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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1970
Page
10
A column on growing Mills County population presses expanded health and welfare services, hospital and dental care, and tighter zoning. It warns that visitors and planning must shape growth to avoid junkyards next to mansions and polluted waterways. The piece notes Veterans Day observations and critiques a Monday holiday shift, urging practical, rational policy nationwide.
Funeral services for Raymond Francis Varner 71 were held at Peterson Mortuary in Glenwood after an extended illness. He died Friday in an Omaha hospital. Interment was in Tabor cemetery. Survived by wife Pearl Morrical Varner daughter Frances widow of James Craigmile of Omaha sister May Schotter Palatine Ill brother Oscar Franker Spencer and half sister Eva Morrow Royal. Varner farmed northwest of Tabor and held roles in Co op Farm Bureau National Farm Loan Association Knights of Pythias.
Church listings for St John s Lutheran St John s Episcopal Holy Rosary in Glenwood show service times prayers sermons and masses. St John s Lutheran invites worshippers at 9 a m with Sunday School and Bible Class at 10 a m. St John s Episcopal lists 10 a m morning prayers sermon and 10 a m Holy Eucharist on the second Sunday. Holy Rosary notes Mass times Sundays 7 30 a m and 9 30 a m plus Holy Days 9 30 a m and 6 30 p m First Fridays 4 30 p m and state school Mass Sundays 1 p m. Confessions at 7 p m Saturdays and before Holy Days.
Jackie McGrew and Arlene Irvin with Theta Rho lodge members joined a roller skating party near Bellevue Nebraska and a Friday night slumber party at the Lodge Hall in Glenwood.
First Baptist Church led by Rev Howard Mace lists Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. and worship at 11 a.m. on Sept 10 with Thanksgiving services planned at the Methodist church on Nov 22 at 7:30 p.m. No choir practice next week due to Thanksgiving. Union Thanksgiving services in United Methodist church with Rev Mace speaking.
The Goodwill Industries truck will be in eastern Mills County on November 30 visiting Mill Vern Hastings Emerson Silver City and Month. The program employs mentally challenged workers in a sheltered setting and offers various tasks.
Drake University Opera Theatre in Des Moines staged An Evening of Opera Scenes on November 13. Twenty one singers performed excerpts from Bizet Carmen Giannini The Taming of the Shrew and The Ballad of Baby Doe Miss Bird of Malvern a junior in the College of Fine Arts sang in The Ballad of Baby Doe The production was directed by Marion Hail and Leonard Hellmers.
Walther League members at St John’s Lutheran Church Tastings will hold their annual chili and oyster supper on November 22. Serving will begin at 5 30 p m and continue through 8 p m. A free will offering will be the only change for the meal. Walther Leaguers urge all to attend and enjoy a great meal.
Mills County Schools drew 28,508 from fines collected by justices of the peace and other bodies in 1969. The funds were apportioned among seven districts by daily attendance, with totals for Glenwood, Nishna Valley, Malvern, Fremont Mills, Lewis Central, Shenandoah, and Treynor. In 1969, 1,473 cases yielded 39,854.87 in fines, compared to 1,708 cases and 25,901.47 the prior year.
Mrs Howard Palmer argues against vertical integration as feed firms use contracts to depress farmer income. She recalls the 1940s poultry boom followed by price collapse, forcing growers to endure low pay. The piece predicts a shift to hog production with corporate control, aided by disease-free pigs from tax-funded research, and warns of further hog integration next year.
Malvern high school Vocational Agriculture department begins its annual Adult Farmer Council sessions. Twelve classes span winter months, inviting all area agriculturalists. Topics include grain futures, machinery management, minimum tillage, water pollution, estate planning, beef cattle nutrition, soil analysis, farm safety, and herbicides. Next meeting is Monday Nov 23 at 7 30 p.m. in the Voe Ag building.
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