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Newspaper
Eldora Herald Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1957
Page
5
Awards will be presented during special awards day exercises at 10 30 a m Wednesday with senior class day ceremonies Friday afternoon recognizing scholarship and other honors. The list includes typing pins for five minute speeds with few errors and numerous named recipients across 50 to 100 word categories plus year end editors and team awards.
The article lists players and managers with jersey style numbers and notes several individuals as co captains and honors. It also mentions outstanding thespians and acting honors for Hardin county festival with names across multiple categories.
Hardin county experienced over two inches of rain from Friday evening through Sunday with a 15 minute hailstorm in Eldora area. Reports from Eldora, training school, and Steamboat Rock show totals around 1.86 at the training school and .54 at Steamboat Rock, with hail damaging the Eldora Greenhouse and breaking panes. County extension director Dick Pulse notes farmers racing to finish corn planting while oats grow and alfalfa frost concerns arise. stations report to Kansas City and Marshalltown, with daily readings and monthly summaries.
Sue Brown daughter of Mr and Mrs R R Brown of Eldora has been chosen as editor of Hi Lites Eldora high school newspaper. JoAnn Kramer will serve as assistant editor both seniors next fall and the complete staff listing is on page six.
Tom Monteith, Roger Munson, Ronald Walters are listed with freshmen managers Dave Dickenson and Paul Martin gon as part of the squad lineup.
Eldora resident Mrs. Ben Juchems was chosen state director of Junior Clubs at the Federated Club convention in Boone on May 8. She will serve a three year term and received a recognition pin. Attendees from nearby towns included Mrs. Omer Hubbard and many others from Eldora Steamboat Rock Ackley New Providence Hubbard Whitten and surrounding areas.
Eldora Cub Scouts completed the year with a train hike to Steamboat Rock on Saturday. Pack chief Denny Higgason led the group of scouts including Jimmy Vigars Rickie Hamm Doug Jackson John Cobb Terry Arkland Harlan Bunger Joe Kramer Gary Seggerman Steve Marsden Curt Smith Steve Halstead Bruce Harvey David Goodell Bruce Rinehart Ted Batten Tom Imes Phil Flickinger Art Munsinger Roy Glenn Dan Pagel Kent Barnard and Jeff Henning.
Forty five entries from Eldora Elementary School are displayed tomorrow in the windows of Eldora merchants. Students from grades one through six used watercolors chalk crayons and pencils. three paintings per classroom are to be judged by Mrs Tommie Story. Prizes award blue ribbons worth 2.50 and red white ribbons worth 1.00 to top pictures in each group.
Eldora high school seniors on a two day Minneapolis trip spend Monday visiting a Cinerama show planned by chaperones Agnes Ernwine Byron Spear and Clem Marsden. Tuesday includes tours of Ford and General Mills plants and the zoo with return planned for midnight.
Harold Fisher of Wellsburg was elected third district commander and Vern Stevens of Iowa Falls was chosen vice commander at the third district American Legion convention in Janesville. Eldora district commander Van Patter presided as Norbert Calonch Clutter and Henry Zander of Waterloo were named vice commanders with George Geyer of New Hartford as chaplain.
F W Horton owner of the Winchester hotel at Eldora says reservations were made last year to fill the hotel for the 1957 Pony Daze from May 22 to May 25. Reservations also fill the Eldora Motel owned by Donald Rabe.
The Steamboat Rock special election on the Central Iowa Telephone Co franchise passed by 165 to 15 with no spoiled ballots. The 25 year franchise allows building and operating a local and long distance system. The company plans to buy nine rural lines and convert to dial, costing about 125000 and slated for 1958 alongside Eldora.
Thunderbird club members stamp outgoing mail to advertise the dedication of Eldora municipal air field and a fly in breakfast on July 7. Ceremonies begin at 10 a.m. with an anticipated 1000 planes visiting. lights installed, field fertilized and seeded. Local Kiwanis Rotary and American Legion donate $50 each to help cover expenses.
New Providence seniors will present their class play Gran Dad Goes Wild on May 22 at 8 p m in the school gym auditorium. Lyle Broer Patty Bogue and Bill Hadley head the cast of twelve in the three act comedy.
Dewey E Eller announces township and county ASC elections with mail ballots. Township voting July 1 to 8, county convention July 27 in Iowa Falls. Ballots mailed by June 28 with postage free return. County and township committees govern price support wool incentive soil bank acreage allotment and cost sharing programs.
Funeral services were held for Charles Etjen 85 father of Mrs Lawrence Sheldon of Eldora who died Thursday on a Wellsburg farm where he lived all his life. Services were at the home and at St Pauls Evangelical Lutheran Church northeast of Wellsburg burial in the church cemetery. He is survived by his widow three daughters Mrs Eilers Mrs Ohlenhopp and Mrs Sheldon and three sons Willie John and Lee of Wellsburg.
A damaged OCR fragment lists multiple names and locations including Eldora Eldora hospital entries, Bert Daleske Ed Lundy F C Dreier Gary Steinfeldt and Mrs Hilda Bachman. Also mentions Steam boat Rock Liscomb Royalton New Providence Salt Lake City Miss Cort Hunt and Boyd Western with various associated places.
Mrs. Lloyd Leck ness welcomed a girl on May 10 in New Providence. Mrs. Clyde Smitherman reported a boy born May 11. Mrs. Elvin Rud dick added a boy on May 13. In Radcliffe, Mrs. John Ostrem gave birth to a boy on May 9.
Two marriage licenses were issued May 10 at the county clerk's office. Gel ley Keane aged 22 and Shirley Jean Wampler aged 20, both of Williams, received a license. Francis John Athe aged 23 of Alden and Wilma Madelyn Croat aged 18 of Iowa Falls also obtained licenses.
Eldora First Methodist church members meet Wednesday night to vote on constructing a new parsonage with cost not to exceed 20 000. A church conference will decide the issue after two board members present the plan and discuss repairs if the parsonage isn’t built.
J. P. Court fines Larry Balvant of Eldora for speeding ten dollars Elsie Crocker of Town Falls for illegal passing ten dollars Harry D Megan for illegal passing Chas I Brandon of Eldora for intoxication on highway thirty point nine eight dollars Betty L Jones of Des Moines for no valid registration ten dollars Geo W Harms of Steamboat Rock for faulty equipment and not stopping at a stop sign and no chauffeurs license ten dollars
The famous champion Show Pony died of lackjaw at Iowa State College where it was being treated. Col. Ken, the champion fancy turnout pony of Iowa, had been shown by Gregg Reisinger for two years. Last year a price of 3000 dollars was paid for the mate to form a pair for showing.
Marvin Walters and wife Jean to hold a grand opening for the Tip-Top drive-in on Highway No 20 in Ackley Friday. Walters bought the former Tastee Freeze in Eldora and relocated it to Ackley for the new venture.
Union representative Paul Walters discusses the Fifty-seventh General Assembly noting many bills, budget challenges, and foregone 2% sales tax. He highlights bills of local Hardin county interest including licensing, vaccination certificates, school directors elections, public funds, rural mail safety, truck size limits, fertilizer, small-town group insurance, school bus traffic rules, fishing licenses, and toxic labeling and Bang’s disease controls.
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