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Newspaper
Greene Recorder
Location
Greene, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1960
Page
8
The annual picnic for young players in the summer baseball program and their parents was held Friday evening at Helery Woods State Park. About fifty people attended the event. A short program followed with Ressler, coach and instructor of this year’s program, presiding.
Elmer Smith, a Cedar Valley Hospital patient in Charles City since a fall at home caused a fractured hip, was transported by ambulance to the Amiens Convalescent Home for care.
A flurry of family visits unfolds with Mr and Mrs MooG Waugh hosting guests in Minnesota while relatives travel from Missouri to Leeton and Duluth. Verland Brown party and Janmice visit Milan residents as Eliasons suffer tornado damage. Walter Heme recuperates from a stroke. LeMaster family gatherings celebrate Virgil’s return from Japan. California and Detroit visitors join Clarksville and Waverly relatives. Alt Klunder buys Eldon Hirsch basement home. Shell Rock leases W M Daly property. Hardy returns from California. Detroit and Tucson travelers visit Mary Muller’s family as Rosa Carter and Ida Lodge host guests.
A weekly Iowa Press Association release notes every Iowa delegate returned from Chicago with a prize moment, featuring a photo of the delegate shaking hands with the party.
Vice President Nixon toured Iowa meeting the delegation and pledging support for a strong farm program. He promised a broader campaign in the Midwest and expressed willingness to campaign with Republican nominee Noin Erbe and others. Miller emerged as the Republican Senate nominee after the state convention in Des Moines on July 19.
The Iowa Democratic party endorsed a constitutional convention to reform state government and reapportionment. In the July 23 platform the party urged fair representation and proposed apportioning the house by population and the senate by geography. Lt. Gov. Edward McManus proposed dividing the state into 50 districts of at most two counties each.
Bennedette Wesleyan Methodist Church lists Sunday School at 10:00 am Worship at 11:00 am and evening services at 8:00 pm Youth activity and choir practice at 7:00 pm Also St Johns Lutheran Wilmar Congregational study at 8:45 am. Donald Norberg Democratic state chairman and former Albia newspaperman passed re election in 1958 with salary of 10 000 per year and two year term.
Arch McFarlane of Waterloo, a prominent Iowa legislator, died July 24 from a heart attack while at the Republican convention. He served in both the House and Senate, including two terms as speaker and also as lieutenant governor. He presided at the senate opening as retiring lieutenant governor and was sworn in as a returning member of the house on the same day. His career spanned 42 years with 10 years spent out of public office.
Robert Halleck Jr., 17, of Dubuque, briefly gained national attention as one of the introducers of President Eisenhower. He was among the few Iowans to be introduced to the tune On the Banks of the Wabash, while Chicago musicians confused him with Charles Halleck of Indiana.
Mrs Bess Cowden a 63 year old Sid ney Iowa member of the COP platform committee pushed for federal aid for school construction to be included in the party platform. The proposal was removed by a sub committee then reinstated by the main committee amid her objections. Highway 80 tops state traffic with Cedar Rapids area peaking at 19340 vehicles daily and Ames at 18490 while plans to relocate part of Highway 30 between Marshalltown and Ogden aim to bypass several towns due to heavy volume.
Morning worship at 9 30 a m with sermon by Rev H E Buss. Sunday school at 10 30 a m. Congregation worship at 10 a m, jet cadets meet at 7 p m, junior choir from 5 to 7 p m, morning service at 11 a m.
Faith Baptist Church in Marble Rock led by Pastor Vern Prugh holds Sunday School at 10 00 a.m. and a morning worship service follows with the community invited to attend.
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