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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1945
Page
1
Monticello area garages offer an insurance plan for car upkeep and urge motorists to care for their vehicles in 1945. The piece advises tire checks, pressure, alignment, brake balance, ignition and battery tests, bulb readiness, and avoiding DIY tinkering to ensure cars run reliably for families during wartime.
The government closes dog and horse racing tracks for the duration and urges the public toward simple home amusements. The piece denounces gambling and argues thousands of jockeys and gamblers lose work while wartime needs rise, calling for all able men to contribute to the war effort.
A composite clippings page reports on wartime rhetoric from a German commander, critiques of liberal collaborationists, and fears over national welfare. It cites Webster City on population shifts, Creston noting a bill to raise the president’s salary, and Sioux Falls insights on Harry Hopkins amid economic policy debates.
The article recounts an 1853 incident in James county with testimonies from Martha Gallagher and others. It describes threats, a brutal night, and a pursuit ending with a man named Vance missing, Soper linked to the case, and later details of Soper’s life, trials, and a long historical digression about early Monticello area events and several local figures.
Readers urge action and campus promotion for a Monti High School student council. Polls show majority support and advocates call for immediate testing to establish the council this year, stressing student voice and long term school improvement.
Christmas holidays brought two Monticello teachers into marriage. Mildred Greenfield wed Rev. Paul Heath on December 28 and will return to teach fifth grade. Helen Kavlichek tied with Star Sgt Wendell Luscaleet on December 30, and will teach sixth grade after furlough.
Students from a world history class offered diverse ideas on postwar governance. Proposals include a world court with equal nations, a large representative council, universal citizenship and coinage, an international police court, and a unified peace led by allied powers.
Miss Jeannette Harken, Monticello public schools girls physical training supervisor for a year and a half, has resigned to enter a nine month training course in Utah. After completing the course she will be qualified to work in physical therapy at a government veterans hospital as part of soldiers rehabilitation programs.
The Monticello Young Farmers Club forms with Monti High alumni and former FFA members. It plans 26 weekly meetings with varied discussions, outside speakers, farm visits, and shop practice. Meetings run 8 to 10 30 p m Thursdays in the high school agriculture room, sponsored by the Vocational Agriculture department. Officers are Bob Buel president James Howie vice president and Richard Mardorf secretary treasurer. Other members include Larry Rieken Milton Rieken Jack Heiken Arthur Husmann Boyd Chatterton Lavern Buol Paul Schneiter Melvin Hein Lavern Nagel Paul Messerli Mill Kiburz Ernest Schatz.
The M Club initiation occurred Monday evening December 18 with many initiates surviving the ordeal though nervous. Names of the initiating committee are withheld. Welcomed members include Bill Corbin Delphia Balster Genz Ahwoehl Art Bohlken Margaret Conavi Art Jurgensen Don Bohlken Susan Stuhler Kathryn Bender Lois Guyan Marjorie Thomas Mergaret Ann Zimmerman Lester Schatz Jo Anne Schneider Bob Thoeni Bud Hanken Dick Skelley Helen Gerdes Lloyd Messerli Irma Schoon Bob Mengerli Maria Kray Dorothy Rieken Hildegard Kohren Max Schrader Arlene Kuhns Elfileda Ortgies Jeanne Kaplan. Three eligible individuals Ed Hemmer Elmer McMichael Barbara Walker could not be initiated.
Miss Ina Cruise reports the Junior Red Cross quota and activities from September 1944 to present. Items include Halloween napkins and cups for John McDonald and Schick hospitals, Armistice Day tray covers, Thanksgiving and Christmas favors napkins and cards, deliveries to Army Air Base Hospital Delhart Texas Knoxville Des Moines and Clinton, with district teachers and Sacred Heart School noted.
The Monti University calendar lists high priority items for January. January 17 to 18 mark key events. January 18 notes semester related actions. the semester ends around January 22 and a new semester starts soon after.
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