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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1967
Page
4
Massachusetts Senator Kennedy and Culver will be guests of honor in Marion with a reception at the Arar Batleoonsy. The event opens to members of the Culver Constitutional Club and Culver Forest Club. Earlier, Kennedy will deliver the dedicatory speech at John F. Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids, then speak at the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner in Des Moines.
Pvt Gary Kittelson U S 54927450 Class 8 D Co D 4th Bn USAMEDTC Fort Sam Houston Texas arrived at San Antonio after graduating basic at Fort Campbell Kentucky Friday He will undergo three weeks of military truck driving followed by ten weeks of medic training.
Wins Power Tools At Scatrooke Clermont was awarded a Black & Decker power tool set donated by John Falk & Sons at their Fayette County Fair booth. The presentation highlighted the Falks booth as a key fair attraction with the tool set as a prize.
Leslie Lembke and Mrs Celia Thoman won $10 each in Elgin last Saturday with Martin Hanson securing $5. Next week's jackpot rises to $40. Ida Pulfer transferred Tuesday from Palmer Hospital to the new Good Samaritan Home in West Union.
Kenneth Laird, newly elected AAPL chairman, condemned taxes on advertising at the AAF Western Region Convention in Chicago. He warned that national and local divest taxes on advertising threaten the free press, jobs, and economic prosperity, calling it a strike against America.
The Valley High School class of 1962 held its five year reunion on Sunday August 27 at the Elkader fair rounds. Twenty one classmates attended including Mr and Mrs John Bennett and family Mr and Mrs Carlyle Blocketts and Dee Mr and Mrs Ivan Meisner and Randy Kermit Peterson family Mr and Mrs Marvin Van Sickle Marian Pritchard and Mike Janice Anderson Victor Feller Terry Habeger and fiance Nancy Moot Darlene Hofer Kath i Jones Kenneth Klingman Nancy Orth Dean Peterson Michael Pape Leslie Guyer Marilyn Paulson Gloria Frieden La Verne Osterhus and Leo Christen.
Winners listed by weight class in a livestock show show results segment. Notable names include Angus Michael Cline and David Strom Elvin in medium and heavyweight divisions with multiple entries from Elgin and Wadena.
Mrs Lillian Anderson and Mrs Esther Erickson were Sunday supper guests in Elkader at Merlin Anderson's home. Later they visited Mr and Mrs Realto Wold in Edgewood. Ted Hirsch and wife from Minneapolis were guests Tuesday through Thursday in Abe Habeger’s home. Ed Boleyn visited Jimmy Trappe at General Hospital Prairie du Chien Sunday. Mrs Lawrence White was a Friday evening caller in the Russell Friederich home and an overnight guest of Mrs Elaine Herrling at Wadena. Glenda Reierson had tonsils removed at Iowa City Wednesday and returned home Friday. Callers at A B Jacob home included Wesley Schober and girls of Nampa Idaho. Gus Hackmann of Maywood Illinois. Arden Greener. Fred Wede. Carl Hackmann. Rose Baechler. Leon Jacob and Dorothy Schaer. Lyle Leath of Rockford spent Saturday with his mother, Mrs Frank Rice. Ed Johnson, Orvin Reierson, Alvin Halverson and Julia Landsgaard attended a reception Sunday for Adrian Martin of Eldorado. Mrs Rex Mulford spent several days in Cedar Rapids with the Virgil Frieden family. On Thursday evening she and Ron Ewing were dinner guests in the B E Lane home. the dinner honored the Lane daughter returning with her children to California.
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