Year in Rolfe 1966 Shows Gas Vote Banquet Blizzard
Rolfe residents weighed a municipal natural gas proposal winning 85 percent support with 348 yes votes while 68 favored a franchise for the Iowa Electric Light and Power Company. The year also saw the Sunset Hill Nursing Home opening, a Miss Edna Marcum Alumni Banquet, a March blizzard that cut power and heat, and strong track and fire events shaping Rolfe’s civic year.
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Rolfe
Marcum
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Iowa Electric Light and Power’ Company
Court reports 68 cases docketed in 1966 justice court list
Dr C W Harris of the peace court released a year end tally of 68 cases docketed in 1966 with sheriff assisting on four. Offenses include failure to control eight, no driver's license forty five, reckless driving three, speeding twelve, possession of beer or liquor four, making liquor available to a minor one, worse checks ten, petty larceny one, careless driving four, operating vehicle without registration one, injuring a motor vehicle three, obstructing street one, defacing a street one, nuisance violations one for cars and one for chickens, stop sign two, failure to yield one, defacing a building one, improper passing two, driving while license revoked or suspended two, failure to obey police one, intoxication one, excessive noise one, failure to appear one. Disposition: twelve jail sentences totaling sixty four days, thirty finalings.
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Suapen
Corrections to Assessor’s Newsletter Corrections
The corrected text clarifies that grain raised in 1966 or before remains reportable for field operators with 3% or more of acres. Mobile homes, trailers, and camper trailers are not assessable under the 1964 license law, but any structure attached to a mobile home adds assessable square footage.
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Arrow
Rammettes rally past Havelock Plover for 55 45 win
Havelock Plover falls 55 45 as the Rammettes press and hustle led by Marcia Hansen who scored 85 points, with Diane Bierstedt 14 and Jenny Tutt 6. Rolfe JV girls also beat Havelock-Plover JV 36 80, Diana Smith top scorer with 18. The Rammettes next host Gilmore City Bradgate for a league game. The Lucky Buck Drawings resume Saturday January 7 at 3 p.m. with 20 first prize and increasing amounts, entry rules explained.
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Rammettes
Jane Bielefeldt
Linda Heathman
Susan Trimble
Marcia Hansen
Diane Bierstedt
Jenny Tutt
Rolfa
Havelock-Plover
Gilmore ~City-Bradgate
Rams
Gilmore City
Bradgate _ Rockets
Rolfe JV
Havelock-Plover JV
Diana Smith
Pam Peters
Peggy Gunderson
Jody Howard
Infant Dies Graveside at Bradgate
A graveside service was held Saturday December 24 for infant son of Mr and Mrs Walter Easley buried in Bradgate. The brief notice records the infant’s name and parents with the family’s location.
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Ann Easley
Walter
Bradgate
Youth Corps Project Approved for Four Iowa Counties
The Upper Des Moines Opportunity Inc announces approval of a Neighborhood Youth Corps project led by Peter Hart. It funds 74 in school and 30 out of school youths, ages 16 to 21, across Emmet Palo Alto Pocahontas and Kossuth counties with a $80,890 total cost and $69,720 federal share. Work hours vary by phase and pay is $1.25 per hour.
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Upper
Des Moines
Emmet
Palo
Alto
Pocahontas
Kossuth
D. Craig
Ford
Des. Moines
Engagement Announcement for Sarah Louise Ives and John Patrick Quigley
Mr and Mrs Arlo G Ives of Rolfe Iowa announce the engagement of their daughter Sarah Louise to John Patrick Quigley son of Mrs Percy L Quigley of Berkeley California formerly of Michigan Miss Ives attended Cottey College is a University of Oregon graduate did graduate work at University of Iowa and is a physical therapist in Los Angeles County Mr Quigley a University of Michigan Law School graduate is a California attorney An early spring wedding is planned.
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Arlo G. Ives
Rolfe
Iowa
Sarah Louise
John Patrick Quigley
Percy L. Quigley
Berkeley
California
Michigan
Ives
Cottey College
University of Oregon
University of Iowa
Los Angeles
Quigley
University of Michigan Law School
Buena Vista College to Hold Evening Saturday Class Registration
Registration for special classes at Buena Vista College Storm Lake is set for Wednesday January 25 from 2 8 p m in Dixon Eilers Hall room 107. Each semester hour of credit equals one and a half quarter hours. A complete listing of courses will follow.
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Buena’ Viata College
Storm Lake
Dixon
Eilers
Hall
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Second and Broad Streets
Highway 44
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Miss Marcum
Sara Beckord
Iowa City
Drake
Brendan DeWall
Tracey Barnes
North Carolina
Barnes
Villas
N.J
Delaware Bay Area
San Diego
Calif
E. O. Lexterkamp
Rolfe Cafe
Fuller-White
Arrow Office
Kermitt Shimon
Dale Johnson
Guy Bendixon
Fannie Grant
Ember
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Sunday Picture
F. BE. (Forry) Grant
Grant Lumber
Charles
Lehnus
Buena Vista College
Jesse C. ‘Hosier
Plover
Darrell (Marie) Noll
Arthur, Yowa
Richard Hosier
Reno, Nev
Paes
Lucky Buck
the Rammettes
Havelock Plaver
Greater Rolfe. Lab
Rolfe State Bank
Lois’ Irene Turley
Joel N. Heller
Brooklyn
N.Y
Samuel Pieper
Marvin W. Turley
Benjamin Heller
Marie Stamke
LaVerne, Towa
Howard Sasolff
New Jersey
Matthew
Carson
Stuart Brown
Arthur Bluementhal
Howard Dragutsky
Rasoffs
Ehempegne
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