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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1972
Page
6
Mayor Matt Leyh designates January 16 to 22 as Jaycee Week in Sumner Iowa. Photographed with Sumner Jaycees president Dennis Nuss, Leyh signs proclamation at city hall noting the Jaycees founded to aid community service and civic betterment.
A Sumner Housing Corporation meeting at City Hall elected a seven member board led by Henry Hochberger. The board may appoint committees for site selection budget and finance and building plans. A loan application letter to the Farmer's Home Administration may be submitted. The next meeting is set for January 13. Also Fredericksburg hosts a January 17 night class on soil science with Dennis Steele presenting at 8 p.m. in the Vocation Building. Mrs Mildred Wolfgram, Sumner Gazette correspondent, was hospitalized after a fall on ice and later transferred for ankle surgery.
Joseph Franklin Clark 79 former Sumner businessman died January 6 at his daughter’s home in Northport Michigan from a personal safety related gunshot wound with a 20 gauge shotgun. He operated a Sumner restaurant 1932 to 1962 after ten years with Illinois Central Railroad. Survivors include daughter Earl Baatz two granddaughters Earlene Dorene one grandson Joseph and six great grandchildren. Funeral January 10 at Emerson Milnes Funeral Home Sumner conducted by Rev Robert MacCanon with interment Willow Lawn Cemetery Plainfield.
The Annual Upper Town Conference Band Festival gathers 400 students from eight conference high schools for a 7:30 pm public concert at Sumner Community High School. Guest director Dr. Tom Slattery of Coe College leads the massed 320 piece band in a varied program. Tickets at the door are 1.00 for adults and 0.50 for students. Participants include Fayette, West Central Maynard, North West Union, Central El kader, MFL Monona, Postville, Valley High, and Sumner.
G E B Farnum heads a committee to list World War I veterans for the centennial. He urges readers to check the lists and call 224 5169 or Herb Forsman at the Sumner Gazette if anyone is missing. The living list includes nurses, doctors, and many named local veterans. four men from the community died in WWI: Edward Theisinger, Howard McCormick, Thomas E Woods, and George Dallenback.
The Sumner Future Farmers of America chapter is named one of 96 chapters to receive the Superior award in the 1971 national competition. The chapter has earned the Superior rating sixteen times in the past seventeen years. Chapter president Jack Hartman and officers John O'Brien, Monte Kauffman, Marvin Beckenrod, Randie Mueller, and Rick Buhr are listed.
Members of the Adult Farm Class and the FFA Chapter will tour the Rath Packing Co Plant and Hawkeye Institute of Technology at Waterloo on Monday January 17. The group departs the Agriculture Building on West Fifth Street at 8 15 am. Re reservations needed for late reporters. Ralph Pierce 72 a retired Hawkeye farmer died early Wednesday at Palmer Memorial Hospital West Union. Funeral services are pending at Fanerson Milnes Funeral Home Hawkeye.
Gilbert Long 77 of Waterloo died after a stroke Friday at Scholtz Memorial Hospital Waterloo. Born May 3 1804 in England he came to the U S at 17 living in Des Moines and Sumner before moving to Waterloo 31 years ago. Survived by a brother Baden Long and sister Mrs Hilda Bullock of England. wife Nellie Madden preceded him. Funeral services held Tuesday at Chapel of Memories West.
Sumner Jaycees met after a pancake supper at City Hall. Plans included organizing a basketball team and joining a league, with Marlon Hoth tasked to recruit members. Reports from Waterloo regional meeting featured slides by two locals who spent eight months in Japan. Additional news covered sale of garbage bags, a creek cleanup project, and Centennial planning. Also announced are Sumner Community School In-Service Day January 17 and FFA meeting January 13 with J R Heyer as guest speaker.
The Sumner School District and Hawkeye Institute of Technology offer Aerobics Saving Your Heart through Adult Education. The program aims to improve fitness, lower pulse rate and blood pressure, aid weight loss, and boost lung and heart efficiency. Classes begin 7:30 p.m. Monday January 24 at the junior high gym with free medical check on the first night.
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