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Eighth Grade Class Roll to be graduated May 24 at 1:00 p. m.Gary Allis John Ball Jean Ballinger Tom Beach Peggy BrightDennis DeVries Mike Douglas Judy Driskeil Jeff Fisher Joan GardnerIdarvln Brookshier Steve Gottsche Carolyn Buttercase Steve HinzeEddie Collins Peggy HoneaKathy Crain Carol LangCarolyn DeLong Roxanne LeeJesse Logan Esther Major Jim Martin Ricky Meek Johna Miller Paul Moyer Jerry Nellsen rhcky Nook Janice Pierson Robert PizzanoMolly Price Rose Robinson David SJulin Geraldine Smith Gary Spiegel Debra Stephens Mike Tiemeyer Debbie Vogel David White Elizabeth Woods Paul ZimmermanLocal housing project is two steps closerImWPOm' VOLUME 72 HAMBURG, IOWA, THURSDAY MORNING. MAY 19. I96B NUMBER 13HAMBURG, IOWA, THURSDAY MORNING. MAY 19. 196BCharles Gardner dies at 69Big, big weekendCharles Isaac Gardner, died at Community Hospital pAininrf May 12, after an extended ill- COWUlig UpTwo more steps leading to construction of the 24-unit public low rent housing project in Hamburg were announced this week.The Department of Housing and Urban Development has given approval to Hamburg’s Workable Program for Community Improvement. This was necessary before other stages of the project could proceed.Immediately upon the heels of the workable program acceptance came the necessary forms to apply for what is called an “Annual Contribution Contract”, accompanied by innumerable documents and papers.In brief the contributions contract is the working document used to actually finance and construct the housing units. It calls for an initial loan of §41,0(19, and will eventually build up to about §405,000 advanced to the Hamburg Housing Authority by the federal government.Construction date for the project, as set forth in the contracts, is May 1, 1967, a full year away.The Housing Authority expects to have the papers signed and enroute back to the Chicago housing office by this weekend, and actual design of the buildings will get underway shortly thereafter.It was announced last week that approval of the block north of City Park was being sought for the project location. The Development will cover all of the privately owned property except the church building and new parsonage owned by the Assembly of God, the alley between H and J Streets, and n. part of the east half of T Street.Manpower information is soughtThis week The Reporter carries a special Manpower Survey qucstionairc, sponsored by the Nebraska City Chamber of Commerce.Interested persons are invited to fill out the form and mail il to Nebraska City.Purpose of the survey, covering parts of southwest Iowa, southeast Nebraska, and northwest Missouri, is to compile a manpower listing to be made available to factories and industry interested in locating in this three-state comer area.It is the first such survey made for this area.HarborcandidacyannouncedWilliam H. “Bill” Harbor of Henderson has announced his candidacy for Republican nomination as State Representative from the Fremont-Mills district. Harbor, a life long resident of Mills County, is 45, single and is owner-operator of the Harbor Feed and Grain Elevator at Henderson.He is an experienced legislator having served as State Representative from the old Mills County district and as State Senator from the old Mills-Montgomery county district for two sessions. He was the author and sponsor of many laws now in the Iowa code. He is now serving his second hitch on the Henderson town council. His political activities also include Republican county central committee membership and precinct chairman for 18 years.Harbor is a graduate of the University of Iowa. He served as a Naval officer in World War II, two years of which were in the Pacific theater. He is active in 'Legion affairs having .served as Post Commander and County Conun an der. He is now serving his I4th year as president of Henderson Fire Department.Bill is a member of the Henderson Methodist Church, where he ds on the board of trustees, lay speaker, and Sunday School teacher.Harbor stated that he is submitting his candidacy to the voters based on his legislative experience, a thorough knowledge and appreciation of agriculture- and its problems and as a member of the small business community of Southwest Iowa.Aiinual spring pops concert set May 26Four bands, under the direction of Bill Eden, will present the annual spring pops concert in the 'high school gym at 8 p.m. May 26.Bands taking part will be the high school, junior high, advanced junior and junior.Eden says the audience will have a real treat when a surprise guest artist appears during the concert next Thursday night.There will be a small admission charge.He was a member of the Hamburg Church of Christ. He had been engaged in farming until his retirement.Survivors include three children. Mrs. Mattie Andres of Hamburg, Arnold and Harold of Riverton; six grandchildren: one great grandchild: threebrothers, Walter and John of Hamburg and Joe of Riverton; three sisters, Julia Owen of West boro, Mo.. Mabel Beam of Essex, and Lily Hukill of Aztec, N, Mex.; other relatives and friends.His wife preceded him in death March 25 of this year.Funeral services Were held Sunday. May 15, at the Church of Christ with Edwin DeVries officiating. Interment was in Mt. Zion Cemetery. Rash Funeral Home was in charge of services.Ben Jensen backs ScherleState Representative William J. (Bill) Scherle at his home in Henderson, Iowa, today gratefully acknowledged the support extended to him by former Congressman Ben F. Jensen of Exira as released through the Associated Press last week.Mr. Scherle said, 'T appreciate very much the endorsement of such a fine, honorable public servant as Congressman Jensen, who has represented this district for 26 years. I will do everything possible to merit this confidence.”Feed groin sign-up at 77 per centWhile Fremont County’s Feed Grain Program sign-up ranked sixth highest in the state, the Cropland Adjustment Piogram was somewhat less than a howling success, reports the county ASCS office. The county signed up 77 per cent of eligible farms on feed grain.Township sign-up figures ranged from a high of 90.6 per cent in Washington twp. down to 61.8 per cent in Green twp. Other percentages include Monroe with 89.6; Riverton, 88.3; Walnut, 82.9 Madison, 82.4; Benton 82 per cent; Fisher 81.3; Prairie, 78.4; Sidney II 76.4; Riverside 74.1 Sidney T 73.9; Seott 64 per cent; Locust Grove 63.2.With the cropland adjustment deadline past, a total of 409 acres was placed in retirement for from five to ten years. The program will be offered again in 1967.A ten-event recreation weekend coming up in Hamburg over Memorial Day has prompted a group of local merchants to declare that weekend the start of slimmer fun. The event will be promoted locally by special sales throughout the weekend.Here is a partial listing of recreational events and openings scheduled for that weekend:Swimming pool opens Monday, May 30, Memorial DayTri-State Junior Legion baseball tournament gets underway at Clayton Field Sunday, May 29.Fremont County golf course opens to the public May 30.The new TAC downtown recreation spot for teen-agers opens Saturday, May 28.There will be a car safety check sponsored by Kiwams Saturday.Both the American Legion Club and the VFW Club have dances to live music Saturday night.Fremont Bowl is planning a special bowling promotion for that weekend .A three-day special fishing derby is In the planning stage, •with prizes going to the fisherman who does best in several categories.Free Shows at the Colonial Theatre are slated to start each Wednesday night, probably Wed.. June 1.There will be extra circulation of The Hamburg Reporter that weekend to tell the story of this big 10-event recreational weekend, urging area people to spend Memorial Day weekend here, where there will be something for every taste, every age.Business firms should plan on having their sale advertising copy ready lo go no later than Thursday afternoon of this week.Woop',' Did you ever have one of those days? The Reporter has attached wrong names to people at an alarming rate in recent stories, all inadvertantly and without serious-thought. We beg your pardon.1 The property to be purchased Tor the low rent housing pro-;eel on H Street is owned by Mrs. Fred Nics, not Mrs. Joe Nies2. The Mount pictured planting corn was Charles (Dude) Mount, not Harold Mount.3. The name of the new grade school principal was to nave been Paul Jackson, not Paul Johnson. Mr. Jackson has since resigned to set* work closer to a university, where his child can attend corrective speech classes.Two buildings change handsMiss Verah Medford has announced sale of the Grayson Barber Shop building and the Beach Watch Shop building to Moore Grayson and Jay Beach, Jr. The transaction was completed May I.Miss Medford has owned the properties for many years, inheriting them from her uncle, Nick Hopkins, who acquired them about 1922. Mr. Hopkins at one time ran a five-chair barber shop here.Graduation activities here underway SundayWatson salulalorian — Rus- 1906 valedictorian at Watson sell Duane Clodfelter who has — Anna Jeanette Whelan who received many academic and plans to enroll in a business athletic awards during his school. She attended Watson twelve years In the Watson school all twelve years and was school. named this vear's Homemakerof Tomorrow.County golf course opens Memorial DayDownpour brings inch in half-hourThe. first real ground-soaking rain in several weeks fell here in a hurry last Wednesday afternoon when an estimated inch of rain fell in about 30 minutes, floodine streets and carrying quantities of mud and silt into ditches and along curbs By Thursday morning a more gentle rain had swelled the total to 1.15 inches.Sunday morning's shower hardly dampened the ground, recorded at .04 of an inch The Tuesday morning rain was a bit better, checking in at .20 of an inch.Total for May here is now 1.47 Inches, lower than many surrounding communities Normal for May is 4:16 inches. SZLijlSi 7~ rtr*‘ Mw -ln^ l*. c|D •*9r»W m n .•*«*) «wto* no! I .ftarora a, » Min-9tm crew complete* half the bhck«n E street ftpprriit Uie mvnidpal pool. Weather permitting, the otherhalf tw t* he fhrfghed Wc4wesday, and U closed fee *.few days to allow the concrete to core oet. The new paving*T** mct* Mc* ***■ reinforced. It replaces badly broken oM paving no longer palchahle or roverable.Mo. work to cost $1,500,000Contracls totalling in o.fc..-of $1,590,000 for work on the Missouri River along Fremont ''nunlv’s western border have been announced bv the Coips »f Engineers.In the vicinity of Hamburg, a bank stabilization program has been signed with Missouri River Constructors. Int., of Dallas. Tex The cost will be §722.822Al Bartlett, the Pine Blulfs Sand jnd Gravel Co., Pine Bluffs, Ark., lias been awarded i' con I rart for 8862,991 for the same type ot work.The work is designed to stabilize the channel and keep sufficient channel depth to maintain the growing barge traffic at Hamburg and Council Blti'fs.Car safety check set for May 28A cur safely check is scheduled for Hamburg Sat., May 28, according lo Earl Hammond, in charge of the Kiwanis-spon-sored project. It will be similar to those held in previousInspection teams will be set up on lhe east side of City Park on Washington Street from about 9 00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.. and will give each car an outside visual safety check. Lars passing the 10-point chock will be given a windshield sticker designating that vehicle as in good shape.The program is voluntary on the part of the mot oils t, and is a five rvicc of Kiwanis.New priestFather John Nenuners of Des Moines, has been assigned to the Hamburg Catholic Church. He arrived here Wednesday. He is a former chaplain in a Des Moines hospital.Father Raphael O'Malley has returned to the Abbey in Atchison. Kans . for re-assignment.Son for GreensMr. and Mrs. Forrest Green oi Ogaliala, Ncbr. are parents o' a son born May 13. He weighed seven pounds, nine ounces and has been named Jamie T.ec. The Greens have three other children.Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Jack Barrett of HamburgDial-a-Prayer still popularRev. Jack Pettit reports that the Dial-a-Prayer continues to be a popular service in this community. From April 5 to May 5 there were 4,003 calls placed to Dlal-a-Prayer.Anyone interested in hearing a one-minute prayer by the ministers of Hamburg may dial 382-1242 at any hour of the day or nightFremont GOP meet is FridayFremont County Republicans will meet in county convention at the courthouse in Sidney this Friday night, according to Clarke Getscher, county GOP chairman. Ai-rangements arc being made for about 140 scheduled to attend, commencing at 8:00.For the first time in several years delegates are expected to draw up and adopt a county platform. Endorsement of county candidates, or non-endorsement of anyone will be up to the delegates themselves. Getscher say*.Two spakers are schedu'eu. to talk on how to get out the vote, and explain issues expected to be of importance m the fall campaign. Vem Lisle, state senator from Gannria, and George Brown, head of the state public relation depart • ment from Des Moines, ••ill speak.A partial list of county committeemen and committee-uomen selected includes Bob Shirley and Lillian McElrcy from Benton; Franklin Rash and Ellen Rice from Hamburg; Kay Kilpatrick and Dorothy Benton from Green: Duane Bredcnsteiner and Mrs. Harry Hirz from Locust Grove; Willis Lorimor and Gladys Lonmor Monroe.Edgar Miles , and Pauline Schnepp ill Prairie; Ralpn Costello and Mabel Kerr from Riverside: Vernon Marshalland Blanche Dalton of Ross; Don Simmons and Janet Fort-ci from Scott: John Redd and Mrs Charles Polk from Sidney I; Leonard Richards and Mina Tackett from Sidney II; H. Allen Bateman from Walnut: and Edwin Clarke Getscher and Velm Richardson from Washington.New residentsKen Laurttoon has been appointed as Depot Agent at the Hamburg C. B. Q. Railroad They moved here April 30 from Lenox.They are living in the Wade Nelson apartment. Their son. Larry, la tn 4th grade.Fremont Coun’y’s municipal jroif course will be open for play on Memorial Day, the County Conservation Board announced Wednesday.Family memberships f o r 1966 will be sold at $40. Green fees for non-members will be SI.50 week days and $2 on Saturdays. Sundays and holidays.Memberships will be sold at the following places in Fremont County: Vern’s Variety. Sidney; Kilby’s Clothing Store. Hamburg, Hamilton Insurance, Tabor: Thurman State Savings Bank, Nishna Valley Slate Bank. Riverton First National Bank, Farragul; Randolph stale Bank: Fief man Oil Co, Pi rcival\ny mem bur of the County onsert iilion Board (which lias built and will operate the corn sl) will take memberships. They are: Mrs E.B Ncnnu-mami. Hamburg, pres.; Carl Rind. Hamburg, vice pres.; W. J McCosh, Tabor, secretary: li H Henstorf. Farr.igut: E.E. Futon, SidnejCourse Superintendent Lawrence Thompson -says that temporary greens will he used on No. 1 and 2 holes of the nine-hole county-owned course. A pro shop will be erected and used later in t!v season. The course has three water holes. Par is 35 foi men. 36 for women. Young trees which will e\entually beautify the course have been donated by Inter-State Nurseries. Hamburg.The Conservation Board is negotiating with Howard Glasgow of Sidney, 'one bidder on the pro shop proposal when bids were opened last Wednesday night. Amount of the bid was not disclosed, pending certain design changes.T/Ocafed in a designated eounty recreation area under the Conservation Board’s con-irol. the course is about two miles south of Sidney on the i as I side of Highways 2-275.Douglases moving to CaliforniaMr. and Min. Jack Douglas and family Mill move to South San Gabriel. Calif. May 28 to make th-'ir permanent home. Thev plan ’o depart immediately alter their sale of hocsc-liold goods scheduled that SaturdayMr Douglas has boon connected with the American Lotion Club here since I9?8. Their daueht^r. Cindy, who graduates this spring, plans to enler a California college.Max Moore, who has manag-«d the VFW Club for several months, will take over as kitchen manager next Monday. H'* hat announced the club will serve its regular menu six days a week, Monday through Saturday, and plans to be open Sundays as soon as arrangements can he madeThe final week of school far one of the largest Hambuifr, High. School graduating dw-, es m recent years will get un-; derway this Sunday with .the traditional Baccalaureate service. and end Wednesday nigftF with the presentation of dl-1 plomas. , -There are 47 seniors to tfe graduated. *;Th Rev. David Straton will give the sermon, “A New-Mtngl For A New Age”, at the 8:00 p. m. Baccalaureate service Sunday night, with the Rey. Roy F. Bozone giving the invocation. scripture reading, and benediction.Music will be furnished by Mrs. Carol VValtersdorf, the octet. and mixed chorus.Commencement exercises Wednesday night are «feo set for 8:00 at the high school auditorium.Dr. Noel Brown will make the principal address.Following the processional played by the high school band, the Rev. Earl Melton will give the invocation. Glee Guwb, high school principal, will present the valedictorian and stt-lutatorian of the class of 1966: A senior chorus will sing Hails of Ivy”.The graduating class will be presented by Supt. of Schools George Neuzil, and diplomas awarded by Allen Athen, school board president.Benediction by Rev. Meltbn will end the formal ceremonies.The senior class farewell assembly will be at the auditorium at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday.Presentation of various high school awards will be made, at 7:30 p. m. Monday.Hamburg businessmen have once again saluted the graduating class with a special section devoted to this coming week’s activities. It begins on page nine.Cpl. Earl D. Hendrickson returned to Vie! Nam April 25where he is serving with the 3rd Marine Div. His address b Ser. 2093703. Co. A (Rein) 7th Eng. Bn.. 3rd Marine Div. FWD, FPO. San Francisco, Calif., 96602.ithUutSSPfc. Dennis L !is now serving with Iforces in Viet Nam, _dress is US 557M0M, HBC lot Bn. (M) 5th Inf.. tad mom 25th Div., APO San FnadM, Calif., 96225.Bridgefords moveMr. and Mix. Waller I ford have moved tmo I at 2107 Park which Qrtg ly purchased from Mr. at Wayne Bailey The T house has bowThe WoyM living In ttm til their new I addition to^INewspaperArchiveuy Hi StoriedHamburg Reporter, May 19, 1966 Pg. 1, Hamburg, Iowa, UShttps://newsDaDerarchive.com/hambura-reporter-mav-19-1966-D-1/
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