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Newspaper
Eldora Herald Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1949
Page
5
The Eldora mayor and council set a public hearing for October 5 at 8 p m to revise the 1950 51 city budget. The general tax raise drops from 63840 to 42264, a reduction of 11476, due to higher property valuation. The budget trims the general fund from 19900 to 13000 and the emergency fund from 1500 to 1000 while some areas like hospital maintenance gain modestly.
Eldora Mill and Manufacturing plans a new unfinished furniture line within 300 days and opens Saturday September 30. Owned by Paul McGinn, former Des Moines hotelier now in Rochester Minnesota, the firm on the second floor of Eldora Motor Co. will still produce the world famous Infant seat and offer in-house painting facilities for finishing. Ross Star remains manager.
Forty head of purebred Spotted Poland China boars will be sold by Fred Fuller of Owasa at the Iowa Falls Sales Pavilion Monday Oct 3. The sale begins at 2 p m. Fuller is recognized as a leading producer of purebred Spots.
The Eldora Rotary Club adds Reverend Ralph B. Imes, Congregational church pastor, and Dale Purcell, a vocational agriculture instructor, to its membership.
The Piney Woods Country Life School girls quartet will sing old Negro spirituals at 8:00 p m in the Congregational church. Piney Woods School, Piney Woods, Mississippi, founded by Laurence C Jones, trains Negro youth in Christian character and service. The 1700 acre farm school enrolls 440 pupils from 15 states. students learn by doing and every year groups tour the country singing to raise funds. The event is open to all with a free will offering to defray expenses.
Harold Snyder of Iowa Falls named convener for Hardin county CROP meeting to organize the drive on Wednesday Oct 5 at Hubbard city hall. State director Albert W Farmer outlined Iowa’s 1949 CROP aim of 450 carloads, with district supervisor William H Dreier to explain the program and Operation Mercy film to be shown. Church farm and civic leaders invited. sponsors include Catholic Rural Life Conference Lutheran World Relief and Church World Service.
An on food demonstration will be held at Rooke Appliance at 8 p m on Saturday October Gifts may be awarded during the event featuring discussions and a movie.
Leo Kay Hanson 24 and Romaine Jane Olson 19 both of Radcliffe. Willard Maynard Hinderaker 28 and Anna Jane Bjerkestrand 20 both of Radcliffe.
Hardin County Women’s committee honored Mary Frances Kelly, county extension home economist, who is leaving for a new extension post in Oregon Oct 1, with a handkerchief shower. Mrs. Ray Lake and staff were re elected for a new term and a three meeting educational program was outlined for Nov 9, Jan 5, and Feb 21, with Color in the Home Gracious Family Meals and Personal Design. The Radcliffe Methodist church hosts the annual district Farm Bureau women’s meeting Oct 18 with Mrs Alton Powers as general chair.
Have a Have a Heart tag day will be held Saturday Oct 1. Joanne Persons will supervise the children selling tags and several named volunteers including Dr D M Nyquist PF KK Schmidt Warren Immerman Earl Harmon M Z Albers Julia Mulford Fred Miller W O Guenther Robert D Longenecky and Mr and Mrs Wyatt Johnson. The event aims to support an Eldora resident making a heroic health effort and self support.
The Pine Lake Wildlife Club reviewed 1949 activities at a dinner. Membership reached 607 with 323 served. Restocking efforts included pheasants, quail, bass, catfish, and pike in Hardin County rivers. Contests featured a predator hunt and a carp fishing event with $500 in prizes. The club funds wildlife projects, Grass seedings, a Farmer’s Sportsman refuge, and charitable contributions totaling $387.59 for the Polio Fund.
County treasurer warns taxes incur penalties starting Saturday October 1 as residents rush to pay before late fees. About 300,000 dollars remain uncollected though railroad and public utilities payments will cut the balance. Last week the office received a state check for forty seven thousand four hundred eighty two dollars and fifty four cents covering home stead exemption credit for mid 1948 and soldier exemptions.
The Piney Woods girls quartet will give a free concert at New Providence church Friday at eight o clock. The public is invited and an offering will be taken.
Hardin county polio drive nears $4,000 with $1,933 raised locally after the first week. Awaited gifts include $117 from football jamboree, $250 from Eldora Legion, and $1,900 from the Hull Falls "Block of Dimes" effort plus house-to-house canvassing. Additional town donations total $877.65, with final reports due September 30.
Pine Lake Wildlife club voted Thursday night to sponsor the Explorer unit of Boy Scouts of America Troop 334 and donated 15 to Ducks Unlimited for Lake Jay Ding Darling project. The sponsorship follows Iowa Falls court of honor where 20 Eldora Scouts formed the first Explorer unit in the state. new unit is 14 plus youths with A G Spizairri presenting Explorer cards. Members listed include Kempton Huehen Darrell Scott Arvid Lauritzen Jerry Hodgson Craig Froning Rob Bateson Ronal Fdenburg Kenneth Sapp Jim Pageleth Birkingin Duane Blin Ives c. Duner Ives Meriineinhwey Max Montz Jack Bowman and awin Anderton Bann.
Sam Diamond age 65, part owner of Diamond Brothers stores in Eldora and other Iowa cities, died at his Cedar Falls home. Born in Russia in 1889 he immigrated in 1904 and helped start the chain in 1920 with brother Paul. Services were held Monday afternoon with Junior D. Saunders among attendees.
A 2 month old Iowa Falls child Lena Murphy was listed in the Des Moines Register as having entered University Hospital Iowa City for poliomyelitis treatment. This raises Hardin county infantile paralysis cases for the year to 24.
An additional $500 has been received in the drive to complete the Eldora Memorial hospital addition fund bringing total to $1,500 of the $10,000 goal. Henry Janssen spokesman for the financing committee said a donor list will be published after the supplementary drive. Donations may be sent to Hardin County Savings Bank care Hospital Addition Fund.
Funeral services for Lewis E. Adamson aged 43 will be held Wednesday at 2 PM at An die & Creps funeral home. The Rev W R Ehlert will officiate. Burial in Union cemetery. He is survived by daughter Audrey Adamson of Eldora. He previously managed a farm east of Eldora and died Sunday in Iowa City after a long illness.
Eldora welcomes Cashway Super Market with a grand opening this Saturday. Manager Matthew Bucksbaum, a recent Iowa graduate, will lead the store in the corner building opposite Way's Chevrolet. Remodeling by Lyle Hubbard costs over 20000 dollars, with fixtures stock to be finished this week. The new store offers a full line of foods and sundries. Cashway already operates in Marshalltown and Vinton, and the Bucksbaum family has 27 years in central Iowa’s food trade. Louis Bucksbaum is father of the manager and brother-in-law to Mrs. Sam Greensweig.
Elliott Construction of Omaha hires 40 workers to build a 69000 volt transmission loop across Hardin county linking Corn Belt Power Cooperative's planned Humboldt steam plant with stations at Reeves Klemme Plainfield Dinsdale Dickens Sherwood Eagle Grove Galbreath and Pocahontas. transformer stations planned near Eldora and Buckeye while connections extend to Dinsdale Grundy county and Eagle Grove Wright county. Hardin Rural Electric Cooperative belongs to Corn Belt Power Cooperative.
An estimated 800 spectators overflowed the Eldora fairgrounds Sunday afternoon to watch the jalopy races sponsored by the Hardin County Fair Association. Eldora entrant Melvin Perkins with drivers Red Cramer and Jimmy Pagel placed fourth in the eating race where cars lapped a dirt track with lunch stops between laps.
Eve lyn Olson, county nurse, outlined preliminary plans to form health councils at community and county levels. At a recent meeting most towns were represented. a county unit organizational meeting is set for Monday night Oct 24 in Eldora. The councils aim to survey medical needs and arrange corrective action for residents.
Sixteen state cases and thirteen divorce actions are on the calendar for the September term of district court opening yesterday with Judge H. E. Fry of Boone presiding. Assignment of cases by the court, a County Bar association meeting, and disposition of criminal cases with guilty pleas were slated for opening day. A variety of charges were represented among the 16 state cases.
Paul Hodgson Hardin County sheriff received a personally signed letter of appreciation from J Edgar Hoover head of the FBI in Washington. The note commends Hodgson for outstanding cooperation with the Omaha office in the capture of Donald McClellan Hummel, sought for transporting stolen property across state lines, and arrested at Coulter the day Hodgson alerted the Bureau.
Kenneth Kennedy of Eldora is named as one of 22 principal actors in the Town State Teachers college homecoming play Streets Scene. The production is set for October 20 and 21.
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