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Newspaper
Eldora Herald Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1952
Page
9
Brown, an Elora golfer, carded scores of 37 36 38 on Pine Lake country club par 35 course to win the 1952 Pine Lake Amateur. He finished two strokes ahead in Sunday’s final round at Pine Lake.
A sequence of property transfers dated May 1952 across Eldora, Iowa Falls, Ackley, Union, Alden and surrounding areas. It records parcels in blocks and lots, additions such as Pierce Place and River Add, with grantors and wives named and grantees including Collins, Rodger, Tomb, Sandberg, Rutherford, Furrow, Beckford, Priske, Cromer and Barr.
Tonight Parkersburg meets Radcliffe in baseball while Nevada plays Radcliffe on Friday Softball matchups include VFW against Steamboat Rock Southside Marathon versus Union and Iowa Electric versus FFA Cashway versus Mossmans Final scores show Radcliffe 3, State Center 0 Iowa Electric 12, Cashway 0 Mossmans 13, FFA 3
Mossmans, IE turn in wins in league play on the local softball diamond. Mossmans defeated FFA 13-3 in the opener while Iowa Electric blanked Cashway 12-0 in the nightcap. The victories tie them with Steamboat Rock and VFW who won Tuesday night. Tonight’s double bill features nets vs Steamboat in the power and Southside Marathon vs Union in the nightcap.
Rod Chisholm announced seven new rules to align girls basketball with boys play in Iowa. Changes cover free throws, second shots on fouls, two shot fouls in final minutes, timeouts between free throws, substitutions, and elimination of the center circle with adjusted jump areas for centers and forwards.
Eldora newspapers were advised that the I O O F district representative result will not be known until reports from all Hardin County lodges are received. Chester VanPatter was approved for this post by the Eldora lodge at the annual election last Monday evening.
The Lawn Hill Ladies Aid will meet tomorrow June 11 at 2 PM at Mrs. Loyd Dooley’s home in New Providence. Community Bible school attendees include Melvin and Lawerence Jeske Susan and Ronny Reece and Sharon Hagen at Eldora Lutheran Church. A dinner honored Sandra Jeske confirmed that day with many attendees. Family gatherings and visits from Eldora to Jewell Bradford and surrounding areas are listed, including local receptions and church activities.
Jack Lown former Union superintendent was named head of the Marquette McGregor Iowa school system. He moved his family to McGregor and will oversee 400 students with a 24 member staff. The two towns will share buildings with grades one through six and four high school grades in use. Lown, a noted basketball tutor, will not coach. He resigned from Union in March after two years as superintendent and girls’ coach. He is married with two children and holds degrees from Iowa State Teachers College and Iowa State College.
Whitten residents travel to Council Bluffs to retrieve Carolyn Long from relatives. Band Boosters plan a meeting at the Whitten schoolhouse on Tuesday June 10. Clifford Martin and family visit from Aiken South Carolina and discuss defense work history. Benson Cemetery Society meets in Gif ford with 30 ladies and 7 children. Local families host and visit. Evelyn Brehmer’s birthday noted. Des Moines trips and guest visits include Ma land family from Jewell and Center point visitors.
Alvin W. Jaspers of Steamboat Rock Hardin County outlines a new United States savings bonds series E with higher interest and earlier redemption. He urges farmers and business people to build financial reserves, noting rates rising to 3 percent at maturity and various early redemption yields, with new purchase limits and information on series H F and K bonds.
The U S High Commissioner for Germany cultural exchange program continues for another year with about 100 German high school youths arriving in August. Three will come to Iowa for a year of farm home life, school, and community involvement. host families need not speak German but should show interest in youth and community affairs. Applications to Frank W Ehman, Farm Bureau Building, Des Moines.
Iowa State College experts Tarr and Campbell urge long term planning before planting windbreaks. They advise a three row evergreen shield about 100 feet from buildings on level ground, with adjustments for slope and soil. For difficult soils red cedar or broadleaf species may be used and local extension offices offer further guidance.
Six lots of steers were used to test silage feeding with stalks. Results show a supplement is more critical when feeding poorer quality roughage with grass silage than full feeding grass silage. Molasses boosted gains and efficiency on both rations while mineralized soybean oilmeal aided grass silage and cornstalks but was less effective on grass silage alone.
Wise Burroughs of the Animal Husbandry Department reports chopped cornstalks mixed with grass silage can slash yearling steer winter feeding costs by up to 17 dollars per head versus hay and silage. An experiment at Castana shows gains of 138 pounds per steer in 139 days, with stalk-fed cattle averaging 29 cents per pound.
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