Wise Americans urged to live within means amid rising bankruptcies
An Evening Telegram opinion notes personal bankruptcies rose over 300 percent in the decade to 414,166 in 1960 while personal income increased 50 percent. It says nine of ten bankruptcies are personal non-business, mainly worker-family cases, blamed on poor money management rather than misfortune. It urges saving for a rainy day to lessen insolvencies.
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United States
Evening Telegram
San Bernardino
Calif
Social Security guidance for age 72 and self employed
Bill Bjorn outlines how reaching age 72 affects Social Security payments and explains earnings tests for self employed individuals. He notes that from the month you turn 72, benefits are withheld if annual income exceeds thresholds, and provides specifics on monthly and yearly limits as well as scenarios for full benefits. The Creston Office serves multiple Iowa counties and offers an outreach date in Bedford on June 6.
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Bill Bjorn
Creston Social Security Office
Creston
Adair
Adams
Cass
Clarke
Decatur
Montgomery
Page
Ringgold
Taylor
Union
W. Montgomery
Iowa
Court House
Bedford
State maintenance crew shines at Bedford open house
About 200 residents toured the Bedford state maintenance garage during National Highway Week. Foreman Virgil Sexton and seven men shared 103 years of combined experience on 99 miles of Taylor county primary roads. They highlighted equipment, post and snow fence work, and safety materials as visitors learned about road upkeep and litter prevention costs.
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Bedford
Taylor County
Virgil Sexton
Sexton
Hobart Clark
Roy Reed
Wes Derry
LeRoy Waugh
Dean Mullen
Howard Poore
Lyle Sharp
Willie Poore
Highway Commission
Iowa Highway Commission
Memorials for 8 Deceased Taylor County Residents
Eight Taylor County residents are honored with Living Memorials established in the past year. Donations were made to the Iowa Division of the American Cancer Society to fight a leading Iowa killer. Honored are Grace Plowman John Morgan Adams Glenn Spring Edna Besco Sidney Ewing Margretta Rowe Jeanie Dalton Alma Bush.
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Taylor County
Iowa
American Cancer Society
Grace Plowman
John Morgan Adams
Glenn Spring
Edna Besco
Sidney Ewing
Margretta Rowe
Jeanie Dalton
Alma Bush
Public notices span local to national government ads
The article explains that public notices and legal advertising cover both state and federal contracts. It cites a Panama Canal Company bid ad as an example of government controlled operations requiring disclosure. Newspapers provide a public legal service by publishing these notices to inform the wider readership.
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Uncle Sam
Boston
Panama Canal Company
Balboa Heights
Canal Zone
L. F
Panama Canal Co
U. S
Stephen Scott Second in Grandmother Contest
A letter from Cherokee Iowa to the Times Press notes Stephen Scott, son of Ron and Mrs. Scott of Ames, has seven living grandmothers and four grandfathers across generations. The writer cites seven grandmothers as a near record, with regional relatives listed in Iowa cities Storm Lake Newton and Blockton.
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Stephen Scott
Times-Press
Cherokee
Towa
Ron Scott
Ames
Ron
Dale Scott
Newton
Iowa
Mrs Mae Wilson 84 Dies in California
Mae Wilson 84 formerly of Bedford died May 8 in Baldwin Park California at her daughter Beulah Allen’s home Last rites and burial were there She was born April 3 1877 in Worth County Missouri Married February 19 1896 to Charles H Wilson of Taylor County Iowa Two children Claude Wilson and Beulah Allen survive along with six grandchildren 11 great grandchildren and several siblings and in laws She was preceded in death by her husband in 1901 and by her parents and a brother
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Mae Wilson
Bedford
Baldwin Park
Calif
Beulah Allen
Nettie Mae Davidson
G. A
Sarah Davidson
Worth County
Chas. H. Wilson
Taylor County
Iowa
A. Claude Wilson
Cucamonga
Eleanor Montgomery
Des Moines
Art C. Wilson, Jr
California
Cora L. David
W. A. Davidson
Costa Mesa
Iva Davidson
Mattie Bordner
Clarinda
Lewis J. Davidson
Saturn A NEWS a MES Sacred Heart Church Service Times
Worship services held at Sacred Heart Church with Rev. Adam S Reisz as pastor. Sunday schedule includes 11 a.m. on the second and fourth Sundays and 8 a.m. on the first, third, and fifth Sundays. Exhortation and Communion accompany services.
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Sacred Heart
Adam S. Reisz
Local Bible Study Schedules in Berea and Bedford
Berea Church of Christ hosts Sunday Bible study at 10 a.m. five miles south of Bedford. Jehovahs Witnesses at 204 Jefferson St offer weekly studies including You May Survive Armageddon Into Gods New World. Classes meet Tuesday 8 p.m. Ministry Development 9 p.m. Public speaking 2 p.m. Sunday talk 3:15 p.m. Watchtower study follows. All welcome. No collections.
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Berea
Church OF Christ
Bedford
Jehovah's Witnesses
Kingdom Hall
Jefferson St
Bible Aid
All People of Good Will
United Missionary Church Service and Speaker Change
Walter Ortmann is absent. Mr. McClough of Sharpburg will speak at the United Missionary Church Sunday service. Radio broadcast of The Chapel Hour on KNM Maryville at 8:48 jam on 1580 ke.
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Walter Ortmann
Ortmann
McClough
Sharpsburg
KNM
Maryville
Presbyterian Church Service and Youth Leaders Named
Eldridge Mason McGehee pastor leads 9 30 am Divine worship with Children's Day noted. 10 30 am Sunday school and 5 30 pm Westminster Fellowship. Last Sunday evening youths chosen to lead for the new year: Moderator Karen Deal vice moderator Rita Lemke sec Virginia Scherich treas Allen Miller pianist Betsy Thompson. June 4 outdoor meeting planned with Virginia Scherich leading worship Rita Lemke and Robin Young providing program. Karen Deal and Ralph Hopkins on refreshment committee.
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Presbyterian Church
Eldridge Mason McGehee
Westminster Fellowship
Karen Deal
Rita Lemke
Virginia Scherich
Treas
Allen Miller
Betsy Thompson
Christian Church Schedule and Program Notes
Pastor Rev. Ivo Randels leads Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. worship at 10:50 a.m. C Y F and Chi Rho meet at 6 p.m. The Standby class will gather with Mrs. Gertie Abarr on Tuesday June 6 for a program of color ed slides from the Randels Florida trip.
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Christian Church
Ivo Randels
Gertie Abarr
Randels
Florida
Methodist Church Announces Summer Worship Times and Youth Assembly
Anthony Blankers, pastor, notes time changes for Sunday worship at 8 and 10 with the Jr. and Senior Choirs. Sunday school at 9. Sermon titled What Is the Business of the Church. Official Board monthly meeting rescheduled to June 20. Conference Youth Assembly meets June 4 to 7, with the district director of youth work attending.
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Methodist Church
Anthony Blankers
Conference Youth Assembly
Former Bedford resident Lena Jared featured
The Creston News-Advertiser profiles Lena Busby Jared a former Bedford resident now at Green nursing home. Born in Grand River Township she taught in rural schools and towns including Orient Greenfield Weldon and Bridgewater. She later trained as a nurse in Chicago at Presbyterian Hospital and served as head nurse in surgery before returning to Iowa to care for her mother.
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Creston News-Advertiser
Bedford
Lena Jared
Lena Busby Jared
Green Nursing Home
Grand River Township
Adair County
Lena
Orient
Greenfield
Weldon
Bridgewater
Busby
Wilbur
Chicago
Presbyterian Hospital
Dudley Busby
Creston
Iowa
Jared Ig
Greater Community Hospital
Iowa City
Memorial week column honors Knapp and Sleep landworks
The column memorializes Duane Knapp and Dale Sleep noting their large permanent structures with water behind them. It details the Knapp farm in Jefferson township now owned by Virgil Gregory with an eight acre water area and the Sleep dam in Mason township with a three acre water surface. It also reports a recent permit for Dr Norman Johnson to store 28.4 acre feet of water on his land for erosion control and mentions terrace work on the Ada Reed farm in Jefferson township with fertilizer and manure applications to terrace channels to replenish topsoil nutrients.
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Duane Knapp
Dale Sleep
Knapp
Jefferson Township
Virgil Gregory
Sleep
Mason Township
Norman Johnson
Iowa Natural Resources Council
Mason and Polk
Archie Davison
Ross Rorebeck
Bedford Times- Press
Farmers urged to review storage capacity and loan terms
The Taylor County ASC Committee urged farmers to check available storage for upcoming crops. A recent change in the Commodity Credit Corporation farm storage facility loan program allows borrowing up to 95 percent of outlay for facilities costing 40 cents per bushel or less, replacing the old 80 percent limit. For higher cost facilities, borrowers may take up to 95 percent of 40 cents per bushel or 80 percent of cost, not to exceed 50 cents per bushel of capacity.
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Taylor County
ASC
Credit Corporation
Nurse Miss Busby Remembered For Six Decades Of Service
The obituary honors Miss Busby a strict supervisor and instructor devoted to her patients and Bedford area hospital. She married Delbert Jared and lived on a farm south of Bedford before returning to Creston and later nursing on floor duty. She joined the Methodist church and Ruthians, was a PEO member, and cared for family before health waned in 1958.
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Miss Busby
Jared
Delbert Jared
Bedford
Creston
Wilbur
Methodist Church
The
Rutheans
P.E.O
Loans Expanded for Mobile Dryers in Grain Programs
A change raises mobile dryer loan coverage to 95 percent of delivered and assembled cost, up from 75 percent, aiding farmers in keeping grain properly stored. Storage payments may apply in designated areas for resealed farm stored grains, with a May 31 final date for 1960 crop corn resealing. For 1961, corn and sorghum feed grain producers must participate in the 1961 feed grain program to be eligible for price support.
Final Rites Held For Roxa Reid
Obituary notes Roxa Reid born November 19, 1870 on a Bedford Iowa farm died May 16 1961 in Bedford nursing home at age 90 with five months and twenty seven days. She joined Bedford Methodist Church August 8 1886 and remained a devout member for about 75 years. Survived by sister Alice Reid of Cheyenne Wyoming her brothers and parents preceded her in death. Reid helped soldiers during wartime knit wear and shared produce with neighbors. She loved Bible reading music and gardening and remained active in caroling and lessons until blindness limited her sight, embodying patience and faith.
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Roxa Reid
Anthony Blankers
Roxa. Reid
Bedford
Iowa
Bedford High School
Death Notice Elmer A. Holmes 83 Hopkins Missouri
Elmer A. Holmes, 83, formerly of Deshler Nebraska, died May 10 in a Clearmont Missouri nursing home. He lived with his daughter Mrs. Ralph Johnson in Hopkins until April 17. Born November 16, 1877 in Nodaway County Missouri, he was 83 years old.
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Elmer A. Holmes
Deshler
Nebr
Clearmont
Ralph Johnson
Hopkins
Elmer Anzo Holmes
Andrew Holmes
Nodaway County
Elmer Holmes dies. long life in Nebraska and Kansas
Elmer Holmes lived in Thomas and Thayer counties before settling in Chester Nebraska. He married Maude Wilcox in 1904 and raised three children Melvin Dale Harry Merle and Edith Maybelle. After losses by lightning in 1911 and multiple marriages, he remained devoted to family and joined Chester Christian church in 1908. He died after 1945 and 1954 marriages. funeral held May 18 in Chester with burial there.
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Aeas
Iline
Melvin Dale
Harry
Merle
Edith Maybelle
Elmer
Anna B. Ressler
Emma Chick
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James 8. Taylor
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Pima Gotton
JST
State Highway Commission
Bedford, Development Club
James E. Pollard
Uncle Sam, Too
Roy King
Blockton
Mrs
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Saturn
MES
United ‘Missionary Church
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Raymona Sneed
Drexel Gold
Reed
Francis
Orlin Hill
Arthur Dinwiddie
Roxa
Elmer Holmes
Christian Church of
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Harry Merle Holmes
Davenport
Edith Maybelle Holmes Johnson
Nineventeen
Lola Palmer
Marysville, _ Kans
Chester Christian Church
Chester
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Ston
Kem
Glo
Severs
Stacy Hardware
Charlie’s Mobil Service
J. O. Lynch
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Sarders
Reas
Bay
Ed Highmy
Grant City Granite Works
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