La Porte City Progress-Review (Newspaper) - May 16, 1940, La Porte City, Iowa AND COUNTY NEWSPAPER ACTIVE MEMBER Property Tax Cut Promised For Next Year Campaign guarters Declares Economies Make Possible Reduction reduction of in state taxes was promised for eit year bJ Governor George headquarters liis ireci as he chief began a vigorous campaign based on his n in office during the past and a half The tax i promise was to have been possible economies by the governor during his first Utie time the Wilson wjn shuck back at charges i h had not huil the its el the farmers at heart to real far-to-mark- nsis positive of mancy the widespread ftr use oC Iowa pork tax relief for agriculture ol districts and soil con- districts law as among t major Republican als for agriculture for which iv Wilson is hugely re- road program rat of a year in ij commission expense which Milling to the governor is now ng spunt on roads instead o liries An appropriation unlade for roac the first state pro W of its kind IB insisting that corporations their farm holdings after five Governor Wilson brought the sale of more than arta comparable in size a Iowa county to private more than 80 per cent i la resident tenant farmers agreements rates fci governor discovered lard substitutes being state institutions at in a two-to-one ratio he preference for Iowa pork which are sold at lely the same price He an a statewide campaign nor of the Iowa product k Wilson administration in- a law to reduce property agricultural districts per year state revenues soil conservation districts an optional measure has m the organizing dis- assistance from state and agencies in went conservation and measures foi their lands Baccalaureate Program SUNDAY MAY 19 1940 La Porte City Iowa High School Auditorium R Prepared u within 5 of association who arc and information to Who in published by the F Brunton and iams will handle the vicinity al ti m onc sc of this i active in Coined respective fields will Processional Holy Holy R Herber Rev W D Winter Sextette God of All Nature Tschaikowsky Sextette 0 God of Love 0 God of Baker Brass Quartet Andante Religiose Lautenschlaeger Address Rev G D Gaide Girls Glee Club Robin in the Rain Noble Cain Girls Glee Club Benediction Rev D Winter Processional Holy Holy R Herber Commencement Program THURSDAY MAY 23 1940 La Porte City Iowa High School Auditorium P.M 20 Control of State Bank Here Expected to Change Hands Processional Holy Holy Berber G D Gaide Girls Glee Club Hiking Girls Glee Club Wedding of the Painted Quartet Marche Charles Brass Quartet The Hans Address The Aristocracy of Character F W Lambertson Sextette Sextette De Rose Presentation of class Supt M H Taylor Presentation of Clyde M Jenks Junior Girls Glee Club Sibelius Junior Girls Glee Club Alma Mater Old Melody Special Awards Senior Class Song Senior Benediction w D Winter Local Team Superior in Ag Contest Local Team Wins Two Ratings in Com- petition With Hundred Teams Two superior ratings were won at Ames last week by the La Porte Lily high school livestock ing team which Merlin Kruse James Rampton and ell Shaner The ratings were won m the animal husbandry ment event in the state high school agriculture congress sponsored bv Iowa State college E E Pearson local agriculture instructor oil the team The event was divided into tions Section A was livestock management which consisted of livestock management problems u and included such phases as herd Davis fifth improvement practises feeding of hogs dairy cattle horses sheep poultry and beef cattle control and prevention of common ailments and parasites of hogs cattle and try housing of hogs dairy tle sheep horses poultry and cattle general care of farm mals and efficient use of horse labor Section B was livestock ing One market class and otic breeding class of dairy cattle hogs sheep horses and beef cattle were judged Merlin Kruse was third high scorer in the contest of 300 teams numbering 300 boys with a score of 1220 points The La Porte City team was awarded superior in both They Made Prize Posters J J Maloney to I Sell Interest Hanlontown and wood Men Agree to Buy Major Part of Will Move Here aux 1 ti i i M i ii i ay sixth grade Joan w Ashley Lou An Auxiliary Member Tells Another About Poppy Day I had U enN Of he K the management judging section phase and the LMI because you're so busy house Why I wouldn't miss one minute of Of course I know about it that you you're such a new some because member mil The hundred teams In the contest represented nn in- crease of 20 teams over the ber entered in last year's state contest Light Rates Near Average La Porte City Rates Compared with Others in Federal Survey pn Jacobs Scholarship Alumni Will Meet May 24 Annual Banquet to be Held at in School Auditorium The annual reunion of the La Porte City Alumni association will held in the school auditorium on Friday May 24 Dinner will be served at p m and will be followed by a program and ness meeting All who have been graduated from the school members of the faculty all former teachers and custodians are to attend A charge of 50 cents will be made for the dinner to meet expenses Those who arc planning to attend are requested to make reservations early in order that preparations may not be de- layed Tickets for the dinner may be secured of the following persons Marie Butschy Mrs Clifford Burr Mrs Frances Nies Weldon Belts Margaret Haven Carleton Fultz Lydia Pauline Young Local Hatchery Making Experiment The Evergreen hatchery is con- ducting an interesting experiment this week to disprove the theory that baby chicks must be kept fully sheltered indoors until they are at least a week old The y has set up a new electric brooder just outside the weather and late last week ed in it 280 chicks less than two days old The loss of chicks so far has been small and the cost of operation of the brooder very low The chicks run in and out at will and apparently didn't mind the cold weather the middle of this week in the least La Porte City's light rates are about the average of those for citius of this size in Iowa ing to a federal government survey of Iowa rates released last week The survey compares charges for and 250 kilowatt hours of electricity in each of the cities of the states In cities in the same class as La Porte City the lo rate for 25 kilowatt hours is n West Liberty where the charge and the high at Wiko with a rate of La Porte City's rate for this amount of cur cnt is somewhat above average you don't really how much good we do with the from the poppy Xmv listen Mary and I'll explain facts of the poppy You know of course I hat uv pay thosp disabled veterans one cent for each poppy they make ant1 the y furnishes the material free lo the poppies arc shipped in I have 800 to distribute this year Now four weeks be- foie Poppy day we stait and our local newspaper been just wonderful to us anil lias never charged us a cent fm ull that publicity he gives us in th liny nevertheless Well I must stop and get lunch ear from you and tha decided to help sell pop ind I'll be seeing Love Mrs Webster Rites Planned e Old Resident Dies Thurs day Was a Native of Pennsylvania publicity he gives in the will be held a You know we won a first prize in Saturday at th the suite contest on 0111 and i J I I ir Girl Scouts Organized Mrs Ernest Nies and Mrs A T Mattfeld are t For 100 hours lowest charge is a Leaders La Porte City's a ore iys Mrs Gail Ballheim Juanita Girl Scout troop which is being Mrs Allen Coburn Bob sponsored by the American Legion Lois Elsie Kuhn auxiliary held an investiture and Mrs Mary F Lizer and tea Friday Prizes will be awarded according at the Legion hall Guests to the schedule that was adopted were members of the Auxiliary Bellevue and the high a Seymour where a charge of is made La Porte City's charge is below average In the 250 kilowatt hour class the low is at where 55.45 is collected with Ogden anc Pocahontas high at La Porte City's rate of is about average All of the cities mentioned above have municipal Rates for the 25 100 and 250 kilowatt hours of current in er nearby cities Jesup and Vinton 54.00 and Traer and Cedar Falls and Center Point 38 and Dysart contest on publicity lust year Then there are the posters Von know the school children make them and receive prize's from us for the best ones and this week all posters will be placed in the store windows on Main street and you just In see the people stop to lonk at them But now let me tell wjn about our poppy full of poppie and i white cross and red whili ami foi Mrs Frank Webster 82 long-time resident of this commu early Thursday will be in the Mt Aubun cemetery Mrs Webster was born in county Pennsylvania tobei 1857 the daughter of and Marie At the litre ol she moved with her ents lo Polo III where she Webster 27 Mr and Mis Webster came immediately to Iowa and settled in Preliminary were completed this week for sale of the controlling interest in the La Porte City State bank to K E Ronglin of la and L C of North wood According to J J Maloney president of the hank who organized it three years jiffo next September the two men have api ced to purchase all of his stock in the institution and will probably take possession before June i Mr McGill is a brother of Mrs Harry Kline of this city and is well known here He was cashier of the Commercial bank in for several years Mr is cashier of the bank at Both men plan to move here with their families Mr Maloney said Tuesday he has decided that with the last of his children finishing school this the time has come when it is possible for him lo retire He and Mrs Maloney will ably spend the summer at Lake Okoboji While thu prospective new ers have not yet revealed details their plans for operation of the bank it is believed they will Lake over the duties of J J lonty nnd of A J ent cashier McNutt May Talk On the Orient The appearance of Paul V Nutt as guest of honor and cipal speaker at the banquet maxing the Young Democratic state convention at Waterloo Iowa May and 20 is being waited with considerable interest n informed circles as it is thought hat McNutt may devote a part of his speech to the Far-Eastern lalion McNult was appointed to the Philippines by resident Roosevelt and continued service in that post until he to accept his present post f federal security administrator During his tenure in the Islands ie was unusually active and by of that fact probably the informed man in public life oday on the Far-East situation amers fo a I lo U at the t explain how il U the evening of May 24 have to MT it ami at Prominent sneakers will nmr farmers Union a An opening meeting has been an- by Chris Blitsch of gham president of the Black awk county Farm Union to be eld at the courthouse in just have to with that blue at night nn it's Surviving arc two daughters speakers will farm legislation now pending in ri Neva of Vancouver congress with the present AAA arid Ray Anton of set-up arid will also discuss the City Of it he i Job i seer Mrs Ada 111 and a Also And listen Mary if you go to the theatre sec the film shown T our Pastime is our A wil poppy film week and lie his all free of i i ana sec you asked Anton of La no for ill ami tvoninir status of the Kog Processing Tax recovery movement The meeting will be open to the general n a l in i three Weed Notices Are Published The annual official notice by county officials demanding that weeds be cut before they go to seed is published this week in the three official newspapers of the county wu sunu ID I notice divides the weeds in- office in Des to help One of the most active be cut before i it June 15 July 1 and July IS t ft several years ago and are as the class having the of the members of the troop and their teachers Lillian sang two troop are Janice Joan Phyliss Davis troop 3 To the family having the Frien Neva Friedly tin ml illi toe T T A number of graduates l To the oldest alumnus CORRECTION A typographical error in new A typographical error in R majl advertisement on j two nf an page of this paper calls Illuminate a contest to be held March 24 a re a i tul re- and 25 The correct dates course are MAY 24 and 25 c re ren e Jean Jenks Merle DeNeut Mary Davis and Roberta Berryhill Mrs Ernest Nies is troop leader and Mrs A T Mattfeld is u No Mary we are laid ind we are all glad to be able o Ip the veteran and lis family And now hei i- is the lain thing What do we do with ic proceeds from the poppy A we send 25 per tent lo office in Des to help One of arry on the child welfare and dates in the field at the present woik and we keep Umc in the race for le remaining 75 per cent right in publican nomination for county re- ur own unit to help us in our is Pearl Roberts radio wn child welfare work Yes we tion WAIT bookkeeper Many certainly do enjoy our child welfare bers of the staff of the station inch i cities with the exception of and Center Point have municipal plants work Why just last Christmas we spent a lot of our poppy All these on assisting Miss Roberts with 15 respectively Scheduled for elimination before June smooth dock and sheep 1 arc leafy spurge sour dock Lions Members to Test Knowledge Members of the La Porte City Lions club will check their edge of current events in a teat prepared by Time magazine which is to be given to them after their regular luncheon Tuesday May 28 More than a hundred topics will be covered by the questions mas baskets to four families service men and gave toys w children who wouldn't have had any Christmas if we we bought clothing too We bought to to in Big Plane Most army planes land so hot I i- c aeronautical slang for i that when one of them has a forced landing the usual is to bail out by para- y para Porte City Boy Scouts will than ride it down ordon last week a big to foim and the public has been in our veterans hospitals such to attend the program which as cigarettes cookies cards will start at p m fames gifts pillows table ers bedding stamps and lota of other Bo aoes noc nave many And we adopted I dents from runaway teams any Runaway Team Iowa does not have many and Mrs A T Mattfeld is be covered oy ine ant leader Members of the Dr R B Fields presiding at committee arc Mrs H E week's meeting appointed Dr ns rom runaway teams any f Kn Mont Foss MM Ralph F Bailey and C A as don't mean I mcan our more But occasionally it does and Mrs W A delegates to the district Lions con- unit has adopted one We've happe e lTB B j e Foresight of can bear witness that a fox's cunning 12 the WTheS den near his that and A delegates to tne unit aas one we've happe I vention to be held at Cedar Rapids I had him two years and we buy all 72 am Mrs Friedly has presented the the first of next week A clothes and shoes and send team roop witha large American flag delegate is still to be chosen him birthday and 14 but had left well-stocked brder in- r m t ton
