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' ' S 'ir• ••lept. History * AlvhhinveaWith Which Is Consolidated The Hawarden ChronicleWO SECTIONSHAWARDEN, SIOUX COUNTY, IOWA, JUDY 15, 1948FOURTEEN PAGESNo. 23Proposes Taxof 21.10 Millssed Budget for 1949-50 ,s $243,850 as Maximumpenditureincreasing cost of living and iment was reflected this week in evy of 21.10 mills—whtfch means in taxes for each $1,000 of as-valuation—-set up \by the Ha-(i city council on a preliminary :or the fiscal year 1049-SO, n Monday night, July 26, tax-are will be given an opportun-to express their opinions on city’s estimated maximum ex-diture . of $246,850—an in-se of $40,450 over the amount xl in the budget estimate a ^• ago.y a small portion of the estiniat-endifcure must be raised by fcax-2ording to the (budget which was its first approval at a meeting 3 council last Thursday night. I taxes to be raised for 1949-50 a $23,425 if the proposed budget proved on July 26 and then is d 'by the county auditor. A year ic amount to be raised by taxes;et at $18,220—a difference oft'• -Anticipated Revenuesimted income from sources than taxation totals $222,625, of which is the $115,600 figure r the electric fund. 'SecorfH larg-evenue anticipated is from the unity hospital, $53,350. ually spent for' municipal goy-jnt in the year which ended last h 31 was $209,496, which was $60,000 less than was spent April 1, 1946, to March 31, 1947. t. of -22 separate departments .will be no taxes for five. How-the maximum allowed by state vill be levied for all other funds t two, according to the prelim-estimated budget.2 proposed taxv levy of 21.10 is up 3.67 mills over that set a ago. Two years ago the city’s cs-;ed budget called for taxpayers ,ise $16,350 at a rate of $15.70Eagles to PlayAkron in Game• ■ , %At HawardenTraditional Struggle Between' Rival Baseball Clubs to Spotlight- This Week*s Program on the Diamond .In what^ traditionally is one of the main features of the baseball season, Hawarden will encounter Akron under the Hawarden floodlights Sunday night.Last year the two teams played five times with Akron taking the odd tilt. Sunday night the Eagles will he trying to even the score with Akron'for this year.• In an -important Border-Nitie . League game here last night/the Eagles lost 10 to 7 to give Yankton . first place in loop standings. Hawarden now is behind both Vermillion and Elk Point. lt;•Tomorrow night Hawarden will travel to Spencer for a return encounter with the team which Hawarden defeated here recently.Next Wednesday night the Eagles I will be hosts to the strong aggrega-I lion from Rock Valley. The Eagles will travel to Vermillion Thursday, JulySwim'ming Pool “Safe, Sanitary”Due to baseball trips, the summer recreation program’s 3 o'clock bus service to the north swimming pool will bcTdiscontinued on Fridays only, Director Aaron Linn announced today.%All other trips—twice each afternoon—will continue as scheduled, Mr. Linn said.Contrary to rumors, iMr, Linn said he had been informed by local physicians that there is no infantile paralysis in or near Hawarden and that the north pit is both safe and sanitary.22.theUp to last night’s encounter Eagles had won -10 and lost five encounters.Kingsley overcame the 'Eagles onthe Hawarden diamond, 6 to 1, last Sunday. The exceptionally strong visiting team never was in danger of being defeated.Last Thursday the Eagles boosted their league standing by whipping Beresford, 12 to 9, at Beresford.-......Thk superior pitching of Thayne Bowden, former Hawarden mounds-ir.an, whs too much for the Eagles last Friday when Ireton invaded the local field to rap'oul a 3 to 1 victory.Hawarden ToIParticipate In Auto CaravanResidents From Here, Sioux City And Other Towns to Hear Explanation of Ft. RandaH Dam‘Residents of the Hawarden vicinity will join a caravan of automobiles from Sioux City on July 22 with the Ft. Randall dam project at Pickstown, •S. D., as the destination.As the caravan proceeds through Elk Point and Vermillion, S. D;, it will pick up other cars. The purpose of the trip is to give persons in this area an opportunity to get acquainted with the Ft. Randall project.The Hawarden Chamber of Commerce will form a local caravan that will meet the Sioux City unit of the Pickstown caravan at the junction of Highway 77 and Highway 50 east of Vermillion. To make connections, the local caravan must be at the junction by IKa. m, on July 22.Anyone in the Hawarden territory interested in joining the group may contact Harry Lankhorst, president of the Chamber of Commerce, or Charles McManaman, secretary. If anyone de-Per CentTo Take Effect With September Bills from CityHigher Cost of Operation Plus Necessity to Pay Off Light Plant Bonds Cited for Action By CouncilA 12 Yj per cent increase in^muni-cipal electric and water rates was voted at a special meeting of the Hawarden city council Monday night.The increased rates will go into effect during the August meter readings and will first show up on bills to be paid September 1.Higher cost of fuel oil, which is upabout 300 per cent since 1943 and hasalmost doubled since the start of 1946, and the increased cost of labor, which is approximately 50 per cent more than it was in 1945, were cited as reasons for the jump in prices. Freight rates on oil are up 20 per cent. Repair and maintenance coste are higher. ^Plant Profits DownThe city is obligated to pay off $11,000 plus interest anually in light plant bonds. Monday night City ClerkiElmer Bricson produced figures toshow that in the last nine months thelight plant has had a profit of lessthan $1,000. However, there are suf-, _ „ ficient bond retirement funds on handand for 13 years he lived southeast of j tQ take care of th(J payment due Sep_Hawarden. In 1908 he moved onto a ten^)er jCharles Keehn,r wPioneer of Iowa,Dies at Age 79Funeral Services To Be Held At 2;30 This x\fternoon In Baptist Church of HawardenChas. Keehn, 79, a pioneer of Plymouth county and a resident of Sioux county for 53 years, died at his farm home four miles north of Hawarden about 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon.While Mr. Keehn had been in frail health for some time, he had been in Hawarden Monday afternoon. While here he suffered a heart attack at the Ward Lumber company office. He was removed to his home in an ambulance.Funeral services will be held this afternoon at the Baptist church at 2:30 with Rev. Leon Nelson in charge. Burial will be in Hawarden.Charles Keehn, son of Joseph and Catherine Mockler Keehn, was born at Freeport, 111., August 11, 1868, and was the third child of seven.When a youth of 13 he came west with his parents, locating at Le Mars. He came to this vicinity 53 years agofarm four miles north of Hawarden where he had lived for 40 years.In 1897 he married Miss Mary Ford of Galena, III., and to this union were horn three sons. She died January 10, 1917.He married Mrs. Faith Gillen of Hawarden December 3, 1918.Survivors include his widow; three sons, Ray, Robert and Lee Keehn, of this vicinity; a sister and 'brother, Miss Mary and John Keehn of Hawarden; seven grandchildren and' three great grandchildren. “Thomas, Joe, Katherine and Henry Keehn, three! brothers and a sister, preceded him in death. JLosses of $400 for October, November and December and $136 for January, February and March were reported. The next three months of April, May and June showed a profit of $1,527/It m the second time in two years that the city has increased the rates for water and electricity. In September, 1946, another council increased the rates 10 per ..cent, and predicted that they would have to go higher unless costs of operation declined sharp- #ly.The new electric and water rates are 25, per cent higher than those
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