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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1956
Page
5
Aurelia wins the triangular meet at home with 12174 points to take the team title. Alta places second with 69 percent of points, Albert City adds 13 points as Aurelia and Alta lead in multiple events.
Mt Olive Baptist Sunday School sponsors a Share Our Surplus event at the church Friday at 8 pm. Admission is a donation of clean used clothing bedding shoes or yard goods with emphasis on work clothes layettes and children’s wear for Church World Service. A TV set will be shown in the basement during the event hosted by Vernon Gregg. Public invited.
The Junior and Senior classes at Brooke High School present Ramshackle Inn a mystery comedy in three acts tomorrow night at 8 in the high school auditorium.
The Cherokee County Council of Republican Women will host a public coffee hour on Wednesday April 11 from 8 to 11 am in the Fern Room at the Lewis Hotel Cherokee. The caravan will tour northwest Iowa with appearances in Sioux City LeMars Cherokee and other towns. Expected attendees include Rep W E Whitney Aurelia Sen Hickenlooper Sen Martin Dayton Countryman Gov Hoegh and other state Republicans. Mrs Dwight Boyer oversees arrangements.
A school assembly on March 29 awarded letters to girls and boys for basketball. Guest speakers included Dave Littell Dennis Anderson and Erik Radke. Girls recipients: Karen Buddenhagen Patty Hickey Mary Kaskey Phyllis Otto Mary Peterson Ruth Peterson Seniors Doreen Hasen winkel Marylin Kirby Juniors Dorothy Hicks Margaret Ohlson Donna Peterson Sophomores Ardeile Otto manager. Boys recipients: Bill Blount Lanny Grigsby Larry Hickey Carl Gustafson Roger Littell Darrell Rapp Art Steffens Seniors Tom Whitney Juniors Larry Wogahn Sophomore Dennis Hasenwinkel Dan Mummert manager.
Mr and Mrs Howard Haight host an open house Sunday April 8 celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary. Friends and relatives are invited to call at their home from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m.
Four teachers returned unsigned contracts signaling they will not return to Aurelia schools next fall. The board announced after Monday night’s meeting. The teachers named are Lavonne Schott kindergarten Bonnie Hirons second grade Joan Mill girls physical education and science Kenneth Johannsen high school English and declam instructor.
The Aurelia Legion post will host a meeting at 8 p.m. featuring outdoor sports movies. Lunch will be served after the meeting and all members are urged to attend.
Aurelia music department members will compete in the State Music contest for soloists and small groups in Paullina Friday night and Saturday. The event features vocal and instrumental categories with the state band and chorus contest set for May 5 at Mapleton.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Nordstrom have taken a four month old baby girl into their home for adoption. The child has been named Janelle.
A charity coffee hour to aid the Community Swimming Pool fund is set at Nelson Cafe tomorrow from 2 to 5 pm. Homemade cinnamon rolls donated by local banks will be served. proceeds go to the pool project.
Dr Maurice Blanchard a Baptist missionary to South India will address two Mt Olive Baptist Church meetings in Mt Olive on Tuesday April 10. He will speak to the Womens Missionary group at 2 p.m. and to the entire church at 8 p.m. He directs a program of newspaper evangelism and runs the Light of Life course and a 6000 member Christian book club. He is a Ramapatnam Baptist Theological Seminary head and editor of The Baptist Missionary Review. Public invited.
Howard Haight received word Sunday night of the death of his sister Mrs Ida Steward at Seattle Washington. She passed away early Sunday morning and spent the early part of her life in this community.
Relatives report the death of Mrs Lawrence Butterfield in Hollywood California on Sunday March 25 Burial held in Hollywood She is survived by her husband and one son She was a sister in law of Mrs L J Kreger and Vernon Butterfield of Aurelia
Senior class at Aurelia High stages Hillbilly Wedding a three act comedy in the high school auditorium Friday April 13 with a matinee for students on April 12. Director Mrs. D R Littell leads the cast including Maw Patty Sampson Ceelie Mary Louise Lundquist Bonnie Mae Rosalind Bengtson Janey Lou Mary Jane Cline Four Judy Troxel Five Phyllis Otto Six Penny Morton Mrs Maxwell Ruth Ann Peterson Paw Lanny Grigsby Obeey Jack Turner Chiz Roger Littell Ronald Maxwell Carl Gustafson The Reverend Byron Schulke Cousin Zeke Roger Jensen Cousins Jack Clark Gaylord Litterick Bill Blount Janice Burgell Pat Kirby Sandra Otto Charles Carlson is student director.
Mr and Mrs Harry Wilson Royce and Donnie Scales Earl Wilson and Maude Nielsen attend services for Gene 11 and Marilyn 8 Wilson who died when a tractor driven by Elmer Wilson overturned in a ditch near Washington Indiana The father is in serious condition at Davis County Hospital in Washington Ind Grandparents Morton Wilson and Clifford Wilson of Aurelia and Mrs Nielsen are named The group returned home Tuesday.
Paul Nelson writes from Washington D C on March 31 1956 about Reinhold Niebuhr a theologian at Union Theological Seminary in New York City whose Detroit roots pushed him to fuse gospel with political reality. His works The Nature and Destiny of Man and Christian Realism and Political Problems shaped democratic thought.
Grigsby named to AH Sioux Valley conference first team after coaches meeting. Steffens named to second team. Honorable Mentions include Blount Hickey and others. Complete roster lists cover Ott Milford Hill McTsonald Davis Primgthar and more across forwards centers and guards.
A daughter was born to James and Mrs Mace Crandall at Sooun Valley hospital Tuesday evening April 3. The newborn weighs 1 pounds and is the child of Mrs Den non of Mobile Ada. her maternal grandmother is Mrs Den non.
William Whitney a State University of Iowa freshman has been initiated into the SUL chapter of Delta Chi fraternity He is the son of Rep and Mrs Woe Whitney of Aurelia Iowa and joins the fraternity following recruitment and initiation activities at the campus location.
The Aurelia Street Marker fund now totals 955.52 dollars after the Legion Auxiliary voted to add proceeds from an athletic banquet. The drive targets about 609 dollars, with donations welcomed. steel poles arrived and signs are due in a few weeks to mark all Aurelia streets.
A reflective critique on democracy after two World Wars and social turmoil, warning that faith in progress and science did not guarantee solutions. It urges responsibility for justice, rejects avoidance of political messiness, and cites Niebuhr on ongoing political conflict.
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