Indian Bluffs project seeks 100000 in state budget
The Iowa Conservation Commission requests 100000 for acquisition of scenic land along the Maquoketa River near Indian Bluffs southeast of Monticello as part of a 5 671 500 capital improvements listing within a 7 209 677 total budget. The plan ties to Outdoor Recreation and notes large gains in park use and tent camping since 1947. Rep. Roy Miller said he does not know when the legislature will consider it.
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Maquoketa River
State Conservation Commission
Iowa
Express
Roy Miller
Indian Bluffs
Monticello
Commission
Conservation Commission
Miller
Music educators honor Shannon with tribute concert
At the Iowa Music Educators Association convention in Des Moines the Monticello high school band conducted by Ray Stumbaugh dedicated a concert to Supt. Boyd Shannon. Officials and teachers, including Harold Albright and Paul Beck, paid tribute for his 23 years as superintendent and 35 years in Monticello schools. Continuous praise highlighted his work with activity associations and service to Iowa school music.
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Iowa Music Educators Association
Boyd Shannon
Des Moines
Monticello
Ray Stumbaugh
Shannon
Iowa High School Athletic Association
Iowa High School Music Association
Leo Grether
Supt
Harold Albright
Paul Beck
John Kortemeyer
Kenneth Webber
John Koch
Mari
Lyn Wahl
Mary Hanken
Sue Balster
Michael McNeill
Charlotte Tobiason
Sue Aitchison
Linda Ballou
Association
Iowa
Stumbaugh
Sacred Heart High School Students Run District Speech Contest
Seventeen Sacred Heart high school students compete in seven categories at the district speech contest February 24 25 following local finals January 24. Judges include Rev William Arquitt John Giegerich Sister Mary Leonore and others. Results list top ratings in categories and a one act play cast from A A Milne fantasy with Paul Goedken Sheila Kuriger Terri Eilers Mary Kay Takes Thomas Locher Patrick Lambert Carlo
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Sacred Heart High School
William Arquitt
John Giegerich
Mary Leonore
S. E. Locher
C. L. Norlin
Jayne Perkins
Pamela Janssen
Diane Feldman
Sally Takes
Michael Tuttle
Donald Topping
Nancy Smith
Mary Kay Takes
Sheila Kuriger
Ellen Strittmatter
Ann Oswald
Phillip Hunter
Stephen Indekofer
Thomas Locher
Andrew Kremer
A. A. Milne
Paul Goedken
King
Queen
Terri Eilers
Princess Camilla
Dulcibella
Chancellor
Prince Simon
Patrick Lambert
Carlo
Castle Grove Mutual Insurance annual meeting held in Monticello
About 70 people attended the Castle Grove Mutual Insurance Association annual meeting at the Youth Center in Monticello on Thursday January 26. Three directors were reelected Leo Donovan Cletus Goedken and Paul E Paulsen. Francis Miller was reelected president and Goedken reelected vice president. Door prizes a pair of fire extinguishers went to Gerald Muller Route 1 Monticello and Beriah Kenney of Coggon.
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Castle Grove Mutual Insurance Association
Monticello
Leo Donovan
Cletus Goedken
Paul E. Paulsen
Francis Miller
Goedken
Gerald Muller
Route 1
Beriah Kenney
Coggon
Express Straw Poll Favors Regular Time This Summer
About 53 percent of respondents support regular time for daylight saving this summer. Of 190 ballots, 101 voted against DST and 89 for it. Rural voters opposed DST 61 to 20, city residents favored it 69 to 40. 95 percent did not return ballots.
Stanwood youth injured in one of two weekend accidents
Stanwood youth Robert E. Albaugh, 18, was hurt early Sunday when his 1956 Chevrolet left a T intersection southeast of Olin and struck a drainage ditch. He suffered a concussion and head lacerations and was treated at University Hospital Iowa City in fair condition. The other crash occurred two miles west of Oxford Mills, when James H. Westphal, 24, lost control of a 1966 Ford on a curved road and rolled the vehicle.
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Stanwood
Robert E. Albaugh
Jones County
Albaugh
Olin
University Hospital
Iowa City
Thomas Toner
Cedar County
Johnny Pegorick
James H. Westphal
Route 1
Wyoming
Oxford Mills
County Road
Westphal
Clarence
Tower
Work begins on phone center near Monticello
Excavation starts at a new underground telephone center five miles northeast of Monticello on the Lawrence Burlage farm. Fred Iben wins the excavation contract. D F Magney Co of Hopkins is the general contractor. The project costs about one million dollars and forms part of a transcontinental cable system due to complete by December 1968.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Lawrence Burlage
Fred Iben
Shomont Lumber Co. of
Langworthy
D. F. Magney Co
Hopkins, Minn
Transcontinental Communications Systems
Express
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
Poplar Heights
Jones County
Norman Plath
Northwestern Bell
Anamosa
Henry Roberts
Des Moines
Roberts
Jaycees and Conservation Club Plan Riverside Park
Monticello Jaycees and Monticello Conservation League met with the Jones county Conservation board to present tentative plans for a riverside park and conservation area on 43 acres east of Monticello along the Maquoketa River. Iowa Electric owns the land and may sell it after state approval. work could begin this summer if plans advance.
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Monticello Conservation League
Monticello Jaycees
Jones County Conservation Board
Anamosa
Monticello
Maquoketa River
Iowa Electric
State Conservation Commission
Donald Kaiser
The
Jaycees
Bob Renk
Jaycee
Larry Behrends
Terry Hosch
Con
West Side Road Crash Totals In Loss no Injuries Reported
A crash on the west side of the road resulted in a total loss of the vehicle while Westphal escaped injury. Authorities may investigate the scene for causes and safety measures.
Grass fire at Gene Adams farm near Monticello
Monticello rural fire department was summoned to Gene Adams farm southwest of Monticello Tuesday at 11 45 a m to put out a field fire west of the house. The blaze started from burning trash and consumed about a quarter of the field.
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Gene Adams
Monticello
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Jim Koller
Cedar Rapids
Joe Felgen
Kansas City
Des
Jaycees, Conservation Club
Servation League
Donald Bergman
Sam Schuetz
Monticello Lions Club
State Department of Social Welfare
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