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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1963
Page
2
In Monticello the 11th anniversary sale at Long's Royal Blue is set to end Saturday January 26. Buffalo specials remain featured as the district expands with the Boyd Shannon school opening last fall and new Central school addition completed.
Official police docket lists Leonard W. Monck Monticello fined seven dollars and costs with appeal bond five dollars. William J. Hosch Cascade fined twenty five dollars and costs for reckless driving. Several defendants from Monticello Anamosa and Walker face improper parking fines of one dollar and costs. The previous week’s improper charge against Egger Feed is corrected to Egger Implement, fined one dollar and costs. More women’s news and photos follow.
Andy Cubit announces five sessions for the Young Farmers group. Meetings occur Mondays at 7:30 p.m. in Central school agriculture room with an informative talk and coffee. Sessions cover Farm Financing by Daryl Groves, Banker Views the Beginning Farmer by Bob Patten, Outlook for 1963 by a student panel, Tile drainage plans, What's in the fertilizer bag, and Interpreting soil test results.
The Jones county ASC committee schedules four informational meetings on the 1963 feed grain program. Joe Legg will explain how the program works for farmers. Meetings run Jan 29 Anamosa Farm Bureau 1 30 Monticello ASCS 1 30 Onslow Community room 1 30 Olin Legion hall 1 30 with coffee provided by local banks. Township sign ups in early February with dates to be announced.
Slippery roads led to two crashes in Monticello last week. At 11 15 a m Friday Mrs Peters of Monticello collided with Virgil Mc Namara of Anamosa on East First Street near Highway 15 intersection after braking to avoid his car. Damage totaled 300 on Peters vehicle and 100 on McNamara’s left door. A second collision at 5 55 p m Wednesday at South Chestnut and West Washington involved Louis Freese and Paul Arduser, both of Monticello, with Freese’s 1963 Ford and Arduser’s 1959 Ford station wagon sustaining 175 damage to the left rear fender and bumper. No summonses were issued.
A Vincennes man driving a Vincennes Produce Co. truck lost control while turning onto East Washington and struck a light pole at South Sycamore. The pole fell onto the vehicle causing hood and fender damage. no injuries were reported. A stop sign at South Willow and Highway 38 was also knocked down by a separate skid.
The Jones county extension council will meet at 7 30 p m Tuesday Jan 29 at the Farm Bureau building for its organizational meeting Officers will be elected and plans outlined for the year Each township in the county elects a representative to the council for two year terms Council members by township are Cass Willis Fairbanks Route 1 Anamosa Castle Grove Paul Hugh Route 2 Monticello Clay Lyman Lanpher Onslow Fairview Neal Robertson Martelle Greenfield Robert Platten berger Martelle Hale Gayle Ahrendsen Oxford Ezra Werndt Wyoming Richland John Reiter Route 3 Rome Don Clark Olin Scotch Grove Irvin Husmann Scotch Grove Washington John Supple Jr Cascade Wayne Galen Harms Amber Wyoming Paul Huston Wyoming Monticello Rotarians heard a short talk on taxes Monday evening at their regular weekly meeting Program chairman was Max McCrabb McCrabb explained the new retirement plan for self employed persons and suggested how to start such a plan President R E Savage reminded of next week's joint Rotary Lions meeting at 6 30 in the Community building Lions members will handle the dinner Rotarians handle the program Rotary program chairman Les Balster reported Ford Roberts of station WMT Cedar Rapids would provide a program of recorded errors by radio and television announcers.
Olin boys edged Wheatland 43 40 as Larry Jackson led with 16 points while Freeze also scored 16 for Wheatland. Olin girls won 54 47 with Sharon Shebetka scoring 23.
Garnaville defeated MV Garnaville led by Leslie Kuehl 35 while Sue Slick paced MV with 29 in a 56-45 girls win and MV boys beat Garnaville 60-54. Aquin beat Marquette 54-40 as Cascade hosts. Calamus Midland split with Calamus boys 66-45 girls 35-31. Midland beat Lost Nation 56-46 with Georgia Wessels 20 for Midland girls 38. Oxford Junction Elwood doubleheader saw 44-43 girls loss and 69-40 boys loss.
Five delegates will join nearly 500 leaders and county staff at the 13th annual 4-H Leaders Recognition Day at Iowa State University Ames on Monday January 28 Varlyn D Fink announced Merle Ballou Olin Alva Larkey Onslow and Creighton Barner Martelle will accompany him A fourth leader will be chosen Attendance is limited to four leaders and one extension staff member from each county
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