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Newspaper
Greene Recorder
Location
Greene, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1959
Page
8
A California visitor died in Des Moines after a hospital transfer. The report names Mr and Mrs Pyde Youve of Des Moines and mentions Herbert EK Wilcox and a son. Details are uncertain due to partial OCR.
Mrs. George Hoodier Sr. underwent surgery Monday at the hospital in Waverly. The U and I Club will meet Wednesday afternoon at the home of Lyle Racie with Mrs. Wedeking assisting. St Nogle Grand Circle will meet next Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Ira Capa.
Local note reports Sergeant Klunder visiting his parents with family at their residence. Details on date or location unavailable in the fragment.
The couple Mr Paul Gallmeyer and Mrs Gallmeyer welcomed a son born July 27 at Waverly Hospital. The newborn joins the family with proud parents and relatives notified of the addition.
Clarksville locals report visits and property transfers including Carl Polk purchasing the north part of town known as the late Mrs Franziska Engel ome. Mrs. Lowe and Shirley spend the week in Marietta Ohio while the Woman's Relief Corps meets at Mrs Wordes home with seven members and a tray lunch.
Worth Kansas residents report weekend visits from relatives and friends. Mr and Mrs K D Crowley hosted Worth guests including Mr and Mrs Reg Nordman and family from Minnesota. Larry Klunder of Mason City stayed with his parents Art and Khinder. Otis Eton and Lynn of Waterloo joined C W Bailey household Friday. Jor Kowalski and Mary Jo of Dubuque spent the weekend with Harry Drakle. Sunday dinners featured Otto Everding Nora Springs and Karl Rinnels Waterloo among others.
Miss Alma Olson of Waterloo is noted. Mrs Maude Scott has visited with Mrs John Crawford of Allison. The 41 year old legislator was hospitalized for heart ailment during the 1959 session.
The fifty fourth annual Towa Summer Picnic will be held in Long Beach California on Saturday August 8. Master of ceremonies is Marshall Craig formerly of Allison. Officers include Harry Rutfridge president and Erma Ruffridge secretary. Marshall Craig and Harry Ruffridge are pictured hanging the picnic banner.
Davenport legislator Ken Stringer announces his candidacy, entering the race for state representative. He outlines goals focusing on taxes, education funding, and economic development in his campaign rollout. Stringer emphasizes service, experience, and dedication to constituents.
Hollywood star Rex Allen headlines the North Iowa Fair Rodeo of Champions in Mason City for four performances August 13 and 14 at the fair grandstand. The event features bareback riding steer wrestling calf roping and Brahma bull riding with Roberts Rodeo Company providing stock. Rex Allen and his horse Ko ko lead a lineup praised as the biggest rodeo in local memory.
Red Foley ABC star will headline the 1959 National Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo October 3 to 10. He appears October 6 and 7 with two shows daily at 2 30 and 7 00 pm. The Hippodrome hosts four entertainment packages across the eight day exposition with Red Foley joined by Jubilee Promer and a famed dance team.
Larson of Oelwein was arrested in Greene Saturday night by Highway Patrolman Roy Hauser. Mayor Starkweather provided the license number. Larson, driver of a stolen car belonging to William Fisk of Oelwein, faced a driving without a license charge and pled guilty in Justice Court, receiving five days in county jail, then handed to Fayette County on a vehicle larceny charge. Homer of Dumont pleaded guilty to first offense operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated before Judge Wild, with a $200 fine and $23.40 costs.
Rep. Clark McNeal of Belmond died of pneumonia at age. He served in five legislative sessions and was House Majority Leader in the last session.
Robert Larson elected chief justice of the Iowa Supreme Court and will serve until January 1, 1967. A former attorney general, he has been on the bench since 1953, with the chief justice position rotated among justices every six months.
James Phillip Hoffa Jr son of Teamsters president Janes Hoffa has applied for admission to the State University of Iowa at Iowa City. The young Hoffa was an all state football player at Detroit last fall.
The 1960 Iowa Department Ameri can Legion convention will be in Des Moines following a Cedar Rapids state convention decision. John W. Moore of Osage was elected commander of the Iowa Department.
Governor Loveless told Cedar Rapids that Iowa’s economic cultural and social progress draws young people to stay or settle. He said the state’s forward momentum ends ridicule of it as a hayseed land.
For sale items listed under Dutchess AP pl es by W A Landers. Contact by phone 20 F 3 for details and pricing.
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