08 Aug 1968
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Newspaper
Iowa Le Mars Daily Sentinel
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1968
Page
1
Le Mars residents, including Mayor Rudy Adler, call for stiffer penalties as probation proves ineffective amid ongoing juvenile trouble. Four 18 year olds cited for cemetery vandalism face 30 days in county jail and labor for city offenses, highlighting gaps between courts, police, and families.
A personal reflection tracing seven decades from a 1908 childhood birthday through 1928 and beyond. The narrator recalls family life on a Hancock county farm, early education, and social changes as he grows into teaching, while recalling national events from Taft to Wilson and WWI.
A personal memoir span from 1938 to 1958 recounts a Iowa educator’s shifts between West Union and Le Mars, a leap to school administration, and family milestones. It threads Hoover and Smith, Truman and Dewey, postwar growth, and the dawn of the space era, grounding a four-decade career in changing america.
The column notes retirement after 52 years in education and public service in Le Mars. It reflects on the 1968 political climate and upcoming Centennial planning while hinting at future school system decisions and local priorities in 1969. Dwight Eisenhower is referenced as a past president during a turbulent era.
Buena Vista College president Wendell Q Halverson announced that Dr Harry Kalas will deliver the summer commencement address on August 17 in Storm Lake. Kalas recently retired as president of Westmar College and will assume the presidency of Colleges of Mid-America COMA which includes Buena Vista and Westmar.
Donors toward the Struble auction held at St. Joseph ice cream social on July 28 include Apco Adler's Sporting Goods Artistic Floral Bartels and Sandhuis Bowers Bendersons Bomgaars B and B store Carmen's Dress shop Coast to Coast Clara Owen Clear-Vue Deep Rock Dick's Mobil Dull law firm First National bank Flaherty insurance Fritz service Federal Savings and Loan Gerdes Drug Gambles Grotewold Harrisons Hottop Hentges Henn Electric Le Mars Dry Goods Farmers Mutual Lynn Card and Gift Luken's Lovely Drug Langers Feed Mauers Marie's Dress shop Meyler and Meyler A J Masuen National Food Le Mars Mutual Meis Feed and Seed Pews Spurgeon's Super America Athens Sieverding and Walsh Sherwin Williams Schenkelberg Swansons Tots and Teens Veale Lumber Vander Meer bakery Western Auto Randalls Young Villager Farmers elevator of Struble Frank Lehrman Lawrence Renken Don Nicholson Struble tavern Maxine Ohm Dwaynes grocery Maurice Mr and Mrs Merritt Hawkins Harold Jelken of Brunsville Siouxland Propane of Ireton Ireton bank Craig bank Pete's service Twig Halweg Norman Rohlfs Craig elevator Eilers Feed store Loren Lehrman Joe Ruhland and John Schlesser.
Robert J. Dull son of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Dull route 5 Le Mars is a Yale University student attending Army Reserve Officers Training Corps summer camp at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation Annville PA. The six week course covers leadership rifle marksmanship physical conditioning and other military subjects. Upon completion he may be commissioned as a second lieutenant after college graduation Gehlen high school graduate 1965. Mrs Minnie Boone visited Plymouth county home Monday with her daughter in law Mrs Loots along with Mrs Pike and Mrs Davis from California.
Lawrence C. Jurgenson, 50, of Hawarden, died Tuesday at Hawarden hospital. Born March 24, 1918, in Union County, South Dakota, he married Helen Morehead May 22, 1942, in Le Mars. Funeral Friday at Trinity Lutheran Church with Rev. O F Pittack officiating. Burial at Grace Hill Cemetery under Dow Funeral Home direction. Survivors include his wife, a daughter Mrs. Gorman Nygard, a grandson, three sisters Mrs. Russell Ericson, Mrs. Robert Morehead of Hawarden, and Mrs. Emil Nordling of Sioux Falls.
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