Express Correspondents Attend Spring Workshop Dinner
EXPRESS CORRESPONDENTS attended a spring workshop and dinner Thursday night at Paul’s cafe. In the group photo from left to right in the first row are Mrs. Herman Dolley Buck Creek Mrs. Jean Vesey Delhi Mrs. Richard Von Spreecken Center Jct Mrs. Frank Jasper South Fork Mrs. Kittie Felker Wyoming and Miss Esther Sinclair Scotch Grove.
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Express
Paul’s Cafe
Herman Dolley
Buck Creek
Jean Vesey
Delhi
Richard von Spreecken
Center Jct
Frank Jasper
South Fork
Kittie Felker
Wyoming
Esther Sinclair
Scotch Grove
Monticello Concert Association Opens 1968 69 Drive
The Monticello Concert Association starts its 1968 69 season membership drive with a dinner meeting for workers on Tuesday the 26 at Poplar Heights. Mrs D L Cassidy chairs assisted by Walde mar Sunder as the drive continues through April 4. Artists include The Lyric Singers Stanley Plummer Don Crabtree and Leslie Wright with memberships offered in student adult or family categories.
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Monticello
Red Skelton
Leslie Wright
U.S
Extra tax credit rules for 65 plus homeowners in Jones County
Jones County residents over 65 owning homes or farms may file for an additional tax credit under House File 686. Eligibility requires income under 3500 for the applicant and spouse, including line 11 D income plus Social Security and pensions. Applications due by July 1 each year, with forms available from the county assessor L T Lorenzen. The note also mentions the annual American Legion and Auxiliary county meeting at Anamosa.
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Jones County
L. T. Lorenzen
House
62Nd General Assembly
Lorenzen
Mrs. Jones to Head Board of Local American Field Service
The local American Field Service board elected officers: Mrs H M Jones president, Mrs Chuck Robertson vice president, Jim Robinson treasurer. They assume duties July 1 for one year. Monticello is one of 642 bus stops hosting 12 boys 31 girls and two chaperones from various nations on a U S tour this summer.
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American Field Service Board
H. M. Jones
Chuck Robertson
Jim Robinson
Monticello
United States
Don Kacer
End of third nine weeks at Monticello School
The end of the third nine weeks at Monticello Community School will be Friday, March 22.
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Monticello Community School
Locals Read Through Classifieds And Notices In Edition
A miscellany of listings includes farm items at A-12 Buck Creek and A-12 B-20 Center Junction with Delhi editorial notes on A-9 and obituaries on A-16. Sections cover sport department B-79 and 4-H news at B-13 plus pages for farms, towns, and servicemen’s corner.
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Amder
Buck Creek
Cass
Castle Grove
Center Junction
Delhi
Hopkinton
South Fork
Isccesessee
Temple Hill
Wyoming
Wyoming man charged after one car crash
John F. Mott, 43, of Wyoming, was charged with failure to have control of his vehicle after a one car crash at the Olincomers intersections of highways 38 and 64. He drove a 1958 Chrysler north on 38, missed the intersection at 64, went off an 11 foot embankment into a field, suffering possible chest and eye injuries. He was treated at home then admitted to Jackson County Public Hospital in Maquoketa on March 15. Damage was estimated at 350 dollars. Highway Patrolman Thomas Toner investigated.
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John F. Mott
Wyoming
Mott
Jackson County Public Hospital
Maquoketa
Thomas Toner
County disaster plan discussed
A special meeting to discuss plans for any possible national disaster was scheduled for last Wednesday evening at 7 30 p.m. at the community room of the court house. Jones county board of supervisors called the gathering with city and town mayors and the sheriff staff invited. Peter Braylie of the U S Office of Emergency Planning was to brief attendees on the program including controls on consumer products wages and rationing.
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Jones County Board of Supervisors
County Civil Defense Board
Peter Braylie
U.S. Office of Emergency Planning
Three Olin youths injured in Sunday car accident
Three Olin youths suffered minor injuries when a car driven by 19 year old Phillip Hunter pulled toward the shoulder to avoid a oncoming vehicle, rolled in a ditch at a water drain three miles north of Prairieburg. Passengers Phyllis Hunter 19 and Lucinda Sill 15 were also injured. No charges were filed.
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Olin
Prairieburg
Phillip Hunter
Phyllis Hunter
Lucinda Sill
Missionary Carl Dille to Speak at Mon ticello Union Service
The Rev. Carl R. Dille of Emanuel Theological Seminary in Dondi Angola will headline the Union Lenten service at Peace United Church of Christ in Monticello on Tuesday March 26 at 7 30 pm. He criticizes Portugal's racial policies in Angola and oversees rural life schools teaching reading writing Portuguese arithmetic and crafts.
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Carl R. Dille
United Church of Christ
Protestant Theological Seminary
Portuguese Angola
Peace United Church of Christ
Congregational
Methodist
Peace United
Presbyterian Churches of
Monticello
Dille
Emanuel Theological Seminary
Dondi
Angola
West Liberty
Ohio
Defiance
Ohio State College of Agriculture
Yale University Divinity School
Emanuel Seminary
Rural Life Schools
Democrat speaker from University of Iowa to campaign for McCarthy
Dr. George W. Forell director of the school of religion at the University of Iowa speaks at the VFW hall Monticello this evening at 7 30 sponsored by Democrats for McCarthy in Jones county Miss Helen Reichart is in charge Forell a Breslau Germany native earned B D Princeton Th M and Th D credentials and has taught at Gustavus Adolphus college Chicago Lutheran Theological seminary and the University of Iowa
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George W. Forell
School of Religion
University of Iowa
VFW Hall
Monticello
Forell
Johnson County
Democrats
McCarthy
Eugene J. McCarthy
Jones County
Helen Reichart
Dr. Forell
Breslau
Germany
Austria
Nary
Gustavus Adolphus College
Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary
Monticello Hosts Evaluation Team for County Assessment
Two National Evaluation Service representatives Harry Moon and Robert Bergman canvass Monticello house to house for the Jones County assessor as required by state law. They previously worked there last year and now plan to complete the evaluation.
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National Evaluation Service
Monticello
Jones County
Harry Moon
Robert Bergman
Singing Freshmen Operetta Tonight at Delhi High
M V operetta Maquoreta Valley presents The Singing Freshmen in the school auditorium at Delhi. Director Miss Carol Schoen leads a cast of 20 students including Michelle DeShaw David Lux Tim Michaelsen Bill Johnson and Cheryl Jackson with a 8 o'clock performance.
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Maquoreta Valley High School
Delhi
Carol Schoen
Michelle DeShaw
David Lux
Tim Michaelsen
Bill Johnson
Cheryl Jackson
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Wesley Lawrence
Leland Barnhart
Oxford Jct
Archie Payne
American Legion and Legion Auxiliary
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Memorial Hall
Legion
Mrs. Jones
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Lutheran Theological Seminary
Philadelphia
Princeton Seminary
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