Iowa Electric Urges Manufacturers To Use Industrial Register
The Iowa Electric Light and Power Company promotes the Industrial Facilities Register compiled with Northern Natural Gas and other utilities. Walter Zubler says area plants should list production facilities to attract new orders and lists will be shared with buyers upon request. Births, new cars, wedding licenses, and political ballots follow in a local community update.
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Iowa Electric
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Monticello
Northern Plains
Walter Zubler
Northern Natural Gas Company of
Omaha
Lowa Electric Light and Power Company
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
South Dakota
Kansas
Zubler
Northern
Retail Sales Drop Nine Percent in Jones County
Retail sales fell about nine percent in Monticello and Anamosa for the quarter ending Dec 31 1959 versus 1958 per sales tax data. Monticello dropped from 44862.57 to 40862.69 in tax paid and from 2243128.50 to 2043134.50 in retail sales. Anamosa from 46667.52 to 42807.05 in tax and from 2333376 to 2140352.50 in retail sales. Statewide collections rose about one percent, while Cedar Jackson Delaware Dubuque Linn counties showed mixed changes.
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Monticello
Anamosa
Cedar County
Jackson County
Delaware County
Dubuque County
Linn County
Dairymen Test Herd Performance With Electronics
Eighteen Jones County dairymen use monthly electronically computed IBM records through the Cooperative DHIA testing program. Supervisor visits collect samples weigh milk and test butterfat while gathering complete cow and herd history data to feed an IBM machine at Iowa State University Ames. Reports show concentrate feed, breeding schedules freshening dates production and costs per hundred pounds of milk plus man hour and per acre metrics. Extension urges participation. 75 dairies are already receiving tests.
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Jones County
IBM
Joe E. Legg
Legg
Iowa State University
Ames
Jones County Dhia Inc
Jim Daly
Harold Miner
Anamosa
Clifford Wilson
Hopkinton
ASC Chairman Warns Of Planting Limits
Richard O. Hartwig, chairman of the Jones county ASC, warns farmers with cropland in the conservation reserve about soil bank base acreage limits before spring planting. The base crops include grains, row crops, and oil seeds. the permitted acreage is the maximum that may be grown, with zero for farms entirely in the program. The contract also bars grazing and harvesting on retired land and prohibits bringing non-cropland into crop use.
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Richard O. Hartwig
Jones County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee
Soil Bank
Robert Storm Inducted in June Draft Call
Robert Storm, 22, of Wyoming, will be called for induction in June per Catherine S. Doolittle secretary of the Jones county Selective Service board. Storm is the first county youth called since April when a county youth volunteered for the draft. About one Jones county youth has been called every other month so far this year.
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Robert Storm
Wyoming
Catherine S. Doolittle
Jones County Selective Service Board
Storm
Jones County
Monticello Tractor Crash Injures Three High School Students
Three Monticello high school students were injured when a tractor driven by 16 year old Roger Lange overturned at Maple and Varvel streets. Lange suffered serious burns and fractures and faced careless driving charges. 15 year old Larry Wilson had a minor wrist fracture while 18 year old Larry Scott had minor back lacerations and a sprained wrist.
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Monticello High School
Maple and
Varvel
Monticello
Roger Lange
Louis M. Lange
John McDonald Hospital
Larry Wilson
Burdette Wilson
Larry Scott
Leamon Scott
Lange
Maple and Varvel Streets
Steen and Adamson Divorces Granted by District Court
Barbara Steen 30 of Monticello was granted a divorce from John Steen 31 in Jones county district court. She was awarded custody of their four children and $110 monthly support. Beverly Adams Adamson of Monticello received a divorce from Gene Adamson with custody of Kevin and Calvin and $50 monthly support. No alimony. A separate collection suit by S H Manufacturing Co. against Farmers Cooperative Elevator of Martelle was dismissed.
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Barbara Steen
Monticello
John Steen
Jones County
Steen
Beverly Adams
Gene Adamson
Funeral for Ray Hearn Set in Monticello
Ray G. Hearn died May 11 in Tucson Arizona after years of illness. Funeral services are set for Monday at 2 PM from Goettsch Funeral Home with Rev Gideon Krein presiding and burial in Oakwood cemetery. He was a retired Monticello barber long from the Locher building shop. He is survived by wife Adelia, daughter Virginia Harper of Davenport and sons Richard of Lodi California and Clarence of Council Bluffs Iowa.
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Ray G. Hearn
Tuscon
Ariz
Goettsch
Gideon I. Krein
Oakwood Cemetery
Hearn
Monticello
Locher Building
Adelia Hearn
Virginia Harper
Davenport
Richard
Lodi
Calif
Clarence
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Maquoketa Valley Plans Summer School at Delhi
Maquoketa Valley Summer School begins Monday June 6 and runs six weeks to Friday July 15 in Delhi. Classes meet daily for two hours at 7:45 and 9:50 offering Advanced Science Remedial Mathematics Driver Education Remedial Science and Personal Typing. Enrollment is open for a limited number of pupils. It aims to ease yearly scheduling boost math and science work and let students go beyond the regular curriculum in an accelerated program. Maquoketa Valley notes it is among the first rural districts in the state to offer such an extensive academic summer program.
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Maquoketa Valley
Delhi
4-H Members Start New Corn Project in Jones County
Jones County 4-H members begin a first year corn project with about 20 youths growing 5 acres. They will track production costs and sale value, lease expenses, and machinery use while using the project to compare fertilizer and pre-emergence spray effects. A county meeting at the Farm Bureau building, led by David Hammond, invites signups with lease arrangements. A spring 4-H roundup is planned for June 4 at the Monticello school auditorium.
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Farm Bureau
David Hammond
Jones County
4-H
Hammond
Monticello
Records Show Monticello Wet Season Lags Against Last Year
The Monticello area shows 14.08 inches of precipitation by Friday this year versus 12.28 inches by the same date last year. This year’s moisture arrived mainly as snow, while last year’s came as rain in April and May. Temperatures peaked at 84 degrees, cooler than four days hitting 89 degrees before May 13 last year.
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Monticello
Express Monday Editions End With Today's Issue
Express readers learn the last regular Monday issue marks a switch to a King size weekly next week with more features and news. Extended subscription dates are red stamped on addresses adding up to six months. first large weekly comes May 26 with three times the pages and new features.
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The
Express
Frank Norris Buried At Center Junction
Services for Frank Harrison Norris 73 were held at Wallace Funeral Home with burial in North Madison cemetery Center Junction. He died May 8 after a long illness born September 10 1887 son of Thomas Filmore and Georgeanna Norris. He married Lillian Urban February 21 1917 and had two sons Glen and Lewis both of Center Junction. Survivors include wife two sons four grandchildren one sister a nephew and many relatives. Pallbearers listed.
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Center Junction
Frank Harrison Norris
Wallace
Lavern Kiel
Dubuque
North Madison Cemetery
Mr. Norris
Thomas Filmore
Georgeanna Norris
Madison Township
Lillian A. Urban
Glen
Lewis
Norris
Lillian
Belle Norris
Russell Norris
Edmund Washington
Sam Thompson
Harry James
Carl Seehusen
Herman Peterson
Arthur Lincoln
R. Meade
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