Sheldon Mail, The (Newspaper) - November 24, 1954, Sheldon, Iowa r THREE SECTIONS SECTION ONE THE SHELDON MAIL ESTABLISHED JANUARY 1 1873 THE MAIL SHELDON O'BRIEN COUNTY IOWA WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 24 1954 VOLUME 80 NO 47 Santa Claus Day Here Sat Dec 11 CURBSTONE COMMENT mat It MAX HEAP Not long ago the editors of the j printed a lure of a deserted farm house in j a desolate field then offered a for the beat j i word or the disastrous j of land i rosion A bright j Indian lad Oklahoma bagged j graphic con- Umf I show why white man crazy Cut down trees Make too The man who refuses or neglects j big tepee Plow hill water wash to live righteously Wind blow soil Grass Door self and others some of the Window Squaw gone but he cannot for a moment fool j his conscience which is forever j within him to speak in the still of I the night He who lives within however lives without Whole place to helL No pig No corn No pony Indian no land Keep grass Buffalo eat grass Indian eat buffalo Hide make plenty Wg tepee Make moccasin All can Actually complaints from j eat Indian no hunt job No work Leo Elthon Took Oath of Office for Iowa Governor Mon A TIME FOR PRAYER lers can be credited to two things jit is either the paper or something the paper didn't No hitchhike No ask No 1 build dam No give dam White man heap J change TYPES OF READING Many of our readers no doubt j say know that when we find a GOOD I western story we are We An unbalanced budget is a short now really prefer them to any i sought just the good in you You can work your head off er type of reading and in That yem the good mc and never get any respect have a day or two r ated That is a matter of opinion find remedy NICE JO BK AX We learn but they occupy j For too five years ago an wearing and a j herded 11 sleepy youngsters out j of the back of a truck in Utah j j His name Clifford Hartley T had just arnved from In our back vard we have a I i land in a small town I caller a little bird which i tucked in hilis He was flits around but does not get I I i j I broke and in He intended I where much except to land for I IO become a farmer he no longer wears his i much People differ in the type t tte of reading which most interests I them and for many people they ln prefer books which are both in- and informative That probably is their good fortune and we might ourself arrive at that point This latter thought came to us one night last week We looked in you BLACK CAPPED CHICKADEES around the house which is really filled with books which everybody would have to admit compose high class reading material good novel newspapers but in stuck in one of the branches in a small tree It is a black cap- ped Chickadee In thc fall it is a quiet little fellow but in the spring a nice little chirping song very J derby Not an H is dropped j from his speech And and his are well-fed and quiet We hare not no- its mate because it has no outstanding color and seems to be T more retiring Wr watch this j Chickadee from our kitchen I fast table which n bird w t what overlooks the of little be called We had a and several looking around we ran across a finely bound book by name Power of Positive Thinking which the introduction says a tical guide to mastering the lems living a guide to confident Well believe it or not we ed up that book and read quite a j of pages in it Then we tamed to our papers and at a of the lime when we have been in for tteir music we wad much of say w wither tm fruit promise the Chickadees all we have Just to show the type of a couple of beautifully col- reading of the book called The Pred Blue Jays All they have is Power of Positive Thinking we their beauty as other birds do not quote the first two paragraphs and j for they are cruel of course the book has more value I beauties and nature gave them than has a Western novel if you I color but no song So that leaves read for the value you might English Sparrows and I moved to The author to well we can admire about them For his dream became i less of a dream He his wife and ter Dons stood in court They raised their hands and gave their oath of allegiance to the United States At one crack the United had 10 citizens Seven of the I children automatically be- Norman Vincent Peale author of great inspirational best seller A Guide to The two paragraphs Believe in Have faith that they full of life They are fighters and not friendly with any other type of birds cruel for their size and make no of song All the good thing you can in Without a sax about them is that they are blc but reasonable confidence in lively are birds which some your own powers you cannot be I other got over here from successful or happy But with England Doris took oath because She is over 18 A son became a citi j zen last year He's now with the army in Germany Two Petty and now are married ed Tatar America because one of the children struck up with a girl from Tridell The best Hartley said He didn't take to the land and It Lake City Just wasn't suited to be a he I explained Now he is manager ef a sewing machine sales and service I ment He's buying a duplex His house is well furnished complete i television and the family I FREE MATINEE AND CANDY FOR YOUNGSTERS All Street Decorations Will Be More Elaborate ELTHON Iowa Governor Leo Elthon who succeeded to the Monday when Gov iam S was killed in a traffic accident Sunday night will serve in that post for than Santa Claus will make his first appearance in Sheldon j for this holiday season wher j he arrives Saturday Dec 11 j to inaugurate a series of j Christmas treats for the I youngsters 1 Saturday Dec 11 officially as Santa Claus will feature free movies at the Iowa Theatre for the young folks a sonal visit from St Nicholas and generous sacks of candy for all the j children The movies are uled to start at p m Santa will make a return visit to Sheldon on Saturday Dec 18 and will be on the Sheldon streets that day to greet his friends That same day SaL Dec 18 will feature another free matinee at the Theatre for the children Santa's personal appearances m Then he'll go back to being lieu j this season and the free tenant governor again treats are made possible through Elthon a republican like j tne cooperation of business firms ley was elected lieutenant jn the outlying areas of town who or in November 1952 and was re- elected this fall Iowa provides that in event of a governor's death the ant governor becomes chief thing I ever did found self-confidence you can ceed A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the at- years ago we were fishing on Clear Lake and we do not how we fished there so of your hopes but principal thing J i I ir confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement Be about fishing was It's nice to be an American Hartley said Exchange A small town is a place where if all the news that goes over backyard fence went into thc he first Thanksgiving day was for Pilgrim Fathers primarily a day of prayer a day set aside tp give thanks to God for the blessing the trials New World Let us on this Thanksgiving Day seek to recapture the sturdy faith of our forefathers Let us humbly bow our heads in a prayer of gratitude to the Creator for all that we have and all that we are In this simple expression of faith in Divine Providence let us find renewed faith in ourselves our work our fellow men renewed faith in the strength of Freedom to keep our Nation forever safe and our children forever secure tive for the remainder of his term hav again contributed generously to this affair rations The Sheldon holiday season will be enlivened by more elaborate street decorations this year ac Thus Elthon w ill serve as cording to W I Pierce ernor until Atty Leo A- J tee chairman Close to is Hoegh who won the post in the i being spent for new decorative November 2 election is ed in January Elthon then will step back into the post to which he was elected earlier this lieutenant governorship Jack Keillor Gets Northwest Airlines items These will include sixteen new giant size illuminated candles which will be placed on the liers This will make a total of 34 of these candles They are 53 inches tall lighted with 150 watt spot bulbs and have illuminated bases bearing the words Season's I elude more territory in this live form of decoration In tie holiday trim will include The following in reference to j large illuminated Santas and Jack Keillor of Minneapolis will purchased previously and be of interest to many of tKe holiday greenery will be placed on don Mail readers as Mr Keillor's all 59 in the business wife was before her marriage Janet district If money permits a Woods She us the daughter of Santa Claus figure be Mrs K L Woods of Priest River j chased for the Third Ave and Idaho and granddaughter of Paul Ninth St intersection to replace C Woods of the Mail one which met a disastrous end A Bloomington suburb of lait year neapolis Minn resident has been Funds for the street decorations that it was at the time when the j paper it would cease j Annual Pheasant Stag j this German Carp was introduced into j quick or people Dinner at Country Club Jowa Public mental attitude this book will help j tnis country And believe it just grunt when they met AV a uwm you believe in yourself and release inner power It is appalling tc realize the number of pathetic people who arc seem possible 1 So we have the English Sparrow not they were protected and on the street and their grunt we caught had to be thrown back would not be a pleasant thing to into the It does not hampered and made miserable bv thc malady popularly called the and tnc German Carp ne But you need i them we want to keep not suffer from this When j proper are taken it can be i Tomorrow's unfinished work ie overcome You can develop you do today's ivc faith in is There might be left no un- Tell your merchant you saw his ither of advertisement in the Sheldon MaiL The Men's Board of the Sheldon Country Club will hold its annual pheasant stag dinner at the club Tuesday evening November 30 j All members are urged to bring a guest Co Gets Gas Tax Refund of FARM COURSE PROGRAM SET justified A Scotchman never boasts about it Boasting is waste of breath and every town has several men therefore The reason economy cial or industrial should be It is a sure thing that more independence is needed but finished work tomorrow in that But who does Thc smallest package in the world is a man who's all up in GOOD ADVICE OF COURSE Some doctor in a column in a daily paper gives the majority of Toll Roads vs Free Roads Lively Issue in Iowa WASHINGTON D J f Power Wednesday announced approval of a ment providing for refunds of 824.105 to 26 wholesale natural gas j customers of Northern Natural Gas Co Omaha For Ten Weeks The members of the Adult Farmer Evening School Council have selected is being contributed by downtown firms A campaign for money will be started by letter Dec 1 which is also the date set for starting to put up the decorations Christmas shopping schedule j named to a key sales department position with Northwest Orient lines He is Jack A Keillor Soil Fourth So who has been promoted r J T I to Manager of Agency and Inter- don has been set as line Sales said James Manner sales vice Keillor will be responsible during Christmas week open for I t Monday through Thursday 20 21 22 and 23 is open Wednesday and uiday nights Dec 1 Dec 4 Dec correlating and promoting 11 Dec 15 west's sales ef forts with its 1000 Trav el Agents from New York City to He will handle interline sales with other air carriers Keillor joined Northwest in as a Sales Representative in De- troit He was later Assistant tric Sales Manager for Northwest there and District Sales Manager n Cleveland Keillor has been a Bloomington resident three Ke is Sheldon Listed Class One Offense Rushing Leaders d with four children X Tho Sheldon team is one of the one total 15 days They represent rate in- year's 10 week j December 2 Farm Outlook for j it should be used carefully and j judgment enough to take it He By Jacob With the next legislative session some good advice if we had thc corner the tion vs free is not be unpleasantly expressed is talking about heart disease a m Iowa today The He we must not rely toll road a APPEAR OX lupon doctors alone He says there Ilnk In thc For the first Umt and possibly thc last who knows we appeared on television last Sunday over Sioux City Thc program is much we can do both at home from is and at work to help prolong our to feasible The estimated lives What we print below is for the this doctor says and we pre- Girls in Nursing Scholarships The average who asked us questions about the Sheldon Mail our paper experiences time of service etc In fact he Asked so many questions that in thc 15 minutes we told more than we have ever hardest hit by heart disease Don't make your job your whole Tour personal welfare and that of your family should come Leave vour work at vour told in any length of time j i M Don t take it home with We do not know who heard it in Sheldon as we gave no previous notice in thc Mail that we were to appear on the program However we did receive Monday the following note from Peck of Sioux City ly that city's local manager for the Western Newspaper Union aad we arc grateful for Mr fine note He Juat vour TV appearance on Editor's Desk Congratulations on being you or to lunch either And don't go to the office on weekends or holidays Take a vacation from your job every ycar all thc meetings to Don't attend and which you are Wherever you are you've got to relax whether it's at work at home at play or even while And that's another thing Don't two ways in which a e financed as little as at under thc lights and eye i Worry and argue of the camera Learned a things about your experience in I Then the doctor go easy on the that were new to me as M been Never on your dignity un- and alae we should follow our doctor's Maybe the some people There toll road tows By private money with the use of revenue bonds as to investors under a public ity law or by the state of Iowa issuing general obligation bonds voted by thc people and financed by a tax levy on Iowa real tate It appears that thc first mentioned method is most ed zens want a toll road or do they want well improved free O'Brien county taxpayers arc in- In this question and have doubtless given it considerable thought It ia thc purpose of this story to the el local citizens and taxpayers as to bow they would vote on the question if they were sitting in the ture to help the matter We would like to have your ion and solicit a card or a letter expressing your desires or ly 300 miles of road known as Thc Editor's any local doctor would say for passenger car travel on I c lasted for lo minutes starting at the same things is approximately 12 I Statistics show that as a group and tor trucks per Our interviewer was Austin and professional men are mile- Continuation in of the nurses program of the Iowa division of the American cer Society was announced today by Dr S presidant i crease collections under bond lor j j 27 through 26 1952 i I to Iowa J I rd: Iowa I Sioux for with various amounts o other Eastern Business Trip Mr and Mrs Newman Lyle left Sunday for D C Mr other matters will have inter- 1465 Christmas Seal December 9 Seen Developments in Artificial Breeding December Security T J view with trw Director Farmers I cultural Research on Januan s of Our Soil work on production of honey and January 13 Soil Mapping of a j The trio 15 r with 1 offense with 8 373 rushing close to the top of the 216 total Sheldon is also listed el the class one rushing wins 3 losses one lie 339 attempts 2.373 net total o Singer of Ottumwa For the seventh 50 nursing scholarships 20 Machinery Per j of Meat Letters Are HOSS Insect Con- made Iowa women to young This represents six Christmas Seal letters trol 1465 in the mail ing last Saturday according to Mrs Li H local chairman A id Recommendations X IMr Lyle's 1 for thc I tion of the American Association From Mr and Mrs 1 Lyie will jro to Georgia ida expecting to return home O'Brien Financial Report Last Week There were 26 chattel filed in O county is week for and three real i for 500 Eleven new and the were 11 for 21 liens made There were 37 bean loans per cent of thc annual Iowa first j froup of Mrs i ifor year student classes First in thc nation to set up such a program the Iowa division son evening in the j ber of Commerce rooms to address for thc scals In now has nurse trainees j n the croup were inp 23 nursing schools in Iowa In Dorothy addition US nurses granted scrioi- Bo I i man in 1950 and have Don and Mrs Merle been graduated and arc now their profession in On evening the Aimed at the Sigma Phi Sorority met and stuffed the elopes The O'Brien County seals behind In free enterprise as to what you think would be less are pretty system It that they're far Iowa Mail your ed Dignity la most slippery too much on the free part and not Jacob VanZwol in UM world enough on Iowa nursing r in Iowa the scholarships are pan of a range program to expand the n in thc s service for needy cancer Those who have been or are now in training from this area i G Fayc Wolbers i at Methodist Church of Sheldon present position St Sioux City On Shirley Bollman SL Sioux City year American Meeting The Legion will have their recular Tuesday November 30 at UM Hall There will be a movie and an talk Thanksgiving services will be held at the Methodist church Thursday at 9 o'clock Thc by the Rev V V Schuldt will be A Bread and Butter ter to God will held between and S 00 p m on Thursday December Thc clasi j be held in thc Sheldon Hiph i hall Anyone inter- 5 is welcome to Council members are as Morris K C Rolston Ed Funk Jonr Verne eman Holies John have Bob McCarty Bernard er Fied Van Loh local tional agriculture instructor Let the Sheldon print Mail Classified Advs set re Fund Drive For Catholic School Goes Over The Top Cancer Education Chairman is Named Mrs of Paullina accepted the position as cation Chairman for the American Cancer Society Mrs Claus county Tubing of brass copper and other metals can be bent without kinking If it is first filled with sand and the cods arc plugged having cancer films shown to please call Mrs Niebuhr at tele- phone K 236 Paullina and she will take care of it- If more convenient contact Mrs and she will call Mrs Niebuhr The drive for funds for the new Catholic grade school has pone the top Rev J J Hyland pastor of St rick's Catholic church an- today About 000 lias been pledged and range from to for the final re- lie states Father expressed great satisfaction at the splendid re- sponse and said that indications are that when the building is com- there will be little or no debt The school will soon he in the blueprint and will start next summer he A finance of James chairman Dr R E Griflin Lloyd Brinkman and crs planned the drive which took place from 3 to 5 o'clock afternoon following Benediction at thc church and a talk by Newman Flanagan of Sioux City Solicitors were divided into and for each four teams This produced and rapid with a of lima and labor
