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Newspaper
Le Mars Daily Sentinel
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1963
Page
5
In Lamar Missouri a reader notes that while school winds down and mothers rejoice, the shift from routine chores to leisure time creates new burdens. Labor saving devices and modern innovations have reduced household tasks yet leave mothers responsible for six hours of entertainment per day, implying a new form of enslavement.
The Le Mars Rainbow Girls assembly met at the Masonic Temple for officer installation. New officers include worthy advisor Josephine Hahn and associate advisor Mary Riter, with sixteen members in white and red ribbon bows. Highlights featured dance, songs, and presentations by former officers and guests, plus summer projects and social hour.
The Le Mars Daily Sentinel notes its weekday publication schedule after noons except Saturdays and legal holidays. It lists Chen and Carter Pitts as editors and publishers, Chan Pritts as business and advertising, Carter Pitts as job shop manager, and Ellis Johansen as official city and county paper contact at 21 First St. NE, Le Mars Iowa with phone 546-5124.
Plymouth county volunteer chair Gordon L. Mennen announced Iowa April savings bonds sales rose over 13 percent from a year earlier. April Series E and H sales statewide totaled 10,188,625 for a four month 46,130,383 or 39 percent of the annual quota. Plymouth county April sales were 50,456, four month total 334,600 at 29 percent of its 1963 quota, with Sioux, Cherokee and O'Brien counties also reporting four month totals and percentages.
Byron Miller an engineering technician for Linn County Soil Conservation reports a large mushroom discovered in timber north of Springville. The specimen measured about 5 inches across and at least 5 inches tall.
Hawarden resident Mrs Roy Mapes has a close family tie to astronaut Gordon Cooper through her second cousin and daughter Trudy Cooper wife of the famed space traveler. Her Kent Washington cousins are also part of the extended connection highlighting Cooper’s spaceflight significance to the local community.
A local loan offer promises consolidation of barrewee and past due obligations. The notice mentions a 34-93-17 and weighs security on a farm, with a pay schedule over a 1 year term. Contact at 516.4018 for details.
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