Greater Monticello Committee Starts Second Year
Express congratulates the Greater Monticello Committee on beginning its second full year. The coordinating body of thirteen area groups, with about 700 indirect members, promotes Monticello’s growth beyond business toward broad community improvement. The report lists 1950 1951 activities and options for land for a Lutheran College and a factory site, plus street decorations, sports events and local projects.
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The
Express
Greater
Monticello
Earl H. DeShaw
Greater Monticello
Wyoming
Moral Decay Warned In Catholic United States Message
A 13 member Catholic panel issues a stark forecast likening today to the Roman Empire, warning that external barbarism and internal moral decay threaten the nation. It condemns political corruption, urges stern corrective actions, and stresses public officials’ duty to serve, not enrich.
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United States
Grass Roots Opinion Letters Challenge Tax Burden
A collection of editorial quotes from small papers across the country criticizes taxes and government growth. The items cite indirect taxes, wartime levies kept in peacetime, and calls for confronting Communist expansion while warning of bureaucratic overreach.
A Christmas Gift: United States Defense Bond
The piece promotes Defense Bonds as an ideal Christmas gift with future value. It argues bonds strengthen national defense, grow in value over time, and fit a savings plan, urging purchases at banks or post offices with a festive jacket.
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Sam
United States Defense
America
Way Back When column recalls small town life and views
The piece recalls a mix of personal anecdotes from Monticello including a failed substitute bowler Herschel Drury rolling in the 90s and plans to gift a Christmas present delaying a wedding anniversary. It notes Christmas window displays, Red Cross blood drive interest, and asks two historical film questions from Richard Crandall’s survey featured in the New York Herald Tribune.
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Richard Crandall
New York Herald Tribune
Harold Ickes
Interior
Adam
Eden
Michigan
Bernard Baruch
Moses
Mount Sinai
Mary Margaret McBride
Sherman Billingsley
The
Stork Club
Edward Steichen
Eve
Monticello mobilizes blood donors for Red Cross visit
Monticello volunteers flood the first Red Cross Bloodmobile visit slated for December 18 with about 250 names listed for the initial drive. Officials urge ongoing donor activity as Secretary Lovett warns of a growing blood crisis and calls Americans to give to save wounded soldiers.
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Monticello
American Red Cross Bloodmobile
Bloodmobile
the Express
Defense Lovett
Washington, D. C
Defense
Robert A. Lovett
Mr. Lovett
Red Cross
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Omar N. Bradley
Strange Historical Fantasies and Family News Cited
The text mixes references to Anthony and Cleopatra and other historic touches with personal notes. It mentions Harold Stassen choices Magna Charta and Nativity, Billy Rose on Christ and Hitler, and Frank Sullivan’s odd Pharaoh-Moses and Shakespeare bed queries. Local visits include Mr. and Mrs. Ross Baty to Sigourney and Mrs. Behrends joining Sigma Alpha Iota at Iowa State Teachers College.
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Cleopatra
Harold Stassen
Billy Rose
Christ
Hitler
Frank Sullivan
Pharoah
Moses
Ann Hathaway
Shakespeare
Waterloo
William the Conqueror
Hastings
Henry Steel Commager
Pericles
Athens
Helen
Troy
Marileigh Clark Behrends
Monticello
Sigma Alpha Iota
Iowa State Teachers College
Behrends
Christmas church notices from area congregations
The local churches list Sunday School and worship times for December with related events. Includes First Congregational under Colin MacRae, Evangelical & Reformed under Rev John F Baumann, SS Peter and Paul Lutheran led by Paul Kenyon, Wayne Zion Ev Lutheran with F H Kebren, St Luke's Methodist with Robert V Gildner, St Matthew's Lutheran led by Rev H L Adix, First Presbyterian with Rev R V Porter, and West Minister Fellowship program details and holiday activities. December 16 and 19 events noted, plus Christmas programs and parties scheduled through December 23.
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First Congregational Church
Colin MacRae
Coldit
Evangelical & Reformed Church
John F. Baumann
Women's Guild
SS. Peter and Paul Lutheran Church
Paul Kenyon
Wayne Zion Ev. Lutheran Church
F. H. Kebren
Luther League
St. Luke’s Methodist Church
Robert Vinson Gildner
St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church
H. L. Adix
First Presbyterian Church
R. V. Porter
West
Paul Warner U S M C Released From Service
Paul Warner U S M C returned home December 3 after an honorable discharge from the Marine Corps. Recalled a year ago, he trained at Camp Pendleton California and served in Camp Commander duties before resuming work as manager at Stuhler's Grocery. Mrs Warner teaches second grade at Monticello Public School. He remains in the Reserves but unlikely to be recalled unless a national emergency.
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Paul Warner
U.S.M.C
Paul
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Warner
Stuhler’s Grocery
Monticello
Butternut coffee strips aid to orphans netted in Monticello
The American Legion Auxiliary collected Christmas gift strips in Monticello totaling 2268 strips and $226.80. The donation splits with $100 to Mason City for a home there and the remaining funds to Annie Whittenmeyer Home in Davenport. Mr and Mrs Norman E Davis visited in R D Zirtaman's home en route to California.
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Monticello
American Legion Auxiliary
Mason City
Annie Whittenmeyer
Davenport
Norman E. Davis
Minnesota
R. D. Zirtaman
California
Cedar Rapids Visit Among Local Residents
Mrs L A Oltman spent Monday in Cedar Rapids visiting her aunt Mrs John Moore who was 90. Others calling included Mr and Mrs Marvin Lacock and family. Mr and Mrs J L Bader of Monticello traveled with Mrs Lee Handshew Mrs Robert Veitch and Mrs Donald A Miller of Rt 2 Monticello to Cedar Rapids on Tuesday.
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L. A. Oltman
Cedar Rapids
John Moore
Marvin Lacock
J. L. Bader
Monticello
Lee Handshew
Robert Veitch
Donald A. Miller
Rt. 2
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