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Newspaper
Eldora Herald Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1956
Page
4
A new lunch counter opens in the Alley, operating daily from 9 a.m. to midnight. Mrs. Robertson and Mrs. Gene DeMarco are the full time employees.
Activities across Owasa Alden Eldora and Berlin include Meta Raska Hazel visiting the Ulrich home, Zielske Curtis and Whigham in Eldora, and G C Perkins visiting Berlin. Wallendorf family moves to Owasa with him named new high school principal and boys coach. Veterans hospital visit and Iowa State Fair attendance noted. Owasa Methodist softball ends season 7-0 and wins traveling trophy and league tournament trophy.
Allan Kinney fractured four bones in his foot after falling from a bicycle near his Eldora home on Tuesday night. He was hospitalized at Eldora hospital and will require several weeks of bed rest for the bones to mend.
Lee Donald Olson of Radcliffe led area winners at the state fair 4 H livestock show with the reserve champion fat lamb and the champion pen of three. Other winners include Allan Thoreson Ellsworth and Charles Lettow Iowa Falls in Hampshire categories, Jack Flater Grundy Center Dale Draper Eldora in Tamworth classes, and multiple 4 H and FFA entries across beef heifers swine and dairy divisions.
Rep Frank Thompson Jr NJ reports 84 percent of independent businesses support lowering corporate rates to 22 percent with a 31 percent surtax and Sen John Sparkman introduces a starting 5 percent rate on the first five thousand dollars. Both measures raise taxes on large earnings and aim to bolster small business amid a mid century crisis in growth and capital.
Classifieds advertise bowling shoes for men and women, purebred York shire boars for meat production, plums for dormitory sale, a card of thanks from Mrs. Kenneth Cook for hospital care, and 150 mixed pullets from Evergreen Hatchery priced at $1.55 each. Locations include Ackley, Quakerdale Farm New Providence, Dysart, Eldora Memorial Hospital.
Farmers in Iowa Falls face extended disposal deadlines for the acreage reserve as the 1956 rules are amended. Aug 3 final date moved to Aug 31 1956. failure to dispose triggers penalties. If harvest occurs on reserve or grazing occurs outside drought areas, no payments and a 50 percent civil penalty apply. contracts cannot be terminated.
Thirty five boys named to the football squad at the Iowa Training School for Boys in Eldora. Coach Merlin Ritchey and LeRoy Dunn will lead the team in a 1956 season opening game with Conrad high school at the training school on Sept. 14 and play eight more games in Eldora and away. Lo-Rex Farms sells bull to Otis Whitehead and Leland Reece of New Providence. Eldora Lo-Rex farm owned by Loyd and Rexine Beecher and tenanted by Maurice Schwarck. Ellen Beth Beecher sells Royal Sensation to Paul Hockett of Union.
Hardin county wins 14 ribbons from 4 H home economics exhibits at the Iowa State Fair with 8 blue 5 red and 1 white. Judging ended as the fair opened Aug 24 and displays run through Sept 2. Exhibits include cookies bread cake jelly fruit tomatoes vegetables and meals with county participants named. Sharon Thompson Pamela Montandon and Alden Clover Climbers 4 H club lead a demonstration Have Fun Make Rolls. Five Hardin county girls will sing in the State Fair Chorus and the State Style Revue fills the afternoon schedule.
The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union mailed entry forms for the second statewide girls softball tournament to all 785 member schools. Non members may join via the Union offices. Entry deadline is September 6 with sectional, district, and state tournaments in late September and early October.
Pvt Stephen E Jessup of Union Colorado trains at two mile high Hale sub post of Ft Carson in a two month Cold Spot program. He serves as rifleman in Company L 26th Infantry Regiment 1st Infantry Division. The 19 year old entered the Army in 1955 and will return to Ft Riley Kansas after training ends in September. He is a 1953 Union Consolidated High School graduate and attended Simpson College.
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