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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1970
Page
5
Walls for the Rolfe Swimming Pool were erected over the weekend and early week. Plumbing and re rodding of the concrete base follow, with the Bishop pool planned at 42 feet by 8212 feet, heated to about 70 degrees for the season. Marshall Farley named pool manager. lifeguards to be announced. Target opening mid June.
The Little Miss Rolfe 1970 contest starts in Rolfe with seventeen contestants and will crown a winner at the Grand Opening of the Rolfe Swimming Pool after the contest ends on June 20. Voting runs today through June 20 in participating stores with each dollar spent earning one vote for a contestant.
Jack Feldman of ISU spent the weekend in Ames with his parents Dr. and Mrs. L. W. Feldman, returning to campus after the visit.
Kurt J. Kaiser, an instructor at North Junior High School, Fort Dodge, will coach the Little League, Midget, and High School baseball teams this summer. He will lead a High School game against Rockwell City next Monday at 8:00 p.m. at the Rolfe School program, co sponsored by the Lions Club.
Two Rolfe area 4-H groups the Garfield Gleaners and Garfield Hustlers host a Safety on the Highway rest stop at the park south of Highways 15 and 3. From 1 30 to 6 00 Friday Saturday and Sunday the girls serve refreshments and the boys wash windshields and hand out maps to motorists taking a break.
Becki Ives a University of South Dakota senior and Alpha Psi delegate to the 48th biennial convention in Dallas Texas is featured in an Alumni Banquet program for Rolfe School. About 300 alumni and guests are expected with remarks by Russell Ives Al Rudolfson Mrs Gerald Graeber Jack Sandvig Darold Puff and Steve Hodoway.
Legion members are requested to meet at the Legion Hall at 1:00 p.m. on Memorial Day to participate in the Cecil Cumming memorial tree ceremony and the Clinton-Garfield Cemetery observance.
Former Rolfe superintendent R C Mortensen spoke to the 1970 Rolfe School graduating class on "A Challenge For You" Friday evening. A capacity crowd filled the auditorium as the respected educator returned to Rolfe where he served as superintendent from 1948 to 19.
The county holds a Tuesday primary with polls open 8 am to 8 pm CDT in each precinct. Contests include District 2 supervisor with Roy Richardson opposing Paul S. Mefford and Herman Rubel. all other county offices appear unopposed. Republicans and Democrats field several state level candidates. voters urged to participate.
Memorial Day events in Clinton feature Rev. L P Fitzpatrick of Webb as speaker at Clinton-Garfield Cemetery on May 30. Ceremonial salute at 1 30 p m, parade along Main Street led by Rolfe High School band, then cemetery program with invoca tion, readings, Gettysburg Address, and firing squad salute.
Rolfe hosts an Old-Time Value Day with stores staying open until 8:00 p.m. on Friday to lure shoppers before Memorial Day closures on Saturday. Merchants promise prices of yesteryear and big bargains, urging residents to visit Rolfe for savings. Also a community softball meeting for men 18 and older is set at 6:30 p.m. Sunday at the ball park west of the school.
Funeral services for John M. Severson 93 of Richfield Minnesota were held Monday afternoon May 18 at St. Pauls Lutheran Church. Rev G H Brase and Rev F E Geske officiated with Verna Ryen as organist and soloists Mrs Hazel Nicolay and Rev Jersing Thompson. Casket bearers were Richard Hoveland Bill Bennett Lester Ramse Sterling Simonson and Roy Simonson.
Mrs Emma Swan joined 160 Iowa delegates at the Methodist Women Assembly in Houston Texas held early May. The gathering drew over 10000 attendees at Sam Houston Coliseum with the theme Choose Life. She spent a day at Lake Jackson with the Quisenberry family, Roberta Swan’s husband Tom Quisenberry’s parents.
To House 15,000 George Beckord watches as a 48 by 300 foot laying house rises at the Beckord Hatchery southeast of Rolfe. The addition brings total laying capacity to 55,000 hens and the facility is expected to start operation soon.
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