Opening Date Of Playground Activity Set
Gene Hannon, newly named assistant Bulldog conch and supervisor of summer playground activities, announced the youth program begins Monday June 14. The season will feature croquet, badminton, junior basketball, table tennis, and midget baseball with no midget leagues, inter-city games, and teams from nearby towns. Activities run at Bruin s baseball park for youths nine to fifteen.
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Gene
Pee-Wee) Hannon
Bulldog Conch
Hannon
Memorial Day Scotch Foursome at Bedford CC
Don Marshall and Lucille Wet-Miere won the Memorial Day Scotch Foursome at Bedford Country Club with a 48 on the nine hole course. Glen Straight and Jennie Terbell were runners up with 54 while Don Smith and Marion Prugh posted 73 for a high score. Twenty four teams entered the event with one ball per team and alternating shots on a 36 stroke par course.
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Don Marshall
Lucille Wet- Miere
Bedford Country Club
Glen Straight
Jennie Terbell
Bedford Bruins Open Postponed After Rainout
Rain delays force Bedford Bruins to postpone their season opener for a second time. A Sunday game shift to Monday was scrapped by a Monday morning shower, delaying the start further.
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Bedford Bruins
Blockton Seeks Baseball Games Schedule Slated
Blockton plans a summer baseball schedule for pee wees junior Legion and high school age players. Harry Cole superintendent says teams will be formed under business and professional men sponsorship with a regular league schedule. Interested parties may book by writing or calling Harry Cole.
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Blockton
Harry Cole
Cole
Brockton
Prizes Awarded In Fishathon At Lenox Rotary Event
About 40 youngsters fished the Lenox lake Sunday in a Rotary Club sponsored Fishathon. Two age groups vied for prizes with no casting allowed. Winners included Larry Tilley Creston for largest fish age 1-10 Phil Tyler Lenox for 11-16 largest fish Billy Harp Kent for most fish and Bobby Stuart Lenox for 11-16, Rosalee Weese Lenox for smallest age 1-10, Ross Durphy Lenox for smallest 11-16, Edwin Bradley Lenox for first fish. Barbara Weese earned the crayfish snapper prize after no turtle was caught.
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Lenox
Rotary Club
Iowa Conservation Commission
Larry Tilley
Creston
Phil Tyler
Billy Harp
Kent
Bobby Stuart
Rosalee Weese
Ross Durphy
Edwin Bradley
Lenox Midgets Edge Clearfield in Season Opener
Lenox Midgets beat Clearfield 3-2 in the league opener. Tyler pitched for Lenox and struck out several batters as the game opened the local midget baseball season.
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Clearfield
Lénox
Tyler
Lenox
Whiff
Lenox Edges Clearfield In Low Scoring Baseball Tilt
Dalby of Clearfield fanned eight and allowed two runs in a sparse game. Lenox OILL OL started strong with a 3 1 3 sequence and took a 2-1 lead into the later innings, while Clearfield managed a lone hit and a scoring run.
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Dalby
Clearfield
Lenox Oill
Gravity News From Gravity and Surrounding Notes
Mrs Frank Ambrose reports Mr and Mrs Lloyd Hamblin and family spent several days with relatives at Grundy Center. Omaha visitors Earl Moffett stayed with Jack Ambrose. Eber Rimour and son joined friends here from Omaha. Guy Newby hosted Vera Gold. Dean Savage and Virgil Briggs honored Galen Gold before Idaho summer trip. Geraldine Ambrose returned from teaching at Denison as W S C S installs officers at Gravity Methodist church.
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Frank Ambrose
Lloyd Hamblin
A. L. Hamblin
Grundy Center
Earl Moffett
Omaha
Jack Ambrose
Eber Rimour and Son
Guy Newby
South Bend
Ind
Vera Gold
Dean Savage
Virgil Briggs
Galen Gold
Idaho
Flo Swanson
Bedford
June Pierson
Sharp sburg church notes and local travels
SHARPSBURE report details Rev and Mrs John Kess at the annual Methodist conference in Oskaloosa. Mr and Mrs Ray Hinton return to Storm Lake after a week with relatives. Artvans of Clarinda visit Mrs Iona Filbert and decorate Lenox. Morning worship 10 a m Sunday school 11 a m. No worship last Sunday due to conference. Next Sunday guest speaker will be a Braddyville high school student studying for the ministry. Effie Shimer Ray Long and Shirley went to Bedford Wednesday evening.
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Noy Kerns
Sharpsburg
John Kess
Oskaloosa
The
Methodist Church
Ray Hinton
Storm Lake
Bedford
Artvans
Clarinda
Evans
Iona Filbert
Filbert
Lenox
Braddyville
Effie Shimer
Ray Long
Shirley
Bridal Shower Honors Miss Zelma Long In Iowa Visit
Miss Zelma Long was honored at a bridal shower. Visitors from Sioux Falls, Detroit, Clarinda, Storm Lake, Ledford and other towns joined for family gatherings with Zelma Long and her relatives. Eddie Hinton planned a two week stay with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Grimm.
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Vena Farnham
Ethan
Sioux Falls
Fartnham
Hattie Ditto
Georgie Borden
Ralph Woessner
Detroit, Mich
Irene Gold
Clarinda
Georgie and
Neliie Borden Homer
Eddie Hinton
Storm Lake
Tom Grimm
Hoover confirms Believe It Or Not cat tale true
J Edgar Hoover replies from Washington to Wayne Harbour confirming Ripley’s Believe It Or Not anecdote about a black cat during the Touhy gang raid. Hoover says the cat’s howl was the most unnerving sound he heard in twenty years as head of the FBI, and the incident actually happened.
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Nicholas
Iowa
Bill Nicholas
Wayne Harbour
Big Man
J. Edgar Hoover
Wayne
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Ripley
PRI
Roger Touhy
Hoover
G-Men
Chicago
Mr. Hoover
Washington, D. C
Texas
Taylor County
Two Car Accidents Reported Near Bedford and Wardtown
Pearl Lee Hays, a Hil-Way Cafe waitress, was shaken but unhurt after a wreck on the highway east of Bedford about 6 p.m. Saturday. A second crash at Hawkeyes Lumber yard intersection involved Gerald Steen’s Buick and Ben Scane’s Ford pickup at about 8:46 p.m. Thursday. both vehicles suffered extensive damage and neither driver was injured.
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Pearl Lee Hays
Hil-Way
Constant Invader Radio Dramas To Boost TB Fight
A new 13 week radio drama series Constant Invader will air on KSIR Saturdays at 5 15 p m starting June 5. The program, based on true TB stories, is produced by the National Tuberculosis Association with local support and features Vincent Price as narrator.
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KSIR
The
County Tuberculosis and Health Association
Vincent Price
Hollywood
Oscar Borcheck
National
Tubheremesis Associaton
New York
Tuberculosis Association Radio Series Funded by Christmas Seals
The text notes that Christmas Seal funds support a statewide radio series as part of a year-round educational program operated by the tuberculosis associations.
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Iation
Tuberculosis Associations
Field Day at Beaconsfield Highlights Nitrogen Fertilizers
The Grundy-Shelby Experimental Farm near Beaconsfield hosts a June 10 field day emphasizing land use and better family living. A main feature will be a demonstration and discussion on nitrogen fertilizer use for sidedressing corn.
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Grundy-Shelby
Beaconsfield
Mental Farm
Farm Field Day Highlights Equipment for Fertilizer Use
Iowa State College specialists in agricultural engineering and agronomy will discuss fertilizer materials and use. Field day attendees will observe application equipment operating in a cornfield with demonstrations on crop rotations wide-row culture conservation practices and farm sanitation and paste improvement and management.
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State College
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