Reflections from Recorder Mirror Ten Years On
The Boy Scout troop 26 Greene hosts the community on Saturday April 9 at 10:00 for a planting project at Camp Eisenhower, a new Scout tract east of the railroad in the north town. Palm Sunday services at St John’s Lutheran Wil include ten confirmands three boys and seven girls. Barnhart acquires land from Laura Deal Estate adjoining Barnhart tract. Local families and Cedar Valley neighbors gather for weekend events and church services amid town developments and land transfers.
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Greene
Camp Eisenhower
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Wil
Chiss
Danna Jacobs
Shirley Kruse
Eileen de Buawer
Farn
Cedar Valley
Charles City
Margaret Leu
Roy
Kach
Ralph Wiel
15 Years Ago Mrs Van Horn Recovers From Major Operation
A readable local column recounts 15 years past notes including Mrs. Dick Van Horn’s satisfactory recovery after major surgery in Hampton. Furloughs arrive for Sgt. Mike Ramker in Greene, Ardean Landers moved with the 730th Army Air Force Band to Rosecrans Field Missouri, and servicemen connections to Great Lakes and Camp Oklahoma are noted along with various family mentions and early baseball practice.
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Dick van Horn
Hampton
Floyd
Mike’ Ramker
Greene
Hannah Ramker
Ramker
Blythbeville
Arkansas
Air Corps
Ardean Landers
W. A. Landers
Seven Hundred
Texas
Robert Curtis
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Chicago
Wiincis
Bob
Nellie Curtis
Eva Beattie
Port Beattie
Port
Camp Oklahoma
Merland Riley
Kansass
Austin
Local Briefs and Notices From Greene Area
Louis Nettleton of Greene area suffered damage to his left hand when a tire pump exploded causing two fingers to break last Thursday. An elevator office till was pried open during a nighttime theft, with $6.25 taken. Dr and Mrs Wm Andrews welcomed a daughter named Martha Grace born Saturday April 7. Pearl Belknap plans a new flower shop on the west side in the old power plant building selling potted and garden plants. Janice Hamilton of Fort Dodge visited her aunt Mrs Paul Hesalroad and husband last week. Railway crews toiled to clear wreckage of 13 freight cars from a Chicago Great Western bridge near Bristow, with estimated loss near $100,000.
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Louis Nettleton
Greene
Wm. Andrews
Marthal Grace
Pearl Belknap
Janice Hamilton
Fort Dodge
Paul Hesalroad
Chicago Great Western Railway
Bristow
Proposals Fail To Pass First Trial In Iowa Session
Proposals and the bill failed to obtain enough votes for passage on its first trial. A motion to reconsider was filed by Sen. J. T. Dykhouse. The bill was amended to keep only permission for consolidating offices in one county after removing merger and county manager sections. If 28 percent of voters petition, board of supervisors could call an election to authorize consolidating offices. Gov Loveless vetoed only one bill this session, calling a prior measure discriminatory toward exceptional children. Senate votes replaced the county coroner system with a county medical referee chosen by supervisors, requiring medical or osteopathic physicians. The House bill goes to the governor. changes would take effect in 1961. Verne Martin of Newton named new state chairman of the Iowa Republican party, succeeding L. L. Jurgemeyer. Martin, 65, formerly Maytag’s general sales manager, says GOP needs steady growth rather than revolution. Official paper of Butler County and Greene, published weekly. Wayne C. Fischer, editor. Joyce Bliss, society editor.
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House
Herschel Loveless
House of Representatives
Igbate
Senate
J. T. Dykhouse
Rock Rapids
Board of Supervisors
Herschel C. Loveless
Loveless
Iowa Republican Party
Verne Martin
Newton
L. L. Jurgemeyer
Clinton
Martin
Maytag Company
Maytag
Artin
Iowa
Town Senate Votes to Hire Single Tax Director
The Town Senate voted to hire one tax director instead of three state tax commissioners. The change would take effect in 1963 with the governor appointing the commissioner, subject to Senate consent. The appointee must be a lawyer or accountant with ten years of experience and would earn $15,000 annually, up from $6,500 for current commissioners. continued on page 8) h
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Town Senate
State Tax Commission
Senate
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Irving Raden
Albert Hama
Jer
Beb G. E. Lambert
Puhl
Interstate Power
Capitol News
Iowa Press Association
Iowa Senate
Lind
Ralph Marsh Gue
Paul Stubbe
Aredale
The
Greene Recorder
Neighboring
Com
Butler County
City of
Wayne C. Fischer
Joyce Bliss
Dougherty
Fouth
Butler
Davis Gil Company
Texaco
Greene High School
Red” Blanchard
WLS
KSMN
Mason City
Red Blanchard
Your Greene, Iowa
Sary
Authenti
Cally
Davis Oil Company
Greene, Iowa
Regu
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