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rchased icello. wo-row ted onupment, ; Iowa conteste Bud orth ofrogramEvans, tly ap-igricul-spear-nhowcr etersen,ture, a inistra-izra T. rc.to pro-ition of ar are tib and lids.ttendfylo. 226for its . 3, at?ynoldsssociate chap* ix Cityneeting I cere*eof the D„ was D. Mc-with a•TFARMERS WHO L!VE in the area where the navy jet plane crashed in Castle Grove township Thursday morning and Jones County Sheriff Dreibelbis (wearing glasses at right) look over the cockpit section of the wreckage. Left to right are Francis Miller, Steve McDonell, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cashman and Sheriff Dreibelbis. Miller watched the crash with binoculars. The navy jet plane crashed into a cornfield on the McDonell farm. The Cashmans, Miller'and McDonell all live within a short distaiice of each other.MCDONNELL AIFticeilo airport Thursday (far left) and Gerald P ler, Paul Dunavant, M Cdr. B. V. Turner, and was driven to the erasOne Man's EXPRESSIONSvJCornpicker' NicknameFor Pilotless AircraftIT DIDN'T TAKE LONG FORthe navy Demon Jet to earn the new, jones-Delawarc county' line north nickname of ' Cornpicker after it j of (jlc crash s*tecrashed in Steve McDonellV cornfield.An amazing feat was the maneuvering it took to drive the Hopkinton ‘Til bet that’s the fastest he / f[re truck all the way to the wreckage (Steve) ever had his corn picked,* in time to help save some of the one onlooker said. i burning parts from complete destruc-“They ought to enter that thing tion.ftin the state corn picking contest (at j O O ODyersville Oct. 12),” another remarked.An estimated three acres of standing corn stalks was knocked to the ground, some of it buried, by the Jet as it scattered big and little pieces along a path some 60 feet wide and nearly a quarter mile long. Hundreds of ears of corn were ripped from their stalks —some of it husked as dean as a whistle. *For the damage the plane caused, it was Reported that Steve can file a claiirTwith the government.MOST PEOPLE I TALKED TOJ thought the explosion-like noises ! heard some four miles above Jones I» icounty came from a rock quarry j where dynamite was being set off. Others who saw the ill-fated jet and the chase plane thought a mock air raid was being staged.Francis Miller revealed that he heard two more jet planes fly over the crash area about five minutesafter the Demon crashed.COCKPIT SECTION of the crashed jet plane still we ing when this picture was taken by Francis Miller, Casth farmer, shortly after the crash.lt;.« ■ MShower Held forTax Levies for Jones County» •Requests Seto o ot from Savage at Forte busi-AS HIGHWAY PATROLMEN,sheriffs’ officers, firemen and naval personnel attempted to keep most of the spectators away from the wreckage while an inves,ligation was being conducted, one onlooker jokingly remarked, “Art’s the one you’ve got to watch. He’s^ a j u n£V d e a leiV ’ |ArtWernimorit, who works forfFrarfcisMiller/drove his jeep to the-wreckage and it reportedly was the first vehicle to make it to the crash site., O O O ; ; v.Etta Marie Reuter5idtuhler’s mrsday t tendedSTEVE McDONELL ND £ON-ald Tharp were a short 40 rods away in a nearby field when the plane crashed. Steve said he and his companion didn’t know what to do when they saw' the jet circling toward the ground at some 500 miles an hour. Thev finalIv decided that the bestA miscellaneous bridal shower* was given by Barbara Guyan honoring Etta Marie Reuter at the Arthurr , ,Riedel home Thursday evening, Sept. 29. Those who attended the shower were Mrs. Janice Rickels, Doris Biockens, Mrs. August Dirks, Mrs. Harry'Guyan, Mrs. Elwill Reuter and Patricia Gerdes. The evening was spent playing cards. The high scorer was Doris Brockens, the low scorer, Mrs. Harry Guyan. They gave their prizes to the honoredguest.After opening her gifts, refreshments w'ere served by the hostess assited by Mrs. Harry Guyan and Mrs. Arthur Riedel.•y ! ** * • -'• Those who sent gifts but were un-JONES COUNTY — Levies by the I various tax units in Jones county wereVestablished recently at a meeting of the Jones' county board of supervisors. Requests for levies were received from county offices, corporations, township, city, independent, and consolidated school districts and for rural school districts.■ • •The next step is for the county auditor to determine the millage rate to raise the funds asked for by the different groups supported by tax money. Levies are determined by the taxable valuation of each district within the limits prescribed by law.Millage and -taxable valuations established by the Iowa State Tax commission for public utilities in Jones county for the 1955 tax year w'ere also confirmed by the supervisors.* %^ # * *Town and city school askings wrere up over last year while askings by rural schools declined somewhat, according to the supervisors.COUNTYGeneral, $72,000; courl $14,000; poor. $50,000; sta tion, $98,000; county insa 000; county school, SISjOO1 relief. $3,000; bovine tu $2,000; county memorial emergency, $15,000; Bans eradication, $8,000; weed e $1,000; fair aid, $8,000; cc Vz mill) $15,000; constri mill), $17,000; maintenance $55,000; . maintenance$220,000; optional (% millroadj clearing, $21 $00; -boacatiop, $12,000; county $20,720; county agricultu sion,- $17,500.Castle GroveSchot
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Monticello Express
Monticello, Iowa, US
Mon, Oct 10, 1955
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