Guthrie County Beef Producers Seek County Queen Applicants
Guthrie Center hosts Bar-B-Q Girls night as 18 to 21 year olds who are Guthrie County Beef Producers members and active in beef production may enter a county queen contest. Candidates will be interviewed Sunday night at Machell Park with about 300 expected attendees and a picnic to follow. If rain moves the event to the fair grounds 4-H building. Verle Jensen notes 325 plus attendees likely. pit beef and beverages provided. families bring potluck items. band to entertain. directors handle serving.
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Guthrie County
Machell park
Guthrie Center
Lonnie Blass
Guthne county Beef Producers
Culbertson Bond Granted After Accident Case
Bagley man James Culbertson was released on $1000 bond after a week in county jail for leaving the scene of an accident that killed Mark Winters. The suspect was later arrested in Bagley when his car matched the vehicle at the scene and was bound over to the grand jury. he faced a driving while license under suspension charge with a 10 day jail sentence.
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James Culbertson
Bagley
Culbertson
Mark the Winters
Yale
Commission Sets Speed Limit Through Bagley on 141
The Iowa Highway Commission has set new speed limits through Bagley on Highway 141 and the Town Council concurred. The 25 mph zone is eliminated and the 35 mph zones are raised to 45 mph. The changes take effect once signs are changed.
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Iowa Highway Commission
Bagley
Newspaper subscription notice for 1971 renewal
Notice informs subscribers to check the date stamped after their name on page one. If it shows 771 the paper expires this month and will be stopped in August 1971 unless renewed. The text is garbled but indicates a renewal reminder for New Jersey newspaper readers.
Four Area Deaths in Menlo Stuart and Guthrie County
Four area obituaries list Henry Wert 89 former Menlo oil station operator died in Indianola. Ella Chamber 72 Stuart died in Iowa Methodist Hospital. Ace B Compton 90 Newstead Invermont live stock buyer died. Vinon Thompson 73 retired Guthrie Center plumber died Guthrie County Hospital services held. survivors include spouses children and grandchildren with locations in Indianola Denver Guthrie Center Des Moines San Diego and Landon.
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MENLO
Knoxville
Henry Wert
Indianola
Wert
Sandard
Ray Gause
Beidleman Funeral Home
Ella Chamber
Stuart
Iowa Methodist hospital
Jerry Palmer
Stuart area
Union Cemetery
BAGLEY
Methodist
Vinon Thompson
Thompson
Guthrie County Hospital
William Morehouse
Highland township
Viola
Ronald Coleman
Landon
George Drake
Coon Rapids
Vera Terrell
Des Moines
Virgil Baker
San Diego
Calif
Burdette
Guthrie Center
Guthrie Center Chamber Set Tuesday Morning Meeting
Guthrie Center Chamber of Commerce schedules a meeting for Tuesday at 9 30 in the Iowa Electric office. President Giff Covault urged all members to attend.
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Guthrie Center
Bill Lloyd Is Westmar Grad
A Guthne Center student list adds Bull Loyd to the Westmar college graduates. Bull Loyd, son of Mr and Mrs LeRoy Loyd, earned an Industrial Arts degree from Westmar College in Le Mears last month as part of the 220 graduates.
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Guthne Center
Bull Loyd
LeRoy Lloyd
Industral Arts
Westmar college
LeMears
May Weather Summary in Guthriel Records
May was cool and damp with 6.01 inches of rain total. The heaviest rainfall 1.90 inches on May 18. Average day temperature 68 and average night 45. Eight nights below 40 degrees, coldest 30 on May 3. A five day warm spell produced temperatures in the 80s, peak 85 on May 15.
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Guthriel
Summer library reading program opens for area children
Panora invites four year olds through sixth graders to a Wednesday start on June 16, continuing weekly through July 21 at the local library. Adaire holds the 16th Chuck War on Day Thursday evening at Adair city park with a Chuck Wagon dinner from 5:30 to 8:30. Stuart reports about 40 girls will work as candy stripers at Community Care Center this summer under supervision of Susan Wallace and Jolene Lorsdale. work is volunteered. Casey notes new appointments at annual conference of the United Methodist Church. Rev Wayne Hoehrs returns for a fourth year at Adair, New Bethel, and Casey churches. Panora plans a unified school next fall with a real board to be announced later. Stuarts notes Patt Walt Rizo funeral services held last week at St. Marys Catholic Church. he had been ill for months. Bayard reports Waste Brown reelected to board of directors at Bay and Farmers Cooperative Elevator. Jack Tiel to replace Im Hagan. Bagley announces Eagles Community Rescue Unit arrival. staffed by volunteer firemen and others who finished Red Cross first aid. Chevrolet van equipped for rescue work.
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ADAIR
STUART
Community Cire Center
Wre
Susan Wallace
Jolene Lorsdale
CASEY
Jamie Thomas
Tosted
PANORA
sone onGearested
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regenil
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Patt
Walt Rizo
AW Saurts
Cooperative Elevator Company
Waste Brown
Jack Tiel
Im Hagan BAGLEY
new
Eagles
Red Cross
Chevrolet
Youth Admits To Setting Friday Fire
A 14 year old Guthrie Center youth admitted to county law enforcement officials Saturday that he set fires in the basement of the United Methodist church Friday afternoon. Damage was minor, limited to smoke and a burned church flag, with a stove left on and a phone book used to start the blaze. Hazel Moore alerted authorities when she saw smoke. the youth, who was planning a camping trip, was to be sent to juvenile authorities.
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Guthrie Center
United Methodist church
Hazel Moore
Brown
Leon
Fire set in three spots at Methodist Church basement
Firemen answered Friday night to a blaze in the Methodist Church basement. Burners on a stove ignited a telephone book and paper, while another photo shows the church flag burned to ashes.
Roads in for Work Roads in for Work
County engineer Bill Stone outlines ongoing and upcoming paving projects across Gutrie County including two completed phases. Eight miles of concrete paving south from 44 on the Adair cutoff road and a final two inches of blacktop from highway 25 east to Monteith push toward open roads with more salt treated base surfacing planned south of Jamaica and along routes to Adair Fansler and the Dallas county line. A new Panora Stuart resurfacing, a north end rebuild, and a replacement bridge south of Coon Rapids are also pending with costs estimated near 988 008.
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highway 25
Monteith
Adair
Jamaica
Gutrie
Stone
Fansler
Dallas county
Dallas
Redfield
Olesen
Coon Rapids
Brushy Creek
Wool Vote Being Done By Mail
A producer referendum on the wool and lamb market development program runs by mail from June 7 to 18, led by Guthrie County ASC chair John Crabb. Eligible wool producers aged six months or more and in 1970 can vote on continued 1 percent wool deductions and 70 cents per hundredweight on unshorn lambs, with ballots due by close of business June 18.
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John Crabb
ASC commiti&tee
Guthrie county
ASCS
Freeman Receives 60 Days in Panora Altercation
Mike Freeman was sentenced to 60 days in county jail after a Monday hearing in SE Robinson's JP court. The sentences run concurrently after he was found guilty of assault and battery and malicious mischief from a Saturday Panora altercation. Freeman assaulted Weaver Madison, a partner in Panora’s Plumbing and Heating business, with property damage including a screen door.
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Mike Freeman
pal
S E Robinson
JP court
Panora
Freeman
Weaver Madison
Guthrie Center’s Newest Business Opens This Week
Meeks and Meeks Guthrie Centers debut a remodeled storefront on East 44 near Midway Oil Co Verna's Restaurant and Dairy Sweet run by Mrs Verna Bates offering short orders and dinners. See ad elsewhere in the edition.
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Guthrie Centers
east
Midway Oil Co
Verna’s
Verna Bates
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