Marion Sentinel (Newspaper) - March 29, 1945, Marion, Iowa NOT JUST WAR BONDS BUY MORE BONDS The Walker News Consolidated with The Sentinel May VOLUME 65 IOWA MARCH 1945 NUMBER 35 CITY MILD Teachers Are To Be Scarce Board Has Its Worries John Mullin was reelected mayor of the city of Marion MenJ day by a majority of 330 running six votes ahead of hia tick His majority due in to the fact that he had no oppo and that number was the total of votes Had there been a contesting ticket it is likely his majority would been far for a contest would have brought out the A3 it was each of the four poling places were about the spots in and the five judges and clerks at each spot would have been glad to have done five times as much The feature of the election was the large vote for Howard Titus for city When so to go on the ticket before he said he didnt want the and says so but someone passed out the word that he was a and he receiv ed 119 votes for the This will make him the next city asses sor if he will The vote of the four ward coun was 91 101 56 For and Lewis Alcorn received 324 votes for park commissioner had 323 and Frank Simon for city er had 325 Schools like those in Marion are going to have rocky days the com ing to get and keep a teach ing This district is so lim in its financial resources that it cannot pay top salaries for all the teachers it Each year the larger schools reach into the Marion faculty and grab off some of the best To replace these Mar ion has depended on hiring the leaders among the graduates of the state schools and young people of but lack ing in teaching They have come here for for Marion has an established reputa tion for developing good This there is no teaching material left in any of the What Marion will do for teachers has local school authorities badly The contracts have gone out to the present Already it is known that five will not be These contracts are supposed to be back with the board by April INDIANS LOOK GOOD TRACK VIE STATE FORENSIC MEET i Lions Heard Fine Address Tuesday At Dinner Meeting At the regular Tuesday evening dinner meeting of the Marion Lions the civic organization heard one of its finest programs of the year when the Ja pastor of the First Congre church of Cedar spoke to the His subject was Implications of Religion in The speaker not only entertain ed his but brought a address of the highest An able young the Jacobs pointed out the decadence of civilization in certain and the possibility of such a tragedy in our own He emphasized the need of a re turn to sanity in our thinking and a harmonious linking of our scientific abilities with our moral and social The appearing as a Holy week left the thought with his audience that the war has emphasized the great need of a return to the tal principles of church and and to a great er loyalty to these basic needs of any people if they are to February Liquor Sales Up Slightly Sales of liquor in the Marion stateowned liquor store were slightly greater in February than in according to a report of the Iowa Liquor Control com just February sales totalled while Januarys total amounted to The state owned system in 176 stores had a total of for George Friends here have learned of the death of George for mer resident of on March He waa employed in the Mil waukee division offices as a He died at the home of his grand Charlotte Beckman Walter Will Walter a farmer miles northwest of died Wednesday morning at a Ce dar Rapids following a illness of He is survived by his his son Lloyd now at Camp Hood in and a brother Hubert at This weekend representatives of the Marion high school will vie with other school representatives from this part of the state in their forensic The at Iowa is one of the four state final Helen Frazier has won the right to represent Marion in the orator ical and a quartet of debaters from here will try their argumentative abilities against those from other class B schools as to whether or not the voting age in Iowa should be lowered to 18 Frances Ford and Ny Bebee will handle the affirm while Barbara Seger and Louise Smith will try to settle the voting age at its present level once and for Miss Margaret of the high school will ac company Establish Garden Headquarters Here Warren Victory garden chairman for the city of announced this week that head quarters had been established in the Marion city hall for his com Purpose is to aid garden ers in any and every way possible to produce finer gardens this Available gardening covering every phase of produc tion of fruit and will be obtainable at the Seed catalogs also will be on according to The head quarters will be open from eleven until two each Hoff pointed out that war gardeners are entitled to extra gasoline rations if they have no further than 15 miles to work gardens and if those gardens are at least 1500 square are at least square Holy Week Services For School Students There lg holy week observance at the Marion school each morning from to with local ministers taking turns at bringing the The of the Free Methodist church spoke on Monday thd De Jong Presbyterian Tuesday the Charles Baptist and the Vernon Christian pastor The students from Catholic fam ilies were excused to attend serv ices at Josephs Catholic Marion high scool had its first tryout of this years track material Monday com with the athletes from two of the big Cedar Rapids Franklin and By agreement no score waa but the meet was very good exper and and Marions did not do so badly against the Cedar Rapids Marion lost most of last years either from the war or grad and while the team Has only begun to round into it is the locals will be able to give a good account of them selves in the spring relay meet here April took first in the 60yd hurdles in and did nine feet in pole Failor was first in the broad with a leap of 19 feet 3 and onefourth inches and was third in the high Franklin took the dis cus and high Eastman came from behind in a great final spurt and took the relay race in concluding good work of and Stamy and Hastings came out in front in the mile medley in 4 minutes sec Haak and McCalley did a 432yd low hurdle relay in which considering the wind and the heavy was very good Franklin won the mile and two and McKinley won the fresh soph Coach Everett Scherich says he hag a good bunch of youngsters training expects be fore the season is over to have a good track He needs help to handle the group properly and could use the aid of a good who knows weights and which would give him more time for One or two of his best prospects have not yet come out for He is pretty sure if he had their ability and experience to fill in one or two weak Marion would have another cracking Tuesday afternoon at Mar ion will take on Roosevelt and Wil son in a meet after The event will be Junior Class Play Was Well Received Friday Ever Since the play presented by the junior class of Marion high school last Thurs day and Friday was well received by two near capacity houses at the Lincoln The piece was under the capable direction of Miss Margaret A riotous comedy in three the vehicle made a decided hit with the oldsters as well as school A Shocking Time At Central City Lightning bolted into the home of Bishop of Central during the rain storm early Sun day blew the smashing a tearing big hole through the ran through the light and des the and started a fire on the who ia the town fire ran to the fire ed the out the fire and put out his own fire before any of the other volunteers The damage to the building and contents was Luck ily all the members of the family were away from home at the or someone might been shockingly That bolt was not W Killed in Action On German Front GOOD FRIDAY UNION SERVICE i Galen son of and Clifford 1496 Fifth who was killed in action on the German front March is pictured Death of Private Cayler was re ported last week in a message from the war ANNUAL EASTER SUNDAY EVENT The annual observance of East er by the members of Patmos Knights with Apollo of Cedar as guests of will occur at the Marion Presbyterian church Sun day at three The message of the afternoon will be brought by the superintendent of Lukes and several Mar ion the Reverends De and will assist in the Special music for the occasion will be a soprano sung by De and a violin Easter by Mary Chalmers with Irvin Ford as The service will memorialize the passing of four of its members during the Sir Knight Perley Sir Knight Benjamin Sir Knight Wil liam and Sir Knight Gordon Good Friday services in the Con church Friday after noon will climax Holy week serv ices of the Marion Ministerial as and a large attendance is urged for the The union services will be held from twelve until three The worship theme of the service will be the Seven Last with ministers of the Free Prairie Congregational and First Methodist churches each hav ing a portion of the worship with music furnished by the var ious All business houses of the city will be closed during the Good Fri day thereby giving em ployees and patrons alike an op of There will be yet another union service this week the Easter morning sunrise service for young people of the entire community in the Methodist church at 7 The largely in charge of the young will have as its principal Ed win of the Cedar All young people of the community are invited to Easter Sunday services will of be held in the individual The Pauls Lutheran church wiU hold Good Friday services at with the of Iowa to give the He is a brother of the Carl pastor of the Marion Easter Sunday Sunday worship services will be held in the church at and with Sunday school at Making Plans For Fire Prevention Program In City Plans are going forward for sev eral programs in observance of Fire Prevention week in with outstanding speakers to ap pear before various groups A canvass of the city is to be made during the week to find fire haz ards which can be The headline attraction of the week will be the visit of Emmett of field officer for the fire prevention department of the Western Actuarial Bureau of an eminent authority on fire prevention as well as other is a renowned He will appear before the Marion Lions club Tuesday May and on day at he will address a meeting at the Le gion All ladies clubs and in civic as well as the general are in to attend this Wednesday afternoon at meeting of the school children of the city wiU an address on fire And during the all school students are to majce individual surveys of their respective homos in the interest of finding the possible Spec ial questionnaires are to be hand ed to each student for this pur Induction Calls Take 15 More Men From Rural Area Fifteen men answered two more induction calls by Linn county se service board 3 during the past Mostly from rural Linn county the men reported for entrainment March 25 and The first group was made up of the following Myron Fairfax Bernard Los Elmer Cedar Rapids Robert Coggon Maxwell IX Cedar Rapids Donald Ackworth Clifford Vernon Central City Robert Center and Ed ward The group sent out at Wednesday included Adolph John Swisher Ersel Cedar Rapids Harold Amana John Herman Hopkinton and Boyd Beryl Ival Bowen Of Central City Killed in Battle The war has claimed another Central City boy as its price for the preservation of American Ival Bowen kill ed on March while fighting for a coveted hilltop position in the battle for the a bullet getting him through The came to his and Clark Bowen in a letter from their Ivan twin brother of the dead who was fighting with him when the end The broth ers had entered the service to in trained to gether in Louisiana and went overseas together in May They were sent to New were transferred to the Admiralty and were among the first American soldiers on the They belonged to a ma When Ivan waa buried in a military cemetery in Manilla it was their first real sep Jap the i t t t f I 9 I I i I f T
