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Today is Thursday, May 16, the 137th day of the year. There are 229 days remaining in 2024. Below are news items found in the Creston News Advertiser for this week in history.
23 years ago (2001)
Crowds of children and their parents gathered at the Creston Municipal Airport early this morning to greet the arrival of the Carson & Barnes Circus and get a look at the animals and other attractions. The circus, sponsored by Creston Radio, will have two performances today.
Creston will be represented in six events at the boys state high school track meet May 25-26, three of those relays. Nathan Brotherton qualified in the open 800, while Neil Lang will run in the 400 hurdles and freshman Michael Buck secured a spot in the long jump.
Last season Creston baseball started the season with just 4 wins in the first 14 games. But the mid-season brought change, as the team played nearly .500 baseball the last 18 games to finish the year 14-20. Now, a season later, Creston has eight starters returning and they’re a year older.
Greater Community Hospital will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new Behavioral Health Unit on Tuesday. Hospital officials said this will be one of the only times the new unit, designed primarily for psychiatric services for patients 55 and older, will be open to the public.
43 years ago (1981)
The Creston High School class of 1981 will graduate Sunday in the high school auditorium. Baccalaureate and commencement will be held as a joint program. Jeff Gater, president of the senior class will present to Commencement speaker, J.B. West, head usher at the White House for many years, who grew up in Afton and Creston.
As of Tuesday, 386 people have applied for fall classes at Southwestern Community College. A report presented by Dean of Students Paul Kasper showed at the same time last year 295 people had applied for classes. Kasper said the 386 was the largest number to apply since he has been at the school.
Jerry Stewart, West Des Moines psychic, appearing with Denny Denton, talk show host on radio station KSIB, was reported to thave predicted on the show of May 5, that Pope John Paul II would be assassinated. According to Denton, who said no tapes were made of the show, Stewart said “The anti-Christ would get a foothold in the Vatican due to the assassination attempt or the death by assassination of the present pope and the next pope will be named Peter.”
63 years ago (1961)
Under a crepe paper canopy which lent a subtle magic to the high school gymnasium, Robin Hoskinson and Ted Miller, most representative seniors, last night led their 233 classmates and hosts in the grand march which opened the Junior-Senior Prom.
The class of 1961 will present the annual senior class day program at the high school on Thursday, with 111 seniors taking part. The program will center around a satire of communism , tracing the rise of the “The Glorious Regime of 1961.”
The Union County Board of Supervisors today announced hearings for the middle of June on a proposal to close some 36 short pieces of light traveled county roads in an effort to keep road costs within the available county road funds. The board said in its announcement of the proposed closings action no farm home or farm will be closed off from a country road.
The Ringgold County Hospital at Mount Ayr will mark its tenth anniversary with an open house Sunday, May 21. The public is invited to attend the observance, with a special invitation extended to children who were born during the first year of operation. The hospital was opened April, 1951.