Unseasonably Warm Week Brings Early Spring Signs in Malvern
Residents report tulips budding and trees showing buds as Malvern experiences warm spell. Yard work and small plantings appear downtown while forecasts warn the mild weather may not last. A postal relic safe and 240 used lock boxes from the Malvern postoffice are to be shipped to Craig Missouri for use there, per Postmaster Tom Gidley.
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Malvern
Craig
Tom Gidley
Malvern Post- Master
Corn Loans Ahead of Last Year by Thirty Three Percent
Mills county ASC reports corn loan volume up 33 percent from a year earlier due to the strong last fall crop. A brief lull in sealing has occurred, with another surge expected around March 1.
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Mills County
ASC
County motor vehicle registrations and marriages listed
Registration data shows Chevrolets to Wilkinson Emerson Schoening and Fickel Glenwood. Fords to Reasengann Madweick and Kahl Glenwood. Corvair to Hubbell Glenwood. Buick to Sparling Glenwood. Willys pickup to McLain Emerson. Ford pickup to Havener Glenwood. Marriage licenses issued to Weston Campbell Omaha. Mitchell McConnell Council Bluffs. Ring Wright Council Bluffs. Toczek Fields Omaha. Dean Lancaster Plattsmouth. Brown Mieras Omaha.
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Judson Wilkinson
Emerson
Lawrence I. Schoening
Gerald L. Fickel
Glenwood
Wallace Olderoy
Conrad Kruse
Silver City
Paul W. Sparling
Willys Pickup
Dean McLain
Ford Pickup
Gilbert I. Havener
J. L. Donner
Jerry Weston
Joyce Delano Campbell
Omaha
Robert Mitchell
Mary Clarie McConnell
Council Bluffs
Wesley F. Ring
Wilma Wright
Pacific Junction
Henry Toczek
Fort Crock
Neh
Odena Fields
Gary Dean
Judy Lancaster
Plattsmouth, Neb
Henry Brown
Judy Mieras
Band Mothers Supper at Community Building
Band Mothers Supper at the Community building on Saturday March 4 serves from 5 30 p m Adults priced at 1 25 with children at 76c Proceeds support local band activities and school programs.
Parallel Parking on Fourth Street Block Expands
The north side of Fourth Street from Main to the new post office became a parallel parking zone this week. Council member T. E. Salyers said it eliminates the immediate need to widen the street as traffic increased with the post office opening. This block marks the Mek vern business district’s only parallel parking.
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Fourth Street
Main Street
T. E. Salyers
Mekvern
Four Omahans Fined for Drinking Beer on Highway
Four men from Omaha were fined $5 plus costs by Justice of Peace Carl Remley after an arrest early Sunday for drinking beer on the highway. Deputies Louie Jens and Glenwood Night Marshal Emil Knickman took them into custody in downtown Glenwood. They identified themselves as John Crilley Warren Bruggeman Glen Seipell and Thomas A Carroll.
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Justice of Peace
Carl Remley
Glenwood
Louie Jens
Emil Knickman
John Crilley
Warren L. Bruggeman
Glen Seipell
Thomas A. Carroll
Willow Freeze Exercise Highlights 28th Division Unit
Pfc. David Alley of Council Bluffs and former Malvern residents will join personnel from the 28th airborne division's 187th infantry in Exercise Willow Freeze. The cold weather operation takes place in Alaska.
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David Alley
John Alley
Council Bluffs
Malvern
28Nd Airborne Division
187Th Infantry
Alaska
Cooking School to Highlight Malvern March
The Community building in Malvern will host a cooking school next month sponsored by Pace Service Co and Mansfield's Furniture with Town Power and Light Co supplying the home economist for demonstrations. A March 17 date is set and details will follow in The Leader.
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Cooking
Malvern
Pace Service Co
Mansfield
Town Power and Light Co
County Assn Meet at Scheffel Home Feb 23
The Mills county Association of Friends and Parents of Retarded Children will meet Thursday Feb 23 at 8 p m at the home of Dr and Mrs M L Scheffel. Agenda covers local affiliation with the Iowa State Association of Retarded Children. Ride requests to Glenwood 924 or Mrs Scheffel 4381 in Malvern.
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Mills County Association of Friends
M. L. Scheffel
Iowa State
Glenwood
Improvements Made at the Jackson Shop
Improvements at Jacksons Style Shop include new display racks for customer convenience and repainted racks with rearranged stocks. The store now presents a refreshed interior under Mrs. Ivan Jackson who calls it spring housecleaning, reflecting a noticeably different appearance.
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Jackson
Spring Housecleaning
Ivan Jackson
BPW Des Moines Board Meeting Described
Attendees at the mid winter BPW board meeting in Des Moines included Mrs. Ocle Dickersbach, Mrs. Burdette Spiker, Mrs. Jim Ford, Mrs. Merlin Tasto, and Mrs. Kenneth Jones. Dr. Helen LeBaron of Ames University gave the address. Team members Dickersbach Spiker Ford and Taste placed fifth in the state BPW bowling tournament.
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Savory
Des Moines
Ocle Dickersbach
Burdette Spiker
Jim Ford
Merlin Tasto
Kenneth Jones
Helen LeBaron
Ames University
BPW
John D. Clinton
Friends of Lincoln
Clinton
Des Moines Council of Churches
Abraham Lincoln
Mesdames Dickersbach
Spiker
Ford
Taste
Bloodmobile planning in Malvern March 1 visit
Mills county bloodmobile workers met Tuesday to plan the Malvern visit on March 1 and watched a film on blood uses. The piece urges residents to donate, notes regional Red Cross support, costs for nonparticipants, and provides recruiter contacts for appointments.
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Malvern
Bloodmobile
Mills County
Red Cross Blood
Methodist
Childrens Memorial
Omaha
Red Cross
WWI Meeting At Mineola Friday
Dr John McVitty of Council Bluffs and other officers plan to attend the World War I veterans meeting in Mineola Friday night for Mills County Barracks No 1337. All veterans who served in World War I are urged to attend.
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John McVitty
Council Bluffs
Mineola
Mills County Barracks No
Mills County to get advance storage payments in March
Mills County will receive part of the 1960-61 storage payments for farm stored grains as advance payments in early March. About $25 million total will be advanced to help with spring planting costs. Payments cover 1956-59 crops of corn wheat barley oats and grain sorghums with rates of 7 cents per bushel for corn wheat barley 5 cents for oats and 12 cents per 100 pounds for grain sorghum.
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Mills County
White House
ASC
Department of Agriculture
H. A. McCain
Local Children’s Pictures Free for Citizens of Tomorrow
The Leader will photograph all local children at the Community building on Tuesday February 21 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at no charge. Photos will appear in a Citizens of Tomorrow feature. No subscription or purchase required. Appointment calls to Miss Fannie Clark at 5762 in Malvern.
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Chicago
Malvern Trust & Savings Bank
John Willard
Horace A. Smith
Scarborough & Co
E. W. Burdie
Security Mutual Casualty Co
T. J. Nork
Scarborough
Loan Drive Needs More Push Here
The Malvern Community School loan fund campaign started slowly last week and seeks about ten times the current amount to aid students planning to attend college next year. Five applications exist with more expected. advisory committee members urge donations via Edel Knight, Dr J R Beckwith, or other officers.
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Malvern Community School Student Loan
Seoul
Accident damages Beta Cars west of Emerson on Highway 34
A collision on Highway 34 west of Emerson caused significant damage to two cars. Lemuel Edgar, 63, Clarinda, and Beverly Sue Carson, 20, Emerson, were involved as Edgar’s northbound vehicle hit Carson’s turning car near the Legion club driveway. Estimated damages were 250 dollars to Edgar’s front and 200 dollars to Carson’s rear. Injuries to Mrs. Clark McConle and Mrs. James Campbell, both of Clarinda, were not serious, per the sheriff’s office.
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Highway 34
Emerson
Sheriff's Office
Lemuel Edgar
Clarinda
Beverly Sue Carson
Route 1
The
Legion Club
Edgar
Carson
Clark McConle
James Campbell
McGill Awarded State Assistant Role in Missouri SCS
Ralph B. McGill, area conservationist, will leave the local SCS office to become assistant state conservationist for Missouri SCS in Columbia. He replaces Tom Powell, who resigned in October 1958. Commissioners also discussed spring work and Pony Creek watershed planning and whether new structures will begin this year.
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District Scs
Ralph B. McGill
Missouri Scs
Columbia, Mo
McGill
Tom Powell
Pony Creek
Malvern Firemen Mark 68th Founding With Dinner
Malvern Volunteer Fire Department plans a banquet next Wednesday at 6 30 p.m. in the Community building to celebrate 68 years since the 1893 founding. Wives guests, program after dinner, with St John’s Lutheran ladies serving and a Red Cross blood bank film shown at the regular meeting.
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Malvern
Ladies of
St. John's Lutheran Church
Tom Gidley
Malvern Volunteer Fire Department
Wm. C. Wortz
Ed B. Brown
F. E. Mulholland
Mr. Wortz
F. R. Chantry
Red Cross Blood Bank
Kenneth Evans
Glenwood
Russell Ridenour
Albert Batton
State Firemen's Association
Martha Wearin to Europe as Tour Head for Students
Mills county student leader Martha Wearin of Hastings sails from New York Saturday to head a Parsons college overseas travel and study tour for 27 students. She will be joined by two adults as chaperones. The group will visit Switzerland Germany France and England and stay with private families part of the time. They attend a British Seminar in London and return May 16. This is her third trip abroad after a prior Greece stay as an International Farm Youth Exchange student.
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Mills County
Martha Wearin
Hastings
Europe
Parsons College
New York City
U.S
Switzerland
Germany
France
England
Imur
London
Wearin
Greece
International Farm
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Malvern Trust and Savings Bank
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Ray Reed
Newell Crink
Kenneth Bowman
Max Dashner
John Scott
Gordon Mulholland
Bill Blackburn
Roy Dean Mansfield
Park 242
Larry Zanders
Mika
Ron Miller
E Blackburn
Larry Williams
A. H. Nothem
MHS
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Miss Wearin
Otha D. Wearin
Malvern Cub
Malvern Lad
Cub Scouts
Webelo
Wm. T. Beasley
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