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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1951
Page
6
Monticello Young Farmers will meet next Monday at 8 p.m. in the Masonic Temple to plan a summer group picnic. Raymond E. Adams presided at St. Luke's church with incoming officers named, and Rotary convention news from Atlantic City was reported.
Ivan Reynolds former Monticello police officer has filed a mandamus suit in district court at Anamosa seeking a court ordered hearing on his dismissal. The action follows a city notice and failure to set a hearing within 10 days and cites section 70.6 of the 1950 Code. The city attorney says a hearing date has not yet been set as court calendar and local street and sewer work occupy officials. The suit marks the first city-initiated legal action in years and Reynolds awaits a court decision.
Anamosa police detained a man on highway 151 for vagrancy. The individual, named Harold Bingham, was found insane and held three days in Anamosa jail before transfer to the Hospital for the Insane in Independence on Saturday June 23.
Heavy rain and cold winds reduced weekly pool attendance to 1022 with Thursday and Friday closures. Sunday’s crowd dropped to 91 as wind chill kept heat at bay downtown versus the pool. Manager Wayne Halsted spent an hour cleaning weeds blown in by the wind.
Dr Earl L Wahl will join Dr Robert Savage in veterinary medicine here July 1. A Iowa State College graduate, he earned his degree June 15 and is a Navy veteran. Wahl, a Monticello High School graduate of 1940, has worked with Dr Jim Boll er in Illinois and with Dr Savage last summer. He was elected to Phi Zeta and is married with one child. The couple moved into the Thomas Supple home on North Gill Street.
On her birthday June 26 Mrs Balsiger digs the first crop and finds potatoes as big as tennis balls from late spring planting. She remarks on the unusual size for the season.
Rev. Robert V. Gildner was reappointed pastor of St Luke's Methodist Church at the North Iowa Annual Conference held June 20 to 24 at Grace Methodist in Waterloo. Donald Caspers of Monticello was ordained a deacon. annual reports were given to about 1000 delegates. Gildner cited sermons by Dr Vernon Mumbulo of Vanderbilt Park Methodist in Detroit as a conference highlight.
Nick Avelchas former Monticello coach signs two Davenport contracts as assistant football ends coach and biology instructor. He will coach ends, scout, manage reserves, and also lead sophomore baseball. Davenport opens with Proviso Maywood this fall. He plans to move with his family after housing found. He is pursuing a master’s at Iowa.
Police estimate $155 total damage from a June 19 accident involving Dewitt Arneson driving a Bell Telephone Co. truck and LaVern Carl Bartels. Bartels turned into the Franklin Co. lot at South Sycamore, causing $80 to the Bell truck and $75 to Bartels' car. No injuries were reported.
Fifty Monticello Trail Riders gathered for a one o'clock dinner at the Lynn Roller farm west of town. Thirty horses joined the afternoon ride, with plans to meet next Sunday at Anamosa's Byerly and Porter corral for another potluck dinner and ride.
American Petroleum Co offered gasoline coupon books with June discounts. Macks Castonguay secured air delivery after stock ran out, as Ed Gifford dropped the books from a plane onto M Hard Scrable road. Books ran out again Monday with no immediate replenishment.
Mrs E E Reed who died in Miami Florida on March twenty died recently. Funeral services will be held Saturday at Oakwood cemetery at ten in the morning. She was born November twenty eight eighteen seventy six in Monticello and was active in Camp Fire work and local clubs. Survived by three daughters Alice Reed Mrs Nathan Miller and Mrs William Mitchell and a brother Clarence Coxsee. Additional relatives plan to travel to Monticello for the services.
In district court Judge J E Heiserman fined Raymond Joseph Skahill $300 and costs for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated after his June 15 arrest by State Highway Patrolman John Beckmann. Norman Bolyard, inmate at the State Reformatory in Anamosa, faces assault with intent to murder charges stemming from a May 31, 1951 incident involving inmate H C McGregor. Divorce actions were filed by Myrna K Sherman against Pearl E Sherman and Esther Boxwell against Harold E Boxwell, detailing short separations in 1950 and a June 24 marriage in Kansas. the women seek alimony, restoration of maiden names, and property division.
Two Monticello youths Sid Blair and Jim Robinson aged 17 and 19 plan a two week vacation starting July 8 to Arkansas in Blair’s remodeled 1931 Chevrolet. They will sleep inside the car with a newly built sleeping area and cook meals on a small grill, aiming to travel light and cautiously to avoid breakdowns. If the trip fails the car could be sold for junk and the boys will hitchhike home.
Bids for Monticello road work exceeded the city’s funds by about 25 percent amid limited competition. Five bidders submitted partial bids, with Willman Company of Cedar Rapids low on concrete work at 53 641.02 and Hargrave Construction of Cedar Rapids low on asphalt work at 139 558.40. City officials planned meetings to reduce scope and explore bond options up to near the legal limit.
Monday special meeting yielded little action aside from approving 165000 in street construction bonds. Council weighs state aid of about 19000 and storm sewer costs over 12000, with Cedar Rapids engineers to review on Wednesday and another session set for Friday.
The fifth annual Oxford Junction celebration organized by Wapsie post runs next week with a second annual 4-H stock show. July 4 features a 4-H stock exhibit a London vs Oxford Junction baseball game and an aerial fireworks show after a full day of concerts stage acts and parades at the new 17 acre pavilion site.
From Broadcaster at Scott Air Force Base Illinois a front page note says Pfc. Donald Bohliken the first Operation Bootstrap man will return to the State University of Iona on September 17. He will earn a Bachelor of Science in Commerce with a major in marketing after six months of training.
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