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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1957
Page
4
Wyoming Ju-Wom-O club met at Mrs. Robert Rohwedder’s home on April fifteenth with music and prayer. Mrs. Helen Ales of Last Nation demonstrated hair setting and cutting while refreshment hosts served post meeting.
President Eisenhower signed new law authorizing 3 percent interest on series E and H savings bonds. John W. McNamara of Anamosa, chairman, says the measure is retroactive to bonds purchased since February 1. E bonds keep purchase and maturity values but now mature in 8 years 11 months. H bonds earn 84 percent interest and mature in 10 years, with half yearly mail checks to bondholders.
Scotch Grove Presbyterian Ladies Aid plans its May 1 meeting at Mrs. Paul Paulsen home with assistants Mrs. May Himebaugh and Mrs. Mary Parker. Topic led by Mrs. W. B. Clark is United Nations. devotions by Mrs. Donald Grom. and more local family updates follow.
A hearing was set for April 24 at the Jones County courthouse in Anamosa on proposed grading bridging and surfacing of trunk roads B and F from highway 388 south of Olin to Oxford Mills. County engineer Harl Bessell said hearings are required by law for work on state and farm-to-market roads entering towns. Assistant district engineer Van Snyder was to attend.
OLIN-Cloverbrook Ormsby Aristocrat, a Holstein bull owned by George Slater and Son, Olin, has been named a gold medal sire by the Holstein Friesian Association of America. The honor follows its silver medal designation and boasts 13 daughters with 14,844 pounds of milk and 557 pounds of butterfat, up 671 pounds of milk and 6 pounds of fat from dam averages.
Iowa high school seniors can join now and serve later under a deferred service plan announced by the state marine recruiting officer. The Marine Corps authorized by headquarters in Washington delays active duty up to four months for a limited number of seniors joining before graduation.
Jones county farmers with government price support loans on barley oats rye and flaxseed were told by the ASC office that all loans and purchase agreements mature April 30. Those with loans will get notices on redeem or deliver dates and purchase agreement holders must decide by April 30 whether to deliver. Barley oats rye and flaxseed in warehouse storage will be seized May 1 if not redeemed by April 30. Jones county had 2543 bushels of oats covered by loans as of April 15. Apr 30 opens the second price support settlement period of the year.
John W. McNamara of Anameda, Jones county’s volunteer chairman for savings bonds activities, reports $262,145 invested in the first quarter, 22 percent of the annual quota. Other counties show Delaware 263,101 for 30 percent, Dubuque 835,069 for 22 percent, Linn 1,797,318 for 26 percent, Jackson 278,898 for 27 percent, Cedar 409,987 for 33 percent.
Larry Robertson, local Culligan dealer, attended the Minneapolis unveiling of a new fully automatic water softener by Culligan Inc. Northbrook IL. The device targets varied family sizes and will be available in Jones County around May 10.
Jones county state representative Eldred visited his Morley area farm home over the weekend. He predicted the legislative session would adjourn Friday, though the 100 day limit had already expired Tuesday.
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