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llififMl Iowa City, ESTABLISHED 1863 cltM iftitttt AifWtt, Not. Act 01 CaBfttw of ViW. A106NA, IOWA, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1959 3 SECTIONS 20 PAGES VOL rm Fire Threat! fey 9 Waller The appearance ef Mils Iowa at the Algdna Hdme Sh6w, Friday evening was most pleasing and it is unlikely that. Al Huenhold will ever again Be'as flustered as he was in endeavoring to pin a cordage oh the young lady, Sigft over at the Consolidated CoOp Creamery at Whittemore where Russ Medin, an ex-Algona boy, is reads; "Be sure to work 8 hours ant sleep 8 hours but not tH same 8 hours'" Our Nicotine friends' toll are plenty of free, membership-cards left for an'yorie desiring', sa.me jiist contact' the Univer.saVMfg. front office no dues, no officers, and maybe'h'o, worries! 'i'" 1 The robin" time Is long since 1 gone, but Mr and Max Nitz of Ledyard are wondering if, its- the same robin that returns each" spring to', their i yard, With unusual 'coloring and feathers.

The robin's- breast' is pinkish color and around the breast, are white same one every, year past several years, they say. 'Maybe you haven't noticed, but name of -the Mutual is now officially, "Druggists Mutual Insurance When the company was-organized, 50 years ago, "of Iowa" was in the title, because there, were then four other'mutual insurance 1 companies with trie word Drug- vgists, their title. Now there only one, the, Algona institution. i the sports section of the March 29, issue, Diego, Cal. is a nice picture of Perry Hagg of now, employed by Convair at Perry who is a polio "victim: and confined to wheel rattles the" pins-with the-Bowlero Wheels team.

Congratulations, w.e hope you £ot iroro. -the Clipper still functioning'OK. i West Coast, our 'mail frorn'. out'there has certainly been picking up that letter 'from Leroy Mathison "Letters to 'the Editor" made' a big hit, but we're using'the staples on single- copies. Evelyn Cady informs us that the Roupes who.

had' the grocery store were Charles and-his son, Arlo. Charles died in 1936. The Oliver Roupes farmed in the West'Bend-Whitte- more area, she tells us. Hope Leroy gets all the sections now and, as for. Madge and Dutch Swanson at we wish'to state that all for 'quitting smoking, but not by, breaking a few Tibs as Dutch did.

Golden Wedding Says Survey In Mr and Mrs Junkermeier of Burt, shown wi! observe their golden Sunday, April 19, with an open house'from 2-to 5 p.m. in the'Bethany Evangelical and Reformed church at Ledyard. All relatives and friends are invited to attend. Edward A. Junkermeier and Elsie A.

Brand were married- April 21, 1909 in the Reformed church at Ledyard. Rev. Otto A. Menke officiated. Mr 'and' Mrs 'Junkermeier lived near Ledyard until they moved to their present Burt.

They have three daughters, Neoma, at home; Alma, Estherville; and Irene'(Mrs H. Hedrick; and two grandsons. (Nels Isaacson Photo UDM Engraving). Farmer Pinned Under A 1 Manure Loader 3 Hours i three miles north of FentOn was taken to ily hospital about" .7 p.m. Tuesday after an accident at farm.

Madden suffered an injured left side, left, 'leg, and an chipped pelvis bone. Hospital officials report that his condition is good but that he will be 'hospitalized for at least several days. The injuries resulted from a freak accident which occurred when Mr Madden' was moving a board fence near his barn with his about 4 p.m. Tuesday afternoon. A manure loader was is believed td have a sudden jolt Madden Wai thrown junder ihe manure loader and trapped there.

The- Madden barn is far enough from the farm house so that his cries for help could not be heard. Mr Madden remained helplessly pinned under the manure loader for three hours, until his wife. Alma, found him about '7 p.m. Mr Madden was conscious when, Mrs Madden found him and he explained to her how to operate the tractor and manure loader in order to release him. Ho was then taken to the hospital by ambulance.

Parity Support A substantial number bf 'fa ers in the 6th Congressional" trict favor a farm program guaranteeing 90 percent parity price support with producUbri controls and cross' xCom'pHah'CS measures, according'to, results of a poll taken among farmer's' in the district by Congressman win Goad. l', ti 1 Tlie poll questioned' with RFD addresses, ahd 'gave them a choice of four, programs The results, percentage. low: 1 A program of'-gwel-nmen payments to farmers iriakef up, the difference tie.twee'h, the market received farmer and 100, percent parity or the Brannanr-plan Favored by 36 90 percent of parity support program wfth strict pro duction controls and cross com pliance by 4 percent. 3 Price supports of 75 to 90 percent of the last three years average market price, jroduction as now going nto operation Favored by 15 4 price support or production control program whatsoever Favored by 8 percent. Goad said, "This appears to represent a realistic cross section View of the thinking Iowa farmers on the farm program.

The proposals' offered in my poll gave farmers a fair choice of the alternatives most widely discussed in connection with the acknowledged farm problems and the distribution of the rio't any?" or 'type of farmer. "According this poll no question that the farmers 'are concerned over the need for sdme program' to get, a Vfair share' oi national income and that-their choice of a program to do this would' adjust their production- to the market 'size just as industry does." As Flames Destroyed Brick Bam THE'FIRE WHICH DESTROYED THE'Merrill Giffin barn and a small hog house nearby at its height when this picture was taken by Carf orlonscn of Ponton. The Giffin' farm is four wt and one north of Fenton. Details of the fire and loss arc in nn adjacent column. (UDM engraving).

Soldier Asks Divorce; Says ifife Left For A nother Man August R. Sankey, a Burt man who has been' the army for the past 14 years, filed a divorce petition in Kossuth district court, Monday, charging his wife, Mary Ann Sankey, with desertion and cruelty. The plaintiff states in his petition that the couple were married Jan. 22, 1946, in Algona, and that his wife deserted him and abandoned the five children "If we waited for the men nothing would ever get done." Thank you, for the alternate to our last line of last week, to wit: "It is not the fall from the high building that kills you, but the sudden stop!" Ah, at long last, the unscram: bling of the meaning of the letters "P.E.O." in that worthy wo- men's organization we do know, but we're going to keep it and a man iojd, us suppose his wife toW him? J. Stewart pf teen getting quite, a since last week a classified ad in the UDM mentioned that he had "thoroughbred sale.

Quite a few that M.r Stewart enter them in the Kentucky Well, Tommy Hutchison is rolling along in his freshman year down at GdnneU, Now he has been to the house council Trace Of Rain Dampens Dry Spring To Date About a half-inch of rainfall was reported in some area of Kossuth county Monday and Tuesday of this week. The rain brought a temporary end to a series of grass fires which kept area firemen busy, earlier, According to Weatherman Wayne Johnson at the Algona airport, .26 of an inch was registered Tuesday here, but amounts -larger than that were reported elsewhere. Low temperature reading during the period was 28 degrees while the high was a nifty 72 degrees Monday; The mercury hit the seventies three time during the week. 35 35 28 4230 44 30 .03 .2 LuVerne, CotwitK Mail Shake-Up Railway mail service between Tort Dodge and Twin Cities will be by Star Route and mail messenger service 'because of discontinuance the Minneapolis St. Louis passenger train after April 19.

LuVerna and Corwith are. among the town? affected by the change. According to W. W. Sullivan, Algona postmaster, mail from Algona -to LuVerne is already on a direct Star Route and probably not be changed.

Changes in the Algona to Corwith mailing will be announced by April 19, but of necessity will have to find a replacement for present trains carrying mail. April 2, .70 April April 4, 71 April 5 April 6. 72 April 64 April According to area weathe prognosticators, rain fall be a boon to fields and scorched John Peterson, Swp a City, Dies John. Peter Peterson, 82, area resident for about '75 years, died Monday morning his ter's home in Swea City after a lingering iUness. His Mrs Miller To Head Toastmasters Irving G.

(Pudge) Miller is the new president of the Algona Toastmasters, club. He was installed at the meeting held las Monday evening- Administrative vice presiden Dr. James Harris, educationa vice president is M. L. Vender Waal, is secretary and Darrel Ludwig is treasurer Everett Baldus acted.as install ing officer.

Honor Roll At Academy Named "Students listed oh the gold honor roll for the, third quarter at St. Cecelia Academy are: Dtfanna Ludwig, Joan Flynn, Dirk juniors, Brenda Therese Bradley, Sandra Schneider, Susan Nitchals; freshmen Blondina Erpelding. Students on the silver 'honor are: seniors Linda Bode, Kay Holcomb, Judy Judith Tripp; juniors Madonna Erpelding, Mary-Ann Bradley, Karen Zaugg, Ronald Barton, Betty Cink; sophomores Margaret Goecke, Carol Flynn, Bill fliggins, Agnes Linda Mary Jean Hood, Mary Bradley, Vicki Hanson; freshmen Daniel Zaugg, Kathy Roth, Vernell Ludwig, Mary Reilly, Judy Murphy, Rosemary Gisch, Joan Mikes. Those meriting a place on the gold honor roll must have a grand average of 93 or above with no grade -than 90 and must maintain a conduct grade of or above. silver honor roll requires that one have" a grand average of 88-92 with no grade Jower than 85.

The conduct requirement is the same as for the gold honor roll. O.K. Expansion At Lone Rock Co-Op -larger-group bf the Lone Rock Co-Op Elevator attended a special meeting Friday evening, April 3 at the Lone Rock Legion Hall. According manager, L. W.

Geitzenauer, a good discussion was held on the advisability of erecting a modern feed mill, grain bank plan and bulk delivery, following which an opinion taken. More than 80 of tho stockholders indicated they were in favor of an expansion program. It was voted that the type of project and. the- time of establishing it be left" to the discretion of the board of directors. The board will announce further details in' the near future.

Delmar Fischer is president of the Lone Rock Exchange Ralph Bierstedt is secretary and L. W. Geitzenauer, manager. Reding's Paint Open House Reding's Davis Paint Associate Store will hold their grand opening and "New Owner's Sale" this Friday and Saturday, as announced 1 elsewhere in this paper. As a gesture the' store is 'offering a new 16 ft.

food freezer as a door prize. Everyone is eligible to register for the drawing. Mr and Mrs Bob Reding bought the "Davis Paint store from Mr and Mrs Clyde Amon about three weeks ago. Prior to that time the Redings had operated a farm west of Algona. ft Winners Of Prizes Listed Algona's Home Show, held in the National Guard Armory Friday, Saturday and Sunday, was termed a success by Bill Steele, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce.

Attendance based on paid admission indicated more persons -were present this year than last, Largest crowds were in the armory Friday night and Sunday afternoon. A total of 35 persons won prizes offered by firms at the show. Firms offering prizes, and winners, were: Tom's Mrs Wesley; Algona Greenhouses Mrs John Voss, Jr. LuVerne, Mrs Harold Sundet anc Mrs A. Sterling, Algona; Chas Miller Mrs C.

L. Derner of the couple, in May of 1958, and that the defendant then began to ivc with and'is presently living Jams Fenfon Areas Friday Tinder-dry grass and brush, and jnly a trace of rain, have result-, ed in a rash of fire calls In all sections of Kossuth county, and wo costly farm fires in this area in the past few days. Fire officials in Algona, and firemen in all other tec- lioiw of the have issued general warnings of caution- as a result of the dangerous condition which will probably exist until the fire good rains arrive. In the meantime, high" winds have added to the general fire danger. The worst of the fires occurred last Friday, when barns on th Gerald Huber farm, throe miles east of Burt, and the Merritt Glf- fin farm, four miles west and one north of Fentori, were destroyed by fire.

Fire'Near Fenton T-he fire at the Giffin farm waa discovered in the early afternoon, while a gale-like wind was blow- ng from the west. The Jire wal telieved to have started in a mall hog house adjacent to the nain barn. The hog house had 19 little pigs; the barn contained about 80 tons of top straw and a large quantity hay and silage. The brick'barn, 75x45 feet dze, was lost. How the fire started is not known.

Mr Gif- with another man in New London, Conn. The man is named in the petition. Because, he, is in military service, with only a short furlough he asked.the court to act as quickly as ppssible in the divorce mat presently -to Fitzsimmon Gener'aX i a 1 Denver, Colo, Hjfc He i willing the children, and asks, thei custody. Jury Trial Begins A jury trial got underway Wed nesday afternoon after selection of a jury, in a case arising from an accident, Jan. 3, 1958, in which a car driven 'by H.

W. Gil man of Sioux City, plaintiff, and a tractor driven by Sam Egge and owned by Clyde Priebe, join defendants, collided. Gil-man is asking $444,49 damages. Egge has filed a counterclaim askinj $5779.13. Judge G.

W. Stillmai is presiding. The jury selected is as follows Caroline Weydert, Bode; Ann Bormann, Whittemore; Geo. Rip pentrop, Titonka; Eunice Ricke, Bancroft; John Ecklund, Swea City; Emma' Hutchinson, Lona Rock; Elizabeth Powers, Elmore; Gordon Hilbert, Corwith; Rita Dcrner, Whiltemore; Fern-Smith, and, fin, who lives on the place but is also in the real estate business in Ringsted, said he visited the hog house to look at a sick pig about noon, but no "fire was evident at that time. Firemen from Ringsted Fenton helped -keep, the from spreading -at- Giffin place.

Had -the 'wind 'been -from -any direction "but the the other farm buildings would have been in extreme danger. Huber Barn Lost At the Huber the barn, and its content burned to tha ground with a loss of 60 head of. hogs, 17 head of cattle, and much! straw. The fire wa2r discovered about 4:45 p.m. Friday.

Origin is not known. Firemen from Burt, Bancroft and Titonka all answered the fire call, and again the high wind was problem to keep flames from spreading. The changed from northwest to straight north, which proved a help. Also lost were a fanning mill and a new milking machine. The fire seemed 'to start in the upper part of the barn.

Gary Huber noted the smoke first, and ran to the house to tell his moth- Mr Huber was at the Axel Spring Musical Members of Mrs Ruth McVay's kindergarten classes at Bryant presented a spring musical in the school auditorium before a packed house Tuesday evening, April 7, Special Vocals, -dances and a story set to music were featured. of hi.s residence and serve as rog. Bested, before, president a CMnnpU down wives to them. born in and came to (the United with parents when seven, They- Sotted ai-fg, he include his a John at a fcrofher AJbew 'swter, 'Mrs Boalson Of Swea Qjty. Buffalo Posse Is Scared Stiff By Wild Critter A posse of brave buffalo hunter? made a break for last week, at th? Qerald Frankl farm at Jrvingtoni when one of the critters seamed about to fevejt to 7f the goo4 old 4ays" and run bought two buffalo from the Nora.

Springs buffalo ranch sometime back, He deemed the ripe, last week, to slaughter the buffalo. Word of the and Carpenters Hurt In Scaffold Fall Whittemore local carpenters, Edwin Gade, 52, and Otto Bell, 67, were injured in a fall from an eight-foot scaffold at the Elmer Elbert farm north of Rodni(an, Monday Mr Gade suffered a crushed bone in his left shoulder, was rushed to Lutheran hospital at Fort Dodge for treatment ahd is still hospitalized there. Mr Bell suffered a slight back' injury and bruises and was not taken to a hospital. Jyfr Gade and Mr Bell were building a chimney at 'the Elbert farm at the tirne of the mishap. The spaffold gave way and the men were thrown to the ground.

Whittemore, and Mrs C. C. Hem- i men, Algona; Algona Mrs Herb Lindquist and Mrs Mark Wilberg, Fenton, Muckey Plumbing Mrs L. Bohannon, Algona, and rsWill- iam Gade, Whittemore; Bjustrom's Mrs L. F.

Tellicr, Burt; Read's Anna Courtney, Algona; Donovan's Mrs John Voss, Algona, George Sanders, West Bend, and Mrs L. D. Klein, Hu'm- boldt; North Central Pub. Mrs Ken Hackbarth, Algona; Kellcy Lumber Eugene Brain- ley, Algona; and Wilbur Doege, Burt; Foster Furniture Frank W. Elbert and Melvin Heinrich, Whittemore, and Mrs Marlin MeelhausQ, Algona.

Carson's Mrs An tone Johnson, Mrs Ed Holecek, Mrs L. Benschoter and'Mrs Orville Gardner, Algona, and Mrs Leo Schmidt, Lone Rock; Culligan Mrs Leo Richter, Titonka; Wilt- Bancroft; G. Sonnenberg, Ti tonka; and Dolores Schnaken- jerg, LuVerne. Three O.M.V.I. Fines Three new pleas of guilty to charges of operating motor vehicles while intoxicated resulted a total of $900 in fines, plus costs.

The fines were: Martin Bloes, Burt, April 6, and costs. Roy A. Hansen, Sexton, April 7, $300 and costs. Roger J. Thul, Bode, April 6, to anojfoer-pew, It Jfajjed fMl.gff gf the pMfTht fcy Swnty nrwftL tit onlooker, PUsfj sf buffalo steaks can un4er gen's Herbert Schmidt, Whit- 'temore; Hall-Strahorn L.

E. Hutzell and Ed Holecek, Algona; Taylor's Jens Sorensen, Algona; Cullen Hdwe, Henrietta Boekelman, Algona; and Ready- Mix J. C. Mawdsley, Algona Mrs H. Simpson, Webster and Mrs Albert Metzger, Rock.

City. Lone Both area. are welt known in thia and costs. Another plea of guilty was entered, that by Irven Eischen, Benedict, but. sentence was delayed until June.

Mike Kennedy, Armstrong, also charged with OMVI, has entered a not guilty plea, and his trial is slated to start-April 20. In other court action, Herman Geilenfeld of Fenton was given a suspended one-year sentence on a bad check charge. NEW SUPT, James F. Bottenfield of. Shel- been hired to be of Ledyard conv- school, for the it was announced laees has been at -the Trucks Collide, Lakot an Unhurt Two men escaped injury when their trucks collided two miles west of Buffalo Center on a county road at 9:30 a.m.

Wednesday, April 1, Drivers of the vehicles were Leon J. McClure, 31, Wichita Falls, and Robert H. mens, 45, Lakota. Both truck? were headed east at the time of the crash. Siemens began a left turn iust as the 'McClure machine began to pass and the ensuing collision sent the Texas truck, into a ditch.

Tqtal damage wss estimated at The Chief Shows Shooters How Algona's police' chief, Al kelman, won the individual events and the police department team copped the team title during a .38 caliber pistol shoot in the National Guard Armory here Tuesday night. Boekelman chalked up a total of 444 points to edge Rich Groen, local policeman, who wound up with a 432 total. The team had a 1664 total score. Other top shooters among the 29 men entered in the meet were Louis Nuehring, Algona, 419, Arliss Booth, Fort Dodge patrolman, 415, and Duane Homan, Humboldt patrolman, 414, Prizes went to Booth, Homan, Darold Stinman, er. Carlson farm helping to shell corn and was on his homo when he saw the fire, raging at its peak.

Swea City Fire Calls At Swea City, four fire calls in four days. They were gathered for a coffee break MKnday afternoon after, the first three fires, when the whistle sounded again for tha fourth call. At the William' Bucholz farm a refuse fire had blazed out.of control. Flames, reached-land on the Shocke brothers farm-. A bridge was destroyed that' spans One Mile creek.

Welp' Hatchery owns the Bucholz farm. In all other Kossuth towns'at least one fire call was answered over the weekend Grass Fires In Algona A series of grass fires, aided by high winds, kept Algona's firemen hopping during the end. The first call, at a Saturday, sent the 1600 block on East North street, about two blocks north of -thji new Bertha Godfrey school. blaze was conquered witpitt- minutes. At 1:45 p.m.

the same large area on the Ronald ner farm, seven miles northeast' of Algona near the sand pit, was blackened as 5 fire grass and A grass fire A school at $600 Ralph Lmdhorst since I who investigated the' arid- Em's Cafe, in portion, subdued about and a fourth' Watoei gona South tar Dodge patrolman, Duane Wilson Iowa Falls- conservatpn officer Frank TeUier, and locaj Marion iph sheriff. police force eligible for prises BAjrt..