06 Jun 1963
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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1963
Page
1
The Akron Register-Tribune lists subscription prices of 2.50 per year and 1.26 for Plymouth, Sioux and Woodbury counties Iowa and Union County. The paper is published every Thursday in Akron Plymouth County Iowa and entered at the post office as second class mail matter September 26 1901.
Special correspondence from Westfield lists visiting relatives from Houston Sioux Falls Sioux City and Fort Dodge. Memorial Day gatherings at the Neal and Welch households included several families. A ham supper fundraiser for a summer camp is announced with tickets. Local births visits and hospital updates follow, including Kenneth Ream’s hospital admission and Mrs Welch’s recovery from a Davenport car accident.
The piece explains the old chain letter style pyramid scam sold as a free service. It shows how six recruits each recruit six more, ballooning to 216 1,296 7,776 46,056 279,936 1,679,016 prospects, leaving the fourth contacted person to find 1,296 buyers. It warns most communities lack that many buyers and you end up paying more than expected.
Items from the Akron Register-Tribune recount 1945 obituaries and marriages, war price administration hearings, and local notes. Highlights include the death of George W. Rockefeller at Mobville at age 87, May 30 1945, marriages, births, and school events, plus 1938 and 1933 figures. The column also notes weather impacts, a 30 year ago entomologist survey, and local athletic results.
The notice records a death on May 29 1928 at a home in Hawarden area with surviving brothers and sisters. Funeral services were held in Westfield and burial occurred in Hawarden cemetery. The text also mentions local commencement exercises, a 1913 class with several named graduates, and a religious speaker from Sioux City. It lists births and marriages, including P G Wiberg a Union county pioneer who died May 27 1913 aged 70, with surviving sons and a Union Creek Lutheran service. Other entries note a marriage near Brunsville and Musselshell, Mont., a Kal Robinson style tragedy, a diphtheria quarantine release, and local clergy.
A new bulletin on Canada thistle control is available at the Extension Service bulletin board along with a fresh guide on safe agricultural chemical use. The note urges homeowners with chemical handling concerns to obtain the latest safety leaflet and discusses warm season crops, strawberry renovation, raspberry leaf and anthracnose issues, and lawn care including crabgrass prevention and proper mowing.
A May 5 1963 Chicago speech by Vice President Lyndon Johnson at a Polish Constitution Day crowd urged expanding trade with Poland and other Iron Curtain states to promote freedom while pressuring tyrants. He criticized critics of trade with Communist nations and boycott campaigns.
May 28 1983 minutes show Mayor Pro Tem Vander Helm presiding with council members Hummel Barwick Trotzig Nielsen present and no absentees. Motions issued building permits to four residents and to join Plymouth County Civil Defense. by law proposals for town employee regulations and various bill payments discussed. meeting adjourned with formal attestations.
Seven educators across Iowa were honored in May by the Committee on the Conservation of Hearing for the state of Town for work in hearing clinician programs resource classroom teacher programs and itinerant teacher programs aiding hearing handicapped children in regular classrooms and public schools. Recipients include Paul C. Vance and Louis L. Pickett Des Moines area leaders. Dr. John H. Harris Des Moines Public Schools. Lee Courtnage Black Hawk County. R. Wayne Moocers Waterloo Public Schools. Bill R. Gearheart Cedar Rapids Public Schools. and Dr. Darrel G. Minifie Buena Vista Cherokee Ida Sac Counties. The committee, part of the Iowa State Department of Health since 1957, advises agencies on hearing impairment and serves industry agriculture education and public health. Members represent medical, speech and hearing fields, the State School for the Deaf, the Health and Public Instruction departments. Also noted is that 3,687 school bus drivers from 419 schools completed the first phase of a twelve hour training program over four years.
The Iowa Department of Public Instruction State College of Iowa and partners sponsor 30 centers statewide for a four year driver training course. Certificates awarded on completion. Sessions cover defensive driving laws liability and insurance with later topics on first aid equipment maintenance and safe driving practices. Primary aim is to reduce accidents and improve safety for students transported by school buses. sell it and sell it with a Regis ter-Tribune Wand Act.
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