QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS

     Here, all at once, my desk has been overrun with numerous questions that viewers have posed.

      But before that.....I noticed in a recent obituary an item or two that have caused me, the Kornerman, to ask a question.

      During his career,  Dr. John Paul Kluge, 88, of Ames, an ISU grad, worked as a veterinarian for the National Disease Lab and ISU.

      From his obit, I learned that Dr. Kluge was active in the Moingona Hunt Board of Directors and served as the College of Vet Medicine Coordinator for the Iowa Games Equestrian Venue and Moingona Hunter Pace.

      In my 75 plus years in Boone, I have never heard of these Moingona references????

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      My longtime good friend, Ann Onymous, wrote, "what was the name of that lunch counter on Ninth Street between Story and Allen streets. and the one where Dutch Oven Bakery is now located? I've taught many a burger joint and truck stop diner how to make a garbage man open-faced sandwich and since, they've added it to their menus."

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      Mike Loehrer, BHS-64, wrote, "I was relating a story to one of my grandchildren about how my great grandfather's greenhouse was destroyed in the tornado of May 21, 1918. I've been told he was going to have his grand opening on the 22nd. But he had no insurance and left town to move out west. I recently found some photos taken in Boone at a place called Nic-o-let Park which appears to be an amusement park with a number of rides. I've never heard of this."

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      John Hinz, BHS-64, wrote, "Great reading about the Coney Island. When we were allowed to leave the BHS campus for lunch, a group of us went there often for lunch. I believe I'm correct that we could get 3 coneys for $1 plus extra for a drink. I think the group varied but usually included Dick Musser, Tom Inman, Mike Nyman and Jude Rolfes. It was gourmet dining compared to the BHS cafeteria. Linda and I still enjoy coneys and when we return to Iowa, George, the Chili King, is a very passable substitute."

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       Leon "Andy" Anderson, BHS-62, and I are back and forth with emails quite often and in answer to a question I posed, here was his reply,"Both of us, brother Laverne, BHS-54, and I, flew helicopters and Laverne flew the 119 fixed wing also, in the National Guard. I got my commercial fixed wing after the Guard. Yeah, that was me that was Captain Andy on WHO in Des Moines and then Captain Jack came on board after my third year." P.S. Who remembered that Leon was the leading hitter in the Boone Babe Ruth Baseball league one year?

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       A long time friend and one time co-worker at KWBG, Bernie Lewiston, grew up south of Ogden and graduated from Perry High School. An ISU grad, he started work in radio at KASI in Ames and KWBG. Eventually, he went back to the farm but said he never lost the radio "bug."

       Bernie just had another birthday and since 1957, he's been a  ham radio operator. The Ogden Reporter had a nice story about that and Bernie sent me a copy of it. It was very interesting and it reminded me of many years ago when my family were neighbors with the Harold Gustafson family up near 17th and Crawford.

      The Gustafsons had two sons, Don and Dean, who I spent time with. I remember how enthralled I was watching their dad as he talked to the "world" via his ham radio outfit. In the Ogden newspaper story, they asked, "what has kept you (Bernie) interested in ham radio?" His reply, "its still a kid's fascination that I can key my transmitter and immediately get a response from a ham in Eastern Europe or someplace else in the world." 

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