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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1957
Page
4
About 250 boys expected to compete at the first Monticello junior high relays on Saturday May 4 starting at 1 20 p m. Tipton leads with 25 entrants, eight WaMac schools invited. Events include dashes hurdles relays jumps shots and throws across seventh and eighth grades with ribbons for top five in each event.
Monticello finishes second in a triangular at Marion with 66 points behind Anamosa 76 and ahead of Marion 62. Bill Vesey sets a Monticello shot put record 46 2 and Jim Holmes tops discus at 115 6 34. Dennis Larson of Anamosa wins three events and Monticello places second in two relays.
The Monticello Cubs of the revived Maquoketa league will practice Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:30 to dark at the fairgrounds diamond. Manager George Hines, replacing Junior Hobart, urges area athletes to join. first practices start next week with a season opener against Guttenberg on May 26.
Monticello Panther track athletes set two school records at the class A Cornell college high school relays in Mt. Vernon. Jim Holmes won third in discus with 128 1/2 feet, beating the old mark. Monticello finished second in the mile relay with a 3 41.6, just under the previous record. The relay quartet was Ron Long Maynard Lang Dean Rickels and Tom Rhatigan. Lang tied for second in the high jump at 5 feet 6 inches.
Dr Mir iam Neff administrator of John McDonald hospital led a joint Horizon clubs panel at the Presbyterian church Monday evening. A pot luck supper followed. Guests included Mrs Earl DeShaw Mrs Glen Jones and Mrs Arch Edwards.
Geologist C L Gus Norlin spoke to Rotarians on irrigation at St. Luke's church in Monticello. He said Iowa rainfall averages 31 to 32 inches with varying runoff and outlined water needs per acre for irrigation. He warned the Maquoketa River likely won’t fall much below last year due to underground sands and gravel.
Western Auto dealers from a 22 store area gathered Monday evening at the local shop for a special meeting hosted by Elton Copley. Charles Goodman of St. Louis Missouri, the factory representative, conducted the session.
Scotch Grove Farm Bureau meeting rescheduled from April 18 to April 25 at the home of Mr and Mrs Mike Paulsen. County extension staff Mrs Maxine Hunt and Joe Legg will speak on Decisions in Homemaking.
Roy Macal of Anamosa named top rating among 33 managers statewide after six month Iowa Farm Supply training. He moved to Jones County Farm Service last November from Winneshiek County. He earlier ran a 240 acre farm and boosted a sales route from 28000 to 105000 gross. He and his wife Imogene and two daughters reside in Anamosa.
Jones county schools superintendent Joseph A. Beave will speak at the Oxford township Farm Bureau meeting Monday April 22 at 8 p.m. The event will be held in the Legion Auxiliary room.
The Cedar Jones Association for Retarded Children will meet Monday April 22 at 8 pm in the Community room of the Anamosa courthouse.
Cass Iowa Ladies aid held a Thursday program led by Mrs. Alvin Ortgies with Mrs. George Brown hosting. Guests included Mrs. Percy Bray from Redlands California and Mrs. George Purcell Anamosa along with other local members. A dessert tray followed. Visitors stayed with the Eugene Brays and other area families.
Prairieburg society notes list visits across neighboring towns. Leo Lawrence and Victor Lawrence connect in Dubuque. The Hart family hosts Springville guests. Dyersville hosts dinner for the Keegans. PWC club met April 10 with My Favorite TV Personality as roll call. Linn County Firemen’s meet at Albert _ Alpurnett referenced. Further visits include Kintzle and Woodward households in Cedar Rapids Anamosa and Central City.
Five new civil docket items in Jones county district court include a foreclosure suit filed by John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co against Lester F. and Betty Collins for 17072.17 plus costs and a receiver. two divorce petitions from Leona Benhart and Janice Breiholz seeking custody, support, alimony, and title to property. Treva Musgrove seeking divorce. a Wanger Manufacturing account suit for 60.50. a Buckner indictment for false pretenses. and a cross-petition case involving Diamond Black Leaf Chemical Co as third-party defendant scheduled for May 27.
Mrs. Sam Moncrief车 car jumped a curb and crashed into W. H. Burrichter residence at 202 North Sycamore around 6 p.m. Saturday. She said she blacked out as she drove north on Sycamore turning onto Second Street, damaging a porch, electric meter and entry box but suffering no injuries.
Funeral services for Edward Hults 57 of Amber were held at Goettsch Funeral Home Anamosa with burial in Wayne Zion cemetery Rev F H Kehren officiated. He died from a gunshot wound at his farm near Amber. Survived by four sisters Helen Mary and two married names. Preceded by parents and three brothers.
Funeral services for Arthur Luck who died in Iowa City will be held today Thursday at 1 30 p m at the Coggon Presbyterian church.
Monticello neighbors Johnny Jones and Fred Tunks of the Monticello Express and their wives attended the Iowa Press association convention in Des Moines on Thursday and Friday. T/Sgt. and Mrs. Robert Maire and their sons from Randolph Air Force Base in San Antonio spent a week visiting relatives in Monticello. he has been transferred to a station in the Hawaiian Islands. Mrs. Fred Tunks and two children are visiting the Beckmans in Hampton. Clifton Abbot of Coeur d Alene Idaho visited the Clarks. he is a former Scotch Grove resident. Justin L. Wood and family of Guttenberg spent the weekend with J. L. Bader. Cloyce Radamacher of Monticello returned home after a month with his sister’s family in McHenry Illinois.
List of winners across multiple categories with stars and placements from a regional music contest. Connie Hall and Harald Wurst top B flat and second in B flat solo. Loretta Edwards takes E flat second. Galen Horn wins Bass clarinet first. Lois Kitchen baker leads treble voice with Judy Denison second. Sax quartet Wyoming first. Gae Ann Luckstead and Susan James share flute solos first. Verla Mae Stampe first with Arlette Oster second. Alto sax George Foy first. Lyle James first in trombone or mar telle tenor solo.
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