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Newspaper
Greene Recorder
Location
Greene, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1963
Page
2
Bethel Baptist Church members held their monthly fellowship supper and quarterly business meeting in the church basement. Mr and Mrs Maynard Reed hosted the evening and delegates from Town Stowe were to be elected at the church meeting.
Lion's Club met Thursday evening in the basement. Women of the Church served the meal. Guest Bob Goetzinger displayed photos he took while serving with the U. S. Armed Forces in France. He shared images from travels through France, Italy, and Switzerland.
The Moniny Family Fellowship held a post dinner gathering at the Methodist Church ending with a song. The Willard Feltus family will host the next Family Fellowship, scheduled for the first Sunday in November.
A turkey supper at St. Marys Catholic Church Roseville fed 1132 to 1200 people in the new auditorium of the school building Sunday evening. Cooks and waitresses served a report noted a crowd touring the completed building. Also, the Contract Bridge Club met with Mrs. Willard after a seven welock dessert luncheon at the dye tables, won by Mrs. Id Merfeld with Weldon Sult second.
The Baptist Missionary Circle met Thursday at the church for fall cleaning. The afternoon included the regular business meeting and a program run by Mrs Walter Marsh who announced reservations for the bus trip to the Fall Rally at Fredericksburg and St Paul.
New resident Mr and Mrs Hoger Merfeld celebrate the birth of a daughter at Cedar Valley Hospital Charles City on Wednesday October 2. The infant is named Anne Mare and joins siblings Julia and John in welcoming her home.
Marble Rock fire crews were called Sunday just after noon to a fire in a ditch east of the dump. The blaze, caused by burning trash at the dump, was driven by strong winds but was controlled with no extensive damage.
Marble Rock area residents swap visits across Wisconsin and Iowa, with John Doe and Don Newton returning from Hayward Wisconsin. Ardene Majewski and Harry Fisher guests in Mason City. football tie between Dows and Rudd Rockford Marble Rock. church events and hospital updates mark a busy week as relatives, scouts, and friends travel between Greene Mason City and beyond.
The Iowa Employment Security Commission relocates to a new three story building near the Iowa Capitol in Des Moines. The $1.6 million facility features a prominent wood carving titled spirit of the new age by Des Moines artists Gordon Keyte and Neal Cassidy. The move will finish next month as the state plans social security number collection for driver licenses to aid tax enforcement. Cuts to dependent children grants affect about 3000 families next month. Local social notes include visits by the Kingery, Beane, and Hoil families with relatives in Waverly, Storm Lake, and Grafton.
The board of social welfare announced an ADC funding reduction due to a shortfall in appropriation amid a rise in ADC rolls. About 5,800 ADC families with no income besides ADC would not be cut. Iowa's fiscal 1963 tax take was $47.76 per $1,000 of personal income, ranking 37th among the 50 states, with only 13 states below Iowa in state tax burden.
The new commission overturned a prior decision to build Highway No 2 from Centerville west relocating the route north of the present road. The proposed project would cost about 2.2 million dollars for 124 miles and was supported by a petition signed by 147 residents.
The commission approved resurfacing of the present road at an estimated cost of 180000 dollars. It also reports Sioux City has the state's highest unemployment rate with 3.5 percent of its workforce unemployed in August, up from 2.7 percent a year ago, while state unemployment fell from July to August from 30700 to 25800.
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