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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1967
Page
7
John Christensen co chair man of Sumner Jaycees light bulb sale committee presents a 50 dollar check to Mrs Helen Miller on behalf of the Sumner Public Library Board. The funds come from last week's bulb sale to aid the library magazine department. Co chairman Bill Johnson assisted Christensen.
Sumner Community Memorial Hospital has received continued approval under the Federal Medicare Program and coverage for Title IX. Donations include a Christ portrait, wheelchairs, and a rock chip picture. gifts from local families and clubs are acknowledged. A bequest of 1596.49 from Hazel Husband estate boosts funds for new air conditioning units. Community Club reports 225 memberships and plans a new hospital lobby television.
A series of birth notices from Sumner Community Memorial Hospital and Sumner Unity Hospital detail newborns with various spellings of names and parentage. Included are Murphy Sarah Colleen born 14 1967 eight pounds three ounces at Sumner Memorial, Archer Richard Allen born Tegayne 16 1967, Low Dawn Catherine born June 17 1987 at Sumner Community Hospital, and Mareia Aan born 18 1967 with weights and parental names partially listed.
Sunset Theatre presents Fantastic Voyage June 22 23 24 a Cinemascope color sci fi thriller about miniaturized doctors injected into a living man stars Stephen Boyd Raquel Welch Edmond OBrien and others. June 25 26 27 features Agony and the Ecstasy with Charlton Heston Rex Harrison Diane Cilento and Harry Andres. Also notes Wartburg College Dean's List 124 students.
Funeral services held Wednesday for Mrs. Ida Lang 75 lifelong Sumner resident who died Sunday at Sumner Community Memorial Hospital. The St John American Lutheran Church service was led by Rev. John Mohr with interment in the church cemetery. Emerson Milnes Funeral Home handled arrangements. Mrs Lang survived by four sons two daughters and many grandchildren. Separate items note Viet Nam leave for Donald Westendorf and visits by other family members to relatives in Chicago and Edgewood. Another note reports three Johnson children at University Hospitals Iowa City with an intestinal infection linked to the death of Rebecca Jane Johnson and ongoing illness of her twin Audrey and younger brother Bobby. Ramona Johnson remains at hospital for observation.
The recent reading program from May 27 to June 17 awarded prizes based on books read. Winners include Margaret Gade 32 books, Diane Masterpole 30, Karen Masterpole 36, Joann Mitchell 36, Steven Gade and Andy Masterpole 28 and 30 respectively, with Maribeth King 36 books.
Area students received degrees at the University of Iowa in Iowa City during Friday's commencement. Margaret Triplett of Sumner earned a Bachelor of Home Economics, Jerry Brickman of Sumner earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in General Business, and Gerald Barker of Fredericksburg earned a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy. Pvt. Lyle R. Timm of Sumner, after 120 days of Army Infantry training at Fort Ord, Calif, returns to Quaker Oats in Cedar Rapids Tuesday and to his parents Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Timm of Sumner.
Bremer County Attorney Phil Gross will move to Washington to join the SEC Division of Corporate Finance next week. Mary Gross will relocate with him while Jim Coddington will serve the remainder of the term as assistant county attorney, effective July 1. Gross has led the office since 1965 after an unopposed election and prior private practice in Sumner. Also noted, the Sumner FFA will meet tonight at 8 p.m. in the Vocational Agriculture Building.
At the regular mid month Sumner City Council meeting 13 cigarette permits were approved along with a liquor license for the Ritz Cafe and Lounge. Other actions included park board funding transfers totaling 748 dollars for mowing and maintenance across Union Mound Cemetery Whitmire Memorial Swimming Pool grounds Railroad Park Mary Winks Park and Wayside Park. A new parking area near the city park was approved with an estimated cost of 250 dollars. Salaries for pool personnel were set. The council also approved the purchase of a 3372 dollar sewer cleaning machine after a 30 day trial showing strong results. A preliminary budget session is planned for June 27 with final work in July. Regular meeting date moved to July 5 due to Independence Day. The Senior Luther League will hold a Slave Day on June 24 to raise funds.
Mrs. Wilma Violet Tripp 44 of Hawkeye died in a two car collision on the Fayette blacktop north of Iowa 3 at about 9 30 am Tuesday. John Samuel Alshouse of Oelwein injured and Bonnie Tripp 18 seriously hurt. other children Timothy 6 Stella 7 and Shirley 4 aboard Tripp car. Alshouse treated at Mercy Hospital Oelwein. Funeral services pending Emerson Funeral Home Hawkeye. David OBrien of Sumner among ten Iowa seniors to join ISU poultry science staff for FAST program July 10 15 in Ames. Craig Leichtman of New Hampton also attending.
Twenty two members of the Sumner High School graduating class of 1942 attended the 25th anniversary reunion at Meadowbrook Country Club in Sumner. Photos show Myron Braun, Marilyn Miller Gallo, Mary Ganske, Darlene Stahlhut, Pauline Lease, Donna Jean Paden, Geraldine Boedecker, Marie Zell, and more, with additional members arriving after the photo. The farthest attendees came from Clarksdale, Mississippi, as Mrs. Robert Wells, Kathryn Strumpell, joined from there.
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