30 Jan 1953
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Newspaper
Hardin County Index
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1953
Page
1
Three new one story modified ranch homes in the Vinton Construction Project on 19th Avenue will be shown Sunday from 1 to 5 PM. Homes owners include Mr and Mrs Claude Pfander Mr and Mrs George Rubow and Dr and Mrs R C Rogers who plan to move in soon.
The Eldora March of Dimes fund will be swelled by two benefit events today and tomorrow. A skating party at the local rink will feature activities for all ages and proceeds go to the national March of Dimes campaign. Local sponsors include United Food Market and Smith.
The Cashway Super Market repeats its annual bake sale with cake mix offered for donors. Last year’s sale raised over fifty dollars. City chairman Robert Longenecker reported forty seven dollars and twenty cents was collected for the March of Dimes during a Friday basketball intermission.
Lt Evard Mossman has been recalled into the air force. He was in Omaha Monday and will remain there until the end of the school term, when the family hopes to join him at camp.
With the February term looming no successor to the late Judge Sherwood Clock had been appointed. Governor Beardsley’s reluctance to name a new judge for the seventh judicial district puzzles county officials and attorneys. Leading contenders include James L. Cameron and Harvey Ablenhopp, Cameron favored by Hardin and Story County bars. A delegation from Eldora backed Cameron after Hardin’s recommendation to the governor. New docket lists include ten new law and equity cases, seven divorces, two probate matters, and a suit by Lyn Roe against H J Wood for Iowa Falls funeral homes.
At the Hubbard Farmers Cooperative Elevator annual meeting stock holders elected two new directors Walter Engel king and Irving Faust. Everett Strothe reelected to the board named president for the year Walter Balvant elected vice president and Harley Faust secretary. 1952 sales were the largest in company history with cash dividends of 68202.84 paid to patrons. A noon dinner at Hubbard school served by the Mothers Club to 144 stockholders and patrons.
Mobile chest x ray units will visit Eldora Iowa Falls Ackley and Hubbard starting tomorrow with hours from 300 to 530 and 630 to 900 in Eldora Iowa Falls and Ackley. Hubbard hours are 1030 to 130 and 200 to 600. The program by Hardin County Tuberculosis and Health Association offers free screening to all adults and students seven grade age and up.
Eldokra High School reported a second crime in three weeks as about 95 dollars in cash vanished from the office fund. Superintendent Fred K. Schmidt said the theft occurred after hours Wednesday and was discovered Thursday by Mrs. June Watts. The cash drawer had been pried open after entry through the office door, with a theft pattern matching two prior incidents. Checks were left undisturbed and investigators, including Sheriff Paul Hodgson and a state agent, pursued fingerprints while linking the case to earlier Bateson Building office thefts and a county office loss of 24 dollars last week.
Walter Murphy arrived from Tacoma Washington to visit James A Nehring in Hubbard after 36 years. Orphaned when young, James was adopted by the Nehrings while Walter lived with a Minnesota family. They plan another summer meeting and a future trip to New York to see a younger sister.
Funeral services were held Thursday at 1 30 from Longenecker Funeral Home for George Dickenson who died after a long illness. Rev W L Beasley officiated with interment in Eldora cemetery. Music by Donald LaVeile and Mrs C R Joh. Pallbearers were Clegn Vieman Wayne Cas ter EB F Steelman Robert Bruns Omer Hubvard and Harry Stebe. Dickenson born Feb 27 1889 in Ringgold County Iowa was married to Myrtle Ray in Kirksville Missouri. He lived in Grundy County Woodward Oklahoma Missouri and Iowa before settling in Eldora 14 years ago to farm. Survived by wife two sons Basil Union and Jesse Benicia Calif a grandson Kenneth Robarts and six other grandchildren. Also three brothers John Dickenson Iowa Falls Ira and Charley Washington. three sisters Nellie Dollie Daisy all of Washington. Three daughters Doratty Mary Wanda preceded him in death along with brothers Jesse and Eslit Dickenson.
Samuel S. Byerly, age 61, died at home after an acute asthma attack. He was born March 28, 1882 in Petersburg Nebraska, married Grace Elizabeth Robinson in 1923, and had worked 23 years as a baker at the state training school. Funeral at First Methodist Church, Eldora, with interment in Eldora Cemetery. survived by wife, three daughters, two brothers, seven grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.
Mrs. Ervin Myers narrowly escaped serious injury in an odd incident near Eldora when a door opened and she fell onto the pavement. Her husband, Mr. Myers, stopped the car and rushed back to find she suffered only scratches and bruises.
A complete closing-out sale announced by Irvin Stole and the Beau pin estate will be held next Thursday, February 3, starting at 10 30 a m. near Hubbard on Highway 65, one mile north and one mile west. Livestock totals 142 head with farm machinery, equipment, buildings and household goods also on offer. Lunch will be served on grounds by Gifford Church ladies.
A joint meeting of the School Advisory Group and Eldora board weighs options for a new elementary building. They consider tearing down existing wards to add space, the challenges of relocating five grades, and the tax impact of funding. Deliberations reflect urgency due to rising congestion in lower grades and uncertain state or federal aid.
Friends of the late Sam Greensweig report the memorial fund has totaled 134 dollars by Wednesday afternoon. Of that amount 90 dollars went to the Greensweig family, with the rest brought to the Herald-Index office by community members. Mathew Greensweig says funds will buy urgently needed Eldora Hospital equipment and any surplus may support the local March of Dimes drive. He will consult with Dr. L L Roberts about priorities for the hospital. Collections continue at the Herald-Index office.
Monday reports from Blondmobile workers count sixteen four time repeat donors. Named individuals include George Janssen Lee Lundy Keith Strother Rev Imes C H Cockerham L M L Munsinger M Emmert and Dr Colin Go of Rauges.
A Rolanda Steamboat report lists Mrs Willard Donaldson Babe Howerr both of Virion Adrian Bachman and Hubbard as named individuals connected to the case or event.
Starry Rotary members voted to present the badge held by the late Sam Greensweig to his wife Mrs Freida Greensweig. President Edwin Anderson was delegated to make the presentation.
In Eldora South Hardin the Bloodmobile set a new milestone with 241 pints collected Monday. The high school gym served as headquarters from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and a line formed before opening. Nearly 300 people were processed. 59 percent were rejected for colds or recent illnesses, while 66 walk-ins were turned away due to local staff limits. School staff, townspeople, and state training school members participated, with several area superintendents and 18-year-old students among donors.
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