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Newspaper
Eldora Herald Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1952
Page
1
A reader advocates School Improvement across Hardin County focusing on local school boards inviting community input on what education should provide. Key aims include equalizing opportunities and tax loads, representative policy formation, and redistributing students to balance facilities, while debating optimal school size and risks of overloading with activities.
A reader proposes books by Frank C. Laubach Clare and Harris Worford Jr and Justice William O Douglas to educate high school students about communism democracy and international issues. The letter urges library copies and public access via the Eldora library and the American Friends Service Committee office in Des Moines. It promotes books to cultivate educated civic judgment and national leadership.
Yesterday five decades back Eldora High School prepared for a major Hi Y and Tri Hi Y induction on Sunday March 9 with 61 students planned to be inducted by Cedar Falls High School members. Charters for Eldora chapters to be granted as well with W A Blankenship John L Butler Beecher Crosley Earl Harmon and Mrs Eastman Nuckolls listed as sponsors and Mayor Wed Fagg Supt F K Schmidt Lymar R Lundy and Rev J R Moore as ex officio sponsors.
A Whitten community page covers a covered-dish dinner hosted by the Benson Cemetery Society at Mrs. Alice Mabie’s home with Mrs. Mabel Olmstead and Mrs. Edna Meyers as hostesses. Reports note the dinner cost and a March 11 Whitten Band Boosters meeting at the schoolhouse.
Mrs Katharine Piper recalls Max Fuller at Chamber of Commerce night and a Taft pants quip. The column shelves jokes about grandkids grandmothers and local notables, notes on town columnists growth, parakeets, burnt sugar cake, and a tribute to Mrs Keeneman.
Franklin Hutchens of Cedar Falls State Teachers college has been named co chair man of Wesley Foundation membership and sang in the dedication quartet on March 9. Lawn Hill Ladies Aid meets at Mrs Edna Bogue home on March 12 with Mrs Myrtle Bogue assisting. Mr and Mrs Leo Hutchens and daughter Deborah from Marshalltown stayed with Floyd Beasley over the weekend.
Beginning this week Mrs. Floyd Beasley becomes the Lawn Hill correspondent and requests readers to report news promptly. Melvin Jeske’s classmates helped celebrate his tenth birthday on Wednesday with treats from his mother Mrs. Marvin Jeske. Marlyn McCormick accompanied Melvin home and was his supper guest that evening.
The Social Service Circle of Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church will meet Thursday. Parish members and attendees are invited to join for fellowship and discussions of upcoming outreach programs.
The article lists devotion leadership by Mrs. Fredrick Brink Meyer and a serving committee including Mrs. Henry Meier Mrs. Albert Schnormeier Mrs. Will Ricks and Mrs. Will Broer. It records visits and social events at local homes with multiple names and places such as Sheffield Ellsworth Greene Marshalltown Le Center and names of participants associated with the New Afternoon Bridge Club and the W S C S of the Evangelical U B Church.
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