Kossuth County Advance (Newspaper) - June 26, 1967, Algona, Iowa I ova Iowa Society Residential building In Algona how This is the new three bedroom home of Wesley Warner at 1702 East It is the newest addition to the housing development in the eastern section of Ray Johnson is beginning this new home at River view 211 The home is being built for Henry of rural This three bedroom home at Bell Court is being i built for the George rural by the Tietz Con struction Leon Martin is constructing this new home at 1127 East It has four with a distinctive colonial 17 new homes now A A 1 under construction Act of J IOWA 8 PAGES IN 1 SECTION of An unprecedented home building boom is in progress in Algona with 17 homes now under construction within the city limits and another un derway in the Robinson addi tion north of the Algona Country Total cost of the 18 new will about it it All of Hie homos havo boon start od within tho past four months and several ara al ready nearing First building permit for the new Riverview Heights addition in land recently an by the city in the south west part of town was filed last week by Don The final home in the re cently opened Bell Court ad dition north of the fair ground is now nearing com It is owned by Siher idan Much of the new construction centers in the east part of Algona although several homes are now being built FIRST HOME in the Robin sin land area north of the Al gona Country Club began last week and will be built for Craig Although two homes were built several years ago in lots north of the there have been no homes constructed in the area bordering on the Many of the lots have been sold in that area but there are still some for sale according to owner Bud In addition to home build other building projects here this spring include the new First Lutheran church at the east edge of Algona a new warehouse addition for Electronics Specialties by Eugene Faulstich a new main street from on the Clements building housing the J B Music Store and re modeling of the Hoenk build ing for law offices space on North Hall Rudy 407 Leon 1127 John 307 Warn 1702 Rowley 719 Dwight 1226 Sheridan Bell Leon 1115 Mc 720 Minn Ed 1408 Jerry 128 Don Bell and Rowley 1420 67 49 JUNE New manager at Big Bear Jim is the new manager of the Big Bear store in it was announced this He has been manager at Glencoe for the past several He is recently married and the couple will live in the Honsbruch Present manager Ed Craw who came here in 1958 as manager of the former Thompson store which was purchased by Big will begin his duties as pur chasing agent in the Big Bear home offices at this charge for Fort Dodge man Robert of was bound over to dis court on bond Sat morning on an charge in Justice Delia Wel ters He was picked up city policeman Jim Voigt near the south edge of Algo na along highway 169 Friday A LIST OF the residential building permits issued since March 1 include the follow ing with estimated cost Don Riverview Jim 1619 McGreg Henry 211 Bennie 10111017 DIVORCE IS GRANTED Richard Swea was granted a divorce from Beulah Snyder day after a trial before Judge The decree was on a filed in answer to a petition by who in a stipulation agreed to have the divorce granted on the to School beard meets at new high school site At the special meeting of the Board of Education Mon day the Board of Education of the Algona Community School District met at the new high school site with the architect and members of the local teach ing staff to discuss the loca of the proposed new high school They included a review of the various physical and recreational areas to be located on the 38 acre site which already in cludes and practice The Board also reviewed proposals for housing the five extra elementary class rooms that are needed for the school year The teaching contracts for 196768 approved fotr the following teachers Elizabeth Grade 2 Patricia Walt Grade 1 and Rhonda Al Grade Teaching va remaining to fill for 196768 are Kindergarten high school age special The Board approved the renewal of lease for another three year term for the Tsch etter Building for use for vo shop classes at the same lease rate as for the past term which is per Business Vaughn reported vacancies in the following noncertified to be filled within the next few weeks custod ian 2 positions bus driver 3 routes were tentatively out lined for school year including one extra route over the present 12 routes operated in the past The superintendent review ed some major budget items for 196768 involving the pur Swim pool life guards Fun at Girl Scout camp West Bend major leads Viet attack West Bend Major Earl Krug of West Bend was the leader of a fight of bombers which recently badly ed a North Vietnamese rail complex last The attack set off one sec explosion that sent smoke and flames feet into the a graduate of West Bend is the son of and Louis He is married to the form er Hansel man of Wesit Krug and the cou pies daughter live in The senior Krugs have three other sons in military They are stationed the Navy at an Army captain at and stationed with the Air Force at Grand finishes tour of Viet Nam duty going to cook at Girl Scout Day youve got to have some dry sticks for the Busy gathering those sticks at Call park in Algona from left to right Barba ra Andrea Connie Susan Harmon and Loren adult C Exclusive Advance Photo by Mike PICTURED ABOVE are the lifeguards who are serving at the Algona Municipal Swimming Pool this From left they are John Jim Mary Ann and Pick Bartlett is the head and Bea nie Cooper is the manager again this Exclusive Advance Photo by Mike chase of additional classroom audiovisual equip office build ing and equipment The Board tentatively set the date of July 17 for consideration of the 196768 school budget which is cur rently being 38 enroll in head start in Algona school Thirtyeight preschool chil dren are attending Head Start for the first time this week in Two classes are being conducted at Bry ant These four and five year olds will be attend ing kindergarten this coming Twothirds of the chil dren are from and the other third come from and the LuVerne 60 of the total cost of the project is from federal the other 20 is contributed by the local Part of the local share is the do nation by the Algona Public Schools of the local school fa The remainder of the local contribution is help in the class and on field The federal cost of the pro gram is The local is The medical and dental services will be Kay Shever is the head teacher for the summer pro Anyone interested in volunteering for work is ask ed to call Miss Week ly field trips for the children are Two Nil week The Advance will print two papers as usual next week in keeping with its policy of pro viding a per for its The Mon day paper will be printed and distributed at its normal PEACH advertisers are reminded that the copy dead line for next weeks Peach is Saturday noon rather than Monday A SIP OF clear water sure is refreshing after a morning of nature study at the Girl Scout Day Camp at Call state With the aid Diane enjoys some of that good water in the above She is the daughter of the Robert Exclusive Advance Photo by Mike Maude McKenna dies suddenly A wellknown Livermore Tom died edly Thursday morning at Ed where she had been visiting a Mc She apparently suffer ed a heart Also surviving are six other Helen Peter Delores Uh Lee Shir ley and Mari lyn Fort Dodge 21 grandchildren five great grandchildren a Lawrence Edmond and a Letha Den the former Maude was born and reared at In 1917 she married Tom McKenna at Livermore near where the couple They later moved into McKenna died last Another meeting on the proposed new golf course at Whittemore will be held to night Monday at the Whitte more Legion Hall beginning at 3 Those interested from area towns including Ot West Bode and several other nearby towns have been Signing of new members has been going along at a brisk pace in the past several Perhaps one of the first local servicemen to return the Viet Nam area is Alan who spent nearly a year serving as a Staff Sergeant at an Army hospital in Long Sergeant Lage is the son of Blanche Lage of rural He was married while in Germany in and he and his have two and He entered the service in March 1959 and went to Germany in the latter part of that remaining there until After serving here in the states for three he left for Viet Nam June 1966 via a troop transport ship from Californ Following his landing in Camron he began his duties as a staff sergeant in charge of maintenance at the Long Binh 24th Evacuation Hospital which Ls located 12 miles northeast of The 400 bed hospital serv es the men of the 9th Divi the Infantry Bri Vietnamese and captured Viet It Ls staffed by 215 enlisted 52 nurses and 6070 Battle which mostly consist of men injured by shrapnel and small arms are flown directly from the battlefield to the hospital by ambulance A number of buildings make up the hospital com with air conditioning units for the emergency and operating There are many such hospitals in South Viet Lage supervised the maintenance of the hospitals including the air all and its 400 kilowatt gener He said that even though they hired many Vietnamese laborers they were always short of Tho laborers who filled sandbags were paid 80 piasters per while those who helped clean the hospital earned about a He described Vietnamese workers as a little Upon his arrival at Long Binh Lage slept in a with the jungle only 100 yards from the an area 4 times as large as Algona has been and it is considered a secure While he was he really didnt see any front line action but he said the fighting got a bit close at For during his tour of the Viet once mortared Ben Hoi four miles away and blew up a nearby ammu dump three The only person he met in Viet Nam who came from near Algona was a soldier from Okoboji named His feelings concerning Vietnamese food were some what The seafood available in the restaurants and shrimp was but of the mese he You wouldnt eat When risked about the con napalm he replied that Inhad never seen one while in Viet Alan Lage and his fam ily will soon be moving from Algona to Fort where he will serveas main tenance Staff Sergeant for the Engineer WINS NUMERAL Dale was one of 39 Drake Univer sity freshman awarded num in athletics last Dale was given a freshman numeral for PICTURED ABOVE are Staff Sergeant Alan who recently returned from Viet and his
