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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1962
Page
3
MCHS musicians will provide special music for three Easter services next week. On Wednesday April 18 the mixed chorus joins the Methodist church service and a soloist will perform Thursday at the Presbyterian church. Good Friday afternoon at the Baptist church features a solo by Mr Brashears, the MCHS music instructor.
Entertainment columnist Jo Anne Wray notes educational TV on Channel 3 and Channel 6. Programs include American Government and Lets Go to the Fair for Twentieth Century, End of an Empire about Dien Bien Phu, The Devil and Daniel Webster on Golden Showcase, plus daily news broadcasts.
Students at MCHS will be excused from school to attend Good Friday services. An excuse card signed by a parent must be shown to the homeroom teacher by 12:30. Cards are available in Mr. Noem’s office and should be checked at home now.
Jeanine Willard elected state FHA public relations chairman at Des Moines convention. She becomes Malvern’s first delegate to a state office and will serve one year guiding chapters, promoting public relations, and preparing reports. As officer, she attends the national convention in Salt Lake City in July. The Des Moines event drew 495 girls, with Susan Darrah and Diane Hopp as accompanying delegates.
MCHS entered five groups in a Saturday music contest at Oakland. Soloist Raymond Ponton earned II, Shir ley Williams and Marion Winchell each won I, while the madrigal group received a Ti.
The Mills County Education Association will sponsor a dinner for all county teachers on April 26 at 6:45 p.m. at Hastings Methodist Church. Dr Neal S Goman president of Nebraska State Teachers College at Peru Neb will speak on Russian education with slides. Musical entertainment by Nishna Valley Community Schools.
The southwest district of the Towa State Education Association held its annual convention in Council Bluffs, naming Al Nothem from Mills County to the state executive committee. Ruth Moeller was re-elected district secretary-treasurer, and Forrest Brouchard became district NEA director.
IPALCO safety director Loren Giest from Des Moines will conduct a demonstration at the Community building on April 16. At 1 pm high and junior high students will view a miniature home scene with electricity lines a kite and a bird. Lower grade children will see a later demonstration explaining safe actions around electricity and what to do if a line falls near them or their car.
A Library Week survey shows students average 1.7 books per week. The study outlines reading habits across the class, with 50 percent reading one book, 38 percent reading two, and 15 percent reading three or more. The effort aims to boost reading during National Library Week led by a literature class.
Norene Summers, 17, daughter of Mr and Mrs N E Summers, is named MHS Senior of the Week. She excels in English American problems and physiology while aiming to attend Capitol Beauty School in Omaha to train as a beautician. She praises class discussions with Mr Beasley and plans to pursue schooling rather than college.
The MCHS junior class will sponsor the annual junior senior prom this Friday evening. After the dance, attendees go to Glenwood to bowl and then return to Malvern for breakfast. After hours activities are sponsored by the juniors' parents.
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the Methodist church for Gene Glasgow 35 of the Thurman area who died Sunday at Omehe hospital after a long illness. He was a prominent farmer. survived by his widow and two Dansh relatives, a sister, five grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Approximately 250 farmers from Mills County and nearby areas gathered in Atlantic on Thursday evening April 5 for a briefing sponsored by the NFC. William E. Morris of the U S Department of Agriculture said farmers face dire trouble and need full support, warning that redistricting could cost agriculture its strongest allies.
Friends report the death on April 5 of Barrett Mc Fadon, a former Emersonian, at Palo Alto, California. He taught in the graduate school of business at Stanford University before retiring. He was the son of Mr and Mrs B F McFadon, longtime Emerson residents who sent him to Emerson schools before his college and teaching career.
A birthday cooperative family dinner was held Sunday honoring Mrs. H L Nims at the Nims home with guests from Omaha Council Bluffs and nearby towns. Other social events include birthday coffee for Mrs. Guy D Grindle and attendance at weddings and services in Malvern Tabor Oakland Red Oak and Fairfield.
Don Williams will share travel notes from Costa Rica at the Strahan WSCS annual guest day on April 18 at 1 30 pm in the Strahan church. Williams, an International Farm Youth Exchange student, spent 1969 in Costa Rica and is a former ISU student leader now farming with family near Willisea. Both he and his wife are MYF counsellors in the Villisca Methodist church.
Strahan Methodist Church led by Reverend John Lippincott and Superintendent Robert Christiansen holds 9:30 a.m. worship with a sermon titled We Believe in the Kingdom of God and Sunday School at 10:30 a.m. The church will join Holy Week services at Malvern.
The WSCS met at the church Thursday with Mrs. Millard Gee, Mrs. Ross Bryant and Mrs. Floyd Hillyer as hostesses, twelve members present. Mrs. Dean Sayer led devotions and President Mrs. Jared Woodfill led the business meeting. Travel notes include Mrs. R R Kier returning home Wednesday night from St Petersburg Florida after three weeks with her sister.
Mr and Mrs Ellis and other neighbors hosted and visited relatives in Hamburg Farragut Glenwood Shenandoah and Malvern over the week. Guests included Tom Rummery Albert Addy W Costello and Rev Jerald Irvin. Mrs Jessie Bruces TB tests were negative and she hopes for release. Attended weddings brunches and funerals with multiple area families listed.
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