Farmers from all sections of Allen County gathered at Friends Home Lutheran Church west of Savonburg yesterday for lunch and the 12th annual meeting of the local Soil Conservation district. C. F. Gilpin, president of Iola State Bank, representing the Kansas Bankers Association, presented Conservation Awards to Glen T. Childers, Ross Lamb, R. W. Walquist, Sam P. Breiner and Clarence Johnson.
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Mrs. A. D. Gordon announced this morning that she will continue to operate the insurance business, at 16 S. Washington, opened here 25 years ago by her husband who died last week.
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Louie Kinman, whose dance band may be more widely known in Topeka, Kansas City and Wichita than it is right here in Allen County, will receive a bonus when he plays for the March of Dimes ball here Saturday evening. But it won’t be in cash. Most of the proceeds from the dance will be used to assist youthful victims of polio. Kinman’s “Big Little Band” was started six years ago and is now in demand at big time venues in a three-state area.
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A gripping story of the loneliness and isolation imposed upon Americans now living in Red China was told to the Iola Rotary Club last night by the Rev. Perry O. Hanson. He returned to the United States in December after having been detained for 15 months at Tsingtao by the Chinese Communists. Mr. Hanson, and his wife, served for nearly a half century as Methodist missionaries in China.
