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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1968
Page
1
A brief note references Mrs. Jerry Mahoney of Cedar Rapids and a separate story recounts 14 people injured in an accident on page A-2. Further details are on the indicated pages.
Over 50 attendees joined the first of four remedial reading workshops at Shannon Elementary School in Monticello Monday afternoon. Sponsored by the University of Northern Iowa and the State Department of Public Instruction, sessions continue Mondays through April 1 8 and 15 under Dr Julia L Sparrow UNI education professor and reading clinic director.
University of Iowa sociology students will interview Monticello residents starting April 6 for about three weeks as part of the Iowa Urban Community Research center survey titled Problems of Urban Family and Group Life. Associate Professor William W. Erbe says households will be notified three days prior and all responses kept anonymous.
A two car collision Saturday at 7 05 pm north of Oxford Junction on highway 136 left fourteen injured. Driver Larry Chapman 22 of Anamosa was charged with failure to yield half the roadway after losing control and veering off the east shoulder then pulling back into the path of a southbound car driven by Howard Emerson 45 of Wyoming. In the Chapman car were eight occupants including Mrs. William Brown 59 of Wyoming who suffered a fractured skull and facial injuries and was taken to St Luke's Cedar Rapids in fair condition. Others in both vehicles received lacerations contusions and fractures with several treated and released at Anamosa Community Hospital and Monticello's John McDonald Hospital.
Local column catalogues sections and page references for town notices and departments. Multiple places including Center Junction Hopkinton Oxford Junction and Onslow appear with classifieds editorial and sports listings across pages B-1 to B-19.
Twenty seven Jones County delegates were elected to attend the state presidential convention April 16 17 at Veterans auditorium Des Moines. The list includes Roy Miller Paul Lumpa Jerald Bronemann Robert Norris Richard Stadtmueller Monticello Monticello Olin Scotch Grove Wyoming and Anamosa among others. A second slate for Jones County to represent at the June 4 5 Des Moines convention lists many of the same names with additions from Monticello Olin Scotch Grove and Anamosa.
Terry Tilton was elected Central Committee chairman at a Jones county Republican meeting in Anamosa on March 22. Officers named include Mrs. Sara Jane Frazier as vice chair, Mrs. Robert Story as secretary, and James Corwin as treasurer. Tilton has past roles with the 1966 state convention delegates and Iowans for Jack Miller dinner.
A series of labeled photos from a Sunday outing features Luann and Kymm Appleby with Barbara Merfeld and Regina Harris splashing in water, Betty Stark and Lisa Leary on a merry-go-round, Mr. and Mrs. Don Appleby with Luann and Kymm, Debra Kleitsch on a trike, Appleby and Yanda cousins near the river, Tuetken children on swings, and Dale Ann Berryhill sliding at the park.
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