Scout View: Mapleview Girl Scouts Publish Local Newspaper
Mapleview Troop 1 girls aged 10 to 14 launched Scout View, a monthly mimeographed paper begun Feb 24 1951 to cover civic news, service members notes, club items and baby sitter listings. The project, led by Mrs. Raymond Wentzel, grows year by year with ad sales and classroom features.
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Mapleview
Raymond Wentzel
Scout View
Clinton Street
Wentzel
Ardith Baxter
Mary Krofta
Rose Betty Root
Patty Vollmer
Sharon Everson
Judith Derosier
Marian Andresen
Avis White
Dorothy Espe
Margaret Krofta
Donna Cafourek
Eva Price
Janet Vollmer
Judy Derosier
Playground Telephones and Park Team News
Long distance calls and gossip dominate city playgrounds as kids finish tin can phones and craft bracelets and boats. Crane-Games tops activity lists while Crane’s baseball team, led by Gary Price, won on forfeit. Decker prepares a carnival with a roller coaster slide and bingo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crane
Gary Price
Galloway
Delbert van Grevenhof
Cullen
Kauffman
Cullenites
Don Joseph
Patty Erwin
Reed Hackemiller
Gilbert Churchill
Decker
Neveln
Ronnie Roope
Jenean Johnson
Nancy Jordan
Jim
John Handy
Earl Bacon
Dresner
Driesner Park
Driesner
Sharon Brooks
Bob Anker
Steve Flaherty
Galloway-Galloway
Whittier
Gayle
Jean James
Roger Schultz
Richard Brown
Janelle Nelson
Don Hueton
Carol Miller
Robert Spiney
Lynne Dennison
Nancy Bawek
Ronald McAlister
Lafayette
The
Three Bears
Billygoats Gruff
the Pigs
Red Riding Hood
Lafayette Park
Hollandale Group Attends Sunday School Conference
Hollandale Fourteen members attended a Sunday School teachers conference at Greenleatton Church near Spring Valley where Dr B J Mulder of New York Reformed Churches of America urged that the Sunday School be governed by a board of Christian workers from various church organizations.
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Hollandale
B. J. Mulder
New York
Reformed Churches of America Board of Education
Greenleatton Church
Spring Valley
C. W. Blocker
William Blocker
Eddie Miller
Peter Posthumus
John Ravenhorst
John Draager
G. Roorda
Peter Klienpaste
H. M. Thompson
Derrit Mondeel
Walter Candelcamp
Herman Gruis
Mulder
Scale Insect Noted on Trees of Austin Area
County Agent F L Leibenstein reports white cottony scale on maples elms and other trees in the Austin area. Maple scale can be controlled by spring spray of a di nitro compound or by summer kerosene emulsion, though remedies are often unnecessary. Also noted are galls on oak elm from a mite, and oak scorch causing browning leaves, with careful pruning advised to limit damage.
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Austin
F. L. Leibenstein
Minnesota
Walter P. Trampe
Minnesota Department of Agriculture
Leibenstein
Five Crashes Cause $425 Damage in Austin Area
Five vehicle collisions occurred Friday in Austin and surrounding streets causing a total of $425 in damage. Vehicles driven by Charles Temple, Louis G. Anderson, Rob ert S. Morley, Louise G. Ellis, and L. E. Thorson sustained damage along with a hit and run damaging Lawrence Bublitz’s parked car.
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Austin
Main
Chatham
Charles Temple
Fairmont
Hank Gabroleski
Lye
Winona
Louis G. Anderson
Hopkins
Robert S. Morley
Albert Lea
Allegheney and
Louise G. Ellis
Cleveland
John M. Lickteig
Austin Rt. 3
Bridge
L. E. Thorson
Spring Valley
Gordon G. Michaelis
Lawrence Bublitz
St. Ansgar
Iowa
County Raises Blood Quota in Red Cross Drive
Mower County oversubscriptions were avoided, with 752 pints donated in a two day drive at the Congregational Church. Donors contributed 235 pints Friday and 232 Thursday, with 73 at LeRoy, 100 at Adams, and 112 at Grand Meadow contributing to the week’s total as volunteers from many organizations aided in canteen and driving support. Glenn Kelley thanked donors and groups. local auxiliaries, clubs, and fraternal organizations supplied hospitality, cookies, coffee, and staffing.
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Mower County
Red Cross
Congregational Church
LeRoy
Adams
Grand Meadow
Glenn Kelley
Red Cross Chapter
Rough, Young and
Gahagen Transfer Companies
Boy Scouts
Rowlee Re-elected by Church Board
SPRING VALLEY E L Rowlee was re elected chairman of the board at the organization meeting of the Methodist Church Wednesday evening in the church parlors with Rev H E Evans presiding C C Loomer was elected vice chairman and Mrs Freda Vance recording secretary The resignations of Mr and Mrs John Hollander from the board were accepted No replacements have been named yet Mr Evans presented the annual report.
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Spring Valley
E. L. Rowlee
Methodist Church
H. E. Evans
C. C. Loomer
Freda Vance
John Hollander
Evans
Iowa VFW session backs state legislature funds for Marshalltown home
The Iowa VFW encampment at Mason City approved pushing 1953 Legislature funds for an immediate addition to the Iowa Soldiers Home in Marshalltown. Resolutions call the home unsafe and inadequate and urge a historians study in schools with veteran parents on a textbook inspection board.
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Iowa Vfw
Mason City
Iowa
Marshalltown
Austin Herald wins ad contest for city shopping push
The Austin Daily Herald and local merchants received first prize in the Best Advertising Idea category for the Shop in Austin campaign. The judge praised the long-term, centralized effort to promote Austin as a shopping center, noting ads ran weekly for 104 weeks from Feb 1950 to Feb 1952 and boosted Mower County sales from 1949 to 1950 and 1951.
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The
Herald
Theodore A. Serrill
Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association
Austin
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Mower County
Standard Rate
Data Service
Winona Republican Herald
Rochester Post-Bulletin
Heron Lake
Minn
Forest Lake
State Boys Have Big Time at Gopher Boys State
Burnquist mayor Jon McKaller and Austin High representative Jack Frost join 266 juniors at the American Legion Gopher Boys State on the University of Minnesota Farm campus. The program forms eight cities and four counties with elected youth leaders. Notables addressed sessions, including Gov C Elmer Anderson and coach Wes Fesler. Jon McKaller also stars on WCTN-TV as a city mayor.
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Burnquist
American Legion
Gopher Boys State
University of Minnesota Farm
the Herald
Jon McKaller
St. Augustine
Boys State
Jon
Jack Frost
Austin
Bay
Jack
American Legion Post 91
C. Elmer Anderson
Orville Peterson
Minneapolis
DFL
Tom Gibbons
Ramsey County
Wes Fesler
University of Minnesota
Wctn-Tv
Austin Area Service Men Hear From Home Note
News column lists service members from the Herald area with home addresses and postal details. Featured is Leonard Kester serving in Japan with varied duties and requesting correspondence, plus Lois Joan Wynia and Pvt Richard J. A. Seibold with current postings in Korea and Japan and APO mailing addresses.
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Herald
Korea
Leonard Kester
Japan
Sta
AU Sakai
C-O
San Frangcisco
Richard J. A. Seibold
Camp Chaffee
Ark
Camp Gifu
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Girl Scout News Hounds
Clair Peterson
Taylor
Peterson
DeVonne
Marian
Carl Anon
Clinton
Judy
Clarence Derosier
Lee Topsy
Mapleview Girl Scouts
Marcia Morrison
Lafayettans
Paul Rassmussen
Tom Dekker
Bob Schubert
Sutton
Denny Dougherty
Bobby Ames
Sterling
Sharon Ekedal
Susan Twiggs
Nancy van Hee
Sterlings
Sumner-Sumner
Semoel College
Montana
Darlene Johnson
Butch Kolb
George Shatek
Galloway Gorillas
J. H. Backer
Randy
Sharon
Bruce Larrabee
Council of Jewish Women
BPW
Austin Nurses Club
Royal Neighbors
Eastern Star
Moose
Rebecca Lodge
Floral Club
B’nai B'rith
Moose, Eagles
VFW
Rowlee
Frank Hilton
State Council
Iowa Department
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Chicago
Ske
Ottumwa
Herschel C. Loveless
VEW
Iowa Military Order of Cooties
Don Clinger
Des Moines
Iowa State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Milt Ardrey
Colorado State
Estherville
Red Sox
Mason City Legionnaires
Austin Daily Herald
Beverly Norby
Austin Queen
Richard Hansen
S. Burr
National Editorial Association
Buffalo
N. Y
Kenneth Streeter
Prinzing
Bing Cherries
State
Lois Joan Wynia
Alvin J. Wynia
Oakland
Wave
Bainbridge, Md
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