St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church, 206 S. Walnut, has completed a three-year renovation of the church and parish hall building. The congregation will have services for the first time in the renovated church on Palm Sunday, April 3. The exterior of the building was painted and the interior of the parish hall was redecorated and carpeted. New pews have been placed in the nave.
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Mrs. Cathy Conger, elementary counselor for the Iola schools, was named Counselor of the Year by the Kansas Personnel and Guidance association at their annual convention in Topeka.
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Gates Rubber Co. has completed a $275,000 expansion within its plant which will reduce the company’s dependence on outside sources of materials for hose production. Equipment installed makes “friction,” a component of hose manufacture which Gates previously shipped in from other Gates’ plants. The new machines are so productive that they produce enough of the component in a day to last the plant an entire week.
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Allen County was second in soybean production in Kansas in 1976, with 750,000 bushels, according to the Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service. Cherokee County was first with 1,086,800 bushels.
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Emerson Lynn, jr., publisher of the Register, was elected president of the Kansas Press Association during its annual convention. His grandfather, Charles F. Scott, was president of the Kansas Editorial Association, a forerunner of the KPA, in 1893, and his uncle, Angelo C. Scott, held the same office in 1931. Lynn was state and farm editor of the Wichita Beacon in 1950, then purchased the weekly Humboldt Union and published it from 1951 to 1958. He was publisher of the Bowie, Texas, News from 1958 to 1965 before becoming publisher at Iola. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago. Earlier in the convention the Register was awarded first place in editorial writing for daily newspapers between 5,000 and 10,000 circulation.
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Second-graders from Jefferson School made their annual trek to the E. J. Siefker farm south of Moran yesterday to see a small herd of buffaloes which Siefker keeps. Mrs. Siefker topped off the field trip with Kool-aid and homemade cookies for the children.
