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1936
Boy, 17 is healthiest in county
Harold Crosby, 17 son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest M. Crosby was declared winner of the boy's 4-H county health contest yesterday.
His score was 99.2 percent. Harold drinks at least two quarts of milk a day, does not use narcotics, and has regular sleeping hours. He will represent Hamilton County at the state contest which will be held at the Iowa State Fair.
Warren Doolittle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Doolittle, was runner up with 98.9 percent.
The following boys were in the contest: Warren Doolittle, Albert Koolhof, Clarence Noffke, Harold Arnold, Victor Crosby, Kenneth Bottorff, Dwight Calkins and Harold Crosby.
Much improvement was shown in this year's contest over last year's. The 4-H health contest was made possible through the cooperation of the following doctors: W.B. Lewis, E.F. Rambo, H.D. Wold, Forest F. Hall.
Every boy was examined by these doctors.
1946
Robert Young is selected Health Champ
Robert Young, 17 of Hamilton township will be Hamilton county's entry in the state boys' 4-H health contest to be held in connection with the state fair.
Young's score was 99.4 He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Young and has been in boys 4-H club work for four years. He is keenly interested in 4-H activities and is participating in the county baby beef project.
Bruce Yungclas, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Yungclas of Fremont township, county health champion last year, was runner-up.
1966
Nine complete summer NYC program here
Eight Webster City youngsters and one from Blairsb urg composed this summer's work force for Hamilton County under the statewide National Youth Corps program.
Seven boys and two girls, ages 16 and 17 worked at a variety of tasks under the supervision of the street department and the recreation department. They worked for a period of nine weeks.
The boys working under the direct supervision of William Stommel, city street superintendent, performed duties as painters, helpers on street improvement and helpers on the crew of storm sewer maintenance.
When questioned as to the enrollees' proficiency at these chores, Stommel reported these youngsters "took hold of their assignments and performed them very well. We were very satisfied with their work."
The objectives of the program were not only to give the enrollees an opportunity to work, but also in a large measure, to instill in them sound, constructive work habits and attitudes, " Charles Wood, coordinator of the Hamilton County neighborhood center said.
Those participating in the program were Grechen Reynolds, Thelma Long, Alex Kloberdanz, Tom Ford, Donald Poore, George Wirtjas, Donald Murphy, William Nelson and Jerry Helton.
1976
Groundbreaking held at Williams
Ground breaking ceremonies for the Williams Apartment, Inc. were held yesterday afternoon and attended by the Apartment's Board of Directors, several business persons and interested citizens.
Roger Fox turned the first spadeful of dirt. In addition those on hand for the event were Oscar Hames, Robert Smith, Don Cheyne, Marie Ricke, Mrs. Florence Hitchcock, Viola Thompson, Anna Ritter, Dr. L.D. Barry, Dick Sadler, Larry Sadler, Gayle Moothart, Freda Murphy, Father Clarence Kruse, John Allinson and Way Boss.
The four one-bedroom apartments should be completed by Jan. 30 according to Board President Roger Fox. The board has announced that all four units have been rented and there were seven applicants.
The $63,800 project is funded by the Farmer’s Home Administration. The project received 89 single donations totalling $4,000 from interested local residents.
The apartments will be built on the site of the old grade school yard. The board has an option to buy a lot south of the present site, and hopes to purchase a lot east of the present location. If these lots could be obtained, 12 four-unit apartments could later be built in the area.
1996
Council socked with extra costs on two projects
Faced with two different "pay now or pay later" choices Monday night, Webster City city councilmen decided that pain is better in short bursts. In other words, they'll pay now and get it over with.
They didn’t enjoy it, but councilmen did reach the conclusion that paying now would probably mean paying less.
In the largest of the two additional expenditures, councilmen will drastically speed up renovations now underway at the wastewater treatment plant. Earlier this month, councilmen opted to delay replacement of an RBC (rotating biological contractor), which failed on Aug. 5.
That decision was based on the knowledge that other units within the train of four RBC units may break, thus damaging the new RBC. Councilmen didn't want to risk damaging a new unit and didn't want to shell out the funds to replace all four RBC's within the train.
Sure enough, two days later, another RBC in that train failed, leaving little choice but to replace all four RBC's. Still councilmen were not an easy sell.