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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1961
Page
6
A plea for donations describes the lifesaving impact of a pint of blood. The bloodmobile will be at the Community Building on March 1 from 11 30 to 5 30. The message stresses aiding a newborn RH factor infant, a hemorrhaging mother, and a hemophiliac boy needing 58 pints.
4 H teen club officers Darrell Baker Diane Lakin and Mark Laughlin of Emerson Sharon and Elaine Mass of Silver City and Roger Johnson of Malvern met Tuesday to plan a square dancing party for March 13. A raffle admission and skits by committee members were announced. Ralph Scott of Malvern will divert square dancing. A fundraising carnival for the Oklahoma 4 H exchange trip is set for April 29 by a committee led by Roger Johnson Carolyn Lefgren Richard Hopp and Mary Anna Parker who met with the teen club officers.
Oscar Davis Willisea drove a hog truck that sustained considerable damage in a collision at the railroad underpass on highway 34 west of Malvern Wednesday night. Davis was en route to Omaha with hogs when a car crowded his vehicle, causing the accident. The hogs reportedly were not hurt.
The region experienced the season’s best ice storm with sleet and freezing rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning. Roads were coated lightly but damage was significant, while temperatures stayed mild through the period.
Ice and snow snarled southwest Iowa roads causing numerous accidents from Glenwood to Omaha and Hastings. Sheriffs reported fender-bender trains and cars skidding into ditches on Highway 275 and 59 with injuries and fines for violations. Local drivers faced hail of crashes as Wishnabotna river rose two feet from runoff. community supper announced for March 4.
Malvern high girls clash with Logan in the district basketball tournament first round at T. J. gym in Council Bluffs. Game set for 8 15 p m Fans from the home district expected to attend. The Sidney sectional tourney story notes the Oriolettes won their second straight championship trophy.
Des Moines visit by Mills County Farm Bureau legislative committee included talks with Senator Edward Wearin and Representative William Scherle. The group discussed apportionment, open end funding for a land tax credit, brucellosis control, road funds, sales and income tax changes, and license rate revisions for farm pickups and trucks.
Sheriff Edwin Barkus reported a break in at the Co-Op service station in Silver City. $110 in cash was stolen after a hole was knocked into the wash room wall. He said the southwest Iowa area is seeing a wave of service station burglaries.
Representatives of the Emerson Baptist church joined Cub Scouts at Nishna Cottage Sunday to conduct worship. The home lost two residents this past week with Mrs. Maude Martin of Eagleville and Mrs. Eva West of Tabor passing away.
Mills county supervisors awarded bids for road department supplies in culverts lubricants and lumber and piling totaling significant annual services. The Eaton Metal Products Co Omaha won culverts at 15671 dollars Mobile Bid Co Kansas City supplied lubricants at 2794 dollars and Midwest Timber Co Lincoln Neb bid 22677 dollars for lumber and piling. Diesel fuel and gasoline bids were rejected due to a possible misunderstanding. A new setting will be announced.
Yul Brynner Mitzi Gaynor and Noel Coward headline Stanley Donen s Surprise Package a Columbia romantic comedy at the Empire Theater Saturday and Sunday. Brynner is an exiled gangster deported to Greece whose mob ties lead to a comic misserve when a showgirl arrives rather than loot. Coward plays an exiled king attempting to sell his crown on the same island as the mobster.
Three men Kenneth L. Chambers Charles R. Chambers and Everett James Colter were bound over to the grand jury by Justice Carl Remley and held in Mills county jail on 1000 bonds for breaking and entering the Phillips lumber yard at Henderson on February 4. Sheriff Edwin Barkus said the arrests followed an attempt to sell crescent wrenches on the South Omaha road, the stolen items, and admitted attempts at Macedonia.
MVFD held its annual banquet Wednesday night with 73 attendees. Three 50 year members were honored and ten year certificates awarded to four members including Dr J H Beckwith and Ralph Scott. Mona Pace shared Hawaii slides. supper at East Liberty church announced for Feb 24 at 5 30 p m with chili soup pie and coffee.
Seven Malvern High School speakers earned ratings at the district meet in Red Oak and advance to the state competition in Atlanta on March 18. Mus entries totaled nine with top ratings across public address oratory dramatic declamation interpretative poetry and radio speaking.
The Red Cross will host a chili supper and kickoff meeting for its March fund drive on Monday February 27 at 7 p.m. at Glenwood High School. All solicitors are urged to attend for training and planning. A film Neighbors Neighbors will be shown and solicitors folders will be distributed.
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