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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1966
Page
7
Mills County kicks off the 1966 Christmas Seal Campaign with Nov 15 mailings. Proceeds fund tuberculosis and other respiratory disease fights. Campaign chair Mrs. Claude Schoening notes new tuberculosis cases stay high and urges generous citizen support.
Howard Nelson was named president of the Malvern Commercial Club at its annual organization meeting after a turkey dinner at Smitty’s Cafe. C J Noffsinger becomes vice president with Louis J Koop as secretary treasurer. Directors elected include Larry Stephens Carl Whitney and Stephen Waller. Plans for a Christmas trade promotion and a Saturday November 26 kickoff event were announced along with new Christmas lights for stores. A committee led by Edel Knight R D Mansfield Louis J Knop and Howard Notson was named for the program. A separate listing notes a Siam Jeal supper and bazaar at Silver City Methodist Church on Saturday November 19 at 5 30 pm with prices.
The Mills County Extension and Economies Committee schedule a Nov 30 laundry show at Malvern Community Building from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Miss Marilyn Surdyk, a senior Home Economist with Maytag Co, will demonstrate washday recipes and new fabric care, pre treating techniques, stain removal, fabrics and detergents. The program is open to all homemakers to learn updated laundering procedures.
Malvern Community school board members met with architect W. D. Frevert of Des Moines on Friday to review a proposed two story high school building. The design offers ample classrooms and a 1200 seat gym, with space for future additions including vocational facilities. Next week floor plans and cost data will be published for tax impact.
The Malvern Commercial Club will give away a car full of merchandise as a Christmas promotional prize, part of years of cash-script distributions. Drawings run four Saturdays starting Nov 26, with the season opener on Nov 26 and Christmas lights unveiling at 7 30 p.m. that evening. An expense paid motel outing is offered as an additional prize, to be announced.
Mills county farmer Albert Craig received a communal aid as a neighbor group harvested 25 acres of corn. Volunteers Duane Hemming sen Bob Glynn Virgil Forney Henry Miller Harold Van Meter Carroll Fullon Corte Stewart Maurice Alberts Clifford Scott Floyd Blackman Frank Chamberlain Danny Garst operated tractors pickers elevators wagons and other gear to complete the task.
The Inter-Church Council sponsors a Thanksgiving service at the Presbyterian church on Sunday November 20 at 7 30 p m The Rev John Lippincott will deliver the evening message Special music will be provided by the host church and baskets for the needy will be filled by council members from gifts of food Food for the needy may be brought Sunday morning to local churches An offering will be taken for next summer Bible school costs
The clerk's office issued a marriage license to Edmond J. Flury of Council Bluffs and Tina Kleinsteinst of Matyern. New motor vehicle registrations include Fords to DeLain Slump and Velma E. South of Henderson. Chevrolets to Lawrence Golilinghorst of Tabor Clyde Ingersoll of Emerson and Schuster Auto Supply and Peterson Morory of Glenwood. Oldsmobile to Leo Van Fosson of Glenwood and Buick to Darrell F. Achenbaugh of Henderson. Chevrole pickup to Wilmer Jens of Glenwood. County Auditor Glenn Johnson went to Des Moines on Wednesday to seek approval on Mills county levies for 1967.
A Guthrie Center businessman pursues a plan to save Glenwood Packing Co as creditors file a federal petition in Council Bluffs seeking 46098. Three creditors Low Temp Insulation Packers Engineering Interstate Electric Supply claim the company owes 46098. The firm has 10 days to appear and five more to answer. Howard Randolph plans a Friday meeting at Glenwood city hall to present a custodial reopening plan requiring less capital.
Goodwill Industries thanks the public for helping the handicapped and invites usable discards for their program. The truck will stop in Malvern Hastings Emerson Silver City and Henderson on Tuesday November 29. Leave items at the usual collection center.
Highway patrolmen used aircraft with cars this week to hunt speeding and no passing violations. Justice of the Peace Carl Remley fined multiple defendants from $10 to $22 plus costs for speeding and improper passing in various towns including Council Bluffs Glenwood and Shenandoah. Several others appeared in Remley and Timmerman courts for speeding and license violations with fines ranging from $5 to $22 plus costs.
Mills County reports a ten percent rise in sales tax for the fiscal year ending June 30, led by Glenwood with an eighteen percent gain and Malvern close behind at eleven percent. The article notes a new adult farmer night school program starting November 22 at the Malvern Vocational Building with classes on hog and cattle direct buying, livestock judging, meat carcass evaluation, and farm programs.
Doug Zanders resigns as manager of Good Grain Co. Malvers Hastings and Strahan offices after more than 40 years in the family grain business. The Zanders, long tied to Kance Nelson and Good Grain, move to Glenwood at 301 North Hazel. Doug plans to stay in grain and feed but has not joined a new firm.
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