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Newspaper
Newton Kansan
Location
Newton, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1976
Page
2
The VFW Auxiliary hosts a breakfast from 7 to 10 a.m. Monday at the Post home with Mrs. Ben Gibson as chairwoman. All members are invited to attend. The Newton Area Singles Group meets 6 p.m. Saturday at Trinity Heights United Methodist Church to plan a dinner trip to Wichita.
The MIDKAP family fun night is Friday at 6 30 p m a picnic in Athletic Park. Families bring their own supper and table service and gather at the picnic tables near the bear cages Drinks and games are provided. The Harmony Homemakers EHU meet Tuesday at 2 p m at 513 S Poplar hosted by Mrs Elsie Gillmore with co hostess Mrs Mae Moulds. Roll call answers with A Favorite Quotation. Gillmore also presents Recycling Clothing as the lesson topic.
Kellas 4 H Club meets 7 p m Monday at Pleasant Acres school for a tour of club projects led by Susan Merrifield and Scott Harder. Prizes from the spring flower and garden show go to Becky Gronau Vera Busenitz Eileen and Warren Regier Scott Harder and Elizabeth Wulf. Elizabeth won the Garden Plaque for vegetable and fruit exhibits. Float committee members Janet and Sandra Suderman Diane McNeill Kent Harder and Derral Sommerfeld report on the float for the July 3 parade. Parents will run the July meeting at the 4 H Building.
Wichita State University presents Bus Stop Hot L Baltimore Glass Menagerie Private Lives and Once Upon a Mattress in a summer series. Attendees must sign up at the Senior Center. A Fox Theater advance series runs 1 30 p m each Monday with Senior Center information line.
A letter debate over how to report faulty physicians compares county medical societies with state licensure boards, urging openness of board actions and public record. Other readers defend kindness to plants and praise Ann Landers for practical advice in a 1976 Field Enterprises column.
Mrs. Boyd Dreese returns from Roswell with grandson Brad Alpers who graduates from high school. Alpers reunion in Hudson follows. O P Alston attends grandson Brad Roberts wedding in Manhattan. Oklahoma and Kansas visiting across Halstead, Goessel, Burrton, and surrounding towns with relatives and friends. Indianapolis note: Ollan Cassell, former Olympic track gold medalist, becomes AAU executive director.
Four spring graduates from Berean Academy Elbing are accepted as students at Tabor College Hillsboro for 1976 77. Melanie Sorrell Timothy Janzen Rick Vogt and Lois Loewen are the named newcomers all from Newton and Goessel.
Mr and Mrs Alvin Woelk will be honored at a 2 to 4 30 p m open house in the Fellowship Hall of Goessel Mennonite Church on their 50th wedding anniversary. Hosts are their three sons Lamont Leland and Larson and their families.
Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Enns of 122 East First celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary at Bethel College Mennonite Church with a 2 30 p.m. musical program by Judith Enns Gaeddert Lucille Graber and Dr Rupert Hohmann a reception in Fellowship Hall they were married August 19 1926 in Fortuna Missouri and have lived in Newton most of their married life their children and their families include Myron Enns Council Grove Betty Schmid t Newton Dale Gaeddert Omaha and Janet Walters Overland Park
Goessen Sunday guests included Edna Nickel and family, Eldon L R Schmidt and family from rural Canton, Bill Black of Sedgwick, and Rev Joe Goessen with family. They arrived in Wichita Saturday after completing their fifth term of missionary service in Brazil. Also present were Mr and Mrs Arthur Franz of rural Canton at the Goessel Park menic held June 6.
Ronald Dale Smith and Thomas B. Smith, sons of Mr and Mrs Bill T Smith of Newton, received masters degrees this spring from their colleges. Ronald earned an MBA from the University of Kansas in Lawrence and Tom earned an M A in urban affairs from Wichita State University.
The 50th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wiebe of Whitewater will be observed with an open house at Emmaus Mennonite Church starting at 6 30 p m Sunday. A program is planned for 8 p m. The couple has ten grandchildren.
Mr and Mrs Ira Arrowsmith returned from Galesburg Indiana where they visited their daughter Karen Hummell and family. They attended the first annual performance of Gerry Traxlers Choral Dynamics Group in A Musical Picnic with Karen a group member and Wes Loewen directing the production.
Members of Boy Scout Troop 124 sponsored by First Baptist Church visited McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita on Monday. Twelve scouts and four adults toured the base control tower viewed an F 105 jet, and a Titan II missile before dining at the base mess. S/Sgt. Maynes of the 381st Communications Squadron led the tour, with participants including Kevin Smith Larry and Bobby Church Todd Musser Todd Hanchett Mark Nachtigall David Richardson Tom Marshall Steve Rankin Brian Dyck Chris Zuercher Bill Zuercher Mrs Mike Hanchett Mrs Orville Church and Sgt Bill Burris ass't scout master.
Mrs. Van Rossun was the layette shower honoree at a Tuesday evening gathering at Mrs. Gary Lavender’s home. Co-hostesses were Mrs. John Wingo and Mrs. Richard Troxell. gifts were opened after games. cake was prepared by Mrs. Wingo. Guests included relatives and friends such as Mrs. Clarence Horst, Miss Kim Van Rossun, and Mrs. Chuck Bezdek.
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