60 Years Ago
Several persons called The Register today to speak of the plight that the prolonged snow season means for birds and at least one organized rescue project was underway. Ray Pershall and Clarence Robinson were heading an informally assembled group that will attempt an airlift mission. They are soliciting funds with which to buy feed and paper bags and for financing flights over the county. They are hoping to start the feed drops Thursday of bags containing a pound or two of corn and other grain along hedge rows. Eastern Kansas is now covered with six to nine inches of snow.
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Bill Meek, manager, will drop in excess of 1,000 pounds of grain today and tomorrow in two-pound paper bags from a low-flying airplane for quail and other birds.
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Fire destroyed a barn, a pickup truck, hay, grain and killed three sows on the Floyd Smith place on East Irwin about 2 a.m. this morning. Smith, Iola High School principal and dean of Allen County Junior College, and his wife were out of town at the time. The Smith home was not damaged and neither was a metal barn just a few yards south of the frame barn that burned.
