Fred Hansen Keeps On Truckin Fifty Years
Eldora trucker Fred Hansen marks his 50th year in the business on February 1 1977. He plans to keep driving locally with no CB radio and recalls earlier roads and fuel prices, noting he started in 1927 with an REO and later Dodge and Chevrolet trucks. A retirement nod occurs with a church reception April 24 in Eldora.
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Fred Hansen
Eldora
Hansen
Chicago
R. W. Setchell
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Need Rain As Season Continues In Hardin County
Hardin County Extension Director Jim Johnson reports soil moisture at 7.6 inches in the top five feet from subsoil samples taken April 5 on Carl King farm near Qwasa, planted to soybeans in 1976. Moisture gains since last November 1 total about 4.7 inches, with 62 percent of available moisture in the top two feet. Roots may reach deeper in some years for moisture. The report details per-foot moisture readings from 0 to 7 feet and notes implications for spring crop prospects.
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Hardin County Extension Service
Standard Soil Survey
Jim Johnson
Hardin County Extension
Carl King
Qwasa
Johnson
Polk County
Advance Reservations Slow For Eldora Secretary Event
Reservations for the annual Secretaries Luncheon on National Secretaries Day, April 27, at Pine Lake Country Club are slow, says Eldora Chamber secretary Evelyn Stone. Advance registration is urged to help plan food quantities.
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Eldora
Eldora Chamber of Commerce
Evelyn Stone
Pine Lake Country Club
Eldora Newspaper women win seven state awards
Virginia Stiles and Pat Whitmer of Eldora Newspapers earned seven state awards at the Yowa Press Women spring meeting in Cedar Rapids. Whitmer took second place for the women’s page in the under 5,000 circulation category, while Stiles earned four second-place finishes across special editions, page makeup, personal column, and a woman-edited front page, with two third-place awards in other categories. The Eldora front page has placed first five times in six years, with a second place in one year.
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Virginia Stiles
Pat Whitmer
Eldora
Yowa Press Women, Inc
Cedar Rapids
Whitmer
Eldora Eyes 1977 Graduates as 66 From Eldora
A total of 200 seniors will graduate from six area high schools in May with 66 from Eldora High School. Eldora’s commencement is Wednesday May 18 at 7 30 p.m. in the gym. Carl Hamilton of Iowa State University will deliver the keynote. Other schools Radcliffe 36 Hubbard 34 Union-Whitten 33 Steamboat Rock 17 New Providence 14. Hubbard baccalaureate May 15 4 p.m. Ray Taylor will speak at Hubbard May 22 2 p.m. Radcliffe commencement May 20 7 30 p.m. New Providence baccalaureate May 27 10 a.m. commencement same day speaker Dr Robert Benton. Steamboat Rock commencement May 13 8 p.m. a former student speaker. baccalaureate May 8 8 p.m. Union-Whitten commencement May 27 8 p.m. with Dr Dale Baughman of Indiana State University.
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Eldora High School
Eldora
Carl Hamilton
Iowa State University
Ames
Hamilton
Iowa Falls
ISU
Iowa
Radcliffe
Hubbard
Union-Whitten
Steamboat Rock
New Providence
Thomas Wegener
Lutheran Church In
Ray Taylor
George LaMore Jr
Iowa Wesleyan College
Robert D. Benton
Department of Public Instruction
Fred Folkerts
Dale Baughman
Indiana State University
ISU Drama Workshop Set for Eldora
Eldora Community Theatre schedules a drama workshop for area high school speech and drama departments. The event runs Saturday April 23 from 9 a.m. to 4 45 p.m. at the Second National Bank in Eldora with contact Jay Newburg required to confirm minimum participation. The piece notes past front page awards and an IPW election update with Mrs Whitmer becoming Second Vice President and Miss Stiles named national convention delegate for June 14 in Biloxi Mississippi.
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Eldora
Second National Bank
Jay Newburg
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