Globe-Gazette from Mason City, Iowa • Page 6

impressions juty mm ws I Cltj, Entrances to be changed By DAVI McMILLEN The next time you leave Macon City, take the time when you return to notice what strikes your eye first, Of course, the first thought that may race through your mind is that you are glad to be back home, and you let loose with a big sigh of relief. But that isn't the point intended. What is the thing that stands out as you scan the countryside when you enter Mason City at one of the four main entrances? Your thoughts will vary as you enter on Highway 18 from either the east or the west or on Highway 65 from the north or south. Perhaps, if you have lived In Mason City all or most of your adult life, you never have really paid much attention to the appearance of your city as you re-enter it. But the newcomer and the through-traveler do.

Their first impression of Mason City is what they see as their auto approaches the city limits. For example: What do they sec as they approach from the north on Highway 65? Their first introduction to Mason City is Winnebago Heights, a collection of small business enterprises, planted on a knoll above the Winnebago River as it begins its a nderings through Kiver City. After crossing the Winnebago River the auto follows the highway around and under the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad underpass, passing in the process the American Crystal Sugar Co. plant. And to his right the motorist notices the smoke and dust belching from the Lehigh and Northwestern State Portland Cement companies plants.

This indicates to the motorist that Mason City is not only a main farm artery in the agriculture belt, but is also a community with a strong industrial heartbeat. The auto continues along the triangle formed by Highway 65 and the old highway to the north. Centering the triangle is an eyesore that has stood as a mute collector of rust for some 15 years. It it a truss that was one of three bridges declared too narrow when Highway 65 was widened. They were replaced with wider structures or culverts.

The trusses were held in reserve for possible emergency use, however. Now, says Glenn A Pigeon River, which separates Minnesota from the province of Ontario, there serves a quaint little Canadian customs official. He duly enters the proper notations on a clipboard as to your destination and length of stay and then, with a sweeping gesture of welcome, says: "Have yourself a wonderful time in Canada." His name, even if we recalled it from those two summers ago, isn't important as far as this piece is concerned. But one of his remarks that he sees more Iowa cars filing through his check point than from any other significant. lowans always have been Intrigued by the tall pines, ice- blue lakes and winding, rolling roads of the north country.

It's not surprising since we are so notably deficient in all three categories. That's one reason why lowans love to meander up past Duluth and into at least the lower reaches the Canadian countryside. The customs official's offhand comment about this was substantiated by three visitors from Winnipeg to Mason City's Band Festival last month. They said, too, that Canada's tourist industry in no small way is directed to lowans on the Certainly one of the best things to draw us Hawkeyes has been rhe completion of the Circle Route around Lake Superior. It is miles of historical sights, tremendous scenery and unusual industrial points of interest.

What's more, you're right back at the exact point from which you started. Short trip We heartily recommend it for a short vacation trip of a week or less. Prices generally are modest, folks are friendly, and, what's besti there's not much chance of getting lost or making a wrong turn. There just aren't many roads in that neck of the woods. But the ones they have are in excellent a goodly portion of the "Circle Route" being completed only four years ago.

Before that the only way to circumnavigate Lake Superior was by boat. You can start the trip by catching U.S. 61 at Duluth, swinging north past famed Gooseberry Falls, to Grand Marais (we've always loved that name and the town) and then to Pigeon River the road flanking Lake Superior much of the way. Don't worry about customs a notation or two and you receive a slip of paper which entitles you to roam Canada for just about as long as you wish. The kids will love this little episode, to say nothing of seeing the Maple Leaf flag flying instead of the Stars and Stripes.

Fort William and Port Arthur are old fur-trading posts, but they are modern from the word go-go. Plenty to see here, including a ride on a ski-lift and 128-foot high Kakabeka Falls. From there on it's pretty much virgin forest. When you reach Sault Ste. Marie you're two-thirds around the lake and 660 miles from Duluth.

The locks and lake freighters', of course, are the big sightseeing attraction at "The Soo." On the other side of the river lies Michigan and it's a short hop to the Straits of Mackinac. There you have an eye-popping sight, the great bridge, and a "must" side- trip by ferry to historic Mackinac Island. From Mackinac it's back to Duluth via Marquclte, Ishpeming and Houghton of iron ore fame. You can take a short side- trip to Bayfield, and historic Island, but you'll only sec more of what you've been eyeballing all along the route. Before you know it you're in Superior and across the bridge to Duluth.

There you and the youngsters can dine again at the hamburger stand you left knee-deep in discarded wrappings and paper cups just a couple days before. Eenie or meenie? Duane Dewel, Algeria's "Old Goat" who has been critical of beauty contest judges in general, may have had a change of heart. At least that's the tenor of a note we received from him in reply to our recent column on the subject: Wrote Mr. Old Goat: "Yeah, it's happened to me, too. It just goes to show a fellow should keep his big fat mouth shut.

"The Old Goat was a (haw) judge in the district Miss Pork Queen contest over here the other night. The Old Goat was too busy gawking to take notes. The Old Goat was just plain confused and loved them all. "Fortunately there was a woman judge who seemed to have inside feminine intuition or whatever the girls call that built-in radar, and being a coward the Old Goat was happy to agree without fussing about it and get out in left field where he belonged. "Shucks, it just didn't seem fair to name just one of the lovelies." Mrs.

Smith funeral set for Tuesday Mrs. Fred Crego Smith, 84, mother of Mrs. Robert M. St. Glair, Mason City, and a former resident of Osagc, died Saturday at Fort Dodge, where she had been making her home at Friendship Haven since 1956.

Nellie Brownell was born Oct. 16, 1800, at Spirit Lake, where she lived during her girlhood. While attending Grinnell College, she met Fred Crego Smith of Osage. They were married April 8, 1902. Two children were born to them, Dorothy (Mrs.

St. Clair), and Lawrence, who lived at Spirit Lake until his death in 1962. Mrs. Smith lived in Osage throughout her married life. Her husband preceded her in death in January 1951.

She continued to make her home in Osage until she moved to Friendship Haven. She spent her summers at the Outing Club in Clear Lake, where she had been a summer resident since 1918. Surviving are her daughter, four grandchildren, six great- grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. George H. (Ruth) Sheldon Whitcstone, Va.

The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Champion Funeral Home, Osage. Burial will be at Osage. Any memorials may be given to the First Congregational Church at Osage, of which she and her husband were members. Directors of Farm Bureau plan meeting regular meet ing of the board of directors Farm Bureau will be held at Farm Bureau office in Gar ner at 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday, July G. The Farm Bureau Women's committee will meet at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, July 12, also at the Farm Bureau office. The first of two driver impro ment courses will be held at the Farm Bureau office from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

on Monday, July 12 and the second such meeting at the same hours on Monday July 19th. Both will be held a the Farm Bureau basement in Garner. This is a refresher course foi licensed drivers and persons completing the course will re the En ccive You're absolutely correct, Mr. Old Goat, but who was the winner eenic, meenie, minie or could it have been mo? Road contracts first under new program FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) Kentucky believes the contracts it awarded for 10 miles of road construction may be the country's first under the Appalachian regional development program.

Contracts totaling nearly $2.5 million were awarded under gram. certificate from National Safety Council, trance fee is $1. Volponi gets prize for "World Machine' ROME (AP) Italian write Paolo Volponi, 41, was chose by a Rome jury Friday nigh winner of the 1965 Strega Priz for his novel, "La Macchin Mondialc" (The World Ma chine). "The World Machine" is aboi a peasant philosopher who see men as actually being chines, makers of machines be ter than themselves. Try A Want Ad 423-427 YOU'LL LOVE IT of Services We offer funeral services in accordance with all religious beliefs and provide a selection of services in every price range.

FUNERAL A II Floyd M. James Son HEADS Shill, 153 Sunny Circle, has been appointed chairman of the Small Firms Division of Mason City Community Chest for the 1D65-GG campaign. He operates the two Shill restaurants. Heritage Home has holiday picnic A Fourth of July picnic was eld on the front lawn of the Heritage Home or residents and their families Family members and friends the residents were contaclec telephone and each rcsiden vas encouraged to have many guests as wished. Then vere approximately 150 guests The picnic was served buffe tyle in the large dining room and taken to tables on the fron awn of the home.

Residents and their guests vere entertained from 1:30 un il 3:30 p.m. by a combo con isting of Hob Mason, piano vho is from Clear Lake and ap )ears at the Red Llama; Bobbj irown, drummer, who has a chool for drummers and plays vilh a combo in Rochester and Andy Anderson jass, Clear Lake who appears outincly at the Surfer. Many of the residents accom- anied their families for a rive and an evening meal at he home of relatives and riends. Guests were given tours the home and saw the projects designed and made by the esidents in their occupational herapy room. European trip described ro Rotary Club GARNER Grciman, newly elected president of the Earner Rotary Club, gave a ravelogue at the last club meeting.

lie told of the trip he ant! Harry Horn made to Bu- II. Doty, district engineer of the Iowa State Highway Commission, enough of the more adaptable I-beam structures have been collected for emergency use. Doty said the trusses were offered to Cerro Gordo County, but the board of supervisors stated they had no use for them. Now they will be offered to surrounding counties. If they are not wanted, they will be declared junk and sold as such sometime this winter, declared Doty.

Is this area then adaptable for a picnic grounds or other heautification project? No, says Doty. The State Highway Com mission presently has the north Highway 65 entrance programmed for a four-lane divided highway in 1969. Two new lanes will be con- frStructcd northeast of the prcs- nt highway facilities with a median to provide add- ci eye comfort to the motorist. To the right, across the high- vay from the triangle, the motorist spies the small lake on he Lehigh Portland Cement property. Further along, Lehigh and Northwestern States have combined their efforts in beautifica- ion with the erection of a high wire fence and shrubs lining Highway 65 as it becomes Federal avenue through the heart of Mason City.

This is what the motorist sees as he enters Mason City from the north on Highway 65. Gerald West, 68, dies at Sioux City Gerald G. West, 68, former owner and operator of the West Trucking Lines in Mason City, died Sunday night in a Sioux ity hospital. Pie had been ill 10 days. Funeral arrangements are pending at the Rutledge Funeral Home in Sioux City.

A native of Osage, he moved rom there to Mason City in 1936. He went to Sioux City in .948 and owned and operated he Sioux City Motor Express until his retirement in 1959. He is survived by his widow, a son, James, also of Sioux 1 EYESORE The truss (above the parked car) that has been an eyesore on the triangle along Highway 65 at the north edge of Mason City may be on its way out. If not wanted by the board of supervisors of Cerro Gordo or surrounding counties-it will be sold as junk this winter, according to Glen H. Doty, district highway engineer.

LAKE VIEW This small lake along the south side of Highway 65 at the north entrance to Mason City is on property of the Lehigh Port- land Cement Co. The plant in the background is the Northwestern States Portland Cement Co. rope. The two men visited the World's Fair and United Nations Building in New York and then flew to Hanover, Germany. They traveled in Germany, Den- City; three daughters, Mrs.

Genevieve Call ahan, Sioux Falls, S. Mrs. Patrick Noo nan, Sioux City, and Mrs. D.D. Musco, Orland, his mother, Mrs.

Frank West, Mitchell, Iowa; two sisters, Mrs. Hugh Delaney and Mrs. John Young, both of Osage, and 20 grandchildren. Out-of-state guests visit in Riceville RICEVILLE Mrs. Faye Martin, Azusa, and Mildred Potter, St.

Paul, are visiting in Rieeville. Both are former Riceville residents. They are guests of Mrs. Ruby Dunton. Mr.

and Mrs; Wesley Buresh, Saratoga, have been enjoying a visit from her daughter, Mr. ind Mrs. Patrick Alvey and amily of Southfield, Mich. Mrs. 'Vlvcy is the former Marilyn looney.

Mr. and Mrs. Roy Woolworth, are visiting friends and relatives in Riceville. The Wool- vorths formerly lived here. Bond sales reported in Hancock County GARNER Hancock County citizens purchased a total of $31,393 in and savings mark, Sweden, France.

Spain and Greiman received the gave from Jack Dethmers, retiring president. BEAUTIFICATION As the motorist enters Mason City on Highway 65 from the north he is also greeted by the wire fencing- and shrubs along Federal Avenue, an attempt by Northwestern States at industrial beautification. Mrs. Hunter dies at 59 in Wisconsin Mrs. Willard J.

(Ethel) Hunter, 59, a former resident of Mason City, died at her summer home in anbury, Wisf, according to word received in Mason City. For many years her husband was manager of the Crescent Electric Supply Company Mason City branch. Surviving are her husband, two daughters, Mrs. Sanford K. (Lois) Loomis, Minneapolis, and Mrs.

Ronald (Mary) Sclbcrg, St. Paul; and four grandchildren. Burial will be at Lakewood Cemetery, day. Minneapolis, 'Tues- GREEN GINGER When a recipe calls for "green ginger," use fresh ginger root. Osage doctor to practice in Los Angeles William Boyd began his work as a Resident Doc- Lor at UCLA, Los Angeles, July 1, after having served with the Osage Medical Group for the last two years.

He will specialize in psychiatry. Dr. Boyd, an ex GI, was graduated from the School of Medicine at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, and was intern at Cook County Hospital, Chicago. His wife, the former Helen Otteson, Osage, a registered nurse, expects to be employed in an area hospital. She was a nurse at Fairview Hospital, Minneapolis, following her graduation from Sioux Valley School of Nursing, Sioux Falls, S.D., and was a nurse at Mitchell County Memorial Hospital the last year.

The Boyds were married a year ago an Osage. Dr. Boyd was active in youth work and served as Mitchell County chairman of the Heart Association. Mrs. Boyd served as Mitchell County chairman for the Tuberculosis Association.

Fish adventure bags alligators MELBOURNE, Fla. (ffi Mr. Fish went fishing hut he caught only alligators! Sheldon Fish, a Melbourne mail carrier, decided to fish for trout near the railroad bridge on Crane Creek. His first bite turned out to be an alligator He decided to try again J- and he hooked a second gator. He went home with no fish! COOL STORAGE Prevent that whole-wheat flour from becoming rancid.

by storing it in a cool dark place. BABBITT SEZ, FOR QUALITY WIRING AND PRICE WITHIN REASON, CALL I ELECTRIC CO. 1125 No. Fed. 423-7122 bonds during the month of May according to an announcement by H.

L. Ollenburg, Garner banker, volunteer county savings bond sales chairman. This brings the total for the first five months to $320,902 for 45 per cent of the 19C5 quota. The state total also is 45 per cent of the 1965 quota. Getting Ready For SUMMER CAMPING or BOATING? Come In And Have Us Experlly Install Your Trailer HITCH! If Necessary We Will Build a Hitch To Fit Any Car.

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