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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1956
Page
4
Monticello won 96 to 70 against Anamosa in a freshman-sophomore track dual held Friday. The meet featured multiple firsts for Monticello, with Anamosa leading in eight events and both teams posting strong distances and sprints across hurdles, relays, and field events.
Martelle beat Morley 19 to 5 after a 12 run rally in the seventh inning. Dave Randall pitched for Martelle with Dean Rickless catching as Morley used Darrall Horn Paul McConaughy and Charles Vernon in the battery. The game originally scheduled Tuesday was moved to Wednesday due to high winds.
High individual game led by Blanche George of Schuetz with 180, followed by Jo Russell of Hi Way Market and Wilma Breitbach of Locker Plant tying at 178. Iva Yeoman rolled 172, with ties for 171 by Lyla Richardson, Millie Hunt, and Mary Jane Steiner. Blanche George also had the high 498 series. Bank posted the top team game at 603 and Phillips 66 led team series with 1,746.
In WYOMING, the Jones County baseball tournament advances to the second round this afternoon at Wyoming High School. Olin faces Wyoming at 2 p.m. followed by Onslow vs Oxford Junction at 3:30 p.m. The final game will be held Wednesday at Onslow Field. Morley fell to Onslow 3 to 1 and Olin defeated Martello 13 to 10 in first round play with Wyoming and Oxford Junction earning byes.
Hopkinton built a 12-3 win over Dundee Friday with 3 hits and 1 error. How ard Chapman and John Hart pitched for Hopkinton, Glenn Harris catching. Dundee managed 4 hits and 6 errors with Shaw on the mound and Hogan behind the plate. Hogan homered in the fifth with Shaw on base.
The Monticello student Judy Hollar is a four year mixed chorus and glee club member. She belongs to girls sextet quartet madrigal and mixed quartet and acted in the high school operetta and senior class plays. She was queen of WaMac track at Marion and represented Monticello Cub baseball in the Tournament of Queens at Dyersville placing second. She is a four year cheerleader and member of numerous groups including Girls Athletic Association Future Homemakers of America Philo Monte school paper staff M club and Camp Fire Horizon. Last summer she worked as a lifeguard at the Monticello swimming pool.
Five members of the Jones County Beef Producers Association attended a state Beef Producers convention in Des Moines on Tuesday. Attendees include Dale Adams Monticello Ezra Wenndt and Donald Star Wyoming Gale Ahrendsen Oxford Junction JoJe Legg county extension director. Mrs Starr and Mrs Abrendsee accompanied the group.
Two teen drivers faced 300 day license suspensions and $25 fines after residents reported drag racing on North Cedar Street. A 16-year-old Monticello boy and an 18-year-old Anamosa youth appeared before Justice of the Peace C. F. Shimanek. Police Chief Don Gilmore warned youths about nighttime speeding and warned of heavier penalties for traffic violations.
Center Junction officials announce July 1 as the tentative date to activate the new dial telephone system. The Kennedy Lumber Co. office has the first dial phone installed, with John Gray of Kennedy Lumber and the telephone company awaiting about two months before dialing a number. The dial switchboard is due May 28 and will require roughly a month for full operation.
The Jones County board of supervisors issued a yearly resolution directing landowners to destroy noxious weeds by specified dates. Dates include June 15 for leafy spurge and related species, June 20 for thistles and sorrel, July 1 for field bindweed and wild carrot, and July 15 for several others. Failure triggers weed commissioner action and assessed costs, with seed prevention on roads and between fence lines by July 31.
A Bronx man Ray mond L. Rosen suffered a fractured nose and chest injuries when his 1954 auto collided with a westbound truck driven by Lafayette J. P. Bahnsen of Wyoming at highway 64 three miles south of Center Junction. The truck, from Big Bill's Feed Store Wyoming, was turning left into a farm driveway when the crash occurred, reported highway patrolman John Beckmann.
The front end of the auto was extensively damaged while the truck sustained less serious damage. Bahnsen was not injured.
Superintendent Clayton Ridout announces two Wyoming high school staff resignations. Duane Peterson, coach and social studies teacher, and Everett Walden, principal and science and math teacher, will leave at year end for positions at Lost Nation. Peterson served two years. Walden four years.
Doris I Puffett of Ames began duties as a public assistance worker at the Jones County welfare office. She succeeds Maldean Finn who moved to the Dubuque county welfare office in Dubuque.
Ivars R Liepine a 1951 Monticello high school graduate and recent naturalization becomes editor of the Daily Iowan University of Iowa paper from May 16 to May 15 next year. He succeeds Kirk Boyd and moves up from sports editor while set to graduate in journalism in spring 1957.
Jones County district court charged Lyle Francis Burns of Independence with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated after his April 18 arrest in Monticello. He appeared before Justice of the Peace Warren Lawrence in Anamosa and was released on a 350 dollar bond. Judson Pye of Monticello filed for divorce from Dorothy R. Pye, alleging a January 1937 marriage in Tipton.
A pony was killed about three miles west of Anamosa on highway 151 when struck by a truck driven by Harlan Dean Edgar of Crawfordsville. The owner was William Allen of Anamosa. Damage to the truck was about $150, Sheriff Lewis Dreibelbis reported.
Camp Fire ranks and honors awarded to sixth and seventh grade groups for completing babycraft and candy clubs. Members received three and five year membership honors and Seeds for Democracy birthday honors. Blue Bird groups performed action songs and grades shared songs about farm life and historical figures.
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