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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1958
Page
1
Our View notes Monticello sits in Jones county Iowa with a bright outlook as manufacturing and construction grow. It highlights 1957 building permits, farm income gains, and Iowa's diversified economy linking agriculture and industry to stability.
The Express invites readers to send comments and opinions on any subject not obscene or in bad taste to the Your View department care of the newspaper.
The Chamber of Commerce argues Americans misjudge the profit motive as Russians reward talent. It notes Soviet use of high rewards for merit and contrasts with U.S. tax rates up to 91 percent on high incomes. The chamber suggests high rewards spur achievement and questions current tax leveling.
A Monticello area excerpt discusses a proposed made in USA satellite dubbed the 1040 to unify space efforts across services and notes traffic reports showing pedestrian fatalities in urban areas. It also mentions Russia’s linguistic impact of Sputnik and school troubles in Little Rock with local editorials and publication details.
Services for C T Bud Smith 61 were at the Hopkinton Methodist Church with burial in Hopkinton cemetery. He died April 2 at the Veterans hospital Iowa City after an operation. Born September 20 1896 in Hopkinton he was a rural mail carrier and World War I veteran. Survived by wife Kathryn and two daughters Mary Ann Metchert Kay Miles and son Robert plus sister and two grandchildren.
Funeral services for Ernest T. Barker 67 of Orlando Fla were conducted at the Oxford Junction Methodist Church. The deceased born December 1 1890 at Low Moor Iowa died March 31 in Orlando after a long illness. He is survived by Dorothy Freisinger his wife two sisters and four brothers.
Jones County teachers association will hold a public meeting at Anamosa high school auditorium on Apr 16 at 8 p m to study Iowa education legislative issues. Clayton N Ridout of Wyoming, the legislative chairman, will show a film strip on the topic.
Eugene Renfro 30 an Anamosa state men s reformatory inmate died after a heart attack. He became a inmate on November 2 1951 and was serving a 25 year term for robbery with aggravation. He was formerly of Ottumwa.
Funeral services for W Dale Willard 54 of Cedar Rapids were held at Turner chapel Cedar Rapids with Rev J Richard Wagner officiating burial followed at Cedar Memorial. Willard a Cedar Rapids Auto Supply foreman for 10 years died suddenly en route to hospital He was born March 1 1904 near Hopkinton and survived by his wife daughter two parents two sisters and a brother. Relatives from Chicago Des Moines Edgewood Monticello Center Junction Scotch Grove Wyoming Lost Nation and Oxford Junction attended.
Rev Kenneth Harden conducted last rites for Mrs Virgil Harris 73 of Chicago in the Methodist Church. Burial was in Mayflower cemetery with pallbearers named. Frances Powlishta daughter of Frank and Mrs Powlishta born Monmouth Sept 28 1884 died in Grant hospital Chicago after long illness. Survived by two sisters Agnes Jacobs Edgewood and Bessie Independence.
Six inmates at the Anamosa men's reformatory endured 12 weeks without solid food, subsisting on a chemical formula as part of a University of Iowa Medical Center study. The project, noted by New Horizons, investigated panthothenic acid or vitamin B5 and its necessity and impact when removed, with implications for certain malignancies.
Eldon Welter of route 2 serves as reservation chairman for the eighth annual Northeast Catholic Activities dinner. The event is April 29 in the Tavern on the Green ballroom Water. It marks the 21st anniversary of the Riverview Park retreat program at Evangelical Unite Brethren grounds Cedar Falls. Reservations must be made by April 27.
Marine Cpl. Harold M. Kintzle son of Mr and Mrs Carl Kintzle of route 1 Monticello returned to Camp Pendleton Calif Mar 11 with the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion of the 1st Marine Division after a five day reconnaissance exercise off the submarine U S S Perch in the Pacific.
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