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October 9, 2019 - 10:35 AM

60 Years Ago

October 1959

Three world-famous musical organizations have been booked for performances at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center for the season. Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians will lead off on Nov. 18. On Feb. 22, the San Antonio Symphony orchestra will appear in concert and late next spring the U.S. Navy Band will give two performances here.

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Harvey Rogers, building and maintenance supervisor for the Iola Post Office and the Allen County Courthouse, will head the United Fund drive for government agencies in Iola this fall. Rogers is a lifelong resident of Iola and attended the Iola schools. He is a veteran of the Korean War and has been active in community affairs.

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An 80-acre site was purchased yesterday by the Iola City Commission for an industrial park. The acreage, which is across from the Wichman Ford Agency on U.S. 169 about a mile north of town, cost $36,000. The city’s investment will increase substantially as utilities are brought to the area. The money was taken from an industrial fund created by the sale of a portion of the land owned by the city adjacent to the Iola Municipal Airport. The same fund was used to buy the land sold this year to Iola Molded Plastics for expansion of its boat plant. This sale returned about $30,000 to the fund and made the new purchase possible, Mayor Jack Hastings said.

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