14 Nov 1968
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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1968
Page
1
The Akron Register-Tribune editions list Gerald F. Smith as Owner and Publisher with Ray A. Smith as Publisher Emeritus. Advertising price is 2.50 per year, six months 1.25 in specified counties. elsewhere 3.00 per year.
Local brief notes list multiple community activities in Westfield and surrounding areas. A Westfield School District study group meets at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday November 19 at the school with Richard Crowley of the Siouxland Blood Bank presenting a film on blood bank functions.
Special Correspondent lists a luncheon guest Rev C Kruse of Plymouth Presbyterian Akron and multiple weekend visits in Akron area. It covers social calls, church events, and plans for a Christian Crusade rally in Sioux City with Dr Gordon Drake and Charles Secrest, plus an area crafts workshop in Aurora on November 20.
Grade 1B students practice number sequences addition sets and sub sets while reading aloud and recording voices. Nine hosts led a Halloween party with games cookies milk and a take home popcorn ball. October birthdays noted for Dowling and McCrill. Grade 2 covers vowel sounds make believe stories sock puppets and choral reading with The North Wind Doth Blow. Math adds tens practicing, tulors for measuring and right angles. November birthdays for Kots Small Cornish. Grade 3 students study beavers dragonflies mosquitoes and be exploring dairy production from whole milk to butter cream and buttermilk. Social studies includes a unit in Akron and a mill’s history. Special Education section notes prizes and room decorations for Thanksgiving. Mrs McCormick visited with library books microscope and projector. Simming Cricket pictures from the Resource Center.
Annual Cleaner Air Week mobilizes hundreds of groups to publicize air pollution hazards. About 143 million pounds of pollutants will defile North American air this fall and in general, pollution contributes to lung diseases. Dr. Roger Mitchell warns urgent action is needed.
Call report details the First National Bank of Akron Iowa at end of October 30 1968. Assets total 4 808 195 78 including cash balances with banks US Government obligations and loans. Deposits total 4 415 490 30 with liabilities and capital accounts summarized and signed by Harlan R Klave and directors Lyle F Jacobs Mildred Wakeman Henry Dirks.
William Eisele of Columbus Ohio won the national contest for the 1968 Christmas Seal. His entry borrows from The Twelve Days of Christmas using a partridge in a pear tree motif though a quail serves as the central figure. The design features a golden pear and green leaves on blue and yellow backgrounds signaling world peace and friendship. Perseverance paid off after years of local Call for Artists participation culminating in a national win to lead the 1968 campaign targeting at least 570000 dollars for emphysema research and related education.
Iowa State extension conference reports widespread stalk rot in corn borers and strong soybean yields across eastern Iowa. Winter quarter at ISU offers farm operation courses starting December 2 1968 for young farmers, with housing available. A pesticide applicators conference is set for Storm Lake November 12 with exams November 26 at Ida Grove. Off farm jobs projected to help farmers weather income squeeze, enabling retention of farms and community growth.
Mrs Silkebakken born in Norway on October 22 1899 died in North Miami Beach Florida. Funeral at Schroeder Funeral Home Thursday at 1 00 PM officiated by Rev Equys Maus. Burial at Riverside Cemetery Akron. Survivors include son Karl in North Miami Beach and two grandsons and a great grandson in Florida. Former Akron resident operated a family store and worked as a clerk in the dry goods department.
Birdice Marie Keech Kerr of Akron born July 18 1899 daughter of Warren Kee and Katheren Hamm educated in Akron schools taught country schools four years in Akron area married Robert Kerr July 12 1922 member of P E O embroiderers club book and thimble clubs survived by husband three sons Robert Jr Marvin Roger two daughters Phyllis Mrs Huddleston Marianne Mrs Anderson and three sisters nine grandchildren funeral at Wesley United Methodist Church Akron with Rev Edu R Maus burial Riverside Cemetery Akron
Johinston, chief of basic education for the Department of Public Instruction, notes area colleges and vocations see a surge in part time adult learners. In 1967 68 Des Moines Davenport entries show rising numbers across basic education high school completion and continuing education programs with thousands enrolled and hundreds earning certificates.
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