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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1963
Page
4
An Iowa City announcement promotes fall enrollment starting September 18 for Linotype, journalism training, and high earning trades. The ad notes Smith Corona typewriters and a five year warranty, with pricing aimed at competition while highlighting the Elgin Echo office.
Card of thanks expresses gratitude to Elgin friends for friendship kindnesses during years and recent weeks. Reflects on wealth as intangible security and well being, signed Mire Regina Hutchinson. Also thanks to Elgin fire department and to pastor Peterson. Includes hospital note for Shirieen Larson and a local family.
Robert Falb of Bob Falb Implement Co. praised a customer Ray Boleman for winning the Farmhand Feed master at the Dairy Cattle Congress. Boleman, who farms Mrs. Emory Dummermuth’s land between Elgin and West Union, also earned a transistor radio from Falb’s customer list. The mill was moved to Elgin on Monday and presented to Boleman.
Ern Fre derich, Clarence Ho nM Boyer and Kenneth Jet played a four way rummy tie break at Clair's Recreation on Tuesday. The players finished tied at 48 points each before Erin Friederich won the play off to claim the game.
At a Fayette County Board of Education meeting the election of two board members was canvassed Harry Olesen was re elected as member at large and Gus L Belschner as member from county elections area No 2 for six year terms Other board members listed include E A Billings Churchill Williams Max Medberry and A S Morse Billings was re elected chairman The county boards total twelve members after a merger of Chickasaw and Fayette counties marking the second such merger in the state
National Review details a British firm selling 47 radar predictors to the Pentagon for 2 145 739.60. The units were surplus and sold for 114 500, then resold to Portugal for 493 500. Portugal used U.S. funds to pay, netting the U.S. a profit of 2 524 739.60 while incurring shipping costs. Representative Richard Poff exposed the charges and flagged the shipping figures.
A scrambled OCR text lists new addresses for Howard Kittleson and Boeblinger Jr in New York APO 468. Mr. and Mrs. Holly H. Ev ang Jr. at 2425 Holmes Run Drive Falls Church Virginia. Alvin Lehman at 826 W. The magy No in Phoenix Arizona. Shatter Clifmont appears as another name.
Mrs Sidney Corbin spent Tuesday at Cedar Falls visiting Mrs Leland Halter. The Patterson family hosted a supper gathering with Faye Mafiten baugh Connie Terry Whittenbaugh and Floyd Patterson Jr and family. Escherville and Prairie du Chien guests included the Whit tenbaughs. Earl and Helen Rothlisberger from Elgin were guests, with Will Kerr and Pat Olson visiting. Olson’s son Pfe Olson, home on furlough from Fort Carson, Colorado.
Elgin locals hosted weekend guests including Mr. and Mrs. LeeRoy Larson Cedar Falls Mr and Mrs Leonard Moore Lewis and Mr and Mrs LeeRoy Larson at the Allan Anderson home. Kenneth Koupal Waterloo and Hulda Sutter hosted weekend and Sunday dinners with Larson and Moore cronies. Edgar Larson a caller Saturday morning in the Allan Anderson home is a teacher at Independence.
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