Social event highlights Support La Porte volunteers
A 140 woman crowd attended a style show and card party at La Porte City Country Club hosted by Support La Porte. Chair Charline Moore opened with gratitude and president Mary Ellen Van Ginkel praised volunteer decorations, food, and prizes. She linked the event to the Iowa Community Betterment Program, urging individual responsibility beyond government. The afternoon featured a fashion show by Barton's homemakers class and FHA girls, with detailed models described in the edition.
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Support La Porte
La Porte City Country Club
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Charline) Moore
Dale
Mary Ellen) Van Ginkel
Iowa
Style Show Shines At La Porte Card Party
The Style Show, a fashion highlight at the Support La Porte Card Party at the Country Club, featured young designers from Mrs. Barton's homemakers class and FHA. Narrated by Angie Brown, Karen Abernathy opened with a prom dress, Kathy Roberts wore a navy wool pant suit, and Florence Monteith modeled a yellow polyester knit despite a sprained ankle.
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Karen Abernathy
Kathy Roberts
Florence Monteith
Bicyclists Urged to Follow Safety Rules in La Porte City
A local editorial urges riders and parents to review bicycle safety rules. It stresses riding near the right, signaling turns, stopping at intersections, avoiding sidewalks in business districts, yielding to pedestrians, and ensuring working headlights and rear lights or reflectors, especially for night riding.
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La Porte City
Meester Offers Free Space for Community Employment Service
Ken Meester of Meester Insurance Agency at 213 Main Street La Porte City announces free office space on a volunteer basis for a community employment service. No fee is charged. Job seekers and employers are urged to use this public service for part time work, for students and adults alike.
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Ken Meester
Meester Insurance Agency
Main Street
La Porte City
Meester Agency
Head Start Recruit Children for Fall
The Black Hawk and Buchanan County Head Start Program, directed by Operation Threshold, seeks enrollment for the coming year. Children must be four by September 15 and families must meet income guidelines. The program offers enrichment activities, a hot lunch and snacks, and medical services for the preschool child and family.
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Black Hawk
Buchanan County
Operation Threshold
State to Auction Used Vehicles in Ames
The Iowa State Highway Commission will auction 145 used vehicles and equipment on June 19 1971 at Building Five on the Commission grounds in Ames. Viewing is June 18 and until sale time, all items sold as is with a $200 bid deposit. Non dealers pay 3 percent sales tax, bidders must be 21, final settlement by June 25.
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Iowa State Highway Commission
Commission
Ames
Transit
the
Highway Commission
Progress Review introduces files retrospective and portrait offer
The Progress-Review announces a new Looking Back feature Reviewing Our Files covering 1951 1941 and 1991 with past items. A subscription campaign offers a free 8x10 color portrait for new or renewing subscribers with Iowa 4.50 or out-of-state 5.50 yearly rates. The offer expires July 1 1971 and portraits will be scheduled mid July.
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Progress-Review
Allstates Color Studios
Iowa
Iowa Drivers Manual Now Available in Limited Supply
The newest Iowa Drivers Manual is available in limited supply and can be picked up at the Mayor's office. The manual covers instructions for permits and temporary driving permits and provides rules for safe driving and license study.
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Iowa
Vigortone dealer wins Minnesota fishing trip
Delbert Kitner of La Porte City Vigortone dealer earned a June fishing trip to Chippewa Lodge on Lake Kabetogama in Minnesota for exceeding his quota in the Big Chief Quota Contest. Vigortone officials called the campaign the most successful sales effort in the company’s history.
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Forde Smith
Vigortone Products Company
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Delbert Kitner
La Porte City
Vigortone
Chipewa Lodge
Lake Kabetogama
Minnesota
Vigertone
New Iowa Highway Maps Available at City Mayor’s Office
New official Iowa highway maps are now available at the Mayor's office. Carl Rogers, Director of Black Hawk County Municipal Civil Defense, presented a $6,879 check to Mayor Sonia Johannsen, part of the Mood disaster assistance totaling $33,685 for La Porte City's 1969 flood repairs. Funds supported sewer repairs and piping near the lift station.
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Iowa State Highway Commission
La Porte City
Carl Rogers
Black Hawk County
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Country Club
Mrs. Barton
FHA
Angie Brown
Meester
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