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Sioux City Journal from Sioux City, Iowa • 15

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The Sioux City Sunday Journal, April 11jT976 A 1. i m. I oil the Business Side IJ sr fin jm ft- Tractor Business Goes Tiny MOVILLE, Iowa Gary Baker has started his own tractor business here on a small scale. Baker distributes and services 116 scale tractors which are powered by model airplane motors. The mini-tractors, popular in Missouri and Illinois, are used in miniature tractor pulls.

Baker's brother, Bob, assembles the mini-tractors in Fort-Dodge and, with two other business partners, officiates mini-tractor pulls on 16 foot long, laminated plastic tracks. Baker says the tractors run Making the Choice Selecting contractors for the new Station KTIV building are, from left, Lyri Stoyer, executive vice president and general manager of KTIV; Ed Tink, vice president, engineering, for Black Hawk Broadcasting; Daryl Andersen, architect; Jim Maxwell, project supervisor, and Jim Bradley, executive vice president of Black Contractors Selected for KTIV Construction Garden Center Opens The staff at the Mosher Garden Center, 4309 Floyd stand ready for their grand opening this weekend. From left are Debbie Sherman, an employe of the garden center, Paul and Mary Mosher, owne-s The center carries a full line of bedding plants, nursery stock, tools, seeds, house plant? and all the equipment a gardener neecs. The Moshers are Sioux City native8 who most recently have been in the hotel and resort business in Minnesota a.i! Wisconsin. (Staff pheto by Porter) Gary Baker demonstrates model tractors.

one of jiis 1 16th scale Contractors for the new building to house Station KTIV, Channel 4, have been announced by Lyn Stoyer, vice president and' general manager. The station selected Holtze Construction Co. as general contractor, Budden Plumbing mechanical contractor, and Gill Electric as electrical contractor. Black Hawk Broadcasting's executive vice president, Jim Bradley, vice president for MIDWEST BUILDERS, BONDED INSURED Walke Retires as DOT Officer engineering Ed Tink, architect Daryl Andersen and Stoyer made the selection. The Stonesthrow Office Complex, at the intersection of Floyd Boulevard and Outer Belt Drive, is the site of the station's new building.

The Leeds location was selected after six months of deliberation as an aesthetic, easily accessible area. The new building will feature frontal windows of bronze-mirrored glass, which presents a gleaming exterior WE BUILD IN IOWA, NEBRASKA AND SOUTH DAKOTA LET US SHOW YOU THE LARGE LIST OF GARAGES WE HAVE BUILT IN THIS AREA. FREE ESTIMATES. of I Pharmacist to Speak on Aging FINANCING EASILY ARRANGED TO FIT WITHIN YOUR BUDGET ANY SIZE ANY STYLE FREE ESTIMATES, NO OBLIGATION senro2t 2-CAR GARAGE Dr. Paul J.

Perry will discuss "Psychopharmacology in the Aging" at 8 p.m. Thursday at St. Luke's Medical Center. Dr. Perryr is assistant professor of clinical pharmacy at the University of Iowa.

The lecture is the last in a series sponsored by the of I College of Pharmacy in cooperation with area macists. Dr. Perry received bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees from the University of the Pacific, Stockton, Calif. He joined the of I faculty in 1973. His research interests are in the field of psychopharmacology.

He lectures health sciences students on drug- induced disease problems and BIZ in three, four and five pound classes, plus a six pound, "hot rod" class. He said a mini-tractor in five pound class has pulled 140 pounds on the miniature "muleskinner-' down the length of the regulation Baker says he plans to promote miniature tractor pulls" at area county fairs and other gatherings. Several already have been scheduled. Rodeway Adds Chef Ted Thie has joined the staff of the Rodeway Inn as chef. A native of Sioux Falls, he graduated from O'Gorman High School there and from the Culinary Arts Institute of South Dakota at Mitchell.

Prior to taking the position at the Rodeway, he was with Westward Ho Country Club in Sioux Falls. Stevensons Awards Prize Lucrecia Decenta, 809 Ninth has won a $100 credit balance on a charge account at Stevensons in Sunset Plaza. She won the credit in a contest which provided a complimentary deck of playing cards to each charge account applicant. Winner was determined by placing a specially-marked card at random in one of the decks. Robber Wants His Doggie Bag Filled.

with' Cash BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) The man dining at a steak restaurant -couldn't finish his meal, so he asked a waiter for a doggie bag. When the waiter brought the bag, the man pulled a gun and ordered the restaurant's cashier to fill the bag with cash, police said TuesdaV. Completely eree'ed, Including Concrete Floor, 16' Snmgles, Insulanon Pre-Primed Hardooard MIDWEST NO GIMMICKS WE CAN WILL BUILD AT THIS Sectional Door, Sea1 Down SPECIAL PRICES ON 3 CAR GARAGES 235 Nl DOWN Lester Walke, peace officer with the Iowa Department of Transportation, has retired. Walke, 414 36th has been a familiar face at the Le Mars weigh station and in Northwest Iowa for the past quarter of a century.

He was guest of honor at a dinner party at Storm Lake at which Dennis Ehlert, director of the Office of Motor Vehicle Enforcement, presented him with a service plaque. Officer Walke said he plans to pursue his hobbies of hunting, fishing, gardening and collecting during his retire Lester VI alke Dividend NEW YORK The regular quarterly dividend of JCPenney Co. has been increased by 10.3 per cent to 32 cents per share from the former 29 cents. The increased dividend will be payable May 1 to stockholders of record at the close of business April 10. ment.

He and his wife Merle have two daughters and five grandchildren. Dick Cottington All Wheel Honored All Wheel Drive Co. of Sioux City and other Iowa cities was named Top Volume Dealer for 1975 for North America by f. I. Case construction equipment division.

Dick Cottington is manager of the Sioux City outlet. The firm also received several otner awards on the basis of 1975 business activity. WE SPECIALIZE IN LARGE EXTRA LARGE BUILDINGS 1 SMfATHING JrfOC V2 twV Af f' QlSTS jT'i DCUM(TOfPAll5 IU 0 2.4f.OOiNG 'jlff 'riwijt BCABCBfTwffM In I SODDING A i-DiNG 'is I H--wb -v 1 'i ALL uAflAOES UNCONClTOAL GUARANTEED MIDWEST BUILDERS. INC. HOME OFFICE and displays: 727 SE 14TH, DES MOINES, IOWA 5031 7 DIAL TOLL FREE (IOWA ONLY'1-800-362-2877 OR CALL COLLECT (515, 283-2418 24-HOUR ANSWERING SERVICE CALL ANYTIME practices clinical pharmacy at the Iowa City Veterans Administration Hospital and the of I Psychopathic Hospital.

Dr. Paul J. Perry BITS km while affording a panoramic view of Sioux City from inside. Supportive equipment such as radio receivers, heating and air conditioning, will be centrally located in a penthouse atop the structure to retain the beauty and flow of the building. Construction will begin as soon as possible with completion slated by spring.

1977. Miss Rogers Retires from Land Bank Miss Ruth Rogers has retired as administrative assistant of the Federal Land Bank Association in Sioux City. Miss who had almost 43 years of experience with the Federal Land Bank Association in Sioux City and Denison, was guest of honor at a dinner hosted by fellow employes and officers of the association. There also were guests from the Federal Land Bank of Omaha and relatives of Miss Rogers. Hotel Sold ON AW Iowa, The Monona Hotel of Onawa has been sold to Mr.

and Mrs. Larry Wurr of South Sioux City. Plans for the hotel include making apartments on the second floor with main floor space devoted to small shops and office space. The no frills, no nonsense HOMES! Top Quality? Yes! Beautiful Plans? Yes! Available Financing? Yes! Affordable? Yes! include a Kaufman and Broad PRE-CUT CUSTOM HOWE in your building tnmkmg. Consider our reasonable prices and the small fortune you save by our building approach (you handle the finishing work).

Yes. we have financing for you! A top quality, beautiful, affordable norne could be yours tins year. Ail you have to do is say Contact: LvonarO Grwn Trr Woodward Taa, So. Ds Maoietoi, ou5 743 46 7i2-ib2 10.0 A klflKUNDBR0DH0B 1 Pjease send your FREE, 62-page. ul color ataiogto: Co' II empey Studies Planning Ralph Hempey of Modern Materials, 514 Iowa has completed an advanced training course in kitchen planning and design at the Mutschler plant in Nappanee, Ind.

Mutschler manufactures custom hardwood kitchens which are carried by Modern Materials. Novelty's Man Takes Course Douglas.L. Thevenot of Mason City, Iowa, a member of the sales organization of Novelty Machine Supply Sioux Cily, completed a week's training at the School of Transmissioneering conducted by Dodge Division, Reliance 1 Electric Co. McNeil Attends Course John P. McNeil, who is with the W.

D. Thompson general agency of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. in Sioux City, attended a special career development course at the firm's home office in Milwaukee. Technical Training Completed Jerry Foster of Charlie Miller's Body Shop, 900 Grand-view has completed the Ziebart Rustproof ing technical training course. McCauley Farms Elected McCauley Farms of Lawton, Iowa has been elected to membership in the Red Angus Association of America at Denton, Tex.

Taylor Attends Meeting Richard C. Taylor, president of First National Bank, attended a meeting" of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Iowa Advisory Council in Des Moines. Dr. Unruh Goes to Symposium Dr.

Wally Unruh, a Larchwood, Iowa chiropractor, participated in the International Symposium on Low Back Pain in Home, Italy. 1 We've expanded our business hours all over town! You're the only reason we re in business, and you let us know that you like our hours to be yours. Look -for information on our new hours at all ur offices Downtown, Morningside, Northside, and the Motor Bank'. When comes to banking at Security, hours are vours. Agents Qualify for Conference C.

A. Wassink. 2018 Douglai Si and Tom Cashman, 4505 Ravine Park Drive, have quahfiei to attend a career conference of New York Life Insurance agents in Minneapolis. Burke Earns 'Elite tuard' Security National Bank it good to have he ephng of Security Robert Burke of Sioux City ear ed the Ehte Award of Hawkeye National Life Insurance Co for first place in net aid for premium in 1975. Me also earned a place in the President's Cabinet, was named Hawkeye Millionaire for the seventh consecutive year, and was the recipient of the "App-A-Week Award." Mrs.

Burke was na-ned Hawkeve Qieen" for the fourth yc ir. Dovntown M. -ngside Northside i naij.

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