Buffalo Center Tribune (Newspaper) - September 17, 1953, Buffalo Center, Iowa jl j I BUFFALO IOWA 1953 NUMBER 19 School Plan Passes First Test Council Cheeks Possibility Of Building Light Plant Ity of The first steps of the light plant taken last Friday i hm the and members of I C ty Council visited two nearby communities to learn about such an e town of Burt was their first other Here the town buys oe at the edge of town Central and the city I vices all the residents and business places of that commun Their rates are on par with communities that size and show a small profit at the lend of each 1 The next stop was at the city plant at This was erected in 1939 and leach year the plant has shown an Besides servicing the of Bancroft they have 65 of rural lines they also This plant was erected under what is called the Simmer Law whereby the cost of the installa tions are paid from the plants The plant and the clerk was very courteous in showing the council through the plant and answering questions The council plan to visit sev other plants in communities the size of Buffalo within the next two or The citys franchise with the Interstate Power Company ex in and if a plant here Lions Tope 128 Cars With In their safety marking drive last Saturday the Lion Club members the bumpers of the cars for 128 local Many more wanted the bright red reflector tape applied but the supply on hand was ex A new order has gone in and as soon as it arrives the campaign will be resumed on the Saturday evening that Once the car owners have been the Lions plan to bicycles for local boys and This service will be The charge for taping cars is per anc those wishing this done list their names with the Costi gan Motor Hospital Notes the wish of our people for action is the Fire At Carl Jensen Home Shortly the fire last department Rike and son dis a call from the Jensen but prompt action Jensen and the almost immediate response of the fire men prevented any appreciable Jensen who was doing had set a pan of on the stove to use in the Instead of melt the contents had burst into Jensen it the stove and turned it upside vn m the sink trying to the A curtain just the sink was ignited and with the scorching of the varnish each of the attached cup was the only 9th Ole Johnson of Lake Mills admitted and dismissed 10 Kathy Elwood of Thompson Gary Anderson of Lakota dis and Lee Griffin are parents of a 8 pounds and 13 Virgil Bosma admitted and dismissed Karen Friets of Bancroft ad mitted and dismissed Alice of Lakota 12th Elmer Hagenson of Thompson Francis Grimes admitted and dismissed 13th Ole Johnson of Scarville admitted for surgery Phillip Karfe of Min admitted and dismissed on 14th and Robert Edwards are parents of a Paul 15th Lee Griffin and Steven Lee Fred Ploeger of Ledyard Carl Christensen admitted for Firemen to Sell Extinguishers Fire Chief Lyle Eldredge tells us that the Buffalo Center Fire Department will promote a fire prevention campaign starting 18 with the idea of being better prepared for stop ping more fires when first start Members of the fire depart ment will call at all homes and business houses in town and nearby rural locales to conduct a fire extinguisher sales These carbon dioxide type ex are on display at the following business houses where anyone interested may stop for a demonstration and to leave their Costigan The Fire in pro these call attention to the fact that many serious fires causing great loss of prop erty and even loss of could be prevented if checked in time with a hand extinguisher were such at hand when the blaze These extinguishers are avail able in a number of The most popular is a twin tube mown as the Fire which cannot be told from a beautiful set of door chimes and therefore can be hung in any room of the louse where it will serve as an attraction and not detract from he homes Prompt use of carbon dioxide Eldredge explains will in if not most prevent serious losses and stop The fire department will take care of refilling of these units and their proper maintain Two models are refilled free of charge and other units are replenished at a small We have a most effective fire department and our community has been spared the disaster of any major fires Lets all assist these men by taking prop er precautions to lessen the risk of such The Messengers fo Sing at First Reformed Church Sunday THE MESSENGERS will be in the local Reformed Church this coming Sunday evening at presenting a service of sacred The Quartet has sung many times over Waterloo radio stations and has given sacred concerts in many churchs of various For the past several years they have ap at the Cedar Falls Interdenominational singing before appreciative audiences of over three thousand Their coming here is sponsored by the Reformed Church The public is cordially HOME FROM HOSPITAL Bert Gruis returned to his home last Saturday from the Park hospital at Mason City where he had been the past 12 days having undergone major ORGANIZATION TEA The Lincoln Farm Bureau Wo men of Kossuth county will hold their Organization Tea at the home of Etta Edwards on September at two Please try to ORGANIZATION TEA The Buffalo Township Farir Bureau women will have thei annual Organization Tea at the August Jutting home on Friday September 18th at p Al women of the township are in to and Richard Winte and son moved last Saturday t Mason City where they wi make their home Winte will be employed as salesman fo the Red Dot Potato Chip Board of Educations Revised Map of School District Fredericks Arrives Home Japan and Korea has finish hitch with that well and on 2nd received his Papers at Camp He arrived here h and since then has je home of his Ted Fredericks and where he expects to a course when opens on the injured in a Parachute jump over ihv when lb ella collapsed some 200 ie air and he fell into so that is Prior loth fear m i served October from live of that wounds active service Miv in June until late in is year again saw in Re stationed in acted as sports he has where ami as spoils kiv for the paper The is Japanese wear the the Korean Served With Paratroopers Injured When Chute Failed to Open service campaign Gene Fredericks medal with two bronze the United Na Service the Combat Stry Badge and the National Defense but despite these says his greatest came when he arrived back home in Slight Change Is Made In Next Hearing Set for 7 The proposed Buffalo Center School District met first test of upon the earing of objections at the Court House in Forest City on the vening of before the county boards of of Winnebago and Cossuth Counties acting as a ingle The meeting was well attended there were those inter sted in the proposed district and here were many objections filed and those objectors were present o be heard upon their t was the first such school hear ng in Winnebago County and aroused further in Other counties have had many such hearings and it is ex that Winnebago County vill be entirely organized into new district within the near fut This means that there will be several such hearings in the At the opening of the meeting and the reading of objections it was apparent that there was con resentment against Center as being over Buffalo ambitious and as seeking terri ory to which it was not the advocates of the hew Buffalo Center District promptly advised the joint boards that the petition was drawn and designed to take in the present district together with the additional territory that has long been served by the school within the existing transporta tion area and those other persons who had asked to be included that Buffalo Center could well get along with less territory than that shown upon the but that the purpose was to in clude all lands properly includ able leaving the boards to decide as to what lands should be delet ed or It was pointed out that no line could be drawn that would suit everybody and that there would be objections both ways and regardless of where the line might be It was made clear that Buffalo Center did not seek to infringe upon neighbors but that they did not want to exclude people who preferred to continue at joint boards to allocate a substan tial part of south Lincoln to Buf falo Center and this in turn might prevent Rake from form ing a new under the law and to allocate this same area to with no petition on would be a flat denial of the wishes of many people affected A somewhat similar situation was presented in south Grant where some people ex pressed a desire to be included with Buffalo Center and some asked to go to Crystal Lake and some asked to go to Some of these people expressed wish to go to Woden if a school district is set up and or at Woden and to go to Buffalo Center in the event that Woden is unable to form a dis Since Woden has not or and since there was the question of whether or not can meet the requirements of the law and organize a district it was most difficult for the people to decide and certainly for the joint boards to de cide where to draw a proper The boards were in session un til after midnight in an effort to establish lines that would best meet the wishes of the people and the requirements of the They finally established lines setting up the proposed Buffalo Center District along lines sug gested including parts of Lincoln Township and Grant but in view of the changes the meeting was adjourned until October for further con sideration of the Since the meeting Hancock county has adopted and publish ed a county plan which places Crystal Lake and Hay field within one area for possible organization including that part of Grant Township excluded from the Buffalo Center It remains to be whether Woden organizes a dis of its own or joins with Cry stal Lake and Hayfield and this in turn may affect the wishes of the people in south Grant Town Buffalo Center was the first P black lines above mark the area asked by Buffalo Center for their new school This lan was presented to the joint Boards of Education of Winnebago and Kossuth county After a careful study the boards cut the area down as is shown by the lines marked tendance at the Buffalo Center There is little gain in forcing people into school dis if they have a proper and legitimate reason for going else As was expected ame from the outside or fringe between the existing dis and those bordering upon here was very little controversy the line between the pro posed Buffalo Center district and he Lakota district because this ivas quite well stabilized and es between Buffalo Cen er and Lakota at the time of he formation of the new Lakota district and this was done simply y asking the people which way hey wanted to Neither side undertook to force any one else and the line was drawn in a very On the line between Buffalo Center and Thompson there were some some asking to come in and others to go but his line complied rather closely to the tentative county plan and modifications were only slight madei The greater number of objec tions concerned the line between the proposed new Buffalo Center district and a planned Rake dis although Rake has not yet filed petition calling for hearing and It is understood that Rake does plan to start these proceedings and that they hope to have the required 300 pupils within their in order to do this and have the re quired pupils Rake will require inclusion at the greater part if not all of Lincoln And it became apparent at this meet ing that for many years the Buf falo Center school has served a substantial part of south Lincoln Township and that those people ask to be included in the Buffalo Center district while others pre fer to be included within the Rake district if it can be This situation presented a cult problem for the joint To follow the expressed wishes of the people would require the consolidated school in the state of Iowa and has always maintained one of the best schools in this section of the It has serv ed a wide area because people have wanted their children to attend this school and have ex pressed a desire to For these reasons the area set forth to the boards looked large and seemed to impress our neighbors that Center was trying to be selfish at expense of these neighbors which is not the case at If any of these folks de sire and have a good reason to be included in some other dis they and pre sent their claims to the boards and by the same token those folks who want to continue with the Buffalo Center school should appear and express themselves so that the boards may draw the lines as closely as possible to the expressed wishes of the Buffalo Center will abide by the wishes of the people and the de of the They do not want to force anyone into the new district and neither do they want their friends and patrons Rally Day at Congo Church The Sunday School of the Con church will hold its annual Rally Day on A program will be giv during the by the children of the Downstairs in the church auditorium All who are enrolled in the are especially urged to be present next Promotion Sun day will follow on For the a Winner Ware Set in the attrac tive Beautiful patterns and moder ately
