Coffee-time memories and local notes across Iowa towns
This week’s column blends light local color with brief notices. It mentions historical U.S. Marines leaving Haiti and old dial telephone stats, political gossip about Rockefeller, and a Vermont-style trip through Pella for tulip festival prep. It also covers social visits in Ames, bake sale plans, Westmar College speech success, a federal rating for Le Mars Co. A, court fines in Mayors and Lamar, Mo., and a string of highway patrol fines for speed and flag violations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arian D. Endorf Le Mars
Beasley
S. D. Arendt
Lamar
Arlyn Terpenning
Wilbur W. Gooch
Sheldon
Dennie D. McDougall
Laverne
Laverne, Minn
Carl E. Helmquist
Cherokee
Town and Country Drive Inn Sold to Brauchalski Pair
Mrs. Clara Brauchalski and her son Jack announce the purchase of the Town and Country Drive Inn from Ron Kelly and will take over operations on Wednesday May 15. Jack has been involved in another highway restaurant, while Clara has worked there. Kelly has run the Town and Country for five years and has ties to Farm Bureau Insurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara Brauchalski
Jack
rand Country Drive
Ron Kelly
highway
Mr. Kelly
Town and Country Drive
Farm, Bureau Insurance
Town and Country Drive Inn
Clara
Weber in limbo awaiting psychiatric eval and trial
Officials face a quandary over Gerhard Albert Weber 16 Sioux City charged with stabbing a Morningside housewife. He remains jailed as arraignment ordered psychiatric evaluation under maximum security conditions. Options include transport to Cherokee hospital or secure treatment at Anamosa. Trial halted until he is fit to stand trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerhard Albert Weber
Sioux City
Morningside
Weber
Le Mars
Cherokee mental hospital
Woodbury county
Cherokee
Anamosa
James Kelley Attends Air Force Assembly
James Kelley son of Judge and Mrs James P Kelley was one of two State University of Iowa students chosen to represent the university at the fifth annual air force assembly in Colorado Springs from April 3 to 6. He is a SUI senior and 1959 Gehlen graduate with seminars led by Dean Rusk as principal speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Kelley
James P. Kelley
State University of Iowa
university
air force assembly
Colorado Springs
Dean Rusk
James
SUI
Gehlen
Held watershed project approved by House committee
Congressman Charles B. Hoeven said the House Committee on Agriculture approved the Held watershed project, with 7 420 acres in Plymouth County sponsored by the Soil Conservation District and Board of Supervisors. The plan will aid Hinton and 28 farms by reducing flood and erosion damage, federal funding totaling 441 068, start this summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles B. Hoeven
the
Daily Sentinel
house committee on agriculture
Eason family hosts Japanese student visitors on farm weekend
Mrs. Joe Easton recalls a Briar Cliff College exchange weekend with two Japanese students from Kyoto, Mariko Tokuda and Mamiko Taoki. They toured the farm, discussed language lessons, kitchen customs, and cultural differences. The pair plan a Channel 4 program on Japan May 14 at 7:30 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Easton
Briar Cliff college
Sioux City
Farm Bureau
Mariko Tokuda
Mimika
Taoki
weevent
Mamika
Kyoto
Mamiko
Mariko
Japan
channel 4
Airman L Klemme Assigned to Amarillo AFB Tex
L Klemme the son of Marvin E and Mrs Klemme of route 3 Akron is reassigned to Amarillo AFB Texas for technical training as an air force administrative specialist after completing initial basic training at Lackland AFB.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. KLEMME
Marvin E. Klemme
route 3
Akron
Amarillo AFB
Tex
air force
Klemme
Lackland AFB
County 4 H annual club meet Friday night
Ply mouth county agricultural 4 H plans its annual meeting Friday at 7 45 p m in the girls 4 H building on the county fair grounds Officers for the coming year will be elected installed Aug 2 Current officers are Bob Nairn president Ralph Heet vice president Larry Radloff secretary treasurer and Paul Ahrendt historian Guest speaker George Abwunza a Westmar college senior will show colored slides and discuss Kenya Africa All 4 H members are urged to attend Also Billy Graham film Touch of Brass premieres Thursday at 8 p m at First Baptist church with World Wide Pictures presenting a drama and musical featurette plus a sing along segment led by Cliff Barrows Gehlen band concert set for Thursday at 8 p m in Gehlen auditorium featuring junior and senior bands and a trumpet trio directed by Larry Brazil with refreshments and a free will offering
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plymouth county agricultural 4H
Bob Nairn
Ralph Heet
Larry Radloff
Paul Ahrendt
George Abwunza
Westmar college
Abwunza
Kenya
Africa
Westmar
Billy Graham
First Baptist church
Graham
World Wide Pictures
Manchester
England
Cliff Barrows
Gehlen
Larry Brazil
Joint Westmar recital slated Wednesday evening
Two Westmar music faculty members present a joint recital in Thoren Auditorium as part of the Fine Arts festival. Free and open to the public Betty Lou Ratliff performs Debussy piano pieces and Mozart Sonata in D Major while Larry Day baritone sings Schumann Dichterliebe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westmar music
Thoren auditorium
Betty Lou Ratliff
Debussy
Mozart
Larry Day
Schumann
Miss Ratliff
Indiana Central college
Indianapolis
University of Michigan
Westmar
Day
Minneapolis College of Music
University of Colorado
Negro freedom singers to perform on Westmar campus
Nationally known Freedom Singers, five college students active in the Civil Rights movement, will give a free concert Thursday at 8 pm in Thoren auditorium on the Westmar campus. Proceeds support SNCC work. Members include Rutha Harris and Bernice Johnson of Albany Georgia Cordell Reagan of Nashville Tennessee Charles Neblett of Carbondale Illinois and his brother Carver Neblett of 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freedom Singers
Westmar
Thoren auditorium
Northeast
Midwest
South
SNCC
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Mississippi
Alabama
Albany, Ga
Rutha Harris
Bernice Johnson
Cordell Reagan
Nashville, Tenn
Charles Neblett
Carbondale
DIl
Charles
Carver Neblett
May events and performances listed for LCHS and Westmar
Calendar entries list multiple school and community events from May 7 to May 12. Activities include municipal band rehearsal, LCHS band and golf events, Westmar Fine Arts performances, Gehlen fashion show and band concert, Legion events, county 4-H and art exhibits, student variety programs, and a Reader's Theatre at Thoren hall. Also noted are a Billy Graham event at First Baptist and a Westmar track and piano concert at Thomas Schuerer hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LCHS
Cherokee
Westmar Fine Arts
Henry Vv
Thoren
Gehlen
Legion spring star
Koenig armory
County Association for
Central high school
Oak room
St. Augustine
Westmar
Billy Graham firm
First Baptist church
County agricultural
Evert Johnson
LCHS Jr
Yankton and
Northwestern
Thomas Schurear
Thorenall
Reader's Theatre
Thoren hall
Westmar choir
Calvary EUB church
Also Mentioned on This Page
Haiti
U.S
Rockefeller
Venezula
Niagara Falls
Pella
Orange City
Herb Doering
Denny
Iowa State University
Ames
Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity
Terry Heller
Des Moines
Circle 2
Sieverding-Walsh
SPEECH DEPT
James Fletcher
Seward
Neb
Concordia
LE MARS CO. A
Kenneth Burkett
Fifth Army Inspector corps
Town & Country
Brauchalski
The weather bureau
May
Towa
Rockville
Ind
house
full
Senate committee on agriculture
agriculture department
Plymouth county Soil Conservation district
TOM ROSS
WESTFIELD
PTA MEET
PTA
Thomas A Ross
Iowa Congress of Parents and Teachers
Riverside high school
Mr. Ross
Plymouth county
Ross
Hancock township
Drake university law school
Guy Gillette
United States
Nellie Noble
Jefferson
S. C
Iowa
Missouri
Eason family
hkce
convictient
Joe
MERLYN
County
BAPTIST CHURCH
GEHLEN GYM
Negro freedom singers
Carnegie hall
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