Estherville Daily News from Estherville, Iowa • Page 1

ESTHERVILLE DAILY NEWS APARTMENT OF HIST. RCHIVES BY FAR THE LARGEST CITY, RURAL, TOTAL CIRCULATION IN Ypar; No. 83 Estherville, Emmet County, Iowa, Wedmsdaj, January 13, EMMET COUNTY 10c; Copy H)( Cites Good Farming Record Correction of a "second class attitude" among farmers was the main theme of a talk by Dan Murphy, state staff member, at the membership drive kickoff dinner of the Emmet County Farm Bureau yesterday afternoon. "There is no such thing as the average farmer today," ha said. "The average ones were forced out of the business years ago." "Why should we wa'k a'ong with our heads down?" Murphy asked.

"Farmers are oiue- ing three times as much and have an investment, five as great as the 1940 average. No other industry can cia.ai similar growth." "Those outside farming far more importance on our work than we do," he declared. Turning to urban-rural relations, Murphy noted that the farmer and the businessman have much in common. "Both need large investments and inventories to operate. The Farm Bureau and its are in essential agreement with the business community on positions concerning taxes and many other fields of legislative action," he said.

"We found, during a recent meeting, that we eou'd support every single one of the legislative proposals of the Iowa League of Municipalities," he pointed out. Murphy listed five factors which make farming attractive today: 1) farming is a basic industry, one which will always be needed; 2) farm products are quickly consumed, producing a steady demand; 3) the farm market is steadily grow- 5 11,000 persons are added to the U.S. population every day; 4) a distribution system tor farm products is in operation, although it could use some improvement; 5) farming is a hard field for others to enter. Don Poyzer, Junior Ke.isler and Leonard Swartz received rizes for the best attendance their respective membership drive crews. Door prizes went to Dale Holl, Bob Moore, August Anderson and Elvin Sunde.

Record forms and information were distributed to the over-70 members present. 'Ji I. NFO Plans Seminar on Bargaining An educational seminar on "Necessary Steps to be Taken for Successful Bargaining in Agriculture," sponsored by the Emmet County Nutional Farmers Organization, will be he'd Monday, Jan. 18, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

in the meeting room, D.E.K. building. Past history in marketing, present conditions in agriculture, strong and weak points in the present marketing structure, new economic factors in marketing, Teasoas for failure of past proposed solutions, and requirements for a successful modern -day marketing structure are among the topics to be covered, Norman Nielsen, county president, said. The NFO is offering this seminar as a public service to all farmers and interested poiboiis, he said. The sem'nar subjects are based on information from agricultural colleges and universities, the United States Department of Agriculture and NFO research committees, he said.

A question and answer period will follow the formal presentation. Archeologist Dies BELMONT, Mass. (AP) Dr. Samuel K. Lothrop, 73, noted archeologist and a research associate at Penbudy Museum, Harvard, died Sunday.

He was a member of the National Academy of Scientists. i 1 ii IffVn Wealhcr Forecast Fair, cold. Low last night -10; noon 0. Weather information page 5 FlttE DISTRICT BOUNDARY covers more than 80 sections in Emmet and Kossuth counties. Residents of this area will vote Feb.

8 on proposed authorization of a tax levy to finance the district. Typical Office Worker Defined A 32 year-old woman who is ahlo to meet and talk to people well and who has a high school education with some background in accounting is in a prime position to find an office job in Estherville. She is most likely to get a bookkeeping job with a 42.5: hour work week at $1.30 per hour in an office with four other married employes. These statistics are revealed in a recent survey of the requirements and characteristics of office jobs in Estherville businesses. The survey was conducted by 12 members of the Future Business Leaders (FBL) club at Lincoln Central High School.

"We know that many of the business students at Lincoln Centra) don't go on to college," FBL Sponsor Don McGuire, said. "Knowledge of local job opportunities is particularly important to these young people." A high school education is required by 66 per cent of the employers interviewed, while 15 per cent expect college training. Business school background, with 13 per cent, runs a close third. Bookkeeping, with 33 per cent, and office practice, at 26 per cent, tops the list of recommended high school courses. Shorthand, 12 per cerv.

economics, 10 per cent; and business law, nine per cent, also received strong recommendation. Fifty-eight per cent of the employers require their personnel to be at least 18 years old. The average is 19, with two requiring 16; one 17; and two 21. Appearance is listed as a factor in hiring by all 24 employers. Ability to meet and talk to people leads the long list of employe qualifications.

It is listed by 11 per cent of the employers contacted. Neat honesty, character, good personality and accuracy receive secondary listing, while such factors as ability, work record, integrity, efficiency, friendliness and confidence also were mentioned. An average beginning salary of $1.30 per hour for an average 42.5-hour week leads the job descriptions also included in the survey. The work week ranges from 37 to 49 hours. Salaries vary from $1.25 to $1.90 per hour, although 35 per cent of the employers contacted did not supply any salary information.

Seventy-one per cent hire a majority of women workers; sex is not a consideration in 12 per cent of the cases. Sixty- four per cent of the businesses have married personnel; eight per cent have both married and singb workers. The average age of office workers ranges from 18 to 45. Although the number of workers employed per business ranges from one to 20, nearly half of the businesses contacted have either one or two positions. Closely correlated with the hiring requirements, bookkeeping is an important duty in 39 per cent of the situations surveyed.

Using the telephone, with 29 per cent, ranks second. The 10-key adding machine is used in 29 per cent of the jobs surveyed. Other machines received varying support: calculator 14 per cent; photocopier 13 per cent; mimeograph 12 per cent; rotary calculator seven per cent; and typewriter seven per cent. To Vote on Tax Levy for Fire District Armstrong area voters will vote Feb. 8 on a tax levy net to exceed one and one-half mills to finance operation of the Armstrong Benefited Fire District.

The election date was set here morning during a joint meeting of the boards of supervisors of Emmet and Kossuth counties. More than 80 sections in Emmet and Kossuth counties are included in the district. All of Iowa Lake townships and parts of Armstrong Grove, Lincoln ard Swan Lake townships in Emmet County and parts of Eagle, Swea and Seneca township in Kossuth County are included. More equitable distribution of the costs of fire protection in the area is the purpose of the district. Rural Armstrong residents currently do not pay taxes to maintain the Armstrong fire department, although rural residents helped by public subscription to pay for a fire used in fighting rural fires.

Although directors for the district were selected in December, 1963, the tax levy authorization portion of the proposal was defeated by a favorable vote of 110-93. The measure failed to receive the required 60 per cent approval. Fabian Brandenburg was named to a three-year director's term on Dec. 23, 1963, following his selection by the voters. Vern Dahms received a two year term, and Loren Clayton was selected to serve for one year.

COLD ILAST William Schuder Dies at 97 Will'am Schuder, 97, farmed northeast of Estherville for manv vears, died at his homo yesterday afternoon from the complications of advanced ago. Funer-al services will be he'd at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Reese Funeral Home, Rev, William R. Noland officiating. Burial will be in Eastside Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 pm. Thursday until time of final rites. Mr. Schuder was born Dec, 11, 1867, in Indiana. In 1898 ho married Annie Howard in Rantoul, 111.

They moved from Illinois to Iowa in 1901; moved to Jack Creek Township in 1930; and came to his present home in 1936. Survivors include two sons, Joseph and Howard of rural Estherville. His parents, wife, one brother and four sisters preceded him in death. U. S.

Immigration Law Changes Are Proposed Kiwanis Observes Birthday Members of the Estherville Kiwanis Club and their wives observed the 50th anniversary of Kiwanis International and the local club's 25th birthday at a dinner meeting last night in the Gardston Shore Room. Present for the occasion was the new lieutenant governor of the district, James Knupp, and Mrs. Knupp of Fort Dodge. Centering his remarks around the Kiwanis theme of "We Build," he urged that 1965 be a year for building bridges for younger generations. He also stressed the importance of impressing on young people the meaning and importance of this country's free capitalistic system.

Following his formal remarks, Lieut. Governor Knupp then installed the club's new officers for the year. New diiw- tors taking office are Dr. W. E.

Coon, Howard doner, Robert McCombs and Keith Godfrey. Dick CurreU is secretary and C. E. Miller is treasurer. Ed Meehan and Max Pelzer were installed as second and first vice-presidents, respectively, and the Rev.

Fred Ortmeyer was officially inducted into the office of president for 1965. A past president's pin was presented to the retiring president, Verncn Clark, by F. E. Rosendahl, who expressed the club's appreciation for Clark's leadership during the past year. The retiring president then passed the gavel to President Ortmeyer.

Vermaine Sidles was toastmaster for the evening. Mrs. Charles Uknes and Kenneth Van Der Sloot presented a pantomime, "The Great Pretender," following which two solos were sung by Mr. Van Der Sloot. The Estherville Kiwanis Club was organized in 1939 with tho late Dr.

C. E. Birney as the first president. Presidents who followed were Art Cadieux, the late R. C.

Brown, F. E. Rosendahl, F. J. Kennedy, R.

S. Knight, N. E. Demoney, Walter B. Hammer the late Carl G.

Anderson, the late Rev. James J. Keane, Phil Palmer, C. R. Hedrick, Leo Olson, Kenneth Kautz, Wayne Cramer, S.

M. Sevatson, Dr. E. K. Vaubel, Vermaine Sidles, Myron Lund, the late Dr.

G. E. Tomhave, Dr. C. R.

Kitchen, W. B. Mickelson, Chester Pierson, Carlton Herbrandson, Edwin Thoreson and Vernon Clark. Three members of the local club have earned the distinction of being elected to the of- fic of lieutenant governor of the district: F. E.

Rosendahl, W. B. Hammer and Vermaine Sidles, all of them present. The committee in charge of arrangements for the dinner was composed of Max Pelzer, Dale Green and Ed Meehan. Decorations for the tables were bouquets of gold mums and daisies, carrying out the golden anniversary theme.

DINNER SPEAKER. Jamos Knupp, Fort Dodge, district lieutenant governor of Kiwanis, spoke hero last night at observance of the 50th anniversary of Kiwanis International. (Photo, Terry Borchers) Farm Given Custodial License The Emmet County Farm has been provisionally licensed as a custodial home by the State Department of Health, Board of Supervisors announced today. Tiie qualifications on the license must be removed by Dec. 31, 1965, Board Chairman W.

T. Nielsen said. 1) A living or recreation room, 2) a three- compartment sink, 3) a dishwasher, 4) a patient bathroom on the main floor, 5) outside doors which open to the outside and 6 1 metal doors leading to the basement and the second floor must be installed to meet state requirements, Custodian Bill McKeighan said. The needed improvements are under consideration by the Board and will be made before the Dec. 31 deadline, Nielsen said.

"An addition will have to be constructed if we are to have space to meet these re-iuire- ments," McKeighan said. "A wing on the front of the present brick building appears to be the best solution at this time." Unliceased county farms risk the transfer of state patients to state institutions. Such transfers could increase the cost of care to the county by as much as $240 per month per patient. Seventeen patients currently live at the local county farm. Twelve are classed as state patients, the custodian said.

Chairman Nielsen and supervisors T. L. Johnson, Rudolph Christensen, Elmer Iverson and Robert Whitehouse attended the meeting. Golla Rites On Friday Funeral services for s. John (Pauline) Golla, 83, are to be Friday at 2 p.m.

at the Fuhrman Funeral Home, the Rev. Howard Wakelin officiating. Burial i.s to he in Oak Hill cemetery. Services had orginally been set for Thursday afternoon but were postponed until Friday so that relatives from out of town could attend. Mrs.

Golla died early yesterday morning at Holy Family Hospital where she had been a patient for the past week. She suffered a stroke but was hospitalized after suffering a broken hip in a fall at her home. Mrs. Golla is survived by four sons, Clarence of Estherville, Jack of Arnolds Park, Irvin of Council Bluffs, and Harry of Spencer; four daughters, Mrs. Archie (Esther) Ericson, Mrs.

Lee (June) Erickson, both of Minneapolis; Mrs. Florence Burtis and Mrs. J. M. Fredericksen, both of Estherville; 10 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband and a son, Herman. Dick Haytnes' Fifth Wife Divorces Him LOS ANGELES (AP) Dick Havmes' fifth wife, singer Fran Jeffries, divorced him Tuesday in Los Angeles. She testified he was jealous of her career, became "very upset" when she went to Europe for engagements, and also insulted her in front of friends. She waived alimony and payments for support of their 5- year-old daughter, Stephanie, saying she is more capable than Haymos of supporting the child, Haymes was reported to be in London. Old Quota System Under Fire WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson proposed a sweeping new immigration law to Congress today.

It Ls based on an immigrant's skill and his family ties in tho United States. It would do away with the 40- year-old national-origins quota system. Johnson called the quota system "incompatible with our basic American tradition." Instead, immigrants would be selected on a first-come, first- serve basis, within a system of preferences based on work and cultural skills and family unity. The bill is virtually idenUcal to one proposed In 1963 by President John F. Kennedy.

Johnson urged Congress today to give revived bill priority consideration. bill, he said, would maintain safeguards against undesirables and excessive immigration, require all immigrants to meet U.S. security requirements, and ensure that no immigrants "could contribute to unemployment in the United States." Sen. John L. McClellan, D- said "I don't think we ought to let this country get flooded with immigrants.

We've got enough of an unemployment problem as it is." He is a member of the immigration subcom- mil'ce of the Senate Judiciary Committee. An administration source estimated passage of the law eventually would increase the average number of immigrants from 300,000 to 350,000 including those not subject to numerical restrictions, such as those coming from Western Hemisphere countries. Douglas-Home lias Medical Check EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) Sir Alex Douglas-Home, 81, former Conservative party prime minister uf Britain, underwent a medical checkup today at a nursing home in Edinburgh His wife said the checkup was rouine and Ls nothing whatever to be concerned about." CRAMPED KITCHEN FACILITIES may necessitate construction of an addition to the Emmet County Farm, Mr. and Mrs, Bill McKeighn, farm custodians, say. Mrs.

McKeighn inspects the sink which must be replaced with a three-compartment unit under state licensing requirements. (Photo, Terry Borchers) Walter F. Weber of Terril Dies TERRIL Funeral services were held here Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock in Immanuel Lutheran Church for Walter Frank Weber, 53, who died Friday at Spencer Municipal Hospital following a Lingering illness. The Rev. Alonzo Belveal of- f'eiated at the funeral.

Burial was in Fail-view cemetery. Pallbearers were John and Wilbert Blefeldt, Larry McViek- er, Herman Andresen, Roy Zelinsky and Aadne Ness. Honorary pallbearers were Derb Taylor, Ben Marten, Oliver Johnson, Joe Murphy, Dorvin Keagle and Lloyd Griffin. Mrs. Darrell Sykes was organist and played the accompaniment for a quartet, Jerry Zelinsky, Duane and Dona'd Van Ehwegen and Donald Holmberg, as they sang Savior Pilot Me" and "In The Hour of Trial." Walter Weber was born April 22, 1911, at Benson, 111., the son of John Weber Jr.

and Anna Schraeder Weber. He lived in Illinois until 1919 and then moved with his family to Pocahontas. In 1923 he moved to the Terril-Langdon area He was married June 12, 1932, to Irene Evelyn and the couple continued to live near Langdon until 20 years ago when they moved to the firm eaHt of Terril where Mr. Weber continued to live until his death. Mrs.

Weber died about two years'ago. Mr. Weber was baptized, confirmed and married in the Lutheran faith and was an acUve member of Immanuel Lutheran Church as long as his health permitted. He is survived by two sons, Gary of Anderson, and Galen of Phoenix, Ariz seven grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. A.

G. Marsh of Sioux City, one niece aid two nephews. Preceding him in death his wife, a grandson and his parents..