Alton Democrat (Newspaper) - October 20, 1960, Alton, Iowa VOLUME lohn Pioneer Maurice Dies At Le Mars Hosp. THE IOWA OCTOBER 20, 1960 Entered at postoffice as second class matter under the act of March 2, 1879 John pioneer Maurice retired died Monday in the LeMars hospital at the age of 95 at Little June 15, 18c5, Mr. Linnan came to Sioux County as a boy and farmed in the Maurice vicinity until 40 years ago when Mr. and Linnan moved to married Kate daughter of another pioneer Maurice June 22, 1892. Mrs. Linnan died in 1944. Survivors are two Luke of Iowa and Joseph C. Linnan of three Margaret Linnan of Leo Fox of Palm Joan Linnan of and 1\1 Funeral services will be at Thursday at St. Mary's Catholic church in with burial in St. Mary's Honors for Iowa Patrol First Killing Frost Here A.M. Northerly winds with a drop in temperature brought the first of the season Tuesday when mercury dropped to 20 degrees above or 12 degrees I below Cloudy skies and a high north wind prevailed clearing at Wednesday morning at local thermometers read 20 gradually rising through the The first killing frost this Oct. 10, is ten days later than that of last when we had show on Oct. 8th and killing frost on the 9th, Entertain Inmates Cherokee Hospital A group of young Alton took part Sunday in entertainment given by the Sioux County Legion Auxiliary Ballot Nov. 8 Presidential Election Appears In This Issue Col. W. S. Bowers from ai acting chief of Fort Lt. C. G. Cole of firearms instructor for the Iowa Highway and District 13 of the wa who state police honors 111 the National Police Pistol which closed Oct. 6 at are at Cole's W. Strouit of champion individual is .at far Army Hoevens Attend Charles B. Hoeven are again spending a busy week in the 8t'h Hoeven was one of the at the Spencer both guest On Tuesday they were present hours at Sutherland in the a in and coffee hours at and the They drove to Sioux City Wednesday for a the dinner in the evening followed by a coffee hour for the League of Women Thursday was in Vista The day Started with a coffee hour at luncheon at Albert caravan at Sioux Rembrandt and coffee hour at Alta. The day closed with a big banquet and rally at Storm Lake in the On Saturday they attended the Morningside College Homecoming parade and in the evening Mr. Hoeven was one of the guest speakers at a republican rally in for the and other inmates of the State Mental at Mesdames Cliff Ted Steichen P. Wiltgen transported the children to Cherokee representing the local and a Barbara Hoffman and Foreman piano The are of Mrs. Irma Guests from Rochester Clarice Jean Croat and Marvin Dohlberg of spent the week end with Clarice's and Mrs. Clarence Other guests were and Mrs. Francis Croat and sons of Sioux Mr. and Mrs. Walter Schuver and Republican Rally At Co. Seat Oct. 27 Sioux County people are to be given a chance to hear their Republican candidates for Congress 27th in a Republican Rally in the Auditorium of Northwestern Orange The Honorable Charles B. Eighth District candidate for re-election to the United States House of and Jack Iowa Republican candidate for the United States will be the featured They will ibe introduced by Earl Orange City Precinct Rev. E. Van Orange will take part in the Maurice Te Chairman of the County Central will Candidates for Sioux County Offices will ibe also Candidate Elmer Den for the Iowa Music will be furnished by Orange William Brilliant American Tenor Had Choice of Baseball or Concert Career October 29, will mark the appearance at the College Auditorium at Orange City of brilliant young American Mr. concert is the first of the season presented by the Sioux County Concert Young and William Lewis is probably the most versatile leading tenor in the field today He has already rolled up an record in and For three he was featured soloist in over 40 shows on Sid Caesar's His leading roles with the the New the New York City opera companies brought him wide The Metropolitan signed William Lewis to leading at the age of 2S-^ making him the youngest of Its corps of He soloist with the New York at the Festival of Two in and has just busy summer for the Santa Fe Opera Mr. Lewis was born in and before he was 17, every youngster's dream he played professional baseball with such major league greats as Mantle and He received an offer from the Louis which was turned down in favor of he continued to both for the University of Colorado and Texas Christian he found it impossible to combine singing with Members of the Sioux County Concert Series will discover the Baseball's loiss is gain at William performance Saturday The program will range from a group of old Irish and Welsh for group of melodies by the Russian Sergei which are sung in arid will include several popular ticket sales to the concerts will be open until the of this first concert and will be sold at this concert r Democratic Dinner At Co. Seat Nov. 3 E. Democratic candidate for the United States 8th District of the featured speaker at a Democratic dinner and rally to be held Nov. 3 in the Community room at the Town Hall in Orange The Sioux County Democratic Central Committee is sponsoring the with arrangements in charge of Chairman Gerrit L. Atty. Jim McNally of is in charge of the ticket at Democrat from Mrs. J. precinct chairman for or George precinct chairman for Floyd township Antarctic Cooks Celebrate Arrival of First Fresh Food in 8 Months With Biff Feed Thieves Take Jewelry at Sheldon Thieves broke into Jewelry store at Sheldon Monday night and got away with more than worth of watches and jewelry and a coin collection Dr. whose office is next to the Bartels store and which the thieves also They broke into the building through a back door of the Jewelry and got into the through a basement The theft was discovered by Dr. Brady's Dr. who stopped at the office at 11:30 p.m. The burglary apparently took place between 9:30 and according to Sheldon Kiernan Honored By County Bankers On Friday 14, the Board of Directors of the Alton Savings Bank held a dinner and reception for E. S. who has completed 50 years in the Banking About and associates present for the 6:'30 by a short consisting of short talks by time friends in the banking Mr. Kiernan received a pen set the Sioux County Bankers and a gether with other gifts That certainly beat the snow Mr. and Mrs. C. De Munck have received a picture from the Airforce of their Capt. Glenn De Munck filing his flight plans at International Airport in Zealand for the first flight in to the The Captain and his crew left on Oct. 3rd and excerpts from his letter read as left Christchurch late Monday night for the 7i93 Nautical mile trip to McMurdo with 28 Squadron maintenance fresh mail and 13,000 lbs. of We encountered icing to the extent that it broke our outside high frequency antenna and we had to resort to our extra which kept us in contact with the outside However the slapping of the 20 ft. broken antenna against the fuselage was an annoying noise for the remainder of the We landed on the ice strip Tuesday morning which was much rougher than A navy came out to bur aircraft and four banking HEADS OFFICERS OF DORMITORY AT M. S. Dave a senior from has been elected president of the men's dormitory at Morningside Mulder is a member of the varsity baseball and basketball teams and has been a member of the student He is a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon social Other officers elected include James Stock of Lake vice Ronald of and Charles Franz of City Journal In The This and Friday Oct. 20-i21 the Junior Class of Valley High will present class play in the Alton Auditorium at 8 p.m. A description of the comedy appeared in our last cat service we had last 'The quarters and camp area have also been improved in the past OUr sleeping quarters are in a steel quonset freshly painted inside and a new linoleum covered Small rooms have been off with two bunks to each Last 20 men slept in double beds in one The place is heated with two oil seen any Silent Sioux and an electric fan circulates the hot air from the The is plush with 4 regular lavatories in a row with hot and cold running Even the thrones have been protected from the icy blasts by an extra door on the The cooks are all volunteers who wanted to come down to McMurdo for the Before being took 3 months training at the Waldorf Astoria in New York They take a lot of pride in their work and really put out the good That they celebrated our arrival by having table cloths and a lighted candle on each taible Their menu consisted of fresh eggs cooked to scrambled as they had eaten scrambled powdered for ten fillet mignon with hors French real five different kinds of a big salad fresh cocoa and an ounce of hard Everyone had a wonderful full mail from home and maybe back in the States I saw is a Many Splendored as shown in the Officer's An old picture but a very good Our only cargo com in to Christchurch Wednesday evening was 42 lbs. of Our drops at the Pole and Byrd Stations will start the latter part of the Best regards to my Alton A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Buckley of Maurice at the Sacred Heart hospital in Oct. 4. He weighed 6 lb. and has been named Born to Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Roeder of Oct. 18th, a son at the Orange City Dr. and Mrs. C. P. Becker of Alton are parents of a born Oct. 19 at the Le Mars Mr. and Mrs. Jack Krogman are the parents of a 7 lb. 15 oz. baby boy born Tuesday morning at the Sacred Heart He has one older A daughter Was to Mr. and Mrs. of at the Sacred Heart Hospital The official Sioux County presidential election ballot for Nov. 8 appears on page 7 of this issue in condensed This ballot is considerably smaller than that of the last presidential with but four parties and one Independent whereas the ballot had five parties and two Independent iln addition to major Republican and the minor showing for only President and Vice are the Farmer Labor Party of Iowa and the Of interest in the minor party column is the naming of two women as Vice Presidential Farrell Dobbs heads the Farmer Labor party as presidential candidate and Myra Weiss is the candidate for vice Both are from New Eric Hass of New York heads the Socialist Labor party with Georgia of Wisconsin as the candidate for vice There is no opposition on any of the tickets against the Republican candidates for county but Supervisor Simon Scholten of Alton has a Democratic Peter Santema of and Supervisor Gerrit Brands has two Herman and For of is opposed in the party by Donald O'Brien of Sioux James Beck of Granville is Democratic candidate for State Representative the Elmer H. Den Herder of Sioux Voters will also receive two special state This is in accordance with a law passed in the state legislature in 1958 giving the people of each county an opportunity to vote on the proposition to the County Board of Supervisors to appropriate funds and to levy annual tax of not less than Vi mill or more than 1 for a Conservation to acquire and develop recreational etc. in the A board of five serving without would administer the fund created by a The other ballot is on the matter of holding a constitutional convention to revise and amend the state Some authorities favor having this others oppose it. the completed quarter million dollar will be dedicated at a special service during the 1860 at 2:00 p.m. During the activities last year the cornerstone was laid housing The Invocation the dedication wiU be by the Rev. Mr. Norwood man of the Executive Committee of the Board of Mr. William Architect from Sioux will pre- Greetings from the sent the and ty will be given by Mayor Chester Van The student greeting will be given by Duane Student Senate and Alfred president of the Northwestern College Alumni will speak for the ice A. Te chairman of the New Construction will present the Mr. J. iDe Dean of the will accept the dormitory on behalf of Henry President Emeritus of the Board of will officiate at the unveiling of the name The Rev. Gerrit President of the Board of will preside over the Responsive Dedication A prayer of dedication will be offered by the Rev. Mr. E. Van Engelenhoven of Northwestern Fete Visitors Here From Saint Paul Honoring the three Minten the Misses Clara and Juliana of St. Paul and Miss Marie Minten of Milwaukee the Minten relatives at Alton entertained at a potluck supper Sunday evening at St. Mary's Some eighty relatives and friends enjoyed meeting these charming on the happy The visitors arrived Sunday and were overnight guests in the home of Mr and Mrs. Sylvester They left by car Monday and were supper guests in the home of Mrs. Rose A. Offered For Mouw Estate Land Fine weather favored the public auction Monday of the Henrietta Mouw Estate a choice quarter section northwest of The highest by one of the was per acre for this well improved The decision on accepting the bid will toe left to the judge acting on the present tenant on the is Executor of the C. Vande Steeg of Orange City is National Bank clerked the Vellinga and Vander Tuig were the
