Plans for Mills County Clean Up Days Spur Cooperation
This week in Mills County highlights Malvern cleanup plans and urges community cooperation. The Mills County Soil Conservation District has sold over 2,000 trees to replace those lost to Dutch elm disease, with reduced-cost trees available through May 4. A brush fire along Co Road G west of the Mills County Fair Grounds burned extensive roadside grasses, creating smoke over Malvern. local firemen and other departments battled the flames as dry conditions kept communities busy with grass fires.
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County Soil Conservation District
Co. Road G
Mills County Fair Grounds
Malvern
Holy Week Services Unites Malvern Churches
Malvern area churches join for Holy Week events including Thursday 7:30 p m communion at the Methodist church and Good Friday 1:30 p m service at the Baptist Church with meditations on the Seven Last Words by local laymen. St. John's Lutheran hosts a Good Friday service at 7:30 p m. A sunrise service on the golf course south of Malvern sponsored by UMYF starts at 6 a m, followed by a Methodist church breakfast from 6:45 to 9 a m with fried or scrambled eggs bacon fruit juice coffee or cocoa and a free will offering.
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Malvern
Methodist Church
Baptist Church
Strahan
MCHS
Howard Mace
Clarence Woollard
St. John’s Lutheran Church
The
UMYF
Burglars Ransacked Wilcox Home in Malvern
Thieves broke into the vacant Wilcox residence Friday night by removing a window frame and stole numerous household items along with carpentry and plumbing tools. They left after a hurried paint can attempt and walked through a large new window screen. Mr. Wilcox catalogs losses for the insurer and sheriff. A previous June fire blamed on arson damaged the home during remodeling. A Mother Daughter banquet at the Baptist church is announced for April 21 at 6 30 p.m.
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Mills County
C. W. Rich
Wilcox
Mr. Wilcox
Wilcoxes
Rich
Sheriff's Office
Leu and Haack to Lead Mills County 4-H Groups
Kathy Leu of Hastings and Charles Haack of Macedonia were named presidents of Mills County 4-H organizations at the 1971 County Jamboree in Malvern. About 325 attendees heard reports as officers were announced, with new leaders and delegates for state camps and conferences named. News noted honorary members, delegates to leadership camps, and requests for tree donations for transplanting.
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Kathy Leu
Hastings
Charles Haack
Macedonia
Mills County
Malvern
Peg Robbins
Paul Haack
Diane Shaw
Emerson
Darrell Godfrey
Patty Perkins
Davy ‘Bowen
Linda ‘Barber
Dave Boileau
Henderson
Treasuers
Ronda Wilkinson
John Sayers
Roger Shaw
Donald
New Mills County
Chas Haack
Easter Egg Hunt at Malvern Library Lawn
The Malvern Commercial Club sponsors a 3 PM Easter Egg Hunt on the Malvern Public Library lawn. Four age classes Preschool Kindergarten first and second grades and third and fourth grades compete for eggs. If weather cooperates the event may be a banner year for the egg herders and the Easter Bunny.
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Malvern Public Library
Big Tree Project Starts Next Week at Gun Club Park
The Mal vern BPW Club announces a program with Charles Kruse of Glenwood to transplant large trees into Gun Club park next week. Kruse will dig and move trees as a public service for 20 dollars. donations requested via club president Peggy Kemp at 624-8181.
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Gun Club Park
Business and
Professional Women’s Club of
Malvern
Charles Kruse
Glenwood
Kruse
BPW Club
Peggy Kemp
Cindy Bass Elected President of Alpha Mu Gamma
Cindy Bass a Simpson college junior in Indianola was elected president of Alpha Mu Gamma the national honorary foreign language fraternity. She is the daughter of Senator and Mrs Earl Bass of Malvern.
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Cindy Bass
Simpson College
Indianola
Alpha Mu Gamma
Cindy
Earl Bass
Malvern
Clean-Up Days Next Week Stir Community Improvement League
Malvern's spring clean-up timetable announced by the newly organized Community Improvement League and endorsed by the town council. Program covers most public areas including churchyards and approach roads. League urges households and businesses to join, clean their premises, and cooperate with the project.
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Malvern
League
Malvern Willes Allocate Bequests To Local Institutions
Wills of Miss Mary A Jones and sister Mrs Lucy Jones Clark disclose substantial benefactions to Malvern institutions. Mary Jones provides trust via Edgar Cook to her sister then to Malvern Library Cemetery First Methodist Church University of Dubuque Father Flanagan's Home and two cousins with $1000 each and her half home interest. Clark's will leaves gifts to relatives and distributes remainder to Methodist Church Library and Cemetery Assn Children's Memorial Hospital Father Flanagan's Home University of Dubuque Iowa Cancer Society. Community cleanup plan outlines school and youth group duties with town trucks for trash pickup and schedules through April 20.
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Malvern
Mary A. Jones
Lucy Jones Clark
Miss Jones
Edgar
Cook
Glenwood
Mina Hatfield
Sauquoit
N. Y
Cemetery Assn
Children's Memorial Hospital
Father Flanagan
University of Dubuque
Iowa Cancer Society
MCHS
Wm. D., Baer
Malvern Considering New Ambulance From Federal Aid
Malvern officials advance an ambulance project after Monday’s town council meeting. Local ambulance group members and a Council Bluffs sales representative outlined federal aid availability under the Highway Safety Act and named W. R. Byington as project director and financial officer to sign the grant application. A swimming pool plan on school grounds was proposed by Bud Schroeder’s group for instructional and recreational use. The town also agreed to provide municipal trucks for next week’s cleanup days, with talks on mobile home zoning by G. B. Wilcox and a dog pound project by Ernest Wederquist and Charles Hexom.
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Malvern
Kanl Hertz
William D. Baer
Charles MecClure
W. R. Ballew
Council Bluffs
Ballew
W. R. Byington
Ernest Wederquist
Charles Hexom
Firemen Fight Double Blazes Near Malvern And Poort Home
Firefighters responded to two weekend fires in Malvern area. First at Mrs E toin Clay Rt 2 Malvern farmhouse. shortly after, crews tackled a blaze at a vehicle owned by Roger Poort across from Fairview Country Club. The week’s second call followed the Clay fire.
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G. B
Buck
Wilcox
Malvern
E Toin Clay
Rt. 2
Guy Grindle
Fairview Country Club
Roger Poort
Mr. Poort
Ely Fellers
Truckers Fined in Hall J. P. Court
Two court cases heard by Justice of the Peace John C. Hall resulted in fines for truckers from Missouri. Ward F. Badder of Blue Springs was fined on charges including improper registration and non reciprocal Iowa terms, plus costs. The second case involved MoCA.
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Court of Justice of the Peace
John C. Hall
Ward F. Badder
Blue Springs
Iowa Highway Patrol
Moca
School Budget Cuts Prompt Staff Reductions at Malvern
Superintendent N P Crink reports at a bond meeting that Malvern Community School plans economy drives by cutting elementary staff by three and junior high by one. Six retirees or reassigned teachers will be replaced. Several key personnel announced non renewal including Benton Kuch principal Mary Bookwalter art and others.
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Malvern Community School
N. P. Crink
Ruth Salyers
Warren Darrah
James Mann
No Injuries in Malvern Accident
Malvern recorded the week’s sole Mills County motor vehicle crash at 3 p.m. Saturday on West 4th Street. Vehicles driven by William I Morse, a Nebraska City lineman living in Malvern, and Thomas E. Walston of Malvern were involved with no injuries reported.
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Malvern
Mills County
West 4Th &T
Wm. I Morse
Nebraska City
Thomas E. Walston
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Doug Bowen
Linda Barber
Randy Wilkinson
Silver City
N& W
Malvern Commercial Club
Mary Jones
Lucy Clark
Methodist Chorch
Ponton’s
Paddock Bank
Chantry School
Rainbow Girls
Gun Club
Brownie
T & N_ park
Bochner Park
Community Improvement League
Al'éag Ahd
Hall J. P
Raburn Benton
Larry Maynes
Dan Stineman
Cleta Salyers
Alan Barhart
David Peterson
Terry Forney
Pat van Scyoc
Robert Crown
George , Mert
Bernard Robinson
Harley McDowell
Hope Beattie
Ruth Picker
Bill Gilbert
Mary Terry
Virgina Omer
Mary Woolsey
Susan Ponton
Duveen Jennings
Keansh Ford
Charlotte Mort
Lauraay
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