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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1958
Page
4
State officials urge local pickup of car supplies to ease routing from Des Moines. Reports say the Iowa Liquor Control Commission may advise the legislature to collect interest on state liquor store receipts held in Iowa banks. Banks currently pay no interest on these deposits as they are demand funds.
The legislature updated Iowa law to require ibanks to pay interest on deposits from other state funds, with nearly all Iowa banks involved. The state is now earning several thousand dollars annually in interest. Also noted are summer speed checks by the Iowa highway patrol with day and night patrols, a 60 mile night limit on rural highways, and fourteen radar detectors planned. Patrol Chief David Herrick says day speed info will go to the Town legislature next year. Two tax commission auditors, Warren Smith and Charles Hazelett, resigned.
The Iowa conservation commission plans to buy 160 acres of a 400 acre Cayler farm five miles west of Lake Okoboji in Dickinson county. The tract preserves native prairie grasses including wild onion for sightseers and students, with fencing to follow. The project accompanies other state developments, such as a separate $1 million Ames addition approved by a 4-1 vote. The George Washington honor medals were awarded to Des Moines Roosevelt high school, Farmers Trust and Savings Bank of Buffalo Center, and Frank Miller, a newspaper cartoonist. The Iowa State Sheriff's Association created an award of merit with LuAnn Walch of Waterloo receiving the first honor for aiding in capturing a wanted suspect.
Wadena News reports the club slate with officers including pres Mrs Kenneth Baldwin and sec Mrs Rubens plus treas Mrs Bill Probert. A silent auction occurred and a thank you from Woodward hospital for toys. The Den outing to Backbone State Park featured a wiener roast for Webelo boys. Kindergarten roundup planned May 23 at 2:00 pm with parents invited and state age rule for 1958-59 enrollment. Last day picnic set for May 29 with 1:30 pm bus return and new desks approved for grades 1-8. Senior class will be excused from school.
Kindergarten students anticipate sixth birthdays with class celebrations after school at Sally Frey home while five remain to reach six. May baskets and pretty flowers brighten the room as Mrs Haldwin and Mrs Frey receive thanks. Arlington convention speeches by Rev Roland Braulick highlight merger topics, with Iowa District Brotherhood led by President Herb Engelbrecht guiding the business. From The Arlington News.
St John Lutheran Church plans to host the Towa District Brotherhood Convention on June 7 8 with the theme Living Our Christian Vocation. Dr E Mueller Rural Church Program director National Lutheran Council will deliver the banquet address Saturday night as the congregation aims for a near record turnout. On Sunday morning the convention men are invited to attend the adult Bible class led by a local Brotherhood member.
Fayette County transfers list multiple parcels and names including Erla Jeanne Corkery and Arlo Joanna Corkery Lot 88 Herriman add Wadena May 12 1958. Fred F Behrens and wife. Dewey Lloyd and wife to Floyd C Dummermuth part NW frl NW frl and N1-28 1-2 NE frl 5 8 4 4 58. Grimes George and wife to Floyd C Dummermuth undivided 5-4 interest. others to Dummermuth with 4-14 interest. Lease Kimball Harold and wife to ...
William J A Miehe of the Oelwein area became the first to file for the 1960 Fay ette county board of supervisors on the Republican ticket. A farm owner for 32 years with long Farm Bureau service, he has served on the Maynard Consolidated school board and as a township trustee. He is married to Lena Schmidt, has three sons, drives a local school bus, and cites high tax base representation as his motive.
Ernest M. Peterman and wife hold a 50 50 basis in N12 SE SE 2 and S5A 1948 date 31-58. New Carl Kohler Walter Elgin Chev Sed 58 Sreitsprecher Glender F Arlington Chev 4dr 58. License towed. Schroeder Duane Paul 22 Randalia Janet Ll Behrend 19 Arlington.
A special day was set aside in Waukon to honor Art Sandbeck a veteran and longtime Northwestern Bell Telephone Company employee on his last day of work. He served 49 years with the firm before retirement. Other items list contracts between Behrens Otto and spouses and Richard Opperman and spouses with property descriptions, and a transfer from Cousing Clyde and wife to Daryl Humphrey and wife.
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