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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1950
Page
4
An editorial snippet laments a new upholstered chair slowing sermon focus while highlighting Ray Hilton and the 4 H club founded in 1919. It previews a forthcoming photo feature and covers White Cane Week fundraising to aid the blind for independence and reduced future tax burdens.
The town council votes to remove the north Bur lington overhead welcome sign after two years, noting cost savings of about 40 cents per resident and extra lighting from discontinuing maintenance. A President Truman visit at Pacific Junction is praised for the town’s friendly reception and a note on voting wisdom in choosing leaders. The piece also cites a state observer’s report of 5,000 fewer high school graduates this year in Town and reflects on the 1960 school enrollments as war babies reach graduation.
A correspondent travels with Supt Crink and Mr Chan to Cedar Falls and Iowa State Teachers College, chronicling a stay at Hotel Black Hawk and the local scene. The account notes a blackout at the hotel, humorous mishaps, and the survey of candidates with recommendations from a campus visit and tour of facilities. The piece offers a vivid, if imperfect, slice of midwestern college life and local hospitality.
Imogene and Riverton battled Sunday with Imogene winning 3 to 0 as windstorm tore through towns last Friday. Wabash depot rent and shingles flown, trees uprooted, some schools dismissed, and residents sheltered from the gusts.
A large crowd from out of town gathered Sunday afternoon for the Crowning of the Blessed Virgin at 3 p.m. Miss Elmer McDonald led the crowning, with attendants and a procession of students in white dresses and blue capes. Rosary and Benediction followed with Rev. F. W. Doyle.
Mr and Mrs Dale King of Falls City Nebr visited Sunday with the McDermott parents. The infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Tom Perkins was baptized at 2 30 by Rev F W Doyle and named Rose Mary. Charles Stuelke, in the US Army in Texas, is on a 21 day furlough and spent time with his grandparents the Abbott family.
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