Looking Back

•Squad of 28 out for football: Team will only have 3 veterans.

•The Norman Westerbeck crew, while excavating a basement, found a wedding ring lost by Adam Westerbeck 34 years ago.

•Blackie, as he is called at Shores’ Drugstore, or Snowball, the name he answers to at Harper’s Market, is one and the same cat. He is the most popular cat on Main St.

•Mr. and Mrs. A. M. DeJaynes opened a new jewelry store in the Reese Building on Main St.

•Mr. and Mrs. William McKinnon and Jeff will leave Sunday morning for Livingston, Montana to visit the Ed Parrots. They will then drive to California.

•This week at the Alamo: “State of the Union” starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn and “You Were Meant for Me” starring Jeanne Crain and Dan Dailey.

1973

•Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wolfe announced the engagement of their daughter, Roberta June, to Wesley Pfadenhauer, son of Chet Pfadenhauer and the late Leone Pfadenhauer.

•Hines Motors will again sponsor the Punt, Pass and Kick program this year.

•The New London Tigers were beaten in an overtime game against Highland, 24-16.

•The Tiger newspaper is running a contest to rename the school paper.

1998

•New London Clark Elementary third grader Justin Gameon, age 8, displays a letter he received from President Bill Clinton.

•Wilma Linkin brought a Big Girl tomato into the Journal office and it weighed in at 2 and a half pounds.

•Senior citizens will meet at the New London hall for a covered dish dinner. Kitchen committee is Margaret Weigert, Dee Heitmeier and Dorothy Worden.

•Obituaries this week: Lynnda Stogdill, Charlotte Brown and Mark Crear

2013

•Three people are running for the New London School Board. They are Lindsay Porter, Mike McBeth and Shane Mettler.

•Brian Lorber of Waukee, formerly of New London, is a recent umpire inductee into the Iowa Girls’ Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

•Obituaries this week: Eric “Boo” Blint, James W. Fortune, and Beverly J. Carver

•Competing letters to the editor, pro and con for a second gym, are in this week’s Journal.