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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1957
Page
4
State officials seek salt proof paint for 1958 license plates. Production at the Ann Asomosa reformatory license factory slowed by paint issues. 1,300,000 plates to stamp this year with 50,000 already needing repainting due to salt-sensitivity tests.
To Federal Job Howard L. Benshoof, director of the Iowa division of rehabilitation for the last 10 years, has become regional representative for the federal office of rotational rehabilitation. He has been given a year’s leave of absence to serve in the US assignment. Merrill E Hum, assistant dirs.
An atomic power plant for Minnesota north of the Iowa line moves forward as Northern States Power and Central Utilities Associates file with the Atomic Energy Commission. The group includes Iowa Power and Light, Interstate Power, and Iowa Southern Utilities. Road funding advances across the state with nearly 4% million in road work awarded. The Midwest Conference Democrats press farm program unity, while ADC payments rise in Iowa to 27,115 recipients averaging $35.67. Governor Loveless vetoes an attorney general power expansion bill, citing need for department chief control.
Sunday visitors included the Gerald Heck family of Postville and Glen Boyer family as well as Edith Gehring visiting Iowa City for the summer. Numerous calls and visits followed through the weekend with Saint Turner Lane and local households hosting relatives and friends from Ossian West Union Hawkeye Eldora Steamboat Rock Hamburg and Steamboat Rock.
The Millard Gage family from West Union visited the Don Reeder home Saturday evening. Sunday afternoon calls included Mr. and Mrs. Tom Reeder and Doyle of Eldora and Janet Knight of West Union. Melvin Hanson Jack and Jim dined with Lyle Martin. The Jerry Martin family from Clermont visited Sunday night. Mrs Ron Bantz Rhonda and Barbera called at the Joe Peters home Thursday. Lawrence Gehring’s guests Thursday evening included Mrs. Fred Schneider and Arthur Mrs. Wm Heer Roanoke IL and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lambert of Chicago. Joe Peters and Billy Peters joined the Kermit Rowland family for supper Friday in West Union.
Approximately 260 tickets were sold at the Memorial Day dinner at the Methodist Church. A lengthy list notes many residents and visitors to Volga and surrounding towns including Dugan Goeschel Oldfather Chase Boleyn Lamphier Crain Hines Oelwein Arlington Cedar Rapids Elkader Marion Dubuque and Waterloo with mentions of a Della Miller funeral and Europe tour plans for LaVon Martin.
The Arlington Co op Commission plans a new 60 by 120 foot metal clad warehouse near the Milwaukee tracks by the elevator with 800 bushel capacity, effectively doubling current storage. Other notes mention soybean seed quality in cold wet weather, dairy herd production testing in thirty Town counties, and farm pond improvements with hedging shrubs along fences.
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