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Newspaper
Bedford Times Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1954
Page
5
Band director Ralph Balster announces free summer music lessons for all students including those new to instruments and current band members. A three month instrument rental option is offered with purchase potential. On June 14 at 9:00 a.m. a Creston representative will assist with instrument procurement at the high school auditorium.
Open installation of officers for the summer term was held in the Masonic Temple May 26 by Rainbow for Girls Bedford Assembly No. 64. New Worthy Advisor Jean Stephens sworn in. other officers appointed. candlelighters led ceremony. family members honored with songs and flowers. over a hundred in attendance.
Bedford High School Homemaking class invites girls planning to join the course next fall to meet at the school house at 7:00 p.m. Monday June 7. Instructor Mrs Vessey Spry says this is the first in a series of summer meetings.
Paul Jones of Bedford son of Mr and Mrs Frank Jones was selected by the Taylor county Boys 4-H committee to attend the State 4-H Conservation camp the week of July 19. He is 17 and a member of the A. J. Producers 4-H club. He served as county 4-H president in 1953 and earned honors at the State Fair including a second high individual in livestock judging and a first place swine herdsman award.
Drexel Jackson 16 was sent to Eldora today to serve until age 21 after district court yesterday. Judge Charles J. Lewis handed down the term following prior trouble and a May 29 arrest in Clarinda with two others for grand larceny related to stolen electric motors and bench saws from Bill Jackson in New Market. John LeRoy Gulick 22 of New Market remains jailed on bond. the juvenile was placed with parents.
The clerk’s office issued licenses for Vernon Vandiver and Bethany Harmon. Samuel Lindhigh and Betty Sterling. Wilbur Durfey and Virginia Hakes. Bobbie Banton and Mary Lou Shaffer. Ronald Wurster and Mable Woolley. Maxon Doughenty and Donna Busby. Dates ranged May 27 to June 1.
Seale R Putnam writes from Murray Kentucky in May 1964 greeting the fifty year class reunion. He recalls Bedford High School’s first all student commencement program and his early teaching career at Titus school and Murray State College.
Dr KH J Watson Day will be observed in Diagonal Iowa on Tuesday June 15 with a noon dinner parade and program. Invitations extend to patients delivered by Dr Watson and donations for a gift may be left at First State Bank. Dr BE J Watson a former Taylor countian and son of the late Miles Watson will complete 50 years as a practicing physician.
Mrs Patricia Reed Moreschi daughter of the late Dr Roe Reed and Mrs Dave Reed of Iowa City will receive a medicine degree from Woman's Medical School Philadelphia on June 10. Her husband A P Moreschi will earn a dentistry degree from the University of Pennsylvania at the same time. They plan to drive to Philadelphia with their son Wiley, Patricia will intern at University of Iowa Hospital, and A P Moreschi will enlist in the Navy for a two year internship.
Dr and Mrs Norman J Bates marked 60 years of marriage with an Open House at their Bedford area farm four miles north of town. About ninety friends visited Sunday afternoon as guests shared congratulations and light refreshments. Their daughter Mrs F R Mathews hosted with husband, while son Ltjg Robert Bates and wife Ann called in from Kodiak Alaska by radio and telephone.
Maxine Spry daughter of Mr and Mrs Elas D Spry was the Bedford High School valedictorian for the class of 1954 with a four year grade average of 3.8125. She spent her first two years at Waukee Town and will attend Northwest Missouri State College at Maryville next fall majoring in elementary education.
Robert Steward son of Dr and Mrs C W Steward earned salutatorian honors at Bedford. His four year average was 3.562 and he won a merit scholarship to the State University of Iowa to study science in the fall.
Rebekahs and Odd Fellows of Bedford plan grave decorations at Fairview and Bedford cemeteries on Tuesday evening June 8. Members meet at the I O O F club room at 1 p.m. to prepare bouquets and assist in placing them. Volunteers are asked to help with flowers and decor and may call Mrs John Fitch to arrange flower pickup.
Mr. and Mrs. William Winemiller of Sheridan Missouri will mark 50 years of marriage with an Open House at their home on Sunday June 6 from 2 to 5 p.m. on the eve of their golden anniversary.
Walter Johns and Mrs. Walter Johns of southwest of Bedford marked fifty years of marriage. They were wed on June 5, 1904 and will host an open house at their son Troy Johns and his wife’s home on Sunday June 6 from two to five in the afternoon. Friends and relatives are invited to call.
Mr and Mrs Alvin Klopp of Bedford hosted a silver anniversary dinner at their home Saturday with relatives from Bedford Corning Hickman Mills Iriving Blue Mound Sioux Falls and Sloux Falls S Bak in attendance. The couple wed June 1 1929 at the Dorr home near Bedford with Rev Harris officiating. The three tiered cake was made by daughters La Rue and Coleen.
Rev. Monk Bryant of Maryville gave the Bedford high school commencement address to a capacity crowd on May 26. Fifty nine seniors received diplomas as H. A. Guenther, board of education president, led the 74th annual ceremony. Valedictorian Maxine Spry and salutatorian Robert Staward were named. Multiple seniors earned scholarships and special honors, including Mildred Melvin and Judy Cross.
D E Snyder 68 of Clarinda died May 26 at Municipal hospital after a long illness. He retired from farming 15 years ago and had lived in Taylor County. Funeral was at Walk St. Funeral home Glorinda and burial at Bedford Palisade cemetery. Rev I E Stickelman officiated. He is survived by his wife Edith Robinson and a brother Glen Snyder of Converse Indiana.
Decoration Day events in Bedford were cancelled Monday morning due to rains. Paul Wogan of the Bedford Post American Legion thanked organizations and individuals who planned to cooperate. Rain totals for the week reached 3.72 inches, with 2.21 inches falling on Monday.
Vanzo Prennem 62 mayor of New Market died at Municipal hospital in Clarinda Thursday evening after a Wednesday heart attack. Survived by wife four children Vanzo Jr Noel Carpenter Leta Mae Radke Clifford and several New Market grandchildren plus his mother Ida Drennen. Funeral held Saturday at Walker funeral home in Clarinda with Rev C W Sevren officiating. Drennen was a Methodist and IOOF member serving his third mayoral term.
Robert Park formerly with Allied Building Credited Inc in Los Angeles has been transferred from New Orleans to Cleveland Ohio as office manager with a $600 yearly raise. He is a Drake University graduate and son of Mr and Mrs William Park of Bedford and son in law of Mr and Mrs Ivan Wells of Bedford.
Mr and Mrs L C Klopp of Bedford celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary with an Open House on Sunday May 30. Attendants included four grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Relatives from multiple states attended and gifts included a gold tree bearing fifty gold dollars and two gold rugs. Rev A I Jones officiated at their 1904 wedding.
Voters in Taylor County Iowa will cast ballots Monday June 7 from 8 am to 8 pm for Republican or Democrat nominations. Six Republican gubernatorial candidates compete. 35 percent required to win. otherwise convention decides. Local races include county attorney and sheriff contests. justice of the peace in Bedford. Voters mark only with an X in the square beside a candidate.
Ambrose 23 of Gravity drove a Chevrolet Tudor on a gravel road east of Bushville at about 8 30 am Sunday. He was not seriously injured and his car was heavily damaged. Johnson of Savannah Mo headed south with a semi trailer when a tire blew on Highway 148 about 6 30 pm Monday. Gookin of Charston struck the parked truck while dodging another car, causing damage to his Pontiac.
Vacation Church School at the Methodist church opens Tuesday June 1 with about 50 pupils and workers. Three departments kinder garten primary and junior study the Christian church. A series of five moving pictures titled Life Two Thousand Years Ago will be shown during the two weeks. Classes run 9 to 11 30 a.m. daily.
Vogts Seed company of Hedford represented by eight local men began harvesting blue grass on several thousand acres contracted by Vogts. Two trucks and two jeeps hauled equipment to fields, seed cured at Bedford grounds east of town. Dry weather last year left little bluegrass locally.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dinwiddie join an In spection Missouri River cruise Friday June 4 open to State Historical Society of Iowa members and guests. The 140th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark Expedition will be commemorated as the S7agle cruise travels from Florence to Queen Hill Quarry passing Omaha Council Bluffs and the Platte mouth with Dr. W J Petersen and broadcaster Jack Shelley providing historic explanations and interviews on air.
Rev. Robt. M. Peters was returned to the Bedford Verhod’s church by the Iowa Des Moines Methodist Conference meeting in Oskaloosa last week. Peters has pastored Bedford for four years and conference assignments list ministers serving Taylor county and surrounding areas with Wm. J. Overhulser named superintendent of the Burlington district.
Jean Stephens of the Bedford High School graduating class of 1964 received her diploma exactly 50 years after her grandmother Mrs Walter A Houck graduated from the same school on May 26, 1904. The note mentions the 1904 class and lists several members from the Latin and English courses, reflecting on past graduates.
Blockton's Legion post thanks residents for donations raised to repair a two story building on Main street. A wall at the rear collapsed one morning, no injuries reported. Funds exceeding 400 dollars will fund brickless repairs and rebuilding efforts, aided by Boy Scouts who used the upstairs room the night before.
Wilbert P. Owen among 140 Town State College Air Force ROTC cadets who will report to Air Force summer camps for four weeks in Oklahoma starting June 20. The program offers training with equipment unavailable at the college and a first taste of Air Force camp life.
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