Library News roundup highlights new books and authors
Doris Kaas reports additions to library shelves across genres including Rachel Carson The Sea Around Us and The Gila River of the Southwest by Edwin Corle. New fiction spans The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat and The President's Lady by Irving Stone, with biographies and regional works such as My Neck of the Woods by Louise Dickinson Rich and Let the Guns Roar by Charles Heckelman.
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Rachel Carson
Ocean
Gila
Edwin Corle
Max Winkler
Milo Myers
Fred Edgar
Foundling
Francis Spellman
New York
Louise Dickinson Rich
Neck of the Woods
Maine
Herschel Brickell
Ing
Irving Stone
Rachel
Andrew Jackson
Wilhelm Moberg
Sholem Aseh
Moses
Pharaoh
Gordon Web
Zenas
B. Priestley
Mazo de la Roche
Elizabeth Taylor
Harriet
Vesey
Faith Baldwin
Liza
Adeline McElfresh
Vocational Students Tour John Deere Plant
Sixty Eldora High School students from industrial arts and vocational agriculture classes toured the John Deere Tractor Company plant in Waterloo. The group split into units for tours of the foundry paint shops machine shops and loading dock with 45 students later visiting the drafting department to observe assembly drawing methods guided by instructors Russel Hansen and Charles Smith.
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Eldora High School
John Deere Tractor Company
Waterloo
Russel Hansen
Charles Smith
Belated Clampitt family Christmas dinner near Eldora
New Providence residents recall a belated Christmas gathering at Wendell Clampitt’s home west of Eldora honoring the late Frank T. and Eva Mulford Clampitt family. Attendees include Olson of Iowa Falls Slife family from Marion and others from Central City Ames and Harrisonburg VA. James Slife, a WWII veteran, recently discharged after overseas service in Korea.
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Frank T
Eva Mulford Clampitt
Wendell Clampitt
Eldora
Lowell Olson
Iowa Falls
Laura Slife
Central City
James Slife, Jr
Marion
Arthur Clampitt
Wallace Martin
Dean Clampitt
Roy Clampitt
Richard Clampitt
Ames
Santa Claus
James Slife
Vernon Reece
Charmaine
Brian
Harrisonburg
Bernard Reece
Harry Clampitt
Iowa
East University Ave
Des Moines
Clampitt
Frederick Marsh
Honey Creek
Uariette
Howard Wilson
Rockford, Tr
Mr. Wilson
James Wilson
Lawr
First Grade through Kindergarten Student News Recap
A weekly school bulletin notes reading plays and books for third and second graders, plus stories and poems. Mentions perfect attendance for several students in the first semester, new students joining, a birthday celebration, and the departure of two pupils to Eldora and Pennsylvania.
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Mary McCarthy
Linda Murray
Phillip Reece
Kennerly Reece
George Cummins
Karen Knudsen
Lance Minear
Douglas Reece
Linda White
Dorothy Aldis
Roger Struck
Keith Young
Marianna Rains
Chico
Charles Wood
Billie Williams
Bobby Schelling
Miles Mitchell
Marlys Dreier
Leslie Clampitt
Tommy Lawler
Sharon Walton
Marvin Kuhlman
Eldora
Ivan Iwasvcenka
Pennsylvania
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