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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1962
Page
4
Advertisement lists a lightly used spinet piano in excellent condition. Contact Carr Piano Company at 24th and University, Des Moines for details. Also notes a meeting at Postville High School gym on Thursday March 22 at 8:00 p.m. about farmer welfare with Oran Lee Staley.
Letters explain upcoming physical fitness tests for grades four through eight and how results will guide a future physical education program. Teachers will conduct the tests and publish results. plans aim to improve fitness and health education, urging public cooperation. The piece notes youth health is historically high and stresses activity, nutrition, rest, and personal health responsibilities.
President Kennedy and the Council on Youth Fitness urge immediate steps so every American child can become physically fit. Parents and schools must learn and act, while Charles Wilkinson stresses reversing the trend and making fitness popular to restore national vigor.
Oran Lee Staley is to speak at the High School gym in Postville Thursday March 22 at 8 00 pm. This is sponsored by Fayette Clayton Allamakee and Winneshiek counties. Everyone is urged to attend. Chairmen named for Fayette County NFC include Lois Schuchmann Hawkeye pub chm Bernard Royce Wadena CROP Aubrey Guyer Elgin public relations.
Valley High music department staged Swinging High a two act comedy Friday in the school auditorium directed by Russell Goodell and Arden Greener with help from Mrs. Willard Grove and Mrs. C. B. Schori Practically all pupils in the music department performed despite bad weather There was good attendance The Echo earlier published the cast and characters It ends with a pastor guided quip about prayers and a boy saying his mother is a good cook
Student and staff comments praising the play Swinging High at Valley describe lively performances, strong casting, engaging songs, and a clever plot. Voices from Marilyn Paulson Carlyle Blockhus Karen Hoopman Mrs M H Moore Nancy Orth and Alan Seabrooke highlight talent, enjoyment, and minimal fuss in production.
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Waldo Embretson of St Olaf thanks the Elgin merchants and businessmen for the jackpot won last Saturday afternoon. Gratitude is sincerely expressed for the support and assistance received.
The Arlington News notes a brutal winter with 34 degrees below zero at Waterloo and lower readings in Cresco Oelwein Manchester Cedar Rapids Dubuque while Burlington sits at 10 below. March 2 readings improved to 13 below Waterloo and 11 below Oelwein. The 1961 62 winter has 56 percent of snowfall and may become a record. Schools missed days but some have started making up time.
Attorney General Evan Hultman has announced his bid for re election. At a Des Moines GOP rally he denied plans for a gubernatorial run. In 14 months in office he has pushed for sharper enforcement of laws against public officials and organized crime. He was elected to the U S Attorneys General Association executive committee. Previously he served twice as Black Hawk County Attorney. The state Board of Control realigned counties for state mental institutions to balance patient loads, effective April 1, with no patient exchanges planned. Independence gets 30 percent of the population.
Sen. John Gray of Os kaloosa was found dead in the basement of his farm home. He killed himself with a shotgun and left two notes citing nervousness. Gray served three terms in the House before moving to the Senate in 1960.
Wadena News continues from page one listing Mrs. Alvin Key of Palo, Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Morse and Julia of Cedar Rapids, Mrs. Lavanda Squires and family of Arlington, Mrs. Mabel Larson and family of Elkader, and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Morse of Wadena.
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