Monticello Express Looks Back at 1957 Milestones
The Monticello Express reviews 1957 achievements and ongoing projects in Monticello and Jones County. Highlights include paved Highway 38 from Center Junction to Monticello, high school sports titles, Shopmaster factory arrival, a weather station, church building plans, a new dial telephones building, and debates over street signs and public school facilities. The editorial urges resident involvement to shape 1958.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Center Junction
Monticello
Shopmaster, Inc
Minneapolis
Energy Manufacturing Company
Gerald Parker
Shopmaster
Parker
Greater Monticello
G.M.C
Sacred Heart
First Presbyterian
Evangelical and Reformed
St. John’s Lutheran
Iowa
Monticello Express
Iowa Press Association
National Editorial Association
Newspaper Advertising Service, Inc
Chicago, Ill
Iowa Press Advertising Service
Desidiolnes
Jones
Clinton
Cedar
Delaware
Dubuque
Jackson
Linn
Monticello Mayor Behn Reflects on City Progress
John Behn, finishing a year as Monticello mayor, reviews new water supply, airport, street lighting, storage building, fire station upgrades, and improved police records while praising council work and welcoming incoming mayor Paul Schuetz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Behn
Monticello
Paul Schuetz
Behn
A. P. Lambert
Learn or Die The Education Challenge to Students
The piece urges students to own their learning, rejecting pampered coaching and spoon feeding. It warns the Soviet scientific surge and calls for an active faith in democracy through hard study to avoid a future of ignorance. A D or F could mark attitudes toward knowledge, not just grades.
You Pay the Taxes on Business From the Chilton Times
A brief explains that taxes levied on business are ultimately paid by individuals through higher prices and costs. It argues that state and federal taxes on gasoline flour bread and freight are embedded in prices and borne by consumers, not by companies.
Thrift as Virtue Returns in Economic Debate
Economists clash over future US prosperity as inflation bites. Democrats highlight rising living costs while Republicans cite record employment and high personal incomes. Loans and auto financing tighten. lenders curb poor risks and repossessions rise. The era of easy credit may fade and thrift return as a national virtue.
It's a Shame Dogs Phrases and Names in Common Talk
A humorous piece explores how dog language and idioms pervade American speech. It surveys familiar expressions such as let sleeping dogs lie and it's a dog's life, noting the playful idea that dog references appear in many sayings and dog-related terms.
Rights and press freedom urged in booster stance
In a city survey many grade schoolers endorse third degree interrogation and press censorship, alarming advocates who warn such views threaten liberty won through revolution. Independence Conservative Reeves Hall calls for democracy education and guards against socialism, while Mary Kay Kidder urges level heads amid the confusion.
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BY John Behn
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