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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1968
Page
4
Classified notice offering a downstairs apartment for rent in Durant Iowa. Includes contact details Mrs. Oliver Hansen Durant Iowa 52747 and a phone number 785-4405. Ad notes rent rate 34.35 cents hinting at historical pricing.
Social Security era card of thanks from John Howard Jr. expresses gratitude for cards gifts visits and phone calls received during hospital and reforming home stay. Contains handwritten garbled text but conveys appreciation from the individual.
The Elgin Local News notes numerous weekend and Sunday visits among local families including Kohls Kleppe Mitts Martin Reibert son Cila Abell Reierson Alton Stafe and Orvin Reierson. Funeral attendance for Mel Vick at Decorah Lutheran Church is listed with many relatives visiting nearby homes during the period.
Two Upper Iowa College students present four years of work in a senior art exhibit opening Wednesday, May 15. Karen Saatcamp of Villa Park Illinois and Delores Steenblock of New Hampton display oil paintings watercolors drawings and prints in Wilder Addition David B Henderson Library lobby. A public reception is scheduled from 7 to 9 pm and the show runs through June 1 during library hours.
Readers ask about survivor benefits for children of working mothers and eligibility for a severely disabled widower. The 1967 amendments loosened the rules, deeming children dependent on a fully insured mother and allowing monthly support payments to a severely disabled widower if disability began before or within seven years after his wife’s death.
Payments under the 1967 national wool program are under way in Fayette County. As of April 18, 1968, payments on shown wool and unshown lambs total $9,962.29. The payments aim to raise producers' sales returns to the supported level while lamb payments encourage normal marketing and discourage unusual lamb shearing.
Town Democrats estimate at least half the delegates to the state convention May 24 and 25 in Des Moines favor Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Local leaders claim Kennedy backers won minor victories at county conventions while McCarthy supporters push a low share, with many delegates uncommitted awaiting Humphrey.
Mr and Mrs Archie Howard and Ann and Mrs Alice Winkler were dinner guests Sunday of Mrs Anne Howard. GIRL S WHITE PUMPS 2 49 Thoma s Mrs Olaf Olson and Miss Emily Oslund Lee Roy Minn were dinner and supper guests Saturday in the Cornelius Reierson home. Mrs Ole Loftsgard was a caller Saturday Mr and Mrs Clarence Anfinson Mrs Clarence Nesvik and Ruth West Union were Wednesday supper guests.
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