Richard Cook, a graduate of the University of Kansas school of pharmacy, will join his father, Gene, in the operation of Cook’s Rexall Pharmacy on the west side of the square.
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The widening of U.S. 59 from 18 to 22 feet from Iola to Humboldt got started this week. Today workmen are laying strips of a hot asphaltic mix, two feet wide, on each side of the old concrete pavement. The project includes the new approach to the Santa Fe viaduct, the new sweeping curve about a mile south of the viaduct, eliminating three former right angle turns, and a new approach to and through Humboldt.
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John Krupp, owner of Krupp Iron and Metal Co., said he will build a drive-in theater near Iola this summer. He has an option on two sites, both on Highway 54, one east and the other west of town. The screen, individual loud speakers and other equipment for the theater have been purchased. The theater will accommodate about 300 cars and will occupy from 10 to 12 acres.
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TOPEKA (AP) — Mayor Ivan Jones of Iola today was ordered removed from office by the Kansas Supreme Court. The court held Jones was not eligible for the office because he had lived in a suburban tract outside the city limits from April 1947 to June 1949. He was elected in the 1949 election and state law requires candidates to have lived within the city limits for at least two years, continuously, immediately before the election. The decision means that Tom Waugh, previous major, will serve until a successor is qualified.
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Ground was broken at the site of the new Allen County Hospital. Thos. H. Bowlus was the principal speaker. Heavy construction equipment is already on the site and work will begin immediately
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Clark King, field man, and Walker Beard, salesman for the Meadow Sweet Dairy, Erie, were arrested this morning on a charge of offering to sell milk in Iola without a local license. The dairy is a subsidiary of the Neosho creamery cooperative which applied for an Iola license nearly two months ago. The permit has not been granted. For a number of months, the Neosho Valley Creamery has endeavored to secure a license to sell milk in Iola. Today the cooperative is taking its first step in trying to force the issue.
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The city commission passed a milk inspection ordinance setting fees at three-eights cents on each gallon processed at plant. The Neosho Valley Creamery was given a license to sell in Iola but says the inspection fee is unfair.
