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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1971
Page
10
A column recaps time, aging, and community life with poetic musings and local anecdotes. It cites Botna Valley Grain Company events, spring signs, and a Red Oak plant stance on hiring long-haired workers. The piece blends commentary from Treynor and Sibley Osceola County Tribune with reader notes and regional humor.
Clarinda Community Campus of Iowa Western hosts the Royal Blue Choir with Malvern participants Debbie Bowman Denise Hendrix and Bill Struble. The group plans two spring tours to area schools churches and communities including Avoca Irwin Dow City Kimballton Manning Woodbine Guthrie Center and West Des Moines ending March 1 with a recital March 8 at Kountze Memorial Lutheran Omaha. The second tour will take the choir to Nebraska Denver Colorado Co Bluffs Carson and Glenwood.
Accent February 2027 marks National PFA Week celebrating 450000 top young people in FFA. In Iowa over 10000 members across 230 chapters show growing commitment to developing leaders through farm youth programs. Steve Zumbach of Manchester, Indiana rose from chapter officer to ISU student body president and former regional FFA vice president, illustrating national reach and leadership training.
About six persons from eight towns joined the annual JOOF chili and oyster supper at Hastings hall Saturday night. Towns represented included Omaha Bart Jett Emerson Glenwood Hastings Malvern Pacific Junction and Tabor. Don White Jr. won a half beef in the drawing.
Senator Earl G. Bass explains check off plans for Iowa farm products including soybeans corn and turkeys with safeguards such as producer referendum at inception and majority vote after four years. He notes legislative redistricting moves and a change in committee chairmanship with Lieutenant Governor Roger Jepsen reassigned him to Social Services. Visitors this week included Mr and Mrs Harold Strand and John DeWitt.
Mills County will host a 24 hour tractor and machinery safety training program for youths age 14 to under 16. Participants must complete the course, pass a written exam, and demonstrate safe operation to receive a certificate. Enrollment closes February 26 at the Mills County Extension office Malvern with fees charged.
Bennie Morris of Newport News Va called his father Harold Morris to announce the birth of twin sons born Tuesday. The item notes several family visits across Red Oak and Glenwood as Mae Scott visits Carl and Joe Parker families and others spend time with local residents.
Malvern Community High School will offer two new adult education courses beginning soon. A self defense for women starts Monday March 1 taught by Mrs Bernard Robinson. An upholstery class led by Larry L Heureux at his Hastings shop starts tonight Thursday. Enrollment remains open for both sessions.
Debbie McClure of Malvern has been accepted by C E School of Commerce in Omaha to study accounting. Her program starts in June 1971. She is a senior at Malvern Community Hill School.
Speaker William H. Harbor outlines state fiscal challenges and a plan to curb spending detailing tax timing effects for 1973. He notes a repportioning of the congressional delegation taking effect by February 22 and praises Scherles choice of Seventh District reshaping. He says the Drug Abuse Bill awaits the governor’s signature to advance Iowa’s drug control efforts.
A 1947 discourse argues debt in agriculture exceeds income, with $58 billion in farm debt against $54.6 billion in earnings. It urges real wealth comes from soil production, not printing presses, and calls for higher prices to cover costs, profits, and farmers' labor and investment. It decries perpetual indebtedness and urges the economy to acknowledge the debt owed to farmers.
Masonic lodges from eight Southwest Iowa counties gather in Griswold for a March 2 workshop at the Masonic temple. The event, sponsored by the Iowa committee on Masonic Education with local lodges, opens at 1 p.m. Clarence Peterson and Ronald Rode preside, Allen L. Heaton delivers the keynote, with papers by Jon Nelson, Donavan Lewis, Damel Funk, Avery Blank, Edwin Hamilton, and Mt. Nebo Lodge members. Griswold high school students provide a 6 p.m. dinner program, Cass Lodge No. 412 serves the meal, and Theodore G. Zacharias of Ackley or a representative opens the evening. A demonstration by an Examinee, DeMolay remarks by Gordon Hasczil, and a closing address by Ren L. Heaton follow.
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