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Newspaper
Anita Tribune
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1952
Page
5
Report from Anita highlights a successful Ladies' Night at Pruesury Tree Greater Anita Club with Rex Moorman showing three dimensional photography. Readers praise the Des Moines Register and Tribune for broad Iowa coverage and commend Herb Owens and the local recreation project for kids in Arthilden.
Norman N. Taylor son of Mr and Mrs M N Taylor of near Anita arrived home Tuesday morning for his first furlough since joining the service last January He has been at Warren Air Force Base Wyoming since March 27 training as a teletype operator At furloughs end he will report July 19 at Camp Kilmer New Jersey then to MATS Atlantic East Coast He took basic training at Lackland San Antonio and before entering service farmed with his father a graduate of Anita High School
On Tuesday July 1 Anita will be featured on Staley Calling on Radio Station KIOA Des Moines. Lee Harris will interview Anita residents by long distance telephone at 12 15 noon with Jerry Redburn Fire Chief David or Margaret Ash and Ivon Sheets assisting. The program airs Monday through Friday at 12 15 and is sponsored by Staley Milling Company.
About 100 people attended the Greater Anita Club Ladies' Night at the high school auditorium last Thursday. Of 105 tickets sold, 89 were dinners, with post dinner pantomimes by Judy Shoeman and Barbara Baxter of Atlantic and Rex Moorman displaying colored 3D pictures of the Teton Mountains. Roger Loots orchestra from Carroll provided the dance music as two Lutheran Church men served dinner.
In the Anita Softball League Shaffers edged the Longhorns 11 to 8 on Thursday. On Sunday Shaffers were nearly skunked as the Old Timers won 31 to 1. The girls team is practicing and a strong turnout should help plan the season.
Graveside rites were held last Thursday at Des Moines for Sally Hagen 12 the daughter of Mr and Mrs Lu Dell Hagen who drowned in the Des Moines river the previous Monday. Burial was in Des Moines. Attending from the vicinity were Hagen family members from Anita Omaha Atlantic and Adair. Graveside military services were conducted Thursday June 19 for Raymond H Bohning 51 of Des Moines who drowned in the Bes Maines River the preceding Monday morning. He is survived by two sisters and four nephews. The Robson family of Anita identified the body and attended the funeral with relatives from Malvern Des Moines and surrounding towns.
Arthur Long of Creston is hired to teach science at Anita High School next year. He will handle chemistry biology and possibly English. A Tarkio College graduate, he served in World War II and was recalled for the Korean War. awaiting discharge around July 3. He and his wife plan to move to Anita by August 15. This fills the next year’s teaching roster.
Edward P. Tad Turner, 75, died June 12 in Hot Springs South Dakota after a year of ill health following a stroke. He lived with his sister Mrs Ruth Bowyer in Oelrichs and is survived by a cousin Mrs George Smithers Anita, with sister Mrs Edith Arnold and brother William predeceased. Funeral services were held at Gelrichs Methodist Church and burial followed there. Mr and Mrs George Smithers traveled to the funeral with Mr and Mrs William Schaake.
Gregory and Geoffrey Scholl, sons of Mr and Mrs Harvey Scholl, returned from England to Anita just in time for birthdays. Gregory blew out five candles Tuesday during arrival week and Geoffrey followed with three on Sunday two days later.
Anita residents hear new noises as the Congregational Church bell is removed to the attic for storage. The belfry is being torn down as part of a remodeling project involving interior redecorating with paint and paper.
Major Charles V. Miller, son of Mrs. Jentétte L. Miller and former Anita resident, has been awarded the Armed Forces Reserve Medal for ten years of active duty. He commands the Medical Group of the 5th Troop Carrier Wing at Memphis Air Base. He served overseas in France, England, and Austria from 1944 to 1946 and is a physician on the civilian side, teaching at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine. He grew up in Anita and Laramie, Wyoming, with his family, and has a wife and a young son named Johnny.
Anita Owens of the Along the Way column in the Deer Movies Evening Tribune visits Monday. He is known for interviewing locals and has covered many topics, including Live Alone and Like It. This week his subject is the new editors of the Tribune.
DeEtta Brownfield, who lived in Anita until school ends, has joined the Tribune staff for two weeks to replace Joan Biggs. She is widely known in the community and is the stepdaughter of E R Jebsen, former Tribune owner.
Sunday school services will be held but the 11 o clock preaching service is canceled as remodeling continues. Rev R K Derry has not yet returned from a California church conference. Rev and Mrs Henry left Ottumwa Monday afternoon after a two week stay during which Rev Henry filled the pulpit.
Robert Pratt son of Mrs Hazel Pratt of Anita is promoted from private to corporal after a year in service and in Korea since December. His wife Opal Fries of near Anita plans to teach in Atlantic next year and studied at Maryville this summer after teaching in Winterset last year.
Sunday afternoon about three o clock Lloyd Kline suffered burns on both hands when his tractor caught fire as he tried to shut off gas. The engine was missing and gasoline ran into the manifold after he rinsed the vacuum bowl. Firemen arrived to extinguish the blaze and he continued chores with bandages needing protection until Friday. The Klines live two and a half miles south of Anita on Highway No 148.
Mr and Mrs Harvey Scholl with sons Gregory and Geoffrey returned Tuesday of last week from a two month visit to London England. Mrs Scholl’s parents Mr and Mrs E H Gellender live in Hackney. Harvey, a native of Anita, met his future wife in 1944 in the service and married in London in 1945 before moving to Anita in 1946 after discharge.
Last Saturday around 2 p.m. a plane from the Anita Flying Club released about 200 handbills over Anita. The pilot says the bundle drifted along Main Street near the depot and possibly near the Tribune office, but no one has seen a copy or the plane since.
Park directors urge parents to bring children to the recreation center Monday through Friday afternoons to boost supervised play and fun. Plans for handicrafts await when enough girls join. two outhouses were moved to the field by Mr. Fatka and Mr. Phillips from Grant Township School No. 1, with cooperation from Paul Barber and Arnold Griffin. The structures will be returned to the school in the fall if reopening is decided.
Unprecedented rainfall last weekend left the Anita city park track waterlogged. The horse show scheduled for last Sunday is postponed to Sunday evening July 6 due to six inch deep mud.
Severe weather battered Cass County with heavy rain hail and flooding. Anita logged 4.65 inches Thursday night raising totals toward eight inches as basements flooded and water covered roads near Anita Sixty to eighty cows were affected and livestock faced rising waters near Adair Atlantic and Wiota. Damaging hail lashed fields with corn leaves stripped while a million dollar storm caused no major damage in Anita except isolated power issues.
Air force trainers will visit Anita within two weeks to train volunteers for the observation post atop Rasmussen's Hatchery. About 20 active volunteers remain from a 26 person list. Jerry Redburn urges local men and women to join for aircraft observation and reporting to the Omaha filter center.
Pfc Maynard Miller son of Mr and Mrs Oliver Miller of south Anita has been promoted from private to private first class He entered service in August and went overseas in December He is serving in Korea and recently received the promotion remains in the overseas area
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