest expense in The cost of keeping a candidates name in print or on the air until 4 makes up about a half of a House candidates they Mullins noted candidates in this area are lucky theres no local an expensive Election 2 WEST BENDAn employee of Bend Ready Mix suffered burns is the truck Wednesday West Bend Fire Department John whose address was given as was admitted to Palo Alto County Hospital in Emmetsburg for Mam mens age was According to West Bend Fire Chief Virgil Mammen was filling his concrete mixing truck when a fire of undetermined origin The 8 fire was responded to by the municipal the truck was pulled away and the fire have spread Ka laundromat and a chief said The truck was but that was the only damage ANOTHER WEST BEND vire Saturday on the Henry farm miles northeast of town took the lives of approximately 150 Lauck A barn was a complete Lauck t Although insurance adjusters were to visit farm she estimated the loss at It went very We saw smoke and before we could even call the fire department flames were leaping out of the barn The only hog stock left on the Lauck farm are several sows that were in another Boars and young pigs were in the Lauck said they were still dying It nearly took it she Fenton Man Killed In Colorado A man was killed Friday in Colorado when driver of an automobile pulled in front of the motorcycle he was Gene William died of head injuries sustained during the Hartman was wearing a He remained in a coma for 6 hours and never regained conscious The accident occurred when Hart riding a 1000 cc motorcycle owned by Dennis Mitchell of drove past 2 trucks signalling a right turri OR a The trucks blocked the view of John driver of the When Perez pulled into the left it was too late for Hartman to He struck the side of the Another cyclist was following and was able to stop in Perez was cited for a traffic believed to be failure to stop at a stop Hartman opened the Algona Redemption Center in Travels To Ohio To Remember WWII By Jeremy Powers Celebrating bare survival on frozen turnips and enduring lice and fleas are not the things most reunions are made But when John Muehe of Wesley travelled to Ohio in those were some of the memories he and 10 other former World War II Prisoners of War After 37 11 of the POWs who lived in Stalag a Nazi POW camp near reunited to remember and fulfill a bond established in the waning months of World War There is a bond between us that is stronger than just about any I said He was captured by the German Afrikan led by Field Marshal Rommel in North He was a private who spent 803 days in 3 different said they just had to adjust while they were They avoided starvation by trading items that came in the weekly Red Cross packages for real food with the French and Despite some of the gruesome memories the reunion was a happy Most of the former POWs had not seen nor heard from each other since the Don a resident of got name out of a magazine called Stewart contacted Muehe and the According to John Muehe in Nazi camps all of the former POWs who were able Four or so others who could not make the reunion were telephoned and each of the attendees had an opportunity to talk to Also held at the reunion were memorial services for 6 former POWs from Stalag 2B who had died since the We didnt do it as some sort of 2 This photograph was taken by a friendly German guard at one of the most harsh Prisoner of War camps during World War John second went to Ohio to a reunion of this Man Survives A Filthy Assault By Women 81 Why Physicians Fear A Nuclear War Fair livestock winners throughout both sections Murphy spends most on campaign A School board news A3 A4 International flavor to reunion A4 Big bands coming back Periscope A6 AllStar Baseball Team named ISU girls golf coach Golden Bears open grid practices Youth Page discusses clothes care B4
