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Today is Thursday, Dec. 26, the 361st day of the year. There are 5 days remaining in 2024. Below is a collection of news items found in the Creston News Advertiser for this week in history.
29 years ago (1995)
Going to Germany as part of the U.S. peacekeeping effort in Bosnia is just “part of the deal” for Creston Police Sgt. Duane Osmun. Osmun, 47, leaves Creston Wednesday to spend a few days at Camp Dodge in Johnston with his 186th M.P. (military police) Co. of the Iowa Army National Guard. After that it’s to Fort Benning, Georgia, for mobilization and off to Germany for up to nine months.
Like a bad bologna sandwich, the topic of jail meals keeps coming back up at Union County Board of Supervisors meetings. The board appears on the verge of voting to proceed with a contract for jail meals, but in the interim continues to seek additional information from the South Iowa Crime Commission.
Don Foreman of Kansas City, Kansas, a former Union County Sheriff and Afton Police Officer, won the October and November Pinkerton Hero’s Service Award. Foreman is assigned to the J.C. Penney’s distribution center at Lenexa, Kansas.
It looks like a credit card. The resemblance ends, though, with a bar code and magnetic strip on the back. The front of the card is a driver’s license, complete with digital photo and hologram. Iowa’s Department of Transportation has introduced a new type of license, one intended to lessen fraudulent use of licenses and to speed up authentication.
49 years ago (1975)
Millions of American’s lowest paid workers will be eligible for immediate pay raises when the federal minimum wage law jumps to $2.30 per hour on New Year’s Day. The Labor Department said Thursday that nearly four million workers will be eligible for the pay raises.
Begun last March in Central Iowa, Answerline now is being expanded to serve the entire state. It’s already logged more than 7,000 calls. You can get help for a variety of problems and topics including money management, food, housing, sewing, child development, crafts, consumerism and interior decoration by calling 1-800-262-3804, The toll-free Answerline number is operated by Iowa State University Extension Service.
A photocopying machine in the lobby of the Creston Post Office will no longer be in service after Wednesday, along with similar coin-operated copiers in post offices across the nation. Creston Post Master Robert J. Coulter said he has heard no objections to the approaching removal and said use of the machine here, has not been as high as expected.
The Farmers Cooperative Company of Creston is building a new lumberyard at East Howard Street, about 800 feet east od the co-op’s fertilizer plant.
Hal Jackson, who has served as manager of the Farmer’s Cooperative Company of Afton for 25 years, is retiring Dec. 31.
69 years ago (1955)
In an announcement issued through the Creston Chamber of Commerce office by the retail trade committee, most Creston stores will change their “night open,” beginning with January, from Saturday night to Friday night.
Nearly 60 families, including 229 persons, in Creston and vicinity were remembered Saturday evening - Christmas Eve - with well filled baskets from the Christmas Basket fund and toys from the Franklin P.T.A. Toy Shop.
Mrs. Leslie Park of Mount Ayr will be the guest of Mrs. Leo Hoegh, wife of the governor of Iowa, at a special “coffee” to be held at the governor’s mansion Jan. 5.
Women are expected to play a more active part in the 1956 Iowa elections than at any other time in the state’s history. Leaders in both political parties feel that women will not only be more active as workers but also as voters. “We feel that one good woman worker in politics may be equal of 10 good men,” Ray Mills, state president of the AFL labor forces said.
The Blue Grass Chapter of the Izaak Walton League (Creston) will hold its annual election of officers tonight in a meeting at the clubhouse on the shores of McKinley Lake. Harold Kenney, secretary of the chapter for the past two years, has been nominated for president. Melvin Moore, retiring president, will automatically become chairman of the board.
Clifford Jackson, who resigned a civil service position with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in September, today was appointed Union County Treasurer. He will succeed Donald E. Miller, who has resigned effective Saturday.