The Bayard News from Bayard, Iowa • Page 1

Io.va a i i Ml Bob Porter Has Hobby Of Making Postal Banks Division Dea Koines, la 50309 Bob Porter, custodian at the Bag ley Center of the YJB Community School system, makes banks out of old post office boxes. This unique hobby brings Porter an added income since he sells them. Some of the doors came from the old Bagley post office and he bought some at Lawler where a lady said that No 95 had been used by her family for 80 years. Porter's grandmother, Cora Hidlebaugh, was Bagley postmaster about 1915. Bertha Herron, 82, Services in Coon Final rites for Mrs Bertha Herron were held Saturday from the United Methodist Church in Coon Rapids.

She died October 8 at the Thomas Rest Haven in Coon Rapids where she had been a resident for a short time. A longtime resident of Orange Township, Mrs Herron was well known throughout the Coon Rapids and Bayard communities. The service was conducted by Rev Eugene Correll and music was provided by Mr and Mrs Sam Cretsinger as singers and Mrs Pat Schwartz as organist. Interment was made in the Orange Township cemetery with the casket being carried by Howard, Harley, Walter, Wayne and Wesley Herron and Richard Jacobsen. BERTHA JOHNSON HERRON Bertha, daughter of Bradbury and Mary Ellen Cretsinger Johnson, was born June 22, 1893, in Carroll county.

As a girl she moved with her parents to a farm in Orange Township, Guthrie County, where she attended the rural schools near her home. She was united in marriage with Milton Herron on July 3, 1912, at Omaha, Nebr. They farmed in Orange Township until the death of her husband on April 10, 1958. Bertha continued to make her home on the farm until 1963 when she moved to Coon Rapids. About a month ago, due to a i i health, she became a resident of the Thomas Rest Haven in Coon Rapids- where she passed away on Wednesday evening, October 8, 1975, at the age of 82 years, three months and 16 days.

Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents, and i a son, one stepson, Kenneth Herron, four grandchildren, a great grandchild and two sisters. She is survived by the following children: Ivan, Wycoff, Minn; Forrest, Stewartville, Minn; Beryl, Coon Rapids; Rex, Palmdale, Calif; Zenas, San Diego, Calif; Joe, Spring Valley, Calif; Nellie (Mrs PauDHansenSanDiegoCalif, and Mrs Jean Peat, San Diego, Calif. Two step daughters, Mrs Opal Kopaska, Casey, and Mrs Faye Shank, Guthrie Center, also survive. There are 31 grandchildren, 36 great grandchildren, two sisters, Alice (Mrs Chris) Sorensen, Omaha, Nebr, and Mrs Elizabeth Greenan, Huron, and a brother, Henry Johnson, Coon Rapids, as well as by many nieces and nephews and many other relatives and friends. Mini-Trains To Haul Grain The Milwaukee Railroad announced this week that it plans to renew the mini-unit grain train operations in this part of Iowa.

Presently the 20-car trains of 100-ton hopper cars are running from Perry to the Mississippi. Bob Smith, manager of the Bayard Farmers Co-Op, says that the railroad has assured him that the mini trains will be extended to the territory west of Perry if there is a demand for the service. "We've had one heck of a good harvest," Smith said; He estimates that the soybeans are pretty well harvested and he says that the storage space for beans at Bayard is full. The wonderful fall weather continues to bless lowans and the corn and beans seem to be of the very best quality. Yields are almost unbelievable with beans ranging from 30 to more than 50 bushels to the acre.

The reports on corn yield is not definite yet but Smith says that the corn that has been harvested is dryer than usual. In fact, they have tested corn with moisture content as low as 17 per cent. He says mostly the test show moisture at 22 to 24 per cent. For those who live in other areas, the temperature went to almost 90 degrees Monday. And the sky has been clear for weeks.

Festival Group Back in Iowa "Festival," a ten-piece show band which recently returned from a summer tour of Canada presented a concert at the Irwin-Kirkman school Tuesday night. Among the members of the band are Les Wetzel and Paul Caraher, Bayard; Don Struve, Audubon; Becky Reinig, Irwin, and her husband, Mark Reinig of Urbandale. Maurice and Keith Wetzel of Bayard are technicians with the band. After the concert in Irwin the band went to Brookings, where they will play the rest of the week. Next week they will be in Kansas City, Mo.

Mrs Dale Brahm and Becky of Moline, 111; Mrs Stiles and Mrs Wayde Freesh were Saturday evening guests of Mr and Mrs Frank Botis. Sale Dates OCTOBER 18 1 Mason Bucklin Estate will sell two parcels of land at auction at the farm 4M miles sourtheast of Bayard. Darwin smith, auct. John Lloyd Competes In Omaha Classic John Lloyd, Bayard's weightlifter, competed in the Western Plains lifting meet in Omaha Saturday and placed in two events. Lloyd accompanied three members of the Des Moines Athletic team the Omaha event.

The team earned one first and two seconds. John won second place in his weight class by lifting a total of 1190 pounds. Th rd News VOLUME NINETY-TWO Extension Voting Plans are Told Lyle Laughery, chairman of the Guthrie County Agricultural Extension Council, said today that personnel have been named to election committees in eight Guthrie County Townships. Iowa law requires the extension council to hold elections in half of the townships each year, Laughery explained. Eight townships are scheduled to hold elections this fall for the purpose of electing a representative from each to the County Extension Council.

These townships are Bear Grove, Cass, Grant, Jackson, Penn, Seeley, Thompson and Valley. Laughery further explained that an election committee consisting of a chairman and secretary in each township is named for the purpose of conducting the election meeting and recording of minutes. The other committee, consisting of three people, serves as a nominating group whose function is to select two or more residents of the townships involved to be candidates for the election. Nominations can be made from the floor during the election meeting also. The County Extension Council is a legal of state, according to Laughery, and is the governing body of the County Extension program.

Those townships involved will hold their election either November 10 or 11. The time and place of each election will be announced later. Township committees are: Grant Township Election chairman Dean Heckman; Secretary Mrs Dean Heckrnan; Nominating committee Chairman, Lyle Lehman; Clair Richter and Greg Wedemeyer. Bear Grove Township Election chairman Lyle Hansen; Secretary Rosella Hansen; Nominating committee chairman, Ray Tunning; Lois Tunning and Keith Merrill. Cass Township Election chairman -John Feichtinger; Secretary Vern Slaybaugh; Nominating committee chairman, Rex Mc- Clalchey; Nyle Hodges and Marjorie Slaybaugh.

Jackson Township Election chairman Keith Wirt; Secretary Donna Johnson; Nominating committee chairman, Frank Johnson; Pat Laidley and Bob Laidley. Penn Township Election chairman Clyde Brooks; Secretary Wanda Hurst; Nominating committee chairman, David Herkelman; Don Hurst and Janet Herkelman. Seeley Township Election chairman Lyle Laughery; Secretary-Carol Laughery; Nominating committee chairman, Marvin Petersen; Jim Stringham, jr, and Russ Densmore. Thompson Township -Election chairman Powell; Secretary Linda Powell; Nominating committee chairman, Burdette Ruppert; Jim Williams and Dennis Kesler. Valley Township Election chairman Lynn Del Wedemeyer; Secretary Sharon Kay Wedemeyer; Nominating committee chairman, Darwin Hughes; Sheryl Hughes and Roger Underwood.

KEN ROBINSON NAMED TO STATE ILA BOARD Ken Robinson, chairman of the Southwest Iowa Regional Libraries System (SWIRLS) Friday was installed as a member of the board of directors of the Iowa Library Association. Mr and Mrs Robinson attended the two-day convention in the Hilton Inn in Sioux City Thursday and Friday. Mrs Robinson is chairman of the Bayard Public Library board of trustees. Robinson had been serving on the ILA board by appointment to fill an unexpired term. Judy Ellis, director of th Davenport libraries, was installed as president of ILA.

The 1978 convention will be In Waterloo and the 1977 meeting will be in Davenport. An Aggressive Newspaper in a Progressive Community BAYARD, GUTHRIE COUNTY, IOWA THURSDAY, OCT. 16, 1975 NUMBER FORTY-TWO Record Price For Sheehy Farm A record $1975 an acre bought the James Sheehy 160-acre farm in Richland township last Thursday! The auction held in Perry brought out several area bidders but the eventual buyer was from Des Moines. The $316,000 bid was placed on the farm by Guy Roberts, jr, who represented the Guy Roberts Enterprises of Des Moines. The Roberts organization owns the farm occupied by the Richard Bayers family a mile west of the Sheehy farm on Highway 141.

Bayers will farm both places. Without a doubt, this is the highest amount ever paid for Guthrie county farm land. The JoeWWalsh farms were sold at auction Saturday but the price was not quite so high. The home place located in Orange township containing 220 acres sold for $1,007.50 an acre. Mr and Mrs Howard Walsh of Des Moines paid $221,650 to maintain the Walsh farm in the family.

Howard is a son of the late Mr and Mrs Joe Walsh. An 80-acre tract just north of the home place in Carroll county sold for $895 an acre. A neighbor, Dennis Wurr, placed the successful bid of $71,600 on this bare eighty. May Day Set To Honor Dave May Day, 26. Open house honoring Dave May in recognition for his years of service to the Extension Service wiil be held Sunday, October 26, from 2 to 4 at the Guthrie Center high school.

A program is planned for 3 m. Dep Bayard Firemen Called 4 Times The Bayard Volunteer fire department has had a pretty good workout during the past week. The whistle has blown four times but luckily three of the fires did little damage. The second call Tuesday took the firemen to the Don Bielenberg farm in Willow township where a tractor and picker were ablaze. According to Fire Chief Floyd Belts, the machine which was being operated by Doyle Bielenberg was damaged quite severely.

Tuesday morning a fire was reported in a picker owned and driven by Art McDermott. This fire was on Moylan land just north of the Bayard city limits. McDermott reported that there was no damage. Sunday afternoon a blaze started along the railroad tracks east of Bayard but there was no damage. Last Wednesday the firemen were called to the Lawrence Wolf farm where a machine owned by Lonnie Kinnick was on fire.

There was little damage. Goodwill Seeks Bayard Change Goodwill Industries of Sioux City has announced that it wishes to change its method of collecting used clothing, shoes and other usable discards as soon as other arrangements can be made. Goodwill is trying to find someone with an empty garage or some other suitable storage place who will be willing to loan space for usable discards for two or three days before the announced pick-up date which will be at approximately three months intervals instead of several times a month as at present. If there is anyone who has such a facility and is willing to loan it to Goodwill for a 'few days every three months, would you please call 651-2307. Goodwill Industries stated that their reason for the new policy is the increasing cost of maintaining the trucks needed to provide the former services.

WILLIAM SE1DLER ATTENDS SCIENTIFIC ASSEMBLY William A Seidler, jr, of Jamaica attended the 27th annual scientific assembly of the American Academy of Family Physicians in Chicago. The medical meeting began October 6 and ran through October 9. More than 3,500 family doctors participated in this one-a- year continuing education conclave. The local physician, who i a member of the Academy, heard 18 nationally-known speakers discuss up-to-the-minute health care topics. He also attended clinical seminars on 38 different topics and visited some 100 scientific and 250 technical exhibits.

Glenn Kirkendall, 92, Rites Held in Panora Funeral services for Glenn Kirkendall', 92, were held from the Beidelman Funeral Home in Panora last Thursday at 2 m. A native of Guthrie county, Mr Kirkendall spent most of his life in the Panora area where he farmed. For the last several months he had been a resident of the Bayard Care Center. However, he was in the Guthrie County hospital at the lime of his death October 7. Suvivors are daughters Violette Whistler, Hiawatha, Kansas; Lucille, Mrs Milton Booth, Redfield; Wilma, Mrs Cliff Raner, Grand Junction, and Frances, Mrs Roger Mullican, Eugene, Oregon, and a son, Donald of Laurel.

Mr and Mrs Dave Poole and John were Saturday supper guests of Mr and Mrs Don Poole, Kathy and Kristy in Des Moines. They the Jim Greenfield Owana McLester wedding in the evening. Charges are Filed After Two Accidents Mark Grimsley of Harlan was charged with having an invalid license after the truck he was driving struck a tractor and wagon driven by Andrew Jackson of rural Guthrie Center. The crash occurred Saturday at 10:30 a five miles south of Guthrte Center on Route 25. Damage to the 1974 Ford truck was estimated at $600 while the Jackson wagon which was loaded with beans received damages set at $250.

There were personal injuries in a mishap in Guthrie Center Sunday at 1:30 a m. A car driven by Lowell Burgett of Guthrie Center apparently left the roadway and hit an electric utility pole at the corner of Tenth and State Streets. Burgett was taken to the Guthrie County hospital with pains in the head. A passenger, Mickey Hall, of Guthrie Center also was taken to the hospital. Burgett's 1969 Dodge was damaged to the extent of $2,000 and value of the pole was set at $100.

Burgett was charged with failure to have control. 5 of 6 PPK Winners from Bayard Five, of six first place winners The Punt, Pass and Kick contest held by Head lee Ford in Coon Rapids October 4 came from Bayard. Pictured here are the Bayard winners. From the left, are: front row: Kevin Kopaska, first eiflht-year-oWs; Kelly Kopatka, first nine-year-olds; Todd Lumsden, first ten-year-olds, and Jimmy McAllster, first 11-year-oMs. Back row Grain Hilflenberg, first 13-year-oWs; Jason Robertson, second and Kurt Shackelford third U-year-olds.

The Bayard group moved to district at Chariton last Saturday but no winners were produced. Whether or not any wrong doing is uncovered in the Guthrie county sheriff's office, two employees have lost their jobs. When Sheriff Lester Petersen discovered that Deputy LeRoy Dunn had "blown the he retaliated by firing Dunn. Dunn was verbally told Friday that he was through and later he was given a written message to the same effect. At first Petersen told Dunn his services would not be needed after October 24 but on Monday Dunn was told to park his county car and stay away from the office.

Mrs Barbara Garloch who has served as night radio dispatcher for several years felt the wrath of the sheriff also and she was told to go. The Dunn and Garloch firings apparently were not related since Mrs Garloch knew nothing of the state investigation. It was revealed last weekend that Dunn called on the state attorney general to report what he considered bad practices in the sheriff's office, as a result of Dunn's charges, the attorney general requested the state auditor to make an investigation. As reported in these newspapers last week, there were special auditors at the court house Monday morning, October 6. Whether or not they have completed their audit is not known at this time.

However, State Auditor Lloyd Smith said last week that as soon as the report is ready it will be released to the public. Dunn has been employed as a deputy since December of 1974. Prior to that he had served as policeman in Madrid. Since Dunn is covered by civil service, the question of whether or not he can be fired has arisen. Dunn says his letter of "firing" did not state a reason so he is taking his case to the civil service commission for clarification.

If he doesn't like the decision he gets there, he can appeal to the courts. In his report to the state, Dunn stated that it was his opinion that there were shabby practices going on in the sheriff's office. Specifically, he felt that warrants were written and mileage charged when they should not have been and he thinks the operation of the jail leaves much to be desired. Lions Light Sale Starts October 23 Bayard Lions Club members will be selling light bulbs shortly. The bulbs are here, they are packaged and Lions will start their sale on or before October 23.

Each package contains six bulbs two 60 watt, two 75 watt and two 100 watt. Selling price is $2.25 a package. And, if you buy two packages you get one free 100 watt bulb donated by the Iowa Electric Light and Power Company. The bulbs are at the Farmers State Bank and they may be checked out any time." Leonard Siedhoff, Burdette Laughery and Don Brown are in charge. The October 23 meeting of the Lions will be at the Bayard Cafe.

Max Lathrop Burned In Back Yard Fire Max Lathrop of rural Guthrie Center received third degree burns over 20 per cent of his body in an accident at his farm home Thursday afternoon. He was taken to the Guthrie County hospital for first aid and then to the Burn Center, Fifth Floor, at the University Hospital in Iowa City..