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Today is Thursday, May 5, the 124th day of the year. There are 241 days left in 2022. Below are news items from the Creston News Advertiser for this week in history.
10 years ago (2012)
Southwestern Community College announced Josh Kite of Iowa City, will be the head coach for the Spartan’s new track and field program. In March, the college had announced it would be implementing track and field starting with the 2012-13 school year. Kite is currently the assistant director of admissions at Coe College in Cedar Rapids. Prior to that, he was the assistant track and field coach and assistant director of admissions at Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant.
Crest Area Theatre (CAT) presented “Blind Date, Inc.” Saturday and Sunday at SWCC.
Creston City Officials held an Open House at Lincoln School Tuesday, to allow the public to see what changes will be made if the school is renovated into the new Creston Public Library. During the Open House, an architectural design was posted outside of each room in the school. The designs showed how each room would be renovated and what the purpose of each would be. Gibson Memorial Library has been at it’s current location, 200 West Howard Street, since April 7, 1931.
25 years ago (1997)
Creston News Advertiser Lifestyle Editor, Rita Miller, was awarded the first place Iowa Health Care Media Award for daily newspapers during the 68th annual meeting of Iowa Hospital Association in Des Moines. Millers winning story featured Randy Roghair as he donated bone marrow at University of Iowa Hospitals.
50 years ago (1972)
Under joint sponsorship of Co-Ed Council and YWCA at the college, a Hootenanny will be held Friday night at the college at 8 p.m. Plans are for several hours of singing with guitar and bass accompaniment by Jane Petznick, Tom Mullin and Tom Petznick.
James Waltz presented the annual Citizenship Awards from the Union County Bar Association to Debbie Ehm and Mark Lappe, Creston High School seniors, during an awards day ceremony held this week.
A new cycle club has been formed in Creston with John Hettinger as president. One meeting for the club has been held, during which, Dwight Mickey was elected vice president, Mike Reynolds elected as secretary and Glen Bills was elected treasurer. The club is open to anyone with a minibike or motorcycle. They plan to sponsor rides to various places and at present are trying to obtain land for trail riding.
75 years ago (1947)
Maurice W. Anderson, member of the Iowa Highway Patrol for the last six years and Creston resident, resigned from the Patrol, effective today, May 5. He will join his brother-in-law in operating an automobile sales and service agency in Ottumwa. Anderson has worked for the patrol for several years and has been assigned to District Two, which has headquarters here, since the district was formed in April 1946. His resignation leaves the district with three patrolman and Sgt. Jesse Goetsch, who is command of the district.
The senior class of Creston High School presented a three-act mystery drama and psychological study entitled “Kind Lady” by Edward Chadrow, to a large audience Friday at the high school auditorium as it’s annual class play. Lead roles were played by Janet Munson and Doyle Ratliff.
Nearly 100 students and guests attended the Creston Junior College Spring Formal dinner dance Monday night at the Chicken Inn. The theme chosen for the event was “Stardust” and the Inn was decorated in accordance with the theme. The program for the evening was cleverly presented by using the words to Hoagy Carmichael’s “Stardust”.
Dairy Queen, located at 103 North Oak Street, advertised a Malt and Shake special May 5. Special of 20 cents instead of the regular 30 cent price.
An article was featured in Des Moines Newspaper on Sunday about an episode involving a busload of track team members from a West Des Moines high school and Creston Police Chief William Hiatt, causing concern in Creston official and business circles. It had to do with comments made by Tom Karpen, track coach at Valley High School, criticizing the attitude of Chief Hiatt in connection to when the busload was asked to clean up some papers purportedly thrown on Creston streets by Karpen’s track boys as they were leaving town. In a city council meeting Monday night, Creston mayor, Ray Taylor, expressed satisfaction with Chief Hiatt’s actions in requiring the track squad to clean up the papers on Adams Street.