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Newspaper
Le Mars Globe Post
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1953
Page
7
Employees of the Le Mars Public Schools will be guests of the Board of Education at a staff breakfast in the school cafeteria this Tuesday morning as a kickoff feature for the third annual pre school planning workshop this week. Included among the guests at the breakfast will be members of the board and district staff.
A breakfast honors faculty custodians and staff led by Dr L C OToole and Herman Vander Well. Introductions by Supt Harvey Kluckhohn and Principal Frank Landreth precede sessions on the new handbook and three day workshop. The event closes with a panel led by Harold Marshay and a two day weekend recess before school opens August 31.
The Robinson family reunion was held at Kingsley Park on Sunday August 16 with attendees including Mr and Mrs I Glenn Robinson and Harlan, Mr and Mrs Wallace Robinson and Joan, Mr and Mrs Archie Weston and family, Mr and Mrs Elmer Pederson and family, Mr and Mrs Lowell Jones and sons, Mr and Mrs George Kisting and Bill of Lawton, and Walter Rabinton Jr and Ale.
A long list of Robinsons and related family groups from multiple towns including Sioux City Elk Point Le Mars Washtar Bronson and Cherokee appears in a community notice. The names span numerous households with relatives and spouses named alongside adult and child members.
The Omaha District office awarded three contracts for dike and levee work. John Osborne of Anthonia received a $4,869.03 contract for Little Sioux River levee repairs near Smithland Remsen and Kingston. Chester W. Petit of Sioux City won a $5,269.06 contract for Floyd River levee repairs in Plymouth County and Siegemen Levees near Matlock in Sioux County. Iowa.
County Superintendent Christine L. Petersen reports most rural Plymouth schools have teachers, with only two districts lacking staff. Some schools namely No. 9, No. 3, and No. 6 cannot open due to low enrollments, sending students to neighboring towns. An all day teachers meeting is planned for August 29 at the Courthouse.
Mrs Earl Morton hosted the Union Township WCTU gathering on August 20 with devotion led by Mrs Chas Eyres. Quotes urged sobriety, noting a drunken driver as a highway hazard and urging Christians to guard manners as brothers keepers. Des Moines Register notes Iowa will distribute 7500 free copies of Alcohol and Society to schools along with a 14 day course.
The Publicity Chairman quotes C Aubrey Hearn on three enemies to missionary work liquor opium and immorality. He notes public indifference to the liquor problem as a major obstacle. In Honey Creek Iowa a watershed project receives 40000 dollars appropriated by Congress with a 50 50 cost share and total estimate between a quarter and a million dollars. Nearly 750000 people were affected by weekend traffic accidents last year.
The Sioux City Journal declines to publish Dr Kinsey s latest conclusions noting uncertainties about scientific validity while accusing the report s backers of sensationalism financed by major foundations. The piece also critiques AMA conduct and the suppression of a cancer drug called krebiozen citing a Bricker inquiry and lobby spending.
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