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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1962
Page
3
The 1962 county fair featured a popular family day picnic and a large tractor pulling contest. Organizers note strong participation by adults and children, with crowds growing and facilities at Malvern Gun club needing expansion for next year. The event is praised as the most successful in years.
Schools face higher costs and more state control while local districts plan for the new year. The piece argues better outcomes depend on parental support and qualified teachers, noting rising taxes with reorganizations and administrative rules that add cost without clear program gains. It references historic local notes about reunion records and community insights.
Minutes of the Malvern Community School District regular meeting on August 14 1962 note attendance President Wortman Directors Hays Washburn Absent Newell Skerritt read and approved prior minutes and listed bills paid to Town Power & Light Co Birkby Supply M W Bell Tel Co Briggs Chevrolet Gambles Stanley Quarry Des Moines Register and others totaling 2 503 15 including bus and building fund contracts and rent charges.
Public notice outlines regular school election for all director districts in Malvern Iowa to elect a treasurer and a director for terms starting mid 1960s. It specifies polling at Liberty Memorial Building from noon to seven with the vote and location details. It also includes related court notices and budget hearing notes from Mills County records.
The Malvern Iowa school board set the September 11 1962 election for director district voters to choose treasurers for 1963 1965 and a director for a three year term in district No 4. They named election board members and approved fuel oil bids from Gay Oil Company and Houser Oil Company. Salaries for 1962 1963 include bus maintenance driver Clair Jones 353 monthly custodian Vernon Mickelson 335 monthly secretary Woodford Byington 1850 yearly and other custodians and bus drivers with set monthly rates. The secretary adjourned the meeting.
Attendees on August 10 visited Peru State College in Nebraska, the second oldest west of the Mississippi. The exercises occurred on the Quadrangle beside the administration building amid campus hills and a modern student center. A rose garden near the center showcased tall hybrid teas over four feet.
Fragmentary OCR data lists monetary amounts and time frames linked to Mills County Iowa Imogene Randolph Tabor and routes elsewhere in the United States. Entries show figures such as one year six months four dollars two twenty five cents three months two years three dollars fifty cents twenty five thirty six two years seven dollars.
Clerk of Courts I. L. Donner drew a list of jurors for the September term in Glenwood. Judge presiding noted a light docket as the term opens.
Kent Martin will preside as jurors are directed to appear Sept 10. Drawn list includes Emerson, Victor Babbitt, Glenwood, Gladys Royer, Trene Burchett, Bernice Clipson, Kenneth Crouch, Connie Criswell, Lalu Clapper, Vern Drennen, Lois Flint, Leona Gregg, Flossie Hood, Arlene Hedrick, Marjorie Hopp, Ben Jackson, Mary Kaiman, Frank Kemp, Dwane Kahl, Earl Livengood, Francis Laurenroth, Darwin MacGuin ness, Roger Olson, Elaine Rager, Nannie Mae Rahr, Mary Lois Radford, Jack Reid, Mae Hastings, Wilma Fender, Edwin Leu. Henderson: Ervin Kadel. Malvern: Sam Benscoter, Ia Boehner, J. F. Darnold, Eric Edlund Jr., Alice Gipe, Forrest Hatfield, Donald Jones, Hazel Summers, T. EL Salyers, Bernice Starr, Allen Scheel. Pacific Junction: Darrell Sargent. Silver City: Inez Bond, Herman Schoening. Tabor: Eugene Fichter.
Agricultural products shined at the 1962 fair with Hastings Junior Feeders earning a blue in 4-H club booth class and Malvern FFA also scoring blue. Colleen Hurst led garden judging for Lucky Circle while Virginia Angus of Busy Bees took reserve. Blues went to Roger Sell Center Feeders and Richard Morrical Prize Winners Red. Jane Miller White and Nancy Dolan of Peppy Pals also gained blues or placements.
Notice in Probate in Mills County District Court states that an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of George Worthe Bennett, deceased of Mills County Iowa, has been presented and is to be proved at the Glenwood courthouse on the April term 1962. Objections must be heard by the court. I L Donner, Clerk.
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