Elwood School Enrollment Surges as New Term Begins
Elwood starts its first full week with 2,748 pupils in public schools after opening Friday. Grades 1–12 total 2,541 and 207 in kindergarten across Linwood and Washington, with Willkie High School at 763 and Junior High at 404. Oakland School debuts while Osborn is closed.
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Elwood
Elwood Public Schools
Linwood
Washington
Keith Scott
Wendell L. Willkie
Oakland
Edgewood
Washington School
Osborn
Charles S. Sells
Anderson
Main St
Sells
Gerald L. Moshaugh
So. I
Hagman to speak at Elwood Rotary Club meeting
Karina Hagman of Kokomo, one of 121 top graduate students from 31 countries, will receive a Rotary Foundation Fellowship to study French literature and history at the University of Grenoble, France, and pursue a teaching career.
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Elwood
Karina Hagman
Kokomo
Rotary Foundation
Elwood Rotary Club
Mangas
University of
College Corner PTA Plans September Meeting
Members of the College Corner PTA will convene for a September meeting Thursday evening in the school. Gerald Skinner, president, will lead the business session and a program will be presented.
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College Corner Pta
Gerald Skinner
Elwood Council Shifts Funds In Regular Session
Elwood City Council convened to suspend rules for three readings and pass an ordinance appropriating 240 dollars from the Parking Meter Fund for a coin-collection cart for the collection patrolman. A second ordinance would allocate 5028.97 dollars from multiple funds for city departments if approved on third reading. The council also approved transferring 100 dollars from contingency to buy a uniform for new officer Lee Graham and adopted a resolution banning parking on the south side of SE St between Anderson and 13th St. A no parking petition for N B St between 16th and 18th St was tabled for study.
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Elwood
Contingency Fund
Lee Graham
Muscular Dystrophy Meeting Planned Tonight
A local Muscular Dystrophy Association chapter is to be formed tonight in the Community Room of the Anderson Loan Association starting at 7 30 Miss Susie Baker leads the session which supports patient care and research funding for muscular dystrophy a 100 percent fatal disease in children. A World War II German steel submarine net between Jutland and Zeeland has been sold to West Germany and melted down for scrap in Kiel.
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Anderson Loan Association
Muscular Dystrophy Association
Susie Baker
MDA
Jutland
Zeeland
West Germany
Kiel
Elwood Levy Approved by Tax Board and City Officials
Madison County Tax Adjustment Board approved a $1.97 levying measure proposed in Elwood's 1958 budget ordinance. The levy awaits final review by the Indiana State Tax Board. City officials at the meeting included Mayor Robert Fortson and Clerk-Treasurer Mrs. Gladys Land. Police Chief Buck Hickey returned to duty after illness, weighing 249 pounds from 273. Mercy Hospital notes list dismissals and admissions, plus a birth at Mercy Hospital and Eva Poole's heart attack in Indianapolis.
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Elwood
Madison County
Indiana State Tax Board
Buck Joseph Hickey
Methodist Hospital
Indianapolis
Mercy Hospital
Robert Barber
S. E St
Grover Ross
S. Anderson St
Richard Aice
N. D St
Clara van Ness
Raymond Sanders
S. 17Th St
Leon Davenport
Baby
Rt. 1
Mercy
N. 18Th St
Copher and
Fesler Ambulance
Albert Horstman
11Th St
Victor Galbreath
S. L St
Jimmie Glaze
Anderson
Clifton Wells
S. I St
Richard Maley
Chesterfield
Jesse Widener
N. F St
York and Wright
Eva Poole
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Elwood and Washington PTA Activities and Local Notices
Elwood World War II Mothers Unit 82 members attended a Marion Veterans Hospital carnival and will join a Fifth District meeting there. Washington PTA hosts a carnival at the Washington school building with Majorettes, cakewalks, games, refreshments, and playground equipment fund-raising. Diana Etchison, Elwood, to begin fall tap and ballet classes Sept 13 and 14 with students from Elwood and Wabash. Judith Ann Cain’s 10th birthday party featured an animal hunt and a merry-go-round cake. Tri Kappa tea honored Mary Ruth Staten editor of Tri Kappa Cross Keys Magazine. Dorcas Club resumes after summer break. Red Corner Home Demonstration Club meets at Mrs. Robert Abernathy’s home. Mrs. R. J. Foster visits City and Torch Lake, Michigan.
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Elwood
Unit 82
Marion Veterans Hospital
Mildred Sullivan
Fern Schafer
Anna Wyatt
Eva Cloud
Doris Birkenbine
Myrtle Biddle
Edith Heflong
Marion Hospital
Washington Pta
Washington
Diana Etchison
Lester Etchison
Wabash
Miss Etchison
Katherine Anderson
Indianapolis
Rosemary St. Clair
Debbie Garman
Virginia Jackson
Kathy Robinson
Timmy Robinson
Roger
David Culp
Ed Underwood
Waynetown
Judith
Bernard Cain
Tri Kappa
J. C. Stevens
Dorcas Club
Charles Dawson
Mangas
Red Corner Club
Red Corner Home
Robert Abernathy
R. J. Foster
Ee City
Torch Lake
Mich
Alexandria Social Activities Highlight Lodge and Church Events
Members of the Royal Neighbor Lodge enjoyed a Wisconsin Dells trip with visits to the upper and lower dells an Indian ceremony and a water show. The group includes Mesdames Foley Mc Daniel Starr Humphries Gooding Cox Blunk Young and many others. The next meeting is Sept 16. The First Baptist Missionary Society plans a Thursday meeting in the I and M rooms with Kay Wisehart addressing Guam slides and appliance demos. WSCS members celebrate the campaign outcome with a church party Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. A baby boy Andrew Johnathon Quick born to Mr. and Mrs Thomas Quick of Salt Lake City weighs five pounds 12 ounces. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Ed Staggenburg. Sue Wright from St Vincent's returns to nursing studies in Indianapolis.
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Alexandria
Royal Neighbor Lodge
Wisconsin Dells
Upper
Lower Dells
Mesdames Howard Foley
Stella McDaniel
Anderson
Mary Starr
Venita Humphries
Hazel Gooding
Anna Cox
Mildred Blunk
Gertrude Young
Bonnie Etchison
Rena Hill
James Ferguson
Pearl Gipe
Helen Williams
Myrtle Conner
Lois Swift
Mary Thompson
Missionary Society the
Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church
Thomas Quick
Salt Lake City
Utah
Andrew Johnathon
Ed Staggenburg
W. Broadway
Quicks
Sue Wright
St. Vincent's Hospital School of Nursing
Indianapolis
Speak It In Home Learn German Early For Kids
The article argues early bilingual exposure helps children learn a foreign language like German. It urges speaking German at home, reading in German, and consistent listening to acquire pronunciation and fluency, noting two languages at home ease expression and reduce accent. It also directs readers to request leaflet No 88 from Myrtle Meyer Eldred via the Des Moines syndicate.
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E. R
Myrtle Meyer Eldred
Register and Tribune Syndicate
Des Moines
Iowa
Teachers Of Science and Math Shortage Hits Indiana
Indiana faces a critical shortage of science and mathematics teachers as industry lures qualified staff with higher pay. A study by State Superintendent Wilbur Young shows 61 percent of mathematics teachers earned under 5000 dollars last year, while 60 percent of science teachers were under 5000.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Business
Wilbur Young
Young
Business and Industry
Industry
Ambrose to Start Junior Year at William Woods College
Linda Jane Ambrose, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph C. Ambrose of 1123 Maryland Drive, enters her junior year with classmates on September 15 at William Woods College in Fulton, Missouri.
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Linda Jane Ambrose
Ralph Clifton Ambrose
Maryland Dr
William Woods College
Fulton, Mo
Masonry delegates condemn Indiana right to work law
Delegates at the Indiana State Masonry Conference in Kokomo criticize the Hoosier right to work law calling it unjust to hourly rated workers. Conference secretary F. Donald Jacks of Indianapolis says the law would not have passed if properly explained to voters.
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Kokomo
Ind
Indiana State Masonry
F. Donald Jacks
Indianapolis
YMCA Daily Schedule Of Breakfasts Luncheons And Meetings
Today at YMCA includes 8:00 breakfast for downtown workers 9:00 women workers 12:00 luncheons for Rotary Exchange Crippled Children and Industrial Safety 6:00 dinners for Toastmasters Toastmistresses Mounds Kiwanis 7:30 Omega Nu Tau and meetings 7:30 Tri Kappa Tri Gamma with 3:45 Junior A's 4:30 Junior B's 6:30 Intermediates Gym and Swim.
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Rotary Club
Mounds Kiwanis
Omega Nu Tau
Tri Kappa
Tri Gamma
Healing Substance Shrinks Hemorrhoids Without Surgery
For the first time science has found a new healing substance with the ability to shrink hemorrhoids and relieve pain without surgery. In many cases relief came with actual reduction while gently easing pain, with results so thorough that sufferers were encouraged by the findings.
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New York, N. Y
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