Akron Register Tribune Publication Details
Akron Register-Tribune editors and proprietors Ray A and Gerald F Smith publish weekly on Thursdays from Akron Iowa. Subscription rates listed: 2.50 per year, six months 1.25 in Plymouth Sioux and Woodbury counties Iowa and Union County South Dakota 3.00 per year elsewhere. Entered at Akron post office as second class mail matter September 26 1901.
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Akron Register-Tribune
Ray A. and
Gerald F. Smith
Plymouth
Sioux
Woodbury Counties
Iowa
Union County
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Akron
Plymouth County
Westfield social notes show long list of visits and events
Westfield correspondence reports Mrs Mary Oleson hosting teachers for Izert birthday and several calls to Hawarden and Elk Point. A Mother's Day party, Junior-Senior banquet at Arcadia Sioux City, and a music recital with Miss Lease highlight a busy May. The Elk Point United Church Women event honored attendees over seventy with a buffet and photos.
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Mary Oleson
Lowell Morehead
Ed. Nelson
Claudia Homer
E. Gibbons
Jennie Lilly
Ina Stevens
Burnight
Hawarden
Judy Conway
Milton Conway
Sioux City
Miss Lease
Westfield High School
Arcadia
Mabel Lilly
Lloyd Crouch
Ricky Robinson
Wallace
Lilly and Son
Gilbert
Evelyn Banks
Sue Mansfield
Bonnie Neal
Ralph Taylor
Donnie John
John Skogsberg
Royal Broderson
Elk Point
Royal
Chris. Broderson
Faye
Clare Lilly
Mary
Vicki
Richard
Wallace ‘Wilmot
Patty Thayer
Frank Thayer
Westfield
Darwin EB. Sturtevant
Jay Sturtevant
Westfield Community School
Sturtevant
Sioux City Board of Education
United Church Women
Laudenslager
Walker
Blanchard
Union County
Church Women’s
Church Woman
Buffalo Nickles
Richland Methodist
Eva Bennett
Emma Ballinger
Anna Steckman
Westfield Congregational
Arch Lilly
Geo. Hummel
Geo. Main
Margaret Simeons
Frank Mackey
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Border Belles 4-H Club meeting reports progress
Border Belles 4-H Club held meetings at the homes of Barbara Lundgren and Janet Gerrietts in March and April 1960. Members discussed grooming, posture, clothing for contests, campaign plans, and presentations by Iona Hoagland, Kathy Kenny, Judy Kenny, Ruth Dowling, and others with hostesses providing lunch.
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Border Belles
Karen Johnson
Barbara Lundgren
Caroline Hasenbank
Norma Siebsen
Janet Gerrietts
Iona Hoagland
Border Belles 4-H
County Creed
Kathy Kenny
Judy Kenny
Ruth Dowling
Connie Gebauer
Clarice Rolfes
Floods as a Wakeup Call for Flood Control Investment
An April Denver Post editorial cites 28,000 displaced by Midwest floods and argues the nation has the knowhow to prevent such devastation yet fails to fund flood control. It highlights TVA findings on cost savings, calls for built reservoir projects, expanded flood forecasting, land use zoning, and stronger national flood policy to stop building in flood plains.
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Denver Post
Midwest
Tennessee Valley Authority
Senate Committee On National Water Resources
TVA
Senate
Bureau of Reclamation
Corps of Army Engineers
Car License Examiner Office Moves to City Hall
The Iowa highway patrol driver's license examiner and staff now operate upstairs in the LeMars city hall council chambers. The office serves residents Fridays 9:00 am to 4:30 pm and Saturdays 9:00 am to 12:30 pm. Licenses may be renewed anytime within a 90 day window before birth dates.
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City Hall
LeMars
Iowa Highway Patrol
Council Chambers
Visit records for hosting guests noted in Register Tribune
A fragment notes guests are expected to be mentioned in the Register-Tribune and hosts asked to inform that guests have visited, with a phone contact 3611.
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Register - Tribune
Arizona Warm Winter Travel Note
A traveler recounts a Phoenix visit enjoying warm sunny weather and a rapid population boom. The writer, from a cold Midwest region, notes adapting clothing and observes diverse visitors and locals. The piece hints at opportunities for a vigorous, eager young man in the expanding Southwest.
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Phoenix
Arizona
Midwest
Resting at plush resorts and wondering about money
The narrator observes wealthy guests lounging at upscale resorts and questions the source of their abundant cash. He notes high daily costs and envies their apparent security while pondering how many working people share the same curiosity about where such wealth originates.
Request for Recipe to Get a Bundle of Nice Green Lettuce
The speaker asks for the recipe to obtain a bundle of the green lettuce these well heeled people seem to have. He notes there is no envy in his heart and expresses a desire for the means to acquire the lettuce, implying social temptations and class contrast.
Fly control warning from Iowa health department
The Iowa Department of Health warns that the ubiquitous housefly carries germs and spreads more than 20 diseases including infant diarrhea dysentery typhoid and tuberculosis. Kill flies this spring to prevent summer hordes and protect food and dishes from contamination.
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Iowa
Fly reproduction and prevention tips from a home hygiene note
A field guide style note explains female flies lay about 500 eggs that hatch in a month, creating many descendants if unchecked. It links warm moist decay to breeding sites like garbage and manure and urges cleanup and destruction of materials, along with sanitation over insecticides. It warns flies can resist DDT but not sanitation and advises screening homes and swatting intruders to minimize breeding.
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