Spirit Lake Beacon (Newspaper) - November 28, 1974, Spirit Lake, Iowa ft for BUSINESS VOLUME FOUR SECTIONS 54 PAGES NEWSPAPER FOR LAKE AND DICKINSON COUNTY IOWA THURSDAY NOVEMBER 28 1S74 No BVDs For Area Plates NEW LICENSE staff of the Dickinson County Treasurers office show off the 1975 Iowa motor vehicle plates which will be going on sale this coming Monday Left to right are Melba Wallace displaying a motorcycle plate Dianne Carney Area Head Start Program Has Successful Beginning with the children making masks and caramel apples A Halloween dinner was held and Ben Diane holding a truck plate Marie Barrett Dickinson County Treasurer holding an auto plate Jan Wilson holding a mobile home plate Betty Robinson holding a trailer plate and Eunice Baird Sale of the plates will begin at 6 am Monday Alas there shall be no BVDs for Dickinson County residents on their license plates that is It seems that the state of Iowa has taken a little of the fun out of owning a car here by eliminating the BVD letter combination from Dickinson Countys 1975 auto license plates were cheated out of their BVDs as a result of an editing of the letter prefixes before the plate makers wentto work The state used a list which was edited by California and refined by the Iowa Department of Motor Vehicles All possibly offensive letter combinations were eliminated The plates which are due to go on sale this coming Monday at 6 am in the Treasurers office in the Dickinson County Courthouse will have a dif ferent appearance this year A three letter and three number combination will replace the all number plates of the past The two county identification on the left side of the plate will be retained thanks to action of the last General Assembly The plates will have a life of three years They will be renewed in 1976 and 1977 by the application of a sticker like those used the past two years The distribution system of plates this year is also being altered There will be no special reservations or hold backs on the first 500 plates as has been the case in the past Thai means that if you want to get plate BVA youre going to have to beat everyone else to the Courthouse early Monday morning Those who have payed for their plates to vacations or winter residences outside the state will have their orders processed after the first 500 plates have been sold The office will not stay open late Monday for plate sales The plate sale policy changes are the result of recently enacted laws which now cover county workers and make it too expensive to have secretaries working late into the night processing paperwork after the first day of sales People may think were greedy commented Marie Barrett Dickinson County Treasurer about the basis for the sale of the first 500 plates but we have to make a numerical list of the plates sold and I have to watch the number of hours the girls work The plates will be available during regular business hours at the Treasurers office until the end of January without penalty After that date a fine will be assessed for delinquent registration License plates for mobile homes trucks trailers and motorcycles will also go on sale Monday These plates will be similar to the auto plates but will have only two letters and four numbers The mobile home plates will carry no year The purchaser will receive a sticker for either a half or a full years registration whichever they chose to purchase Letter prefixes in Dickinson County wili be AX or AY for trucks JE for mobile homes and NN for motorcycles The new system of letters and numbers for all vehicles was instituted so that the vehicle registration system could be placed on the computer system Registration may be made by mail The registration fee is on the lower lefthand corner of the 1974 registration form except for trucks and trailers which are licensed according to weight The amount for 1974 automobile models should be checked on since most list prices were raised on these models A postage fee should be included with applications and cheeks made payable to the Dickinson County Treasurer The fee schedule for trucks and trailers is 3 ton 4 ton 45 5 ton 6 ton 7 ton 8 ton 9 ton 10 ton 11 ton 12 ton 13 ton 14 ton 15 ton 20 ton 25 ton 30 ton 35 ton ASC Committeemen Election This Month Following workshops for the staff and parents the Dickinson County Head Start program began classes Sept 30 in rooms There children participating class from the communities of Spirit Lake Milford Arnolds Park and Lake Park Parents accompanied children the first two days of class so that the children and themselves could gel acquainted with each other and become familiarized with classroom activities experiences have come through music language numbers manners games and colors Fire prevention was discussed and a fire drill was held Meyer Head Start been in the classroom giving developmental tests and hearing checks to the children Mrs Meyer used a set of ar teeth and a large tooth brush to demonstrate the proper way to brush teeth She told a story about a doctor with a stethoscope during which Ihe children listened to their heartbeat A party on Halloween highlighted school activities already Ted Craig Andy Harrison and Jeannette Johnson The staff has expressed that the Head Start program has had a good beginning and a special thanks is expressed to whose who have given their time and energy Supports RR Land Purchase The Spirit Lake Kiwanis Club adopted a resolution at its last meeting supporting the action of the City Council in its effort to acquire Ihe abandoned railway properly within Ihe city limits II is understood that various suggestions are under study for the use of the land once it is obtained A further study and explanation of the plans will be presented after the property is acquired Over 95 percent of those present at the meeting signed the resolution Some 73 farm residents of Dickinson County are in the running for twelve Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation ASC community committees according to County Executive Director Duane L Curry The mail election for ASC community committeemen is being held this month and ballots have been mailed to all persons eligible to vote in the farmer committee elections The final date for mailing voted ballots or for dropping them off at the county office is Dec 2 Ballots will be counted on Dec 9 in the county in Spirit the mail election those with the three largest number of Votes will be elected community committeemen the next two highest will be alternates CENTER GROVE TOWN SHIP Claude Andersen Richard Bruns Merlin I Johnson Dale Olson Oliver Smith and Dean Stover DIAMOND LAKE TOWN SHIP William Boettcher Harold Fronk Jon Gunderson Harold Hartmann Bruce Johnson and Bob Rush EXCELSIOR TOWNSHIP Neal Delaney John Elser V P Ruml EARLY MORNING Spirit Lake looks like a ghost town at 3 am but there were plenty of people who awoke to the white surprise the following morning The Lakes Area has been dusted with the white stuff twice this A Day For Thanksgiving The Indian word is all Greek to millions of Americans preparing to carve Thanksgiving turkey Yet it was the who set the table for the first Thanksgiving celebrated by the Pilgrims on Dec 13 1621 A year earlier the liny band of colonists had stepped from the Mayflower onto the wild Massachusetts coast Half of the 102 English refugees succumbed that winter to malnutrition disease and brutal cold As one of New Englands most powerful native rulers Massasoit had Ihe firepower to wipe out the weakened colony in a single raid Instead he signed a peace treaty with the pact which he observed faithfully to his death 40 years later But more important the showed the colonists how to stalk the wild turkey how to cultivate the native corn and pumpkin how to upgrade the crops by burying fish to fertilize the seeds The harvest was a bountiful one Three log storehouses bulged with corn wheat rye barley and peas The autumn woods teemed with deer and wild turkey and the sea and rivers were alive with fish For I lie colonists it was a time of soaring hopes Grateful to a divine Providence and its Bradford declared a period of feasting and 90 of his Indians were in as guests of honor to the first American Thanksgiving celebration Jn many ways openhearted Americans are now repaying kindness by helping others around the world to overcome plights not unlike those which afflicted the Pilgrims Nearly billion much of it earmarked for giving emerging peoples a foothold on the 20lh century is contributed through churches every year Half a billion dollars pours annually into the United Fund Campaign About million a year is donated to the American Red Cross Americans can be proud of their generosity but should also be thankful for the abundance in our land which makes that generosity possible SOPHIES TAKEN FROM THE NOVEMBER 27 1929 ISSUE OF THE SPIRIT LAKE BEACON BEING THANKFUL After the It has been our national custom the time of Ihe Pilgrims to a day of Thanksgiving to the Supreme Power It bo well for us to oftener than once a year to re value the though common privilege that usually so quite while are wishing and striving for things Just out of reach Our our limbs our sight oar faculties are accepted M of lei any one of bo lost and how fervent would be our gratitude could U be restored to do we to W grateful for everyday until wo fuel Perhaps this failure to appreciate is often very reason them sometimes vanish were they riot so much for they might be guarded more Gratitude Is a fruit of great cultivation wrote Samuel Johnson you do not find It among grou except perhaps kind of which U a lively sense of future No matter what our citizen of thti favored nation has profound to Day a full heart To remember the despotism tyranny and Intolerance out of which mankind haa climbed ao and painfully U never to to give that our lot LJ In a laad and a day of In a country diversity of and makes famine s name Instead of lie deadly it is to so many or peoples we need to heartfelt not on Thanksgiving only but oo every day are caM In to for all the of health trln log and opportunity Uwt U lire happily 19 enloy Jl lake a stoul to ot whan faM been and often prove to t U with forti and If they awake w U a sympathy with the tr ot humanity an UM of br K a i o Saturday night and again on Tuesday Several accidents have resulted and drivers are reminded to adjust their speeds to driving conditions Winter driving safety tips appear inside todays Beacon With early snowfalls blanketing the Lakes Area Chief Owen Hurt reminds residents that motor vehicles must be off streets in business and residential areas those nights the street department operates white stuff removal operations The city ordinance states that all vehicles parked on city streets when the snow crew is out can be towed away at the owners ex pense Chief Hurt stated He was referring to the traveled portion of the roadways Announcement of the nights for removal will be aired over area radio stations according to the chief in plenty of time for car or truck owners to know of the operation A person in doubt can also call the police dispatcher 3362525 to find out if the crews will he working he added convention to and elect one county committee member and two alternates pointed out The newly elected county committee member will serve for three years the alternates for one year ASC community com not only elect members of the ASC county committee but also assist the county committee throughout the year in the administration of federal farm programs locally In the community committee mail election farmers in each community will elect three committee members and two alternates all to serve oneyear terms Curry said He pointed out that any farmer who is eligible to take part in any program is eligible to vote in the mail election Voting eligibility is determined without regard to race sex color religion or national origin A list of known eligible voters is on file at the county office and is open for public inspection If a man or woman feels he or she is eligible to vole and is not listed just call it to the attention of anyone in the office and it will be checked out right away he said Nominees for ASC com munity committeemen are listed below by communities In WeHs and Ronald Wittrock LLOYD TOWNSHIP Ernest Weldon Dennis Jackson Jackson Jim Mortenson and Peder sen MILFORD TOWNSHIP Donald Cable Duane G Gunderson Arnold Jorth Lawrence Mills Lyle and Martin Reynolds OKOBOJI TOWNSHIP Mel Froendt Harlan Gould Tim Hemphill TH Lambertus Jr Jerry Welle and LeRoy Welle HIGHLAND TOWNSHIP Donald Flatt Wm F Henn Ron Kreutzkampf C Don Sawyer Robert L Will and Sam Zehnder SILVER LAKE TOWNSHIP Kenneth Byers Birney Krebs Floyd McClain Virgil Rolfes Dean Rush Kedric Wunder and Walter Wunder SPIRIT LAKE TOWNSHIP Robert Butcher Joe Estes Donald Gruhn Everett J Johnson Gary Kuhlman and Elmer Wittier SUPERIOR TOWNSHIP Waller M Brunsvold Wilbur Bundy Larry Bush Harold Carr H Glen Dean and Robert Soal WESTPORT TOWNSHIP Earl Baish Maurice Dougal Marion Flint Paul Hint L Kirby Range and Marvin Sch meling M DECEMBER 1974 T W T a 22 m Spirit Lake will remain open nights until p beginning December Hth through December 2trd Stores will close ut p m on Christmas Eve and on New Years Kve shaded areas on thr calendar show Spirit lakes night openings 1
