March 29, 2024

Throwback Thursday

Today is Oct. 27, the 301st day of the year. It’s a leap year. So, there are 65 days left in 2016. Below are news items from the Creston News Advertiser for this week (Oct. 24-30) in history:

10 years ago

Roger Clayton, director of Kirk Gros Company construction; Janet Knock, marketing director and board member; Karl Knock, executive vice president and chairman of the board; Annette Boswell, chamber of commerce president; Mike Tameris, Creston mayor; Bob Snodgrass, board member; Dave Driskell, ISSB president; Dale Eklund, board member; and Lee McNichols, board member, all braved the cold temperatures to break ground at the future site of the Iowa State Savings Bank branch located at 504 W. Taylor St. in Creston.

Four Creston High School students participated in the All-State Music Festival at Hilton Coliseum in Ames. They included Ellen Walker on clarinet, Betsy Johnson on oboe, Nicole Stoll on tenor sax and Meghin Krambeck, selected for orchestra.

20 years ago

Harold Hughes, a liberal Democrat who served three terms as Iowa’s governor and one in U.S. Senate, died in Arizona at 74. A former truck driver, Hughes dragged himself from the grip of alcoholism to start a career in politics.

Six Creston High School students were selected to participate in the 277-piece All-State band in 1996. They were Bill Neve on trumpet, Theresa Rooney on clarinet, Amanda Fiala on French horn, Brian Teutsch on tuba, Shantrey Cochran on bassoon and Beau Kenyon on clarinet.

50 years ago

A dedication for the new Adams County home, just east of Corning on Highway 34, was held. The modern steel building had facilities for 42 residents and already had 23. Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Brown were the steward and matron of the county home.

Dale Foster, Crestmoor greens-keeper, and Mike Coen, Creston High School senior and employee of the golf club, were busy rolling sod on the greens at the club. A long-range program to build all new greens had been set.

In a bid for peace, President Johnston and his war allies announced they were prepared to withdraw forces from South Vietnam within six months after their conditions for establishing peace were fulfilled. Winding up the two-day summit meeting, the South Vietnamese regime pledged to hold national elections by the next fall as the other side withdrew its forces to the north, ceased infiltration and violence subsided.

A meeting to organize a Union County Historical Society was held in the basement of the courthouse. More than 200 invitations were sent to organizations and individuals who had expressed interest in preserving articles with historical significance. The committee was headed by O.E. Anderson, president, Geraldine Heesel, secretary-treasurer, and Harold Arnold, vice president, and newly elected board members, Mrs. Richard Hammans of Lorimor, Lee Stalker of Kent, A.V. Boyd of Creston, Fred Day of Afton, Willis Royce of Creston and Mrs. Gerald Scofield of Afton.

Preliminary work for the construction of a new Lenox Community High School building at Lenox began as a water pipe was laid to the site south of the William Nixon home from the town water main. Grading at the site had been done and the basement had been dug by building contractor McCorkle Construction Company of Sac City. There was also a plastic shelter to erect so that work could be done through the winter. The new school was to be 330 feet long and 120 feet wide with brick on the outside and concrete blocks inside.