Iola area residents have responded to a fund-raising drive to improve the life of an Iola boy. The $10,000 goal has been surpassed to buy an electric wheelchair for Danny Morris, a 14-year-old with cerebral palsy. The wheelchair has a computer with a voice synthesizer which Morris activates by using a switch under his chin to select messages from a scanning display.
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Roy Owens, plant manager of Monarch Cement Co. in Humboldt, wants to learn whether old automobile tires and scrap wood pallets can be burned to heat the plant’s kilns and landfill operators and tire dealers are lining up to provide them.
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Employment at Herff-Jones will increase substantially later this year. Plant manager Bob Hessel said a Herff-Jones diploma facility in the northwest United States would be closed and its production moved to Iola. Production of yearbook covers will cease in Iola and be done elsewhere.
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Beverly and Gary Hawk, along with their daughter, Lora, have purchased The Classy Attic, at 14 S. Washington, from Dr. Tell and Vicki Copening. Artwork by Gary Hawk will be added to the current stock at the store.
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Shawna Robb of Iola and Mona Scantlin are two of 12 players on the Kansas Select Girls Basketball Team which will be playing in a girls’ basketball tournament in the Soviet Union later this month. The team is holding a week-long practice session here in Iola at Allen County Community College. The team will leave for the U.S.S.R. on July 24.
