Li'l Abner at MCHS Drama Risks Practice Time
Steve Palmquist notes MCHS drama rehearsals clash with band trips basketball trips and senior events for the Li'l Abner musical comedy. Cast includes Abner Yokum Mark Knight Daisy Mae and more than 40 students. Performances March 25 and 30 at 7 30 p.m. Malvern staging Dogpatch antics center on Yo kumbery Tonic and Bullmoose schemes ending in a happy finale.
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Steve Palmquist
Li'l Abner
Abner Yokum
Mark Knight
Daisy Mae
Sheri O’deil
Mammy Yokum
Debbie Bayes
Pappy Yokum
Steve Sands
Earthquake McGoon
Dan Edie
General Bullmoose
Dale Ponton
Jack 8
Phogbound
Kevin Anderson
Jack
MCHS
Paving Contract Set for April 3
Memo to farmers along Co. Road M16 from Hastings to Strahan announces a paving letting set for April 3 at the Iowa Highway Commission offices in Ames. The 5,496 mile road stretch has been graded and graveled after over a year of work, but this winter’s moisture left it in poor condition.
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Hastings
Strahan
Iowa Highway Commission
Ames
Sheriff Seeks Funds for 24 Hour Radio Center
Mills County sheriff seeks 10655 dollars in federal state funds plus 2992 dollars matching for a 24 hour radio center as part of 25 Southwest Iowa projects by the Iowa Crime Commission. Total project cost 325149 dollars across 10 counties with director John Langley processing applications. Advisory Board meeting set for Thursday March 15 at 8 PM at the high school with guest speaker Mrs Sonja Switzer.
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Mills County
Sheriff's Office
Iowa
Iowa Crime Commission
Merle E. Brown
John Langley
The
Crime Commission
MCS Advisory Board
Sonja Switzer
Canada Geese On The Run Over Forneys Lake
Leader photo captures Canada geese migrating north from Forney's Lake near Riverton amid dreary spring weather. Mills County conservation officials note ducks and geese beginning annual migration along the Missouri River bottom, with sightings along sloughs, I-29 corridors, and river areas.
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Forney’s Lake
Riverton
Conservation Commission
Mills County
Missouri
Forney’s
I-29
Demos Caucus elects Palmer chair in Mills County
Mills county Democrats met in a combined caucus at Glenwood State Bank. Howard Palmer of Glenwood was elected chair to succeed Marcia Vanderpool Hastings who resigned. Vanderpool had chaired the county group for four years and tendered her resignation at the start.
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Demos
Palmer
Mills County
Glenwood State Bank
Howard Palmer
Glenwood
Marcia Vanderpool
Hastings
Vanderpool
Rockwell sought Malvern art post before car trouble
This Week in Mills County recalls Norman Rockwell applying for a Malvern Community Schools art instructor job last spring while living in Minneapolis. An interview was arranged but canceled due to car trouble near Orange City. No injuries but Sturgeon's 1973 Buick had about $800 front-end damage. Sheriff Merle E. Brown investigated.
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Brown
Dept
Norman Rockwell
Joslyn Museum
Omaha
Supt
Jack Jones
Malvern Community Schools
Minneapolis
Rockwell
Orange City
Mr. Jones
Sturgeon
Undercover Narc Ousted by Brown Sheriff Axes Narcotics Agent
Sheriff Merle BE Brown announced the dismissal of Howard W. Cramer an undercover narcotics investigator who had worked for the sheriff since his release from Mills county jail on February 9. Cramer a San Bernardino California man had served a 60 day jail sentence.
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Merle BE. Brown
Howard W. Cramer
Mills County
Cramer
San Bernadino
Calif
Malvern Fire Destroys Ray Trively Barn in White Cloud Towns
Firemen battled wind rain and heavy mud as a lightning sparked blaze consumed a large pole barn on the Ray Trively farm near Malvern. The structure housed machinery but no livestock, with a plow grain drill and field chopper lost. Ambulance traffic reported a separate call to Otto Menschel’s home north of Malvern.
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Malvern
Ray Trively
White Cloud
Otto Menschel
Minschel
Route Clinic
Glenwood
Omaha-Co. Bluffs
Rotary Names P Grissom President at Malvern Club
Preston Grissom, conservationist with Mills County Soil Conservation district, was named president of the Malvern Rotary club at the annual elections held Tuesday evening. James Benton became vice president, Howard Netson secretary, and Glen Howrey treasurer. Grissom succeeds Lentz Powles. new officers take office July 1.
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Preston Grissom
Mills County Soil Conservation District
Malvern Rotary Club
James Benton
Howard Netson
Glen Howrey
Mills County Public Health Nurse faces funding cut
The Mills County Public Health Nurse program, funded mostly by a federal grant of 10,000 of 15,000 yearly, will lose support after June 30, 1973. If continued, funds must come from county, revenue sharing, or other sources, as 40 new cases were admitted this year and 826 total nursing services were provided.
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Dorothea Graham
Mills County
Carolyn L. Washburn
R. N
Board of Health
Public Health
Veterans Hospital
Omaha
University of Iowa Hospital
Iowa City
ADC
Malvern
Nishna Valley
Washburn
Steve Buckingham
Malvern School Board Plans Bus Purchase and Programs
The Malvern Community School District board ordered a new bus chassis from Bill Bner Ford and a body from Superior Sales Co to be delivered next fall. Librarian Susan Weight reported additions to Chantry and high school libraries, district planning includes driving education and senior trip, and career education studies. The group discussed facility drainage, record keeping at OSHA, and a crowded-rooms issue with 25 new pupils this year. May 26 makeup day set for snow vacations, and the Corner Conference Science Fair is March 26.
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Bill Bner Ford
Superior Sales Co
Omaha
Susan Weight
Chantry
Area XIII
Cliff Boyer
Jack Jones
Shenandoah
OSHA
U.S. Association of School Directors
Anaheim
Calif
Chantry School
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Bullmoose
Lil Abner
Mleves
al Capp
Radio Center
National
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Che Malvern
Silver City
Willis C. Sturgeon
Herman Stortenbecker
Bennett Cullison
Rotary Names
P. Grissom
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Rotary
Mills County Board of Health
Clyde D. Patton
Bonnie Bolte
R.N
Rafael Roure
M.D
Clifford Ludington
Johnnie Helms
Malvern Community School District Board of Directors
Eget
Doug Bowen
Harva Hillyer
Malvern Community Building
Inside
Oaks
Panther Paw
Society
Strahan News
Wesley Chapel News
Blackhawk Reservation Church
Westet Haninigs
al Henderson
Malvernians
Mt. Vernon
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