60 years ago
February 1964
Efforts toward getting a state vocational-technical training center located in this area were advanced last night with the appointment of a committee to generate local interest.
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Bicycle registration in the Iola schools was completed last week with licenses sold for 658 bicycles at the schools, Everett Shepherd, chief of police, said today. Licenses now go on sale at the police department for 25 cents each. City ordinances require that all bicycles in the city have licenses.
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The courthouse park in Iola will blossom out in a new planting of at least 14 hard maple trees this spring, if plans announced today by the Iola Garden Club are carried through. The plantings will be financed by grants by Sears, Roebuck and Co. on a 50-50 matching basis. Don Spangler, president of the Iola club, said the club has applied for a $50 grant and will match it with club funds.
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The Edminston Store in Iola has been sold to the John Green organization. The new owners said they will sell present stock and continue the business as a John Green Store. The corporation operates 59 units throughout the middle west under the supervision of Store Management, Inc., of St. Louis.
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An old burr oak tree cut on the Jerry Sayles farm about 10 miles northwest of Iola was estimated to be 336 years old by Gene Grey, state forester. It was cut down to make room for younger trees because it was beginning to deteriorate. Its height was estimated at 90 feet and it has an average diameter of 58 inches at ground level. The tree contained 40 linear feet of salable logs which will supply 2,565 board feet of lumber which will be used as cooperage or oak veneer. The tree measured 13 feet in circumference.
