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Newspaper
Le Mars Globe Post
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1954
Page
8
Westmar Choir presents Mozart Don Giovanni conducted by Gerard Samuel with Ruth Crockett accompanying and Day singing the baritone aria Arm Ye Brave from Handel Judas Maccabaeus in a Globe-Post theater listing style.
A Morning Market feed list shows various livestock and poultry products with prices. Items include 20 percent Layer 50 lb paper at 4.35, 28 percent Poultry Balancer at 5.00, 32 percent Poultry Cance at 5.50, Sweet Baby 157 sugar pies nd 20 percent Fig Starter at 5.80, Sow Supplement at 4.90, Hog Supplement 550 at 1.60, Beef Supplement at 1.60, and Cattle Concentrate at 4.60.
Fragmentary program notes indicate the closing number will Handel’s Messiah Hallelujah Chorus as the audience is invited to give a free-will offering.
The Globe Post lists updated addresses for service members since last Thursday. Pfc. Lowell T Schiefen has been moved to the I Corps in Seoul Korea and now serves as a clerk typist for the Provost Marshall. two years of service end February 12 1955.
About 1200 people, mainly parents, visited LeMars Public Schools during Education Week last week. Including Veterans Day program guests with the American Legion, totals exceed 1400. Of the 1200 regular visitors, around 600 toured secondary classes and 600 explored three elementary schools during open house days. Elementary visits totaled 391 with 225 to Clark, 206 to Franklin, and 160 to Central.
LeMars public schools highlighted Education Week with 474 visitors during scheduled hours and 42 more in classrooms after school. Dads accounted for 29 visitors in elementary Open House and Secondary Parents Night saw a near equal split of mothers and fathers. A fourth event, the opening session of the LeMars Community Forum in the high school auditorium, featured Dr Lester E Beck on Parents as Children See Them. Co sponsors include Clark Frathlin PTA Plymouth County Education Council and three federated women’s clubs Learn A Little Eight Gi Late and Mothers clubs. Superintendent H N Klackhehn praised community interest and urged weekly education emphasis, saying education week should be a model for ongoing public school support.
Sunday gatherings at the M B Obanion home featured visitors from Vail Danbury Odebolt and Detrit Iowa while Wm Haack celebrated his 74th birthday with relatives from Hinton Granville Bronson Kiron and more. A coffee at Adaville drew LeMars locals and a Palo Alto native visiting Kingsley plans a stay with Mrs. Cora Baldwin. Nels Mortensen hosted a large shower for Miss Doris.
Crawford of Moville Iowa to become bikie of Eldge Mor temson on Sunday. Luncheon for Mr and Mrs Henry A Abbes family dinner Sunday honoring daughter Ellen. Evening club event at Ray fwood Weenunk home with harvest Pilgrim theme and twenty guests. Faculty Women’s Club of Westmar College held luncheon at Coras Tea room with several hostesses. Readings by W E Bach man of York Nebraska. Jewett entertaining Allen family at dinner for Mrs Hannah Alten and daughter Evelyn Alice before her Salt Lake City visit.
Funeral services were held at 2 p m Saturday at Whitfield Methodist church for Robert E. Brownlee 63 of 613 W Third St Sioux City born February 16 1891 in Ida county Iowa. He lived in Plymouth and Woodbury counties and farmed in Plymouth county. He served on the Plymouth county board of supervisors and once as chair. Survivors include his widow Lillian a daughter Mrs John Newton of Ponca Nebraska and two grandchildren. Burial was at Franceland Park Cemetery under Nelson Berger funeral home direction. Pallbearers were Francis Boden Harry O Connor Stanley Bridenbaugh William Cottrell Kenneth Tremeter and Earl Kyaale.
The Brownies held their weekly meeting after school on Wednesday. Four new members received pins and existing members their pendants. A tied vote for president between Sylvia Swanson and Marlene Hamilton led to swapping roles every two weeks. The cookie sale went well with 17 carriers of a dozen packages each quickly sold. The cookies remain popular. After the meeting the girls went downtown for treats.
Mrs. Herman Hageman of Hinton announces the engagement of her daughter Eleanor Jean Hageman to Leonard W. Marineau son of Mr and Mrs Ben Marineau of Merrill The couple plan a future wedding but no date has been set Eleanor Jean is a Hinton High School graduate and Marineau is employed at Ireton Iowa
The Le Mars Community Forum begins its 1954 55 program with Dr Lester E Beck of the University of Southern California presenting Parents as Children See Them in the high school auditorium next Tuesday evening November 16 at 815 p m The talk will explore child attitudes and behavior and how children visualize their parents a view that shifts with strictness indulgence and the child s feelings The lecture highlights Becks research and audio visual work with a 1953 Indonesia trip noted as part of his wide study on mass communications and family relations Local groups including Clark and Franklin Parent Teacher Associations Plymouth County Education Council Le Mars Girl Scout Council and three Le Mars Federated clubs sponsor the event
Officers from Learn a Little Eight til Late and Mother’s Club sponsor a weekend event to boost forum interest. Dr. Carl D. Lang of Franklin P. T. A and County Education Council will introduce the guest speaker. The Forum chair says the series may be among the strongest in its 14 year history with speakers like Dr. Beck and Dr. E Stanley Jones.
Le Roy Holland of Shenandoah and Sandra Jean Cavon of Hamburg are named in a case involving Alex Richard Van Voorst and Carolye Kay Bensley, both of Le jars.
Harold Jeiken Brunsville offers a Chevrolet Truck with Clarence J Campbell of Le Man and Vincent Plendl. Kingsley shows Ford entries by Don Kellen Remsen W. W. Wormley plus Buick by Ray E Weinrich Hinton and White Truck by George Stevens. Wesseing Motors in King sley sells Ford and Clarence P Braun Le Man Chevrolet William H Haage Akron Chevrolet.
Mars lowa county student wins for Plymouth County in the Iowa Good Road Association essay contest Why Iowa Needs an Additional 2-cent Gas Tax for Highways. The winning piece argues for safer, smoother roads to cut costs and save lives, noting Death Bridge and the value of good highways for teens and daily travel.
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