Air Medal Awarded to Tech Sergeant Ernest O Williams Jr
Tech Sergeant Ernest O Williams Jr received the U S Air Force Air Medal for meritorious achievement in flight over Greenland. He is a flight mechanic assigned to a Tactical Air Command unit at Dyess AFB Texas. Col Burl W McLaughlin presented the medal. Williams is the son of Mrs G W Apple of Reidsville North Carolina and father of Medelyn Williams, wife of Williams.
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Ernest O. Williams Jr
Greenland
Medelyn
Lawrence C. King
Route 4
Muscatine
Williams
Tactical Air Command
Dyess Afb
Texas
Col
Burl Ww. McLaughlin
Dyess
William
G. W. Apple
Route 2
Reidsville
N.C
Toastmasters Hold Meeting Awards Greet Muscatine Club
Roger Lande and David Horney were top prepared speakers at the Muscatine Toastmasters meeting. Horney spoke on Muscatine then and now, while Lande discussed What is Communism today.
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Roger Lande
David Horney
Muscatine
Horney
Lande
Delta Kappa Gamma Officers Installed In May Breakfast
Omicron Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma held its final meeting of the year at Miss Opal Tanner’s home on May 28 with a 7:30 breakfast. Officers for the next biennium were installed including Ogle Piersall as president and Ethel May Northey as first vice president. A Founder's Day candlelighting ceremony followed, and Catherine Miller reported on a Delta Kappa Gamma meeting in Davenport. The fall opener is a boat ride on the Mississippi set for August 21.
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Omicron
Delta Kappa Gamma Educational Society
Opal ‘Vanner
Ogle’ Piersall
Ethel May Northey
Evelyn Schauland
Catherine Miller
Joyce Swanson
Opal Tanner
Ida Mae Hetzler
Leona Griffin
Mississippi
Arthur Sessler Elected by Wilton Alumni
The Wilton Alumni Association held its fifth annual meeting at the high school cafe teria on May 23 with St Marys Church ladies serving dinner. Invocations, officer elections, and an executive committee were announced. The program featured toastmaster Herbert Ovesnn and class of 1964 speaker Joe Gruemmer, plus musical performances by the band and vocal soloist Dorothy Hammerich Peterson.
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Wilton
Wilton Alumni Association
St. Mary's Church
Paul Maurer
Martyn Bausman
Arthur Sessler
Cleotis Gehris
Isl
Frank Fair
Irma Wildasin
Bernice Kiser Thede
Richard Atwill
Edith Henderson Nicolaus
Margaret Steffens
Robert Marolf
Alfred Hansen
Myron Kiser
Leona Abbott Grosuch
Kenneth Meisinger
Linda Ringgenberg
Steve Wacker
Bonnie Lenker Zimmerman
Pegey Zimmerman Grunder
Herbert Ovesnn
John’ Shuger
Joe Gruemmer
Dorothy Hammerich Peterson
Herbert Waech
Illinois City Weekend Notes
Illinois City and surrounding towns share a flurry of church services, birthdays, and community events. Visitors from Rock Island Moline and Cordova attended dinners, breakfasts, and Sunday gatherings, while local Cub Scouts hosted a carnival at Loud Thunder and Illinois City poppy sales occurred Sunday.
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Illinois
Uriel
Reed
Madison
Davenport
Masonic Temple
Guy ,Thomas
Rock Island
Harald Nisizel
DeWitt, Tawa
Lawrence Brookhart
Corela Castor
Aledo
Maynard Mewes
Sandra
Glenn’ Massey
George Fouschee
Noah, Massey
Moline
Clarence Freyermuth
Frank Clark
Grace Schildberg
Kenneth Blanchard
Butlala Prairie
Carrie Gillett
Omha
Ilinois
Buffalo Prairie
Curtis Peterson
Lane
Tom Dilley
Wayne Curry
Rozella Freyermuth
Mary Gillett
Robert Ketvle
Reynolds’ Womans’ Club
Ida Wherry
Ronald Wherry
Cordova, Til
Lillie Keller
Artis Sedam
Artis Sedam, Jr
Silvis
Fred Loving
Aledo, I
David Rosauer Wins Bar Award at Wapello Exercises
In Wapello on May 22 a capacity crowd watched 47 graduates receive diplomas at the high school auditorium. E.R. Hicklin of the Iowa State Bar Association presented the American Citizenship Award to David R. Rostner, while the Jaycees honored Paula Buster, Betty Grouwinkel, Anne Wallenhaupt, Dennis Gates, and Jack Reif with National Honor Society awards. Rex Dory spoke, introduced by Supt. K. F. Witt, and diplomas were handed by Ralph Scheihing. Two students, Deanna Jackson and Vernona Short, were absent due to measles.
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Wapello
Wapello High School
Thais Grouwinkle
LE. J. Vogel
Iowa State Bar Association
E.R. Hicklin
David R. Rostner
Jaycees
Bill Paris
Jaycee White Elephant Auction Set for Louisa County Fairgrounds
Columbus Jaycees announce a White Elephant auction on Saturday June 1 at the Louisa County Fairgrounds. Donations are welcome and may be arranged by contacting Jaycee members or co chairs Gene Anderson and Rory Partington.
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Columbus Junction
Columbus Jaycees
Louisa County Fairgrounds
Gene Anderson
Rory Partington
Truck Snaps Pole In Highway 22 Crash Near Muscatine
Eldon Leroy Estabrook of 1108 Nebraska St. drove off Highway 22 six miles east of Muscatine Sunday night. His pickup left the road, snapped a telephone pole, skidded 48 feet and rolled over after traveling 170 feet. Estabrook escaped with minor facial cuts as photo notes describe the scene.
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Eldon Leroy Estabrook
Nebraska St
Highway 22
Muscatine
Estabrook
Louisa county group plans Toolesboro museum site hoped
The Louisa County news list for Iowa Publisher notes the state historical society plans a four year project to build a museum at Toolesboro near the Indian mounds. The Louisa Historical Society offers help. Tourism development around the site is anticipated as incorporation papers are tentatively adopted and the board prepares further meetings to preserve county history.
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Vlary
Louisa County
Iowa
The
State Historical Society
Tooleshore
Louisa Historical Society
Toolesboro
Louisa County Historical Society Forms in Wapello
About 40 residents gathered in Wapello to form the Louisa County Historical Society. LeRoy Pierce was elected president, Fred Schwab vice president, and Tywla Gilkey secretary treasurer. Directors include Dwight Stineman, Bob Gustafson, Catherine Schwa, Ala Otto, Lucille Parsons, Russell Newell, and Ruth Fisher. The group aims to publish, collect, preserve, and mark local history, with a non-profit charter and an initial membership fee of 5 dollars and annual dues of 3 dollars.
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LeRoy Pierce
Morning Sun
Louisa County Historical Society
Wapeto City Hall
I. Tor
Twyla Gilkey
Lucille Parsons
Alta Otto
Ruth Fisher
Catherine Schwob
Dwight’ Stineman
Bob Gustafson
Fred Schwob
Russell Newell
Pierce
Dearre Bates
Fred Schwab
Wapello
Tywlal Gilkey
Columbus Juncion
Tus
Dwight Stineman
Catherine Schwa
Ala Otto
Wapallo
Columbus Junction
Nps
Ture
Late Historical Society
Lowa Department of Archives
James Hodges
Wapello Republican
West Bend Grotto
Fredonia
Florence
Eliot
Bethel
Toolesboro
Oakville
Hodges
Springer
Louisa County
Ruth Cotter
Oakville Memorial Day Services Planned in Morning Sun
Morning Sun prepares a Memorial Day program on Saturday May 30 gathering at 10 30 a m on the library lawn to march to Elmwood Cemetery at 10 45 a m L B Bierce of the American Legion will preside Music by the Morning Sun high school band includes invocation by Rev Edward Fish Gettysburg Address by Sonja Smith tribute to unknown dead by Larry Carr address by Dr John C Edgar and salute of soldiers by the American Legion with the national anthem Also Hoy Scouts and Cub Scouts will meet at the library at 10 15 a m to assemble for the parade to the cemetery The band meets at the high school at 10 a m
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SUN
Morning Sun
Elmwood Cemetery
L. B Bierce
American, Legion
Morning Sun High School
Edward Fish
Sonja Smith
Larry Carr
John C. Edgar
American Legion
Morning Sun High
Hoy Scouts
Personal Shopping Service Offers Gift Solutions
A reader promotes a personal shopping service for birthdays anniversaries graduations and special occasions. The service handles item selection gift wrapping and delivery for busy people and those confined at home or working during store hours.
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John Noble
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Robert Woodhouse
Clare Patterson
Ron Happach
Jean Burch
Velma Mentink
Hunter TV
Larry Goodrum
Lee St
Negus
Ray’ Dietrich
Lowe ‘St
Figg Aluminum
C. M. Richards
Leroy St
Central Construction Co
Ralph Cullen
C. E. Gillespie
Roger Rogers
Roger Johnson
Terry Mealy
William Spieth
Larry Douglas
Gordon Rogers
Max Churchill
John Talbot
James Christenson
Robert Pape
Richard Halpin
Iowa City
Toastmaster Club
Pat Ina Mae
Delta Kappa Gammao
Piloetee
Whitey’s
Whitey Longstreth
Oregon
Warren Bowser
Phoenix
Ariz
Carolyn Hollenbeck
Our Town
Warren Collier
Mike Heinrich
Gary Martin
Joe McClean
Les Thede
Bob Guy
Auit
Danny
David Rosauer
Dory
Reformatory
Ralph Scheihing
Board of
Educalion
Deanna Jackson
Vernona’ Short
Jaycee
Louisa Historical Unit
George Pinkerton
State Existor Wapello
Yoe
Dorothy Martineau
Batterson
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