70 Years Ago
January 1949
3 Dr. G.E. Myers, who has been associated with Dr. J. Russell Nevitt at the emergency hospital, has opened his own office at 14½ S. Washington and will engage in the general practice of medicine. He first came to Iola last June.
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8 Yesterday new combination red flashers, bells and flood light signals were put into operation at the Santa Fe Railway crossings on both West Street and North State Street. Motorists using either Highway 54 or 169 will now have little excuse for collisions with trains at these two points. The flood lights illuminate the crossings and both sides of a train brilliantly. A train on the tracks can be readily seen for a distance of several blocks.
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11 Although dairying is now Allen Countys largest industry, only a fraction of this areas potential milk production has been realized. That was the conclusion emphasized last night by John Brazee and A.J. Miller who spoke before the Chamber of Commerce on the growth of the local plant Pet Milk Company during the past 25 years. The plant now has about 2,000 patrons from whom it purchases milk every day, employees 70 to 85 men and has 34 others who operate milk routes throughout the plants territory. These routes extend about 40 miles from Iola in every direction.
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13 Mayor T.O. Waugh said the lights will be turned on at 7:30 tonight at the football stadium in Riverside Park to provide illumination for ice skating. Many students gathered at the park after school yesterday to ice skate.
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A legal notice in todays Register announces the annexation of territory to the Elsmore rural school district. The publication follows the wishes of the owners of the land involved, and has significant bearing on action reported to be underway in Neosho County to add part of the same area to the Grant township rural district at Stark.
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18 New telephone service rates which provide increases of as much as 50 percent in charges for individual and business service are now being computed in the Iola office of the Southwest Bell Telephone Co. At Iola the former charge of $2 a month for an individual line residential phone has been increased to $3. With taxes, the individual will pay $3.51, up from $2.34. The flat rate for business phones has been increased from $3 to $6 a month.
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The Radley Creamery will begin the distribution of grade A pasteurized milk today. The Glencliff Creameries also distribute grade A pasteurized milk. Grade A raw milk is delivered by Don Nichols and C. H. Ronsick.
19 The accounting, purchasing and dispersing departments of the Union LP Gas Co. will soon be moved from Independence to the Iola office, Glen O. McGuire announced this morning. McGuire has been elected a vice president of the company. The firm will also discontinue the retail sale of appliances.
