Bulletin-Journal, The (Newspaper) - September 21, 1962, Independence, Iowa VOLUME 97 NUMBER 38 IOWA SEPT. 21, 1962 Open House at St. John's School Sunday Weepie Hurt In Accident James Weepie of ence escaped serious injury Wednesday afternoon when his car rolled over in the ditch a mile and a half south of Mr. Weepie injured his shoulder and wrist in the and is in good con- dition at the People's He may have a broken The accident red about 2 p. m. when he lost control of the car on a W. C. a farmer who lived was d riving by soon after the accident and took Mr. Weepie to the Two ponies were killed out- right when struck by separate cars in a at about 4 a. m. Thursday on highway 282 two and a half miles south of highway 20. Cars driven by Cecil and Steven headed in opposite struck the Damage to the 1953 Ford driven by Mr. Davidson was and the right front end of the Chabak a 1957 mouth station was The ponies were owned by Charles and were in- Cars driven by Clifford Reel of Cedar Rapids and Kenneth Hamer of Waterloo sideswiped on the west curve of a curve five miles north of Wednesday about p. m. for THE NEW the ST. JOHN'S HIGH SCHOOL will be seen at an open house Sunday Members of the parish will act as tour guides for the open and teachers will be stationed in their classrooms to answer The open will also include visits to the elementary church and New School Architect Is Hired to Design Building West Branch Film Shown Following a business ing conducted Tuesday evening by the James members of the Historical society viewed the movie film of their West Branch trip to the Herbert Hoover library dedication ceremonies in The film was shown by Guy Stoddard of A report was also given by William Klotzbach and picture she took were The meeting was held in the Court house assembly room on Tuesday Sept. 18. Several articles given by Jesup residents are to be added to the historical display room The room in the court house third floor south will be open Sept. 21 from 2 to 4 p. m. and will be in charge of Mrs. Richard ham and Catherine The first step toward the eventual construction of a new elementary public school building at a east of the river in In- dependence was taken Monday evening by the school board which met at the Jefferson school The board a- greed to hire the Charles Altfillisch Associates archi- firm of Decorah to design a new elementary ding and to help in the tion of a The school board has eral sites on the east side of the river in The arch- is expected to give his recommendations on the best site available for the tion of a new grade school Selection of the architect culminated about eight months of work by the school board which last ter and spring had interviewed five other architectural firm This mer they visited a number of new schools designed by the various At the meeting Monday Lester Hoffman was re- elected as president of the school board and Carl pel was re-elected as vice The board appointed Percy Sorg as treasurer of the In- dependence independent school Mr. Sorg will serve for a two-year term beginning July 1, 1963. Mr. Sorg has been rer of the district for a ber of years and his name was inadvertently omitted from the ballot in the lar school election on Sept. 10 when Mr. Kruempel was re-elected to a three-year At the meeting the board members discussed but took no action on two problems which confront the The board is considering the disposition of the 95-year- old Lincoln school building which is not now being used by the local public school The board this year is renting the Lincoln school to the county board of education which has three special education classes in the Because of the age of the school building the board does not intend to use the old school in com- ing The district will continue to use the Lincoln elementary annex which was erected several years after World War The board also discussed but reached no decision on a school administration By a vote of 196 to 158, voters in the district on Sept. 10 rejected a posal that the school dis- buy the office ing owned by Mrs. ret Shellito on Third avenue lin Work On Buildings Excavation work began this week on two new one-story office buildings which will be owned or leased by Democratic Bean Rally Set for Sunday Between 1.500 and persons from various parts of northeast Iowa are ex- at the fairgrounds in Sunday after- to exceed This ding would have been used for the offices of all ing Moving of the superintendent's office from the Jefferson school to the administration building would have freed an area for a classroom at Jefferson and space for an elementary brary at the West tary The board approved a con- tract for Don for- merly of who has succeeded Joe Duea of kerton who resigned shortly after the start of the present school year because of ill Mr. McClain will succeed Mr. Duea as a ior high mathematics Mr. McClain is a of the State College of Iowa at Cedar Falls and he taught one year at Last year was a student at where he worked on his master of arts degree in Mr. was hired at a salary of base The board also approved increases in salaries of three teachers who during the past summer completed college courses and who have ad- in the salary CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 STUDENT COUNCIL MEMBERS were elected by at the high school last The new council ia pictured Front left to Becky Swan Ruth Kathy Unda Henderson Back rowi Doyle Jim Bud Warner Tom The council includes five from each of the other three representative waa elected from each home property across from the Uni- ted Presbyterian church and west of Super One of the which will front on East will house the offices of Drs. N. L. Hersey and J. F. This building will be 56 by 26 feet and will be built of The other office fronting on Third avenue will have three of- two of them 22 by 40 feet and one 22 by 54 Two of the offices will be occupied by Dr. Richard Kimball and the real estate and insurance firm of Titsworth and Inc. The buildings are being erected by the Hoffman thers Construction Co. and will be owned by the United Improvement Co. whose ers are local businessmen Each of the office ings is being built on the former I. J. Kemmerer Each building will have a full Work is expected to be completed on the structure around the middle of Dr. Kimball and Titsworth and Risk now have offices on East Main street and Dr. Hersey and Dr. Loeck have offices in the Shellito Near Gef Vaccine About persons had received S abin oral polio vaccine type 1 in Buchanan county when the Journal went to press Several communities remain on the schedule for vaccine Type 1 vaccine is mended for all ages and is being distributed a t the schools in each community and from a mobile home ed oft the main street of each community on appointed Price of the vaccine is 25 cents a Later type 111 for under 18 years of will be and early in 1963 type 11 cine will be given for all Following is the schedule for the vaccine distribution revisions in the ule as announced Sept. 21 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Sept. 24 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Sept. 25 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Sept. 26-Win- 9 a. m. to noon for a Democratic Featured speakers and guests at the political rally and be an will be former Gov. Herschel Harold candidate for E. candidate for U.S. Frank candid ate for Congress from the Second district and R. P. Buchanan county state representative John Griser and F aches of Cedar Rapids who are in charge of the rally for the Second district said they ex- the Independence ly to be the largest of the seven district Main speaker at the rally will be Mr. Loveless who is now serving in D. C. as a member of the Federal Re He has been touring the state during the and will leave dence late Sunday afternoon for Alaska where he will campaign for Democratic for office Hosts for the bean feed will be members of the chanan county Democratic central committee with Tim The luncheon will be served at and the program is scheduled to close around The luncheon menu will in- clude baked be potato chips and a A donation of il will be asked for adults with dren with their parents ad- mitted Advance sales in the district have been un- usually according to Mr. Griser who is campaign manager for Mr. Hughes in the Second Mr. ches heads the district com- in charge of the rally here on Goal of the ing to Mr. is to capture the spirit and phere of the 19th century when torchlight parades and neighborhood rallies were The first of the district rallies and bean feeds was held in Davenport on Sept. 12 and the local rally for the entire Second district will conclude the series for the Prior to the rally all candidates will be hosts at a press conference for area radio and television The conference will be held at the Hotel here starting at 1 p. m. Guided Tours Of Facilities Are Planned The new St. John's high school and other Catholic school and church facilities will be seen Sept. 23 at an open Guided tours of the various buildings are The public is invited to at- tend the open being held primarily to show the new St. John's high school to Open house will be from 2 to 5 with con- tours during those Persons attending the open house may park their cars in the St. s school ground and begin the tour at the convent west of the old school Tour groups of 10 persons or less will leave continuously and will view the elementary new high church and At the end of the tour they will have coffee in the church About 85 to 90 couples will act as tour guides for the open house and teachers in the schools will be stationed in their classrooms to greet and answer Of most interest to the at the open house will likely be the St. Second Half Taxes Second half taxes will be- come delinquent Oct. 1, cording to Buchanan county Treasurer Mrs. Evelyn HAROLD E. HUGHES cludes 11 plus science and sic a library and of- The split-level building is of functional with em- phasis on utilization of There is no waste space in the according to Msgr. Charles school The building features steel frame and masonry structural It has Pella window wall some thing new for commercial There are also terrazzo vinyl tile in the classrooms and acoustical tile ceilings in the office and The steel deck on the ing provides not only tural roof support but also serves as a finished It is acoustical and because it eliminates need for ad- ceiling materials helps to reduce cost of the The original Notre Dame which became St. John's burned down in 1923 and the Campbell house was purchased and used as both school and convent un- til 1926. The house is the present in 1926, the building now called the St. John's was with facilities ate foi 275 There were 192 dents enrolled that In 1954 an addition was added to the school increasing the potential en- After completion of ihe new high this all from seventh grade through high school were moved into the new The old building and are now being used for elementary anci the new building is for junior and senior high school At St. John's this there are 227 students attending in the new and 294 students enrolled in the grade St. John's church was built in 1911 and the rectory was built in 1941. The parish now has 700 Faculty members at the new St. John s high school Msgr. Charles Catholic the Rev. thew B. Lor athletic the Rev. D. J. B. Lor as religion and the Paul CONTINUED ON 2
