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Newspaper
Bedford Times Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1954
Page
5
Bedford announces its annual city band series will open Wednesday evening June 16 under director Ralph Balater. Rehearsals start at 7 p.m. Mondays at the school auditorium and all past and present band members are urged to participate. The eight weekly concerts begin at 8 p.m. in Court Yard Park.
The New Market band series begins with nine Wednesday concerts led by new director Ken Miller. Free summer lessons are offered for seventh and eighth graders in the rural area, with Miller accepting inquiries at the school on Wednesday evening and Friday afternoon.
John Sawyer a program man in the Taylor county ASC office has resigned to begin a four year civil engineering course at Town State College Ames. He is a U S Army veteran and oldest son of Mr and Mrs M K Sawyer.
Henningsen Construction of Atlantic will finish the curb and gutter work by end of next week weather permitting. The city council approved a 45 day extension for overall project completion after frequent spring rains.
Bedfor d unit of the American Legion Auxiliary hosted a picnic dinner for 80 women patients at the Mental Health Institute Cla winda on June 3. Rain shifted service indoors with sack lunches, cold drinks, coffee and cake, plus games and contests in the afternoon.
Bedford youth center operates each Monday and Wednesday evenings from 7 to 10 for seventh and eighth grade students. Parents serve as chaperones and Mrs Clyde Snyder assists as adult supervisor.
Workmen repaint the Phillips 66 Station for the Beamer Gold company using a bright orange roof maroon trim and tan walls. Inside features two tones of green.
The selection of the State Plowing Contest site was reported yesterday as the Times-Press went to press. The event will be in Taylor county late in August this year. Attending evaluators from Des Moines included Herb Plambeck and Merle Travis with other state officials and extension workers surveying prospective sites.
Four Taylor County graduates of Drake University were invited to Drake's 50 Year Club events in Des Moines. The group includes Dr. N. J. Bates of Bedford and Charles M. Duff of Blockton, with Bates earning a DDS in 1903 and Duff a PhD with the class of 1902.
Members of the local gun club meet at the club grounds two miles south of town Sunday to prepare the club house and grounds. A working party will install poles for lights string wires and repaint buildings. Bring carpenter tools.
Janet A. Trost of Sharpsburg a freshman at Northwest Missouri State College is recognized among four class leaders at the college during her first year. The Maryville chapter of the American Association of University Professors hosted a dinner honoring top students from the group.
C H Young president of State Savings Bank was honored for 35 years with the bank. Twenty six staff members and spouses staged a surprise celebration in the Blue Room then hosted him at his home with cake and coffee. Attendees included Mrs Young and several local couples.
The Business and Professional Women’s club reports a picnic supper at Lake of Three Fires at 7 pm on Monday June 14. New officers oversee arrangements and a planned wagon has been arranged.
Members of the Bedford Country Club are reminded through the Mines Press that their qualifying scores for the city golf tournament must be submitted by the specified time.
Mr and Mrs Frank Clark hosted a dinner Friday evening with extended Clark family members from Columbus Clarinda College Springs and Breez Breez. Guests included Mrs Darwin Clark daughter Terry Lynn Quinton Douthit and Blaine Barnes among others in a casual family gathering.
Rev. James T. Hoskins of the United Missionary Church of the Nebraska Conference visits Zion church Bedford for the last local conference before Augusts annual meeting. He speaks Sunday June 18 at 11 am and Tuesday at 8 pm. Athelstan and Alga host services June 13 8 pm and June 15 8 pm. A film Dedicated Men will be shown and merger discussions feature the program.
Dr. C. W. Staward of this city is among thirty one dentists from 18 Iowa cities taking part in a one day postgraduate course in Periodontology at the State University of Iowa on June 10.
Premium list copy prepared for the 1954 Taylor county fair lists July 27 as the opening day with no program and August 1 as the final day. Five days of programs are planned with an entertainment lineup for the week and tasks assigned to Miller and others to gather copy for departments.
Marriage licenses issued in Maryville and surrounding towns include Virgil Briggs and Shirley Moore, Walter Cochin and Zelma Long, and Bill Reed with Janet Starpsburg. Other couples listed are Kenneth LaraBee and Beverly Beal, Roy Thompson and Helen Wilson, Jack Pierson and Barbara Fletcher, Donald Robison and Billie Winemeyer, among others.
Funeral services for Isaac Franklin Allen 79 of Corpus Christi Texas were held at Cage Mills Chapel. Burial at Seaside Memorial Park followed a life full of family ties and Masonic membership. Survivors include wife Elizabeth two sons Ross and Carey a brother and three sisters.
The Rev and Mrs Robt M Peters celebrate forty years of marriage with an open house on Sunday June 18 from three to five in the afternoon and seven to ten in the evening. Members of the Methodist congregation and friends are invited to call.
Men and Mrs William Winemiller of Sheridan Mo celebrated fifty years of marriage with an Open House on June 6 and 7 1904. The couple farmed the Sheridan area since 1904 and remain active in farming and church life. They have seven children ten grandchildren and two great grandchildren present except two grandsons in the armed forces.
Robert Ulrich 39, of Bedford, operating a roofing business in Tujunga California, was fatally struck by a car on June 4 within 100 feet of his home as he returned from work. Survived by wife, an 11 year old daughter, three brothers and six sisters. Funeral services held Tuesday. burial in Forest Lawn Los Angeles. Ulrich nephew of Mrs Hosman of Bedford and Mrs Fred Herbert Hopkins.
Carl Howell of Denison Iowa assumes local management of Western Light and Telephone Co replacing Darren Steele who is transferred to Denison and will move his family there.
Dr. Ralph D. Abarr, 76, died at his Bedford home Tuesday morning June 8. Funeral services set for June 10 at Blockton Methodist Church with Rev. Robt. M. Peters and Rev. Clarence Moore officiating. Burial at Rose Hill Cemetery in Blockton. Born in Redding, he lived in Blockton and area before moving to Bedford. Mrs. Abarr survives.
The Bedford school fills its 1954 55 faculty with five new teachers. Marilyn Gruber sails in as vocal music teacher. Anna Brannan joins third grade. Jean Newman handles second grade. Robert Duncan teaches high school science. Redding returns to teach fourth grade. The roster lists all staff including principal, coaches, and department heads.
Taylor county Board of Supervisors approved surplus commodities from the Commodity Distribution Program. A total of 827 pounds of butter and 989 cans of meat were delivered to 266 families, 527 people across the county, with future distribution planned and others yet serviced. Residents needing commodities may leave their names at the local welfare office per director Eilale Dougan.
Band Director Ralph Balster renews notice of free band instruction for beginners and others starting 9 a.m. Monday June 14 in the school auditorium. At the same time, arrangements may be made to rent or buy an instrument if none is available.
In Taylor County primary results Republican nominations were decided for county attorney sheriff and coroner with Lucas Sait Cade Thomas among top vote getters. Hoegh led GOP governor race in county while Herring tops Democratic slate for November. Carlson and Wilson win district and state House bids with Matheny securing sheriff nomination.
Akers relatives will hold a family reunion and picnic at Lake of Three Fires on Sunday June 13. A basket dinner will be served at noon and AL Akers relatives and their families are invited to attend.
Iowa YWCA Y Teen members will gather at Central College in Pella on June 13 for a week long conference themed What in America to Me. Des Moines Joe Moore will speak and Burlington YWCA staff Miss Jane Norris will lead worship with workshops clinics on teen club issues plus recreation. Bedford participants Evelyn Russell and Cecile Hoffman attend with Evelyn as music chairman and Cecile as treasurer elect.
Miss Hazel Pearl Walker, a teacher librarian in the Orange City Iowa schools, will return for another year in the same post. She will spend the summer at Hudson and is a former principal of Bedford High School.
Twenty two Future Homemakers of America members met Monday at the school. Summer officers named are Pat Perkins president Martha Leonard vice president Bette McNutt secretary and Jackie Irvin treasurer. Next F.H.A. meeting set for July 1.
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