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July 29, 1946
Release 20 names for Barracks
C.C. McCarthy, city manager, today released the names of twenty successful applicants for the 24 emergency housing units now being erected on the Bonebright lots.
Four other names picked by the conference committee are being withheld for further study to make sure they are eligible for the housing. A mistake in granting housing now would not help an ineligible applicant, McCarthy said, since the person erroneously given the unit would be denied the quarters as soon as the mistake was discovered.
The conference committee, which selected the occupants, stated that in case any of those selected do not take the quarters or are denied them for some reason, the committee will meet again and select a substitute from the remainder of the list of applicants whose names are being kept on file.
The walls of one building are now up, MacCarthy said, and materials are expected to arrive regularly from now on. The units will be covered with a buff covered imitation brick siding, he added, with new roofing to be installed and the units painted.
Shortages of plumbing, wiring, and paint are delaying construction slightly.
The names of the 20 successful applicants now picked are: James A. Bartlett, Harold T. Biggs, Forrest R. Grant, Kenneth R. Leffler, J. B. Berry, Keith E. Draper, Frank E. Graham, Arnold L. Branyord, Howard F. Austin, Frank N. Horan, Wayne Calkins, Samuel P. Shaeffer, Forrest DeFrance, Raymond L. Nedlin, Jimmy C Osboe, Marvin McKinney, Carl E. Meyers, S. C. Norem, Marvin Munsinger and Ivan R. Evans.
1961
Victory Bell' rings with a thud
George Goledner, 13 examines the wreckage of the Webster City high school "Victory Bell" which rang with a thud Friday afternoon at about 3:30 p.m. when the bell and its holding structure broke loose from the top of the campanile to crash in the passageway.
The colorful campanile, located between the Hamilton County courthouse and Washington Central school, was erected in the mid-1920's by funds from public subscription, raised to preserve the old school bell which had hung in the North school building. The building had been razed to permit erection of Washington Central.
The ancient bell, which traditionally tolled off Webster City athletic victories, reportedly was taken off a river steamer which became stranded near Stratford about 100 years ago.
1971
Webster City born artist moves back to home area from coast
What would your mind see if you tried to imagine the life of a country artist?
It’s likely that your impression would be a rather neat stereotype--which would support a contention of David Raven that we too often tend to categorize everything that way--and it’s likely, none-the-less, that the impression would describe him.
David Raven, 26, grew up in Webster City, left here after graduating from high school in 1963 to study art, and now, eight years later, he’s returned to establish residence and an art studio in this area. His will be a lifestyle one would imagine for an artist.
Preferring solitude to crowds, he has built a studio in an old farm house set a long way back from a secluded country road. Outside the house, which is located four miles north of Stanhope, is parked his aging black Volkswagen. The house is nearly hidden from view from the road by the trees that front his 12 acres of timber.
A passerby is apt to see only a gravel turn-in, cut off abruptly by a gate with warnings to "keep out, no-trespassing.” Raven will live in the farm house alone. He wants the company of the woods, a few geese or ducks. By this fall, he hopes to have the additional company of six or eight students coming to the studio for weekly instruction in oil painting.
Oils are the medium in which Raven prefers to work, and several oil paintings which he David Raven decided in 1962, while in high school in Webster City, that he wanted “only one thing, to be a painter."
After being away eight years, he has returned to this area an accomplished artist, many of his works, including the self portrait behind the artist here, are now on free public exhibit downstairs in the Kendall Young library.
Noticeable in the oils on exhibit, says Raven, is a change in the artist’s work from very dark, gray tones in his early paintings to the lighter expression in pure color that he has attempted more recently.
The exhibit in the library here includes works Raven has done in St. Paul; Tokyo, Japan; Seoul, S. Korea; London; and San Francisco. Raven’s work will be shown here through Aug. 31.
New Pinarettes are capped
Fourteen girls were presented their Pinarette caps Tuesday night by the Hamilton County Red Cross chapter. Capped were Dawn Myers, Sarah McMurray, Shelley Shelton, Ginger Luick, Debbie Jansen, Jeannie Biggins, Kay Richardson and Laurel Holdorf; Cindy Jacobson, Vickie Poland, Nancy Buell, Cindy Johnson, Lee Ann Trusty and Barbara Klaver. The youth volunteers have trained for service at the Hamilton County hospital, where they assist Senior Pinarettes and Gray Ladies. Mrs. Colin Kennedy, hospital volunteer chairman, presided over the capping ceremonies at the Farmers National Bank community room, and mothers of the Pinarettes attended as special guests. Six girls who were unable to attend the capping will receive caps later. They include Darla Plain, Lisa Veach, Penny Adams, Carol Draper, Jackie Burtnett and Pam Breitenkamp.