Iowa grows in viability as a filmmaking site
By Marcy Peterson Journal staff writer | Posted: Sunday, October 12, 2008
125 years ago
NORTHWESTERN IOWA NEWS: Local talent will bring out an opera for the benefit of the LeMars public library...With most of its buildings moved to Kingsley, the older town of Quorn looks as though it has been struck by a cyclone.
CITY COUNCIL NEWS: An ordinance is waiting to be put on its final passage in the council providing for the formation of a fifth ward. The fifth ward will be formed by dividing what is now the third ward and the portion of the city east of the tracks known as the annex, into wards. This additional ward will bring in two new councilmen at the next city election. At the election, too, it is scarcely probable that all of the four members whose terms expire will be re-elected, even if all try for re-election, which is unlikely.
MORE ELEPHANT NEWS: A farmer living south of Ponca told a Sioux City man yesterday that the truant elephant came to his place on Elk Creek and began eating cabbage from his truck patch. He (the farmer) went out to shoo the trespasser away, when the elephant threw squashes at him in a sportive way and drove him off. There is a cabbage famine now in all the country through which the elephant rambled.
100 years ago
JUST PASSING THROUGH: Commencing tomorrow morning and continuing until Oct. 17 it is expected that not less than 20,000 persons will pass through Sioux City in the great trek to the Rosebud country of South Dakota, where 838,000 acres of Indian lands are to be thrown open to homesteaders. Over 5,000 farms of 160 acres each will be allotted. Persons who are successful in the drawing will be permitted to make entry for a quarter section or less after March 1, 1909, by paying the government $6 an acre for the land and complying with the homestead laws...Lack of coaches with which to equip Great Northern Trains running to O'Neill, Neb., during the registration period for the Tripp county opening is causing local officials of the road considerable embarrassment.
CITY WANTS LIQUOR MONEY: Is the city of Sioux City entitled to a $25 special monthly tax from the wholesale liquor dealers and breweries? This is a question which the city council will ask City Attorney Fred Sargent to decide and should the answer be an affirmative one it will enable the city to add nearly $10,000 to its treasury should it be determined to ask for the back taxes.
POOR FARM LIFE LAID BARE: After conducting a six-hour investigation, during which fifteen witnesses were examined to learn whether the allegations that J.E. Copeland, superintendent of the Woodbury county poor farm, and his nurses had been abusing the feeble and helpless inmates by not giving them enough to eat, knocking them down and whipping them were true, the board of supervisors adjourned yesterday and today will make a report on the results of the examination. While every person called to the room admitted that corporal punishment had been given at the hands of those in charge, all but the people who received the whippings said they thought the punishments were justified. The principal complaint of the inmates was the food. Without exception they testified that potatoes was the principal article of diet and for weeks at a time they did not get meat, or butter or milk. ...The supervisors went on to exonerate Superintendent J. Copeland from charges of cruelty to the
inmates of the county poor farm. While it was the opinion of the board that corporal punishment was given only when necessary to enforce discipline, the members are of the opinion the inmates are more or less justified in their complaint about the food. The people in charge were, therefore, ordered to provide the inmates with meat at least once a day and give them a satisfying ration.
50 years ago
A STAR IS BORN: A 17-year-old June graduate of Central High School will leave here shortly for New York and star in a role in an off-Broadway musical following outstanding success this summer in a pair of Colorado productions. She is Sharon Forsmoe (now Sharon Farrell), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Forsmoe, 2131 Douglas St. She trained here under Hazel Bergh.
DINNER IS SERVED: Fifty-seven children from the Boys and Girls Home, St. Anthony's Home, and the Wall Street Mission were guests of the Sioux City Airforce Base on invitation of Col. Jones E. Bolt, base commander, in cooperation with the Rev. LuVerne K. Clark, Kiwanis Club coordinator for the annual Kids' Day. The youngsters toured the base facilities to view aircraft displays and a simulated scramble and had lunch at the base dining hall.
GAME TIME: Garry Garrels, 11, 2803 George St., a Little Leaguer, was guest of honor as the Pop and Peanut Club began its 26th annual session in Municipal Judge Berry Sisk's chambers. Club members had gathered to watch the series on television as the Milwaukee Braves and New York Yankees crossed bats for the opening game.
25 years ago
HOSPITAL FIRM PLANS NORTH SIOUX FACILITY: A 100-bed psychiatric hospital may be erected here soon. American Medical International Inc., of Beverly Hills, Calif., has filed a letter of intent with the state of South Dakota for the construction of such a facility. The acute care psychiatric hospital will represent an $8 million investment and employ 250 to 300 people. ...Plans for a new psychiatric hospital at North Sioux City follow by a year similar plans for a new psychiatric hospital in Sioux City. Charter Medical Group of Macon, Ga., announced plans in October 1982 for the construction of an 80-bed psychiatric hospital in Sioux City. Last January, Charter Medical officials announced their company was abandoning its plans to build the new Sioux City facility.
BRUCE MILLER'S TAKE ON LIGHT, CAMERA, IOWA!: Iowa may not be the filmmaking capital of the world, but it is gaining importance. In 1983 alone, two features, three episodes of "The Mississippi," and numerous commercials have been filmed in the state, leading developers to believe Iowa could become a viable film location. In 1983, more than $3 million will be spent in the state by film companies. More than one-sixth of that amount has been spent in Sioux City over the last four weeks, thanks to "Children of the Corn," a new World Picture horror film based on a Stephen King short story.
These items appeared in the Journal Oct. 6-12, 1883, 1908, 1958, 1983.
NORTHWESTERN IOWA NEWS: Local talent will bring out an opera for the benefit of the LeMars public library...With most of its buildings moved to Kingsley, the older town of Quorn looks as though it has been struck by a cyclone.
CITY COUNCIL NEWS: An ordinance is waiting to be put on its final passage in the council providing for the formation of a fifth ward. The fifth ward will be formed by dividing what is now the third ward and the portion of the city east of the tracks known as the annex, into wards. This additional ward will bring in two new councilmen at the next city election. At the election, too, it is scarcely probable that all of the four members whose terms expire will be re-elected, even if all try for re-election, which is unlikely.
MORE ELEPHANT NEWS: A farmer living south of Ponca told a Sioux City man yesterday that the truant elephant came to his place on Elk Creek and began eating cabbage from his truck patch. He (the farmer) went out to shoo the trespasser away, when the elephant threw squashes at him in a sportive way and drove him off. There is a cabbage famine now in all the country through which the elephant rambled.
100 years ago
JUST PASSING THROUGH: Commencing tomorrow morning and continuing until Oct. 17 it is expected that not less than 20,000 persons will pass through Sioux City in the great trek to the Rosebud country of South Dakota, where 838,000 acres of Indian lands are to be thrown open to homesteaders. Over 5,000 farms of 160 acres each will be allotted. Persons who are successful in the drawing will be permitted to make entry for a quarter section or less after March 1, 1909, by paying the government $6 an acre for the land and complying with the homestead laws...Lack of coaches with which to equip Great Northern Trains running to O'Neill, Neb., during the registration period for the Tripp county opening is causing local officials of the road considerable embarrassment.
CITY WANTS LIQUOR MONEY: Is the city of Sioux City entitled to a $25 special monthly tax from the wholesale liquor dealers and breweries? This is a question which the city council will ask City Attorney Fred Sargent to decide and should the answer be an affirmative one it will enable the city to add nearly $10,000 to its treasury should it be determined to ask for the back taxes.
POOR FARM LIFE LAID BARE: After conducting a six-hour investigation, during which fifteen witnesses were examined to learn whether the allegations that J.E. Copeland, superintendent of the Woodbury county poor farm, and his nurses had been abusing the feeble and helpless inmates by not giving them enough to eat, knocking them down and whipping them were true, the board of supervisors adjourned yesterday and today will make a report on the results of the examination. While every person called to the room admitted that corporal punishment had been given at the hands of those in charge, all but the people who received the whippings said they thought the punishments were justified. The principal complaint of the inmates was the food. Without exception they testified that potatoes was the principal article of diet and for weeks at a time they did not get meat, or butter or milk. ...The supervisors went on to exonerate Superintendent J. Copeland from charges of cruelty to the
inmates of the county poor farm. While it was the opinion of the board that corporal punishment was given only when necessary to enforce discipline, the members are of the opinion the inmates are more or less justified in their complaint about the food. The people in charge were, therefore, ordered to provide the inmates with meat at least once a day and give them a satisfying ration.
50 years ago
A STAR IS BORN: A 17-year-old June graduate of Central High School will leave here shortly for New York and star in a role in an off-Broadway musical following outstanding success this summer in a pair of Colorado productions. She is Sharon Forsmoe (now Sharon Farrell), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Forsmoe, 2131 Douglas St. She trained here under Hazel Bergh.
DINNER IS SERVED: Fifty-seven children from the Boys and Girls Home, St. Anthony's Home, and the Wall Street Mission were guests of the Sioux City Airforce Base on invitation of Col. Jones E. Bolt, base commander, in cooperation with the Rev. LuVerne K. Clark, Kiwanis Club coordinator for the annual Kids' Day. The youngsters toured the base facilities to view aircraft displays and a simulated scramble and had lunch at the base dining hall.
GAME TIME: Garry Garrels, 11, 2803 George St., a Little Leaguer, was guest of honor as the Pop and Peanut Club began its 26th annual session in Municipal Judge Berry Sisk's chambers. Club members had gathered to watch the series on television as the Milwaukee Braves and New York Yankees crossed bats for the opening game.
25 years ago
HOSPITAL FIRM PLANS NORTH SIOUX FACILITY: A 100-bed psychiatric hospital may be erected here soon. American Medical International Inc., of Beverly Hills, Calif., has filed a letter of intent with the state of South Dakota for the construction of such a facility. The acute care psychiatric hospital will represent an $8 million investment and employ 250 to 300 people. ...Plans for a new psychiatric hospital at North Sioux City follow by a year similar plans for a new psychiatric hospital in Sioux City. Charter Medical Group of Macon, Ga., announced plans in October 1982 for the construction of an 80-bed psychiatric hospital in Sioux City. Last January, Charter Medical officials announced their company was abandoning its plans to build the new Sioux City facility.
BRUCE MILLER'S TAKE ON LIGHT, CAMERA, IOWA!: Iowa may not be the filmmaking capital of the world, but it is gaining importance. In 1983 alone, two features, three episodes of "The Mississippi," and numerous commercials have been filmed in the state, leading developers to believe Iowa could become a viable film location. In 1983, more than $3 million will be spent in the state by film companies. More than one-sixth of that amount has been spent in Sioux City over the last four weeks, thanks to "Children of the Corn," a new World Picture horror film based on a Stephen King short story.
These items appeared in the Journal Oct. 6-12, 1883, 1908, 1958, 1983.
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