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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1957
Page
5
Our view urges eastern Iowa communities to act now to guard against Dutch elm disease a fungus that can kill an elm tree quickly. It notes the disease spread in Illinois and calls clubs and civic groups to invite a specialist to explain prevention measures for protecting trees.
The Express states its aim to publish unbiased and accurate facts while not pleasing all readers. It presents every point of view equally for controversial subjects and reserves opinion for its editorials.
The Boys Town Cowboys have won Nebraska State basketball titles three times in five years with consecutive championships in 1966 and 1967. The piece argues that repeated champions spur other teams to improve, quoting Dr. Forrest Phog Allen on losers creating winners.
A lighthearted look at springtime driving antics from Iowa papers. A speeding backward driver 30 in a 20 zone, a driver across a stop sign, nails tossed to deter traffic, a guard sign on not ice nails, a hydrant swap after water woes, and a cane pedestrian struck yet another reminder that spring isn’t safe.
Eldred reports House actions on department appropriations with no salary raises, liquor by the drink referendum progress, patrolmen increase funded by license fees, a two year driver license fee hike, and a reapportionment bill to base representation on area and population. Key figures cited include a House vote 93 to 4 and 91 to 8.
Monticello council minutes from February 4 1957 cover sewer extension costs street washer sales tax appropriation and water billing. Officials discuss Vanourny addition grading and a pressurized street washer and approve various permits and payments including a class B beer permit and Methodist Church basement work while planning limited parking and rail-line vacating concerns.
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