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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1947
Page
2
The Monticello City Council should boost night police coverage as one officer cannot handle late shifts. A Friday incident saw a drunken youth resist an officer and break a tavern window, highlighting the need for auxiliary responders and stricter liquor controls to keep streets orderly.
Capital News Letter reports Maryland legislators trimming Governor Blue's 1947 49 budget. They extended only a one year 50 percent income tax and project tighter appropriations across welfare, education, control boards, and highways while planning for future revenue to fund state sub divisions.
State house grapevine reports the reappointment of S Ray Emerson Creston Republican to the Iowa highway commission is in doubt. Emerson confirms he is chairman of the commission and notes he is the only general contractor among members. The dispute centers on his term and qualifications.
Neutral observers note partisan maneuvering around a Ringgold County highway location. The Iowa House debated tuberculosis treatment funding and confinement rules, while Governor Blue urged modernization of state control laws including those on chain gangs.
The governor re appointed four state officers for senate confirmation. Herbert H Hauge of Des Moines says he will not accept a new appointment and would serve only to end his current term. Also named are H A Grantham of DeWitt and other Republican appointees.
Girls of the G A A junior and senior classes prepare for the annual Basketball Play Day at Cedar Falls on February 22 hosted by the college. Attendees include Donna Aitchison Audrey Egger Charlotte Deischer Clara Kehren Elizabeth Wilson Phyllis Cox Joyce Slauson Mary Lou Adams Evelyn Meade Kay Bender Susan Stuhler Fern Decker Audrey Schrader Dorothea Diers Arlene Kuhns Evalena Harms Barbara Walker Margaret Ann Zimmerman Pearl Brokaw Marie Yossi Donna Lea Heiken Kathleen Paulsen Donna McCurdy Vera Null Donna Hackbarth.
Mr. Walker, a World War I veteran and former Aurora resident, has served seventeen years on the Monticello faculty as a vocational agriculture instructor. He organized F F A Young Farmers and Farm Forum and now teaches junior high science while managing Sunset Corners on his thirty nine acre farm. His family involvement spans Lions Club, church, and farming interests. His son Gene teaches vocational agriculture at Ankney and Bondurant, while son David is a college sophomore planning missionary work. Birthday celebrations and classroom activities mark a lively school scene with treats and dolls in several rooms.
The high school band will present three concerts with a $1 ticket to enlist 500 community members. The first show is set for Thursday February 20 with immediate ticket sales by band members. Featured performers include Susan Stuhler, Marvin Jacobs, Dorothea Diers, Randall Ganfield, and Miriam Young among others in various ensembles.
School events include February 26 Masters Club and March 7 Operetta with a series of activities from February 21 to March 1 sectional tournament and March 21 Instrumental Concert. Staff editors and reporters named. multiple assistants and typists listed.
As a safety precaution match sticks are treated with ammonium phosphate to stop embers from lingering once the flame dies.
Community notes list students Mary Jean and Wayne King among participants in a local February project. The fragment mentions underground themes and roadway concerns with several initials attached to names, indicating a school or club activity.
Educational Development Tests from the University of Iowa were given to the senior class at the start of the school year. Scores compare an individual's result to class and statewide senior averages, currently kept on permanent records but not on transcripts. A Valentine’s Day party in the gym showcased Monti’s dance band with members Hamilton Veitch Jacobs Stuhler Thomas Seehusen Martin Ganfield and Patterson.
The Future Teachers of America hosted a tea for grade teachers in the Homemaking room on Thursday afternoon. Donna Lea Heiken, FTA president, spoke on St Valentine’s Day origins and introduced Miriam Hansen who sang The Song Is You with Ruth Potter on piano.
Iowans may see new term appointments for state commissions including the tax commission and public safety post. A proposed cigarette tax increase would add one more cent per pack, with 15 states already using the two cent per pack levy.
More than 40 million licensed drivers in the United States spend six to eight hours weekly operating their cars.
The Jones County Board of Supervisors met in adjourned session with Chairman Lee Crain and five supervisors. Actions include approving bonds for county officials, appointing Ralph W. Smith as special deputy sheriff, fixing Joseph A. Beave’s salary at 3000 dollars, canceling pre-1940 warrants, authorizing an order for 58 volumes of American Jurisprudence, denying certain 1946 homestead credits, and approving numerous county claims for services, supplies, and bounty payments.
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