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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1968
Page
2
Opening day for John and Shirley Krysan at the Krysan bakery was hectic as customers crowded the oak paneled shop with white tile floors and a red brick coffee bar and counter.
The board weighed extending family medical coverage via a new proposal with teachers paying premiums. Debates split over a $6,000 or $6,100 base until Knopp and Patten supported $6,100. Members urged reviewing the index due to rising bases and future readjustment.
At a board meeting four teachers Andy Foster Ken Weber Mrs Carol Black and Mrs Florence Kenny joined superintendent Boyd Shannon and secretary Virgil Hunt to discuss a proposed base of 6100 with index adjustments. The group debated competitiveness and insurance coverage as they consider a joint meeting with teachers to study long term salary structure.
From the official docket of Justice of the Peace C F Shimanek list a string of infractions. Michael R Bach Monticello fined 25 dollars plus costs for illegal possession of liquor. Ronald Lee Ackerman Monticello 25 dollars plus costs. Bill Hatfield 10 dollars plus costs for faulty equipment. Thomas F Hoag 10 dollars for defective equipment. Willard J Clary Jr Central City 10 dollars for no operator license. Jon Terry Blair Hawatha 9 dollars for speeding. Howard W Stevn Earlville 25 dollars for improper passing.
Three new students join Monticello Community High School from Latin America. Charlotte Beebe of Honduras stays with Mrs. Marie Vernon, Suzy Munoz of Chile comes as an AFS exchange student, and Cecilia Perez of Argentina is a Rotary interchange student living with the Balsters in Scotch Grove. Perez arrived recently to spend a year in the program.
More than 30 Sacred Heart students enter projects for the annual science fair to be held Friday at 7 30 p m in the high school. Participants include seniors James Hogan Jerome Lindner James Thomas Andrew Kremer Dennis Hageman Lynn Muller Nancy Smith Patricia Miller and juniors James Brashaw Steven Br Ankan Steven Kraus Robert Vanda Marla Doden Sally Takes Jann Hines Jane Indehofer Patrick Hogan Sandra Janssen Linda Lindner Patricia Kula Janice Webber Thomas Locher and Robert.
A 16 year old driver Peggy Sue Schweitzer of Anamosa lost control on a curve and drove into a north ditch through a fence on the Mulvaney farm. The 1968 Chevrolet sustained 465 dollars in damage. No injuries were reported.
Saturday a three car crash on highway 151 four miles south of Monticello at Amber road left one car a total loss. Coleen Ward Raymond Herting and Harold Steva were involved with Ward and Steva sustaining minor injuries and Steva charged with improper passing after the exchange of impacts. highway patrol and local police investigated.
David Swim 21 of Monticello was charged with failure to have control after a 630 a.m. March 2 one-car wreck on Highway 151 south of Langworthy. The 1965 Dodge left the road, hit a fence and damaged the front end, with no injuries. Deputy Sheriff John Wright investigated.
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