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a check nark an- in ins circle, Ipnon to the Herald ii due. a prompt attention will be naciated. The Publishers. Postville Four County Area 12 Pages 2 Sections' r.Fourth Year. POSTVILLE, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1975 Number 12 ict Officers To Start stville Historical Society iporary officers were elect- he meeting Thursday.

Mar. prepare a charter for the lie Historical Society. iut 25 persons attended the ig at the REC building in He and all expressed an it in organizing a local cal society. as temporary officers to zc the Historical Society Kozelka. president; Stan vice president, and M.

F. Kiesau, secretary- cr to the board of direc- Mrs. John Martins, Hucbner, John O'Hara, Romclton, Lyle Otte and Kerr. officers and directors will nd prepare the bylaws, etc. inize the society.

These will presented at a meeting to Tuesday, April 15 at 8 iveryone in the four-county is invited to attend this discussed during the were ways, means and to start a museum in le. It was decided to ie the historical society first in let the group proceed to ward a museum. A Dr. John Herrfck Producers que! Mar. 25 Co.

Pork Pro- i Banquet is scheduled Mar. 25, at 7:30 p.m. at fukon Jr. High cafeteria, Stein, association pres- john Herrick, l.S.U. exten- blcrinarian, will be the speaker.

Dr. Herrick is iwn and recognized for his health work in the state, columns in many maga- id does considerable pub- king. Expect New lotions From issor Soon akee County Assesor A. tneier, has announced the of the new assessment 1975 and he expects them tiled to individual proper's about Mar. 21.

irrcnt figures will be used 'Uting taxes for the next rs beginning in July 1976, hanges are ordered by the ipartment of for towns in the "as made by Vanguard ds, Cedar Rapids, res presented also repre- 1 per cent of the market the property, which was a Jnacted by the 1974 Iowa re. pew values reflect the fry market values, the noted. The property pain concern should be to Whether the figure listed roll is a fair lonable market value for Erty. property owner thinks the is not correct, they to Hansmeier's office period of April 14 to 18 with representatives of uard company, property owner is not a protest can be filed Board of Review from May 5. If not satisfied ard ruling, the taxpayer he case to district court.

Area Students On Dean's List Rochester Community College, Rochester, Minnesota has announced that Jacquelyn Mihm and Joy White have earned recognition for academic excellence by being placed on the Dean's list for the fall quarter of 1974. Set Make-Up Days At School Due To Snowstorms The Postville Board of Education set make-up days due to snow vacation on the following dates: March 27, 31, April 1, and to extend the school year one day through May 30. Parent conferences, originally scheduled for March 27, will be eliminated this spring in favor of having a full day of school on that date. Student progress reports will be mailed to all parents, but those parents desiring a personal conference with their children's tcachcr(s) will be accomodated. The Board emphasizes that the elimination of parent conferences this spring is due only to the need to make up lost days and that future conferences will be held as usual.

Parents wishing a conference call the school. Two families who will be moving from the District were granted permission to have their children continue to attend the local school through the remainder of the school year, provided the school district into which the families arc moving will agree to the decision. In other business the Board accepted recommendations to require two years of mathematics for all senior high school students before being graduated and to replace world geography, an elective course in the high school, with a contemporary' affairs course which will be offered primarily to senior students. Both the requirements in mathematics (to be effective with this year's 9th grade class) and the contemporary affairs course will be placed into the curriculum at the beginning of the 1975-76 school year. Mrs.

Roger Tieskoettcr, secretary of the Postville Title I Parent Advisory Council, spoke to the Board about the Council's desire to continue the present special reading class that is being conducted at the eighth grade level. Should Federal Funds not be available to pay a portion of the reading instructor's salary during the coming year, it is the Council's wishes that the Board provide the salary for this purpose. No action was taken on this matter at this time. The Board granted the superintendent permission to attend a negotiation conference to be held in Iowa City during the latter part of March. The conference will be concerned with impasse procedures as they related to the negotiation process.

In its final business the Board voted unanimously to go into executive session to discuss specific personnel with several concerned parents who attended the meeting. Following the closed session the Board directed the superintendent to investigate the concerns as expressed during the closed session and to report his findings at a subsequent meeting. Also during the closed session the Board received staff evaluation reports from the elementary and the secondary school principals. The next regular Board of Education meeting will be held Monday. April 14, at 8 p.m.

in the Board room in the Mott Building. Sale Dates Sales Advertised Saturday, Mar. 22, Farm Sale of Aines Olson, Clermont. Clerk: Farmers Savings Bank, Clermont. Auctioneer, Orvin Thompson.

Sunday, Mar. 23, Consignment Auction by Willman Real Estate Auctions, Postville. Lorenz Willman, Auctioneer. Claimed Saturday, March 29 James Evcrman, Clermont, at Phillips "66" Station. Lorenz Willman, auctioneer; clerk, Farmers Savings Bank.

American Legion Plans Downtown Easter Egg Hunt Prepare Now For June Flea Market Individuals, clubs and organizations desiring to sell items St the Flea Market to be held in Postville, Friday, June 20 should start now to make preparations. Hand made and other appropriate items are acceptable. The event is sponsored by the Postville Commercial Club. C. Keith Kerr, pictured here with his.

wife Verta, holds the suitcase containing all the papers and other paraphernalia he will need while serving for one year as state president of the Iowa Flying Farmers. Kerr inherited the suitcase when elected to the office at the 29th annual convention held in Fort Dodge, March 7, 8 and 9. Mrs. Kerr is not only Keith's co-pilot in life but has her own pilot's license. Flying Farmer President Has Suitcase Will Fly Organization Involves All In The Family With the election of C.

Keith Kerr of rural Postville to the office of president of the Flying Farmers of Iowa, this reporter was interested in learning a little more about the organization. A visit to the Kerr home revealed that there are approximately 25 enthusiastic Flying Farmer families in the immediate area who belong to the organization. They are part of 487 adults and 68 teens and juniors making up the 555 members in Iowa. Over 400 attended the 29th annual convention held in Fort Dodge, March 7, 8 and 9 where Mr. Kerr was elected to office.

Mr. Kerr, and his wife Verta, are both pilots and their daughter Cindy, 16, though not yet a pilot, was elected secretary-treasurer of the Flying Farmers of Iowa Teens at the convention. Thus flying is a family affair for the Kerr family in their Comanche 250. The family also includes Kenneth, 8, a flying enthusiast, Athletic Banquet Tickets On Sale Tickets for the Postville high school Athletic Banquet which will be held Friday, April 18 at St. Paul Lutheran Church, are now on sale.

They may be purchased at Citizens State Bank, Falb Motor Postville State Bank or from Jim Foster at the high school. Ron Gonder, WMT Stations Sports Director, will be the speaker. Special Assessment On Paving Due Allamakee County Treasurer Elsa Hager has reminded taxpayers that all special assessments are due and payable April I. In Postville this includes payment for paving installed in 1968. and Scott 14, who joins the fun with a little help from motion sickness pills.

The cruising speed of the Kerr plane is between 150 to 160 miles per hour and last year they logged between 150 and 200 hours of flying time. The trips are not just pleasure trips, however, as Mr. Kerr frequently uses the plane to attend dairy meetings and for other business. Flying Farmers find many other uses for their planes dust crops, to haul supplies into areas not accesible by road, to feed livestock marooned by blizzards and to check fences, to name a few. The objectives of the Flying Farmers organization, which is now International in scope, include sponsoring education and research in agricultural aviation; promote safe flying through education of pilots in the use'of radio and other navigation aids; to insist that aviation gas taxes, where collected, be used for the development of aviation legislation and to encourage the conservation of soil and water resources through education.

The Iowa Flying Farmers meet once a month at different points around the state. A camp-out at Monona last July was attended by 98, and 73 planes with a total of 403 persons attended a meeting at Leon last summer. About half of the meetings are potluck dinners. The winter meetings arc mostly held in restaurants with often a speaker. The organization believes in community betterment and last September members gave rides asking donations of two cents a pound, for which they collected $3,180.58.

The proceeds were donated to the Quakcrdalc Home at New Providence, Iowa. The longest trip the Kcrrs have taken was to San Antonio, Texas last summer. It took seven hours from Monona to San Antonio, much less time than those who made the flight commercially, due to transfers. The Kerrs consider flying as safe as travel by auto and all enjoy the common bond that ties the Flying Farmers together, not just the benefit derived from owning and operating an airplane, but the wholesome entertainment and opportunity to get acquainted with others of like interests. Will C.t Power Short Time Is NE Postville Interstate Power Company has advised that some residents and business places in northeast Postville will be without power for a short time Friday, Mar.

21. The outage has been set to start about 9:30 a.m. The area affected will be from Williams street north and Lawler street east, except for the business places facing Lawler. The outage is expected to last from a half hour to 45 minutes. Interstate regrets the inconvenience to its customers but the conversion will facilitate increasing primary voltage to give better service to residential and industrial customers in the area.

HOSPITAL NEWS Visiting Hours. and p. m. Medical Mrs. Lena Everman, Postville, March 10.

Cornelius Olson; Clermont, March 10. Chester Green, Postville, March 13. Mrs. Chester Green, Postville, March 14. Lawrence Welzel, Postville, March 16.

Surgical Minnie Luepker, Monona, March 16. Discharged Gladys Dowd, Ossian, March 10. Mark Zieman, Postville, March 12. Mrs. Fremont Ogle and boy, Monona, March 12.

Harold Opsand, Elgin, March 15. Mrs. Harold Hanson, Elgin, March 16. Chester Green, Postville, March 16. Damn Sander Sander Wins Columbus Trip Darron Sander, 11, son of the Daryl Sanders of Postville, was one of the Cedar Rapids Gazette newspaper carriers winning a 12 day tour of Austria and Switzerland in the Young Columbus XIX Contest.

Eleven finalists, with five being selected in the Cedar Rapids area and six outside the area. Kary of Cedar Rapids was the other winner. Together with other winning carriers, the boys will fly by chartered jet to New York City, from there to Zurich, Switzerland, will visit the cities of Lucerne, Regensdorf, Schaffhauser and Stein am Rhein. From Zurich they will go by train to Innsbruck, Austria and also visit Salzburg and Vienna. The boys will leave Cedar Rapids March 27 and return April 8.

The Young Columbus XIX contest was sponsored by newspapers throughout the country, Parade magazine and Trans World airlines. Winners are judged on obtaining new customers, route excellence, school superiority and citizenship traits. Road Embargo Now In Effect An order limiting the maximum gross weight of vehicles and loads to five tons per single axle and seven tons per tandem axle on all posted county roads goes into effect immediately. The embargo will be lifted when the county engineer deems it advisable. Coffee Day Here Friday Local members of the Iowa Restaurant Association in Postville will be participating in Coffee' Day here this Friday, March 21.

Coffee will be served free by the restaurants who invite their customers to make a donation in a special Coffee Day container for the benefit of Iowa's 84,000 mentally retarded. This is an annual fund raising campaign sponsored by the IRA and local restaurants participating are. Koffee Shop, The Grill, Cal Cora's Cafe and the Red Youngster Receive Operators Test Members of the Northeast Iowa Trailblazers Snowmobile Club completed the final phase of the snowmobile operators course here Saturday for youngsters IB and under. Shown here are Jerry Olson and Robert Reierson checking out two of the youngsters on the driving portion of the test. The 47 youngsters enrolled in the class, who also had six hours of classroom work, had to take a written exam so they could operate snowmobile on public land.

Also assisting in giving the tests were Darwin Niemann, Leon Blumhagen, Richard Helgerson and Gene Walters. Set Event For Sat. March 22 The Postville American Legion will sponsor a downtown Easter Egg Hunt Saturday, March 22 according to the post officials. Youngsters through sixth grade in the community are asked to report to Memorial Hall between 1:30 and 2:00 p.m., Saturday where they will be given a treat and a number. The youngsters will then take the number to the participating stores in Postville and match the number with the one posted by the firm.

When the matching number is found the youngster will be presented with a prize at the store. The prizes will range from 25c to $1.00 in value with over $110.00 in cash prizes altogether. Co-chairmen, Ralph Hanson and Roy Knight noted there will be local officials on the streets during the time to help direct traffic and escort youngsters safely across the streets. Merchants participating in the hunt are as follows: Brandt Mobilgas, The Grill, Schroeder's Standard Service, Home Oil Company, Falb Motor Company, Foodliner, Gordon's Sinclair Service, Cal Cora's 66, Nyberg's Farm Store, Coast to Coast Store, Schroeder's Insurance, Koffee Shop, Anderson Clothing, Frese Garage, Elliot's Campers, Smith Insurance, Livingood's Barber Shop, Farmers Store, Schutte's Furniture, Tyler's Barber Shop, Tindell Shoe Store, Downing's Shell Service, Gordanier Cleaners, Western Auto Store, Buren Radio TV, Postville Bakery, Paramount Pharmacy, Don's Jewelry, Linda's Clip Curl, Ruby's Fashion Shop, Hanson's Variety, Dereen Style Shop, Marianna L-P Gas, Lorraine's Tots Teens, Dorothy's Hobby Shop, Palmquist's Department Store, Postville Herald, Suhdron Furs, Shear Heaven Beauty Shop, Schutta's Shoe Store. Fire Department Vehicles To Now Have Blue Lights In accordance with legislation enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa last year, the Postville fire trucks are now equipped with a flashing blue light, according to fire chief Chuck Fishback.

Applications have also been made by individual firemen for display of a blue light on their privately owned vehicles used for transportation to fires. The new law is restricted to fire service vehicles and is to be used only by active members of an organized fire department while actually enroute to the scene of a fire or other fire emergency requiring his services as a fire fighter. Any abuse of the use of the blue light shall result in revoking of the privilege. Mr. Fishback noted that most of the fire departments in the county are going along with the new law permitting the use of the Blue Light although it is not mandatory.

Easter Message For Kiwanians Donald Patterson, student at Luther College and assistant at the Tri-Church area, will deliver an Easter message to members of the Kiwanis club at their meeting next Monday evening at the Koffee Shop. At The Theatre Wednesday. Thursday. Friday and Saturday, March 19. 20, 21 and Klansman" with Richard Burton and Lec Marvin.

Rated R. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. March 23, 24 and C. Scott stars in "Bank Shot." Rated PG..