45 Years Ago
November 1973
Due to the oil embargo, the Iola City Commission has issued an austere Christmas lighting policy aimed at reducing electrical power use. No decorative lighting will be installed on public buildings. Other festive lights will be turned on for only three hours each day and then only on certain dates. City superintendent Jim Wilson has directed city offices to lower thermostats to 68 degrees, to turn off lights not needed for security, and to close overhead doors in city garages as quickly as possible. Wilson also asked employees to conserve fuel as much as possible. I sincerely believe, said Wilson, if all citizens cooperate wholeheartedly in the conservation of energy of all types that a rationing at the federal level can be averted.
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HUMBOLDT City council members gave Monarch Cement Company a letter of intention to issue revenue bonds in excess of $3 million for pollution control devices and production expansion. Charles Fussman, president of the company, told the council that the company will install dust collector pollution control devices on an existing kiln and, although plans are not yet firm, will install another kiln and preheater tower similar to the one put into operation in the past several weeks.
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Marjory Stroup, a native of Iola and graduate of IHS, who now lives in Somerville, N.J., received the Philip B. Hoffman Research Scientist Award from Hoffmann, a former chairman of the board of Johnson & Johnson. Miss Stroup is director of the Philip-Levine Laboratories at Ortho Diagnostics, a Johnson & Johnson affiliate. Miss Stroup was honored for her outstanding leadership and raising the standards of the companys teaching of good blood bank practices.
