Kossuth County Advance from Algona, Iowa • Page 3

KOSSUTH CENTEMflL State Historical Society Iowa City, i ova VOLUME 54 The World 9 Newspaper Alicona. Iowa Thursday. April 48 PAGES--(Tabloid See) NUMBER METERS TO RESIDENCE DISTRICT Supervisors Order Work on New Courthouse Stopped I COUNCIL TEARS SUPERVISORS TO STOP PAYMENT OF ALL TAXES The board of supervisors yesterday ordered all work stopped on the courthouse, and the money returned to the taxpavers. "We're all happy with the quarters we now have. The county offices are so scattered out in Algpna that an irritated taxpayer is run ragged trying to find us and that's just dandy.

Why should we get all in one place where they can get to us? Now we can just give them the old run-around." A taxpayer's group was formed this morning to insist that the building be completed. As i now stands it is a thing of beauty and a joy forever, and is not the eyesore for the town it will be if it is compjeted. A spokesman for Ihe group protested biiterly this morning, saying: "We like to pay taxes. Whv should the board of supervisors deny us that right and force us to lake money back? It isn't' the American way of doinn things. We demand the riqht to pay more taxes." To offset the growing uproar the board has indicated the tieas- urcr's office will be closed for the rest of the year.

In that way the taxpayers a pievented from coming in and paying their taxes," thus having to keep the money. Algona merchants also were repotted gathering in a special meeting this afternoon to join in the protest. Since the board's at- tion the stores have been so crowded with people trying to spend -their have had to be cut in 'half because of the bigi volume of business. One merchant sadly commented: "It just ain't fun anymore. Algona Before and After Meters Are Taken Outi NO DEMOCRATS HAVE FILED FOR COUNTY OFFICE Not a single democrat filed for I Advance Is Selected as the World's Greatest Newspaper Bein forced, the Advance ad- 1 in a steady stream from all over i I 1 Hit: al date for filing expired.

Usu- formal announcement being made tne Chicago Tribune, xvhich ally a two comes in to file on the last day. but ting year not a single one has filed. Pressed for an answer to the amazing lack of interest in thv county offices, a spokesman for the democratic party in Kossuth THIS PICTURE shows the way Algona's main ers were still in place. Happy throngs of cus- Icmers jammed the street, and the town. said yesterday: "We've had it long enough.

THIS PICTURE shews the contrast--AFTER the meters were taken out. It snapped Sat- Wc havo to woik instead of i "rday afternoon, and not a.car was parked on the sit here and look at our merchandise The board can't do this i to us." I (April Fool) I IKE BE6S FOR SPEAKING DATE AT CENTENNIAL The" Algona Chamber of Commerce this morning wired Washington. D. that spot street. Notice the lack of meters.

People the council they would boycott the town till meters -jvere put back. Looks like they were doing it. KIWANIANS TO ANTAGONIZE AND LOSE FRIENDS Three Algona Bachelors Give Selves Up and Algona Kiwanis club! Thiee Algona bachelors will be I moon to'Lost Island, the couple i I in I i A I i- and it's time you 'republicans did a fexv of the chores around here. We've been doing the xvork for these many years xvith only txvo coffee breaks an hour. We're getting tired and run doxx-n.

You felloxvs in the republican party have been on thc outside so long xve thought xve'd better give you a look from the inside." The situation xvas immediately telegraphed to the statehouse in DCS Moines, and a special session of the legislature has been called to deal xvith the problem. Without any candidates there isn't any sense to an election. The fact there is a republican or two running for state office put the state to the expense of holding an election just to decide a minor problem. The xvholesome suggestion xvas made by a committee to consider the situation that elections be dispensed xvith anyway, and that the.republicans run the state one and the democrats the next. party spokesmen in Kossuth -heartily endorsed the.

suggestion. This would -make their tass.much easier." capitulated and yielded that title to the Advance. A wire from the colonel expressing his congiatulations and offering 'his good wishes, was received by the Advance, which get you yet!" Telegrams and other messages poured into the Advance get The fact the Advance's circulation leached 525,469 (in combination with the DCS Moines Kegislcr) was the bloxv that laid the Chicago Tribune loxv. Thc editors of the Advance admitted sheepishly they had been caught scooped bv the Tribune, and said: "Pshaxx'--that xvas hardly worth mentioning." (April Fool; NATURAL GAS PLENTIFUL HERE; STOP PIPE LINE The Perry Co. announced CENTENNIAL IS DROPPED; NEXT 1 00 YRS.

WORSE In an important meeting last week the Centennial committee was disbanded, and the entire plans for the centennial thrown out of the window. They lit with a dull thud. Chamber Secretary Bill Steole. muttered through his beard, that it was a good thing for the town. "The first 100 years are the toughest," he commented, "and the next hundred years should develop this city into the best slough this side of Chicago." Mr.

Stecle said there is just too much cooperation in town. Every time he calls a meeting there are hundreds who try to horn in and get in on, the 'work. The time has come when even a Chamber secretary should -have rtfcitement- ill and got a chance to excicise his muscles doing the running up and down the street. Mr. Steele confessed it had been months since he to go i out and sec someone about some' thing.

"They jam in here all the time yellirig for something to do," he complained. Mr. Stcelfc, who looked his 100 years with his bright red beard, lieaid a talk by a salesman for Dale Carnival's "How to Lose Friends and Antagonize People" at the regular meeting last I A a i VJ I A man-ied in a triple wedding cere- i will make their home here on mony at trie justice of the peace Puptent St. office here Sunday, April 32, an- Warren Noslcn is the third of m. V.J.M*, 14 1,1 1 A V.I nounccment was made today.

the trio to walk the last mile in Algona this year. A spokesman for the company said that the company felt this toxvn already had enough natur- Without Laughter Life Ain't Fun This is the first annual front page of the Advance for April Fool's day. It was a'lot of fun putting it together, and we in the Advance hope you have a lot of fun reading it. Anything on this page ain't so! It all is meant in fun--there is too little laughable on the front pages of today's newspapers, and we beg the indulgence of the Advance subscribers in this attempt' to lighten a bit the load that civilization puts on every person. Life without laugnter wouldn't be fun.

JAYCEES GIVE UfATTEMPTTOv RAISE WHISKERS The Algona Junior Chamber of Commerce Wednesday METERS TODAY The city council last night after a peaceful session voted to tear out the parking meters on State street, and place them only in the residential A crowd of 2.000.000 farmers rioted outude the council chamber after they had been informed of council's action. The entire Algona police, force was routed from bed to handle the crowd. A spokesman for the farmers appeared at.the council and demanded that the meters bc not taken out. "Why, we farmers just won't come to Algona unless there are meters. How arc we going to get rid of'that 100 percent of parity money if there are no meters to stick our nicklcs one of the farmers demanded.

The-council split four to txvo on thc proposition 'to take out the meters, with Taylor, Cook, Hutzell, and Griffin voting to tear out the meters, and Parsons and Cowan voting to keep them in. Mayor Clapsaddle threatened to resign unless the meters were taken out, and it is believed this action was responsible for the overwhelming vote of the council in tearing them out. A group from the citizen's committee in favor of parking 1 meters scheduled a special meeting for tonight to protect the action of the council. They threatened to swamp opposing councilmen i business to keep them so busy they wouldn't viave a chance to tear out the meters. A ciiiien's (pokes- man rim four ragged with that they'll be so.darned tked from waiting on customers they won't be to TTie roundl.Jn,the have a sound, truck going up and down State street announcing the, council meetings.

All future an- night to withdraw all- support nouncements of meetings would from the coming Kossuth Coun-" 6 S' ve 'only by full page ads nights to run up and down the sideroads just to get a little exercise. The Centennial committee ech- decision after visiting all local thcv could give Ike for a specc.i' at the Centennial celebration xvas at 4 a.m. on Sunday His a uirsday noon, and the club Gertrude barber shops, Barry's, the Smoke chanics their home) summer. convention there Miss Crankshaft the members agreed they had bean thoroughly irritated. i cc i There xx-as a mass sign-up a a i will follow a double-barrelled the course following the meet-' children will makv appeal to reason by Marilyn i xvhich only costs SI000 per! at Sexton folloxvins TMT r-i, I I ht As A1 Granzow.

club pres-1 eymoon trio Irxnngton. I a Nationaleuard ami monram 'un had a friend, Fred Sxvaill.w announces his continue her piogram non-political, and once and all he did xvas borrow, engagement and approachm-! inc a honovmnon'frin Stevenson speaking at the SI0 from me when I had it. This, marriage to Miss Mabel Hole- cm event Sunday nignt. Joe Carnival course xvould have spar-, monv, presently emploved as a I lslands McCarthy speaking at the bip ed me much." rivate seci-tnrv to parade Monday, and Harry Truman speaking Tuesday night it xvas thought best not to inject anv politics into the event. The pica fiom Ike to speak xx-as received last week, and at first xvas not oven considered He said: am gettins; a little 1 set in my xvays.

but if I xvere is a tho I i I I I I I I I tlVV I TM al gas blowing around anyway, i ocd Mr. Steele's remarks, saying They said they had made their they had nothing to do--that everyone was doing their work for them and as a result the celebration was likely to be just too big for the town to handle. The straw that broke the camel's back was the plea from the NBC, CBA. Dumont, and ABC television networks demanding equal time to broadcast the event pipeline and supply the Northern Gas Co. with enough fuel for the next 20 years.

Local politicians. The The club's oldest surviving i membor. who observed his 90th cx crts and al ex-athletes, to the world. The foreign rights i were not involved as the com- ty Centennial because this-group was forced to head the "Whister Club." When first asked they thought it was a "Whiskey club." A spokesman for the JayCees was quoted as saying that after eight -weeks of trying, not one member was able to grow anything that even resembled a beard, or even a mustache. in the two Algona papers printed in red ink.

In the meantime the citizen's committee in favor of meters sought an injunction against the city council's attempt to take' them out, and hired all the 'attorneys in Algona to fight for meters. The attorneys had a meeting, and agreed to fight, but Firman prominent Jay- Cce member, told the Advance that 'he started on his beard Jan. 1 and after a measurement last night, had only of an inch of growth. He he'd used several noted hair-growing tonics, including the famed Dr. Long- beard's Hair Restorer, but this merely made his short stubble itch.

Another JayCee, Warren Nelson, said that after 3(1 days without a shave, he had given up the to mittec had turned that hot po-1 attempt. He said he shaved what Drivate secretary to Senator Txx-o, ny will be attended snorts, in Washington. D. C. Miss friends and distant relatives A Uovcinoney is co-oxvner of a reception xvill be' held at thc wc PP llcd even tato over to the United Nations birthday at the meeting, xvas thc mink coat tailoring concern in Ducky Wuckv pool hall and tax-- dates only member xx-ho refused i Mmkvilie.

District of Columbia, ern. sisn up for thc course. Folloxvmg a six-xveek honey- Jn the coldest of days. ontirelv A particularly heavy supply is veto, expected around the Centennial. football season, and election swamp.ng the Russion -(April Fool)- -(April Fool)- I Hoxv-exvi.

after some considera- tion. it thought best to pu' onlv a ain certainly xvould thc matter at rest and to xvisc-. i 5 the course. Many years ayo Ike that the only date xvould rt lcarncd what mca nt to be at a leasonablc hour of 4 a friendly. There xvas a cute chick Late this aftt-inoon Ike xxired 1 rsaid to inc Wh not vou back that he xvas rrfuch pleased and oe fl ''cnds? xvith the hour and that he xx-oukl "I hadn't learned much of thc be here.

This put the committee xvorlci. and this- Carnival course in somcxvhat of a i as was not available at that early they had not J.nticipated this re- date, so she and I sot to be real Advance sport editor yesterdav. suit. friendly. Xoxv all 1 have to show Alyona high school basketba'll Hoxvexor a committee xvas im- 'or it is 17 kids.

429 grandchil- coach Bob King and football mediately appointed to seek thc and hevvcns knoxx-s hoxv coach Tony predicted university of Iowa football team as a prc-scason practice game. ALGONA COACHES HAVE TOO MUCH GOOD MATERIAL i good scrimmage to start out with next year." 1 Coach Mai tin pre-' dieted equallv good results for JAYCEE TO MEET JANE RUSSELL his xvrestling team next year, although he said his big pioblem Eldon Hovey, Junior Chamber xvfiuid be finding the best possi- of Commerce ble line-up, since he had this mornin at least txvo or thiee boys of state quick trip In a interview xvith the championship calibre in each fer xvith Jane class. WOMEN PLEDGE TO GO AROUND IN BARE; FACE fexv hairs had groxvn out xvith a xvashrag ycsteiday morning and no one had commented on thc change as yet. A request by the JayCees to the Centennial Committee that the celebration bc postponed 25 not yet court. proceedings have been filed in district All three judges of the district court were called to referee thc fight, but after-watching the dull proceedings for a time adjourned to get caught up on the overruling and sustaining of objections made in pre-xx-ar cases.

They refused to indicate which xvay the xvind was bloxving till after the attorneys had come up with some kind of a paper on which they could find some sense to, however admitting that sense xx'as not essential to the situation. Thc citizen's committee said the council could not ignore the poll taken xvhich showed definitely that there xvere 2978 doss xvhose beard noxv mea 3 feet after only six days of groxvth. Hutchins made his decision for meters and only 9 against them. This overxvhelming vote included not onlv the voung. but Eugene I nlso thc fiav oi d'dogs so as to bc moa-1 cn tirely fair.

There was some talk nbout Al- 'S school scheduling th" services of "a ram-maker xvho many great-grandchildren. We' conference championships for could guarantee a doxvnpour quit counting them. both of their clubs' in 1954. promptly at 4 a.m. This be- "It just goes to shoxv you can 1 Each said he had a xvtalth of lieved the only solution to the bo too friendly in this" world wonderful material next year problem, and xvould also bc most They all xvanl" to do something and felt scveial of thc appiopriate folloxvmg the Mon- for "rnc.

to take care of me. to might even cancel off the sched- nake mv path easier, and to nvike me I i so lonu it isn't anv fun anymore. If I xvere only 80. as I said. I'd gladly take the say couise.

but it's too late noxv-- I'm hooked" toach in Mti thc a One member xx-ho refused Jo tcrial I have for football next iavc his name used, said he xvas fall. Why I've got at least six xvomcn during thc period from his beard. -(April Fool)- cccs recently voted to have Miss now through Julv 6 Russell ride on the club's ccn- far thc BPW. PEG. Beta float.

He expected to Phi. Bel Canto. DAR. there at 10:34 p.m. Tues- Dc i Garden club.

League 29 Hc W1 rcturn of Women Voters. Soroptomists but Guxoxx-sk; would neither con- mule tiam. lind all lhc vario us ai niar firm or de miToly "No comment." roc appearance. (April ule befori fear. next fall, mostly from Ia club agreed to pay mcluding thc Alsona Rotarv mol on P'Cture star cjub a ve adopted the program." Sl.OOO.COO for her appearance prr, 5 iam promises that no here.

Ihe money will be raised Fire Department to Aid Enthusiasts dogs xvould farm out some of paper April 25. Houscxvivo Ml co-metit s''vili h-m Cu ni ny Phillips, Theatre manager, repcrt-s that thc Mollv- xxond beauty xvili appear in stage LIQUOR STORE TO GIVE AWAY FREE SAMPLES NEW HIGHWAY IS DELAYED BY 30 COLD WINTERS The loxva Highway Commission announced this week that several bottlenecks in plans for the ncxv highway north of toxvn had forced the commission to revise its completion date from the scheduled July 1. 1954. Now, the commission repoits. and Humboldt.

xvas flatly dcnud "I don't think there is another by thc txx-o coaciies. (April Fool) Thc Algona clepniiwnJ has asked for new cooperation taking the cours-c'bccause'of his 200-pouiid imc-mcn' from the-public. in ordei to improve his three of my backs can do thc The eicpaitnu-nt anxious to household situation. "She's just 100 9.9.' Things reallv look please everyone xvho xvishes io darned friendly." he said, rosy for next vcar'" sec a and xvili wail for 20 "She's always setting my slip- Cornered late v-cstcrdav. Coach minutes after ihc siren has pcrs, and pipe, and trving to xvas quoted as sounded so tliosc xvho wish to make friends xvith me.

I'm Ket- "I just xvired in to have thc best spots to xvatch thc tint; darned tired of comma home blare can get their cars onto tho every night to sec her all dre spot first. st p. u-ith a nice roa.st in th The department also asks peo- oven, with a 'honey this and a foot and -better and llh all a 'rf 1 pViirVr' vi 1 vi. fl Ie lct lht a I a i we can't help but chapte.s Don't m.ss aV tee xvill bo nimed for inspection of my suspected of chjaling on thc A spokcsm.m foi Ine xx'ornon Giri Tells Of Trip to Moon The Advance xvill next xvetk present thc eyc-xx-itncss story of nn Ahzonn girl's trip to the moor. in line xvith thc Advance's policv of the oxtreinelx- cold xvintei-s i Cll UyCrS a expected the Acxt 30 Farmers Must Double Corn Acreage proved by the men.

After that Ureserte "ot, lr for Imc th AAA Tffic, V' home taskethan rlnl a11 lhe ncws cd tod farmers who do not monev is spent, h- know I' h-fvc seven' hl ll can dl Thc doublc i cor "With our husbands a Ca prime of life at 108. year will not be elisible'for corn friends allopmg around n-i trom the The said if any niitttc raising demand existed a special sampl- whlcl a a ins pretty mm hour xvould bc arranged from i acC the now? Maybe after a fexv month. 9:30 m. i 12 midnight. There capin volunTes "of of looking at Us xvith our bare is no icstiu-tion to the samphnq tho nark'n faces out, there won't be so much except that the person must bc cr do not extend oast tho The local AAA office nnnounc- yackmg at home about thc way able to stand up and walk to thc waukco tracks there counter.

and boy The liquor store said business alloping around looking had fallen off lately, and JAIL DOOMS OPEN. stock xvas liable to RELEASED The drive for additional business (Apnl Fool).