50 Years Ago
This Week
Sept. 29-Oct. 5, 1963
The retirement of News Printing Company Foreman Harold “Hank” Hankins was announced on Oct. 1. Hankins started with the company in 1917-20 then returned to work in Newton in September 1937. Daily News Publisher E.K. Shaw presented the longtime employee with an inscribed gold wristwatch in commendation of his 50-year printing career ...
A front-page item noted that not one employee at the Maytag Company’s Hampton plant has missed work on account of injury on the job during the past decade. At a special called meeting at the plant Board Chairman George M. Umbreit commended the Hampton employees for their cooperation in setting this new safety record ...
Karen Altemeier was crowned Newton Homecoming queen during a pep assembly Oct. 4 at the Senior High School auditorium. Other candidates were Paula Bredimus, Florette Mulbrook, Rae Jean McCue, and Judy Robson. All of the girls are seniors.
25 Years Ago
This Week
Sept. 29-Oct. 5, 1988
On Sept. 29, Maytag Chairperson and CEO Daniel J. Krumm announced that the Maytag Corporation is seeking buyers for Jenn Industries Inc., located in Indianapolis, Ind., and Magic Chef Air Conditioning Co., in Bellevue, Ohio. “These are good operations, but the products they manufacture do not serve markets that are significant to Maytag Corporation nor do they contribute substantially to our earnings,” Krumm said ...
Answers to Medicare questions will be available free of charge every Tuesday, starting Oct. 4, at Skiff Medical Center, Mildred Caldwell, president of the SMC Auxiliary, the sponsoring organization, announced. Auxiliary volunteers Gerry Castonguay and Joyce Boles have been specially trained in this area, Caldwell said. A free blood pressure check was also offered at this time ...
Three Newton employees represented the city at the annual conference of the Water Pollution Federation Oct. 5 in Dallas, Tex. Attending the conference were Scott Hindman, assistant superintendent of the Newton Water Pollution Control plant, Gordon Brand, and Paul Vanous, operator of the plant.