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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1960
Page
5
Monticello Community high seniors begin annual Senior Week with a baccalaureate service marking the end of their high school training for 81 students as ceremonies proceed.
The week reports births at John McDonald hospital including a Monticello girl for Mr and Mrs Thomas Hughes on May 14 and a Monticello girl for Mr and Mrs Keith Clark on May 17. In Shellsburg Iowa a son named Ronald John was born May 2 at Virginia Gay Hospital Vinton to LaVern Martin and family. The Jones County clerk lists licenses for Pazour Dirks Osterkamp Haas Barron and others. Police and justice court fines are announced. Monticello seniors head to baccalaureate, class picnic, class day, and commencement with Dr Donald F Howard as speaker.
Sacred Heart high school plans the commencement on Sunday June 5 at Sacred Heart church. Twenty one seniors will receive diplomas. Rev A L Zachar will give the address and Rt Rev Msgr E P Lorenz will confer the diplomas.
Monticello students gain a lighted outdoor court for night play near the Central school building. Superintendent Boyd Shannon notes new tennis nets, fan-shaped hangboards, and a box of basketballs for public use with reminders to turn off lights and not remove balls.
Two car crashes within minutes of each other tied up highway patrol Monday evening. Darrell I Kepler sixteen of Monticello lost control of a car owned by Edward A Wood of Olin three miles northeast of Scotch Grove causing about 150 dollars damage. Sharon K McCreight seven of Oxford Junction was charged with failure to yield in the other collision also near Oxford Junction. Charles W Eggert twenty four of Oxford Junction was involved in the second wreck.
Jones county 4-H girls will hold their annual rally night June 2 at Wyoming High School. New officers will be elected and installed, honorary members will be initiated, and summer activities will be announced at the countywide meeting.
Rotary club members heard Bob Kerber district sales manager for Linde Air discuss oxygen its discovery and industrial and medical uses. He presented a color cartoon movie The Breath of Life in the remodeled St. Luke's Methodist church basement dining area with President James Nelson presiding and Ken Hendricks as program chairman.
Time trials for go cart races on the AC Speedway will start at 1 30 p m Sunday. Al Westhoff says rides will be offered after the races.
GMC plans Frontier Days with special bargains and entertainment for Monticello shoppers on June 3 and 4 led by retail committee chair Les Voss. A parade featuring high school bands Saddle club members and fire engines begins at 2 p.m. Saturday June 4, followed by an old time fiddlers contest near the Community building at 9 p.m. and square dancing. Stores are urged to decorate in frontier theme and wear old-time attire.
Sacred Heart students will present music recitals May 24 and 25 at 8 p.m. in the gym. Grade school students perform Tuesday with Meno on violin and voice. Wednesday features seniors Betty Hosch and Linda Staner with graduation programs, plus Bertine Loop and other high school students.
The bus company announced detours on ISI highway cause three of four Monticello routes to moved earlier. The Cedar Rapids morning bus now departs Monticello at 9 50 and afternoon at 1 35. The Dubuque morning bus leaves Monticello at 9 10 while the afternoon trip shifts to 5.
Dave Miller was elected president of the Sacred Heart school Home School Association at the regular meeting Friday night. Mrs. George Smith was named vice president, Mrs. Clara Manternach secretary, and Robert Jacque treasurer.
The Sacred Heart chorus will join St Pauls of Worthington on a Mississippi River excursion Monday May 23. A picnic follows at Eagle Point Park in Dubuque.
Directors vote to ask voters for 125000 from the school house fund to add eight classrooms to Carpenter elementary. A special election set for June 15 would allow construction to begin without awaiting bond sales or court rulings.
The board asks voters to allow spending already on hand to add a wall rug and playground equipment and to permit use of Carpenter and Masonic Temple facilities for hot lunches. The measure requires a simple majority in the special election and will not raise taxes. The director body plans to improve lunch access at the noon period and reduce crowding.
The district seeks to complete Step 1 of a bond issue to fund an addition at Carpenter School. A favorable vote would allow off campus classrooms only one more semester. Polls open noon to 7 p.m. at five precincts Castle Grove Wayne Center Scotch Grove Monticello Sand Springs.
Final plans for the 1960 Monti cello high school alumni banquet are completed for May 27 at the Community building. Dinner at 6 30 p m served by Evangelical and Reformed church ladies, with Irv Behr trio providing music for a post dinner dance.
Boyd Shannon Monticello superintendent of schools is chosen to serve on a state wide committee to revise the science curriculum in Iowa elementary to high schools. The panel will meet Friday in Cedar Falls and Shannon also chairs the biology production committee and previously served on a committee that created the current curriculum.
William Reade of Onslow joins the Iowa Farm Bureau resolutions committee announced by E Howard Hill. The new committee will meet in Des Moines June 1 2 to discuss issues with delegates from 100 county Farm Bureaus and select topics for study.
The Monticello Express will publish its first King-size weekly edition on Thursday May 26, replacing the semi weekly format. The expanded paper will be bigger with about twice as many pages plus more depth in reporting and new features including more photographs. Readers are asked to review the first issue and provide feedback.
In Jones County district court two reformatory parolees face larceny charges after two horses were stolen from the George Caspers farm near Anamosa Saturday night. The suspects, Robert Lee Lincoln and Paul Neuhalfen, are accused of taking a car from Maurice Jones at Olin and abandoning it at Marion. Lincoln was arrested near Springsville and Neuhalfen in Cedar Rapids. Attorneys were appointed for both defendants and they were given until Friday to plead.
A six year old girl, Bonnie Headley of Anamosa, was missing from 11 15 am until 4 40 pm Tuesday. She was found strolling down an Anamosa street by sheriff deputies and city police after a five and a half hour search. She did not reveal where she had been.
James J. Rhatigan son of Mr and Mrs L I Rhatigan of Monticello is appointed to the Washington staff of Congressman Leonard G Wolf He fills the vacancy created by Stephen Jackson who returned to Cedar Rapids to seek the state legislature Rhatigan holds a BA from Coe College 1958 and an MA from Maxwell School Syracuse University 1959 He will handle administration and carry out legislative research
A conservation board proposal appears on the yellow ballot for the June 6 primary. The series explains who may vote what a county board would do and where it could benefit residents with parks, camping areas, pools, fishing access, and wildlife preserves across Jones County, Iowa.
Enumerators in eastern Jones county have not finished reports for the 1960 census and delays in reaching households push completion back. Kray says Dubuque and Jackson counties may be even slower, with Delaware likely finishing with Jones. Iowa overall shows slower growth and rural population loss continues as in 1950.
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