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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1967
Page
4
A ragged OCR of want ads and notices shows auctions Sundays at 1 PM, rental listings for modern homes, sales of tools and livestock, stray animal notices, and miscellaneous card of thanks. Also included are address updates, hospital notices, and brief reports of local residents' health and surgery in Rochester and surrounding areas.
Luther League notes report a March supper meeting at Flynn Luther Church with 28 members answering roll call. Martin, president, opened the session as committees were formed to handle basketball and youth group activities and plans for a convent visit on August first. Dale Butikefer led the program.
The Pleasant Valley Sharpshooters met Tuesday February 28 at the home of Gayle and Gary Kleppe. Jeff McMillan called the meeting to order after the Pledge of Allegiance. Sixteen members attended. Jeff Cline spoke on beef rations and Russell Reeder on forage as ration basis. Gary Kleppe demonstrated measuring. The meeting adjourned with the 4 H pledge and lunch served by Mrs. Kleppe and Kim Dummermuth.
A dense list of social calls and gatherings highlights Elgin and nearby towns. Mrs. Mabel Johnson and others from Wadena and Cedar Rapids visited Lesters Gehring and Guernsey Smith homes. Numerous dinners, birthday observances for Otis Blockhus and Leon Roberts, Viet Nam slides, and weekend stays in Fayette West Union and Postville mark a busy period with many named families and locations.
Mr and Mrs George Schroyer and Debbie of West Union attended a Sunday dinner hosted by Mrs Bertina Halverson. Mrs Lallian Anderson called on Thursday evening to see Mrs Ruth Loftsgard.
Extension Home Economists present events in Postville at 1 00 pm on March 9. Sew Along helps occur in the Extension Office on March 10 and March 17. Volga Blue Birds meet March 14 at 4 00 pm.
The 1967 soybean crop will receive a national price support of $2.50 per bushel, unchanged from 1966. ASCS Chairman Herbert M. Ash notes the support equals 77 percent of the February parity price, aimed at encouraging production to meet domestic and foreign demand while stabilizing grower income. Loans and purchases remain available through local ASCS offices and cooperative marketing associations. Loans extend until a month before the 1987 maturity date.
The state Senate vote on a key appointment stalled as only two Republicans joined 32 Democrats. Senator Andy Frommnelt filed a reconsideration motion, leaving the matter unresolved. Gov Harold Bealehes nominated Rev. Carl Sinning for the Town liquor commission amid other shifts including Cecil Reed to the Iowa State Employment Commission replacing Ross Carrell.
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