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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1953
Page
4
Albert Guilsing of Postville is invited by Echo office to call for two free tickets to the film She's Back on Broadway playing at the Avalon Theater on June 16 17 and 18.
Notice lists a John Deere dealer offering custom dialing services and contact Joe Kiosa in Elgin at 3604. Also promotes 40 415 free tickets for Werner Moore in Elgin for the movie Battle Circus shown at Avalon theater June 14 and 15, call Echo office for details.
The article notes ongoing discussions in Iowa about educational television. It details a joint committee proposal to seek FCC reserve of channels for education, expand the TV school time series via WOI TV, and film the Iowa State College program for wider distribution amid tensions with the state board of education.
Reports say Dr Charles E Friley will retire July 1 as ISC president after 17 years and remain at the college as a teacher and researcher. He will be succeeded by Dr James H Hilton, dean at North Carolina State College and an Iowa State graduate. The move ends rumors he might seek the governorship.
Iowa prepares for polio season with gamma globulin to be distributed via physicians. Total supply around 94 000 double centimeters under a national plan based on five year averages. Families with an affected member may access inoculation for fathers up to 30. Last year polio cases reached 3564 with 167 deaths. Officials warn the serum is experimental.
Iowa drivers cut accident rates by 10 percent in the first quarter, saving an estimated 515000 in damages versus the prior three year average. In 22563 accidents this year versus a 25439 three year average, Fayette and Clayton counties show notable declines, with Fayette dropping from 209 to 160 and Clayton from 128 to 194.
Elkader Monona DHIA supervisor Carl Amsden reports May data from 26 herds totaling 554 tested cows. Average production per cow with drys was 951 lbs milk and 34.7 lbs butterfat. 21 905-day lactations completed. Notable records include Ben Erickson & Son 15220 lbs milk 486 lbs butterfat and A J Johnson 12830 lbs milk 449 lbs butterfat among Holsteins and Guernsey Merlin Flesner 10360 lbs milk 443 lbs butterfat.
Lloyd M. Reid, current Albia county extension director, will replace Adrian Gasble as county extension director in Clayton County. He will move with his wife and three children to Elkader on July 1 to manage Golden West Breeders Inc in Modesto, California. Reid, raised in West Virginia, is a West Virginia University Agricultural School graduate with five years as a county agent and five years as a county extension director in Monroe County, plus 28 months in the Navy. All other Clayton County extension workers were rehired for the coming year: William Corkery, Evelyn Thiele, and Gerald McCrane.
Wayne Olson arrived in Volga Saturday after serving in Korea for several months. He will spend a furlough with home folks before returning to camp to finish his enlistment. Mrs. Wm Stepp Maxine Moore arrived in Volga Sunday.
Clipped local notices recount a discharged Waves member spending vacation with parents before joining husband. Detailing weekend visits, family accounts from Dubuque to Iowa City include medical plans, church calls, and journeys by the Lamphier, Burns, Boleyn, Tschantz, and Moats families. A birthday gathering and school updates close the item.
A colored messenger crashes into a private banker’s office. An officer orders a deckhand to disrupt a craps game. The sailor returns with an awkward reply about starting the game and leaving with two bits.
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