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Newspaper
Bedford Times Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1961
Page
3
A column of light snippets and humorous vignettes from local life. Greg Wallace, seven, chats during a Boulder visit with grandparents in Gravity. Movie notes on Ben Hur, workplace quips, and small town observations mix with local scenery and jokes.
The column contends many above average youths do not attend college yet excel in trades and vocations not requiring degrees. It notes clergy and scientists challenge the ideal of the “one big happy family” in business. It warns against socialism and welfare, urging self reliance and understanding tax burdens to taxpayers.
A narrated memory recalls a near tragedy at Fitch Pond near Bedford with childhood friends from the Titus and Dugan families. Four girls, warned not to swim, found themselves adrift on a roving raft and rescued by their mother Laura Dugan Titus using improvised poles to bring the raft in.
A British law firm sought a divorce notice for an English wife whose husband was last heard from in the Midwest. The notice was printed in a Michigan paper at first request, though the case also ran as news. The episode shows how a bona fide newspaper serves legal needs and preserves the husband’s rights by notice.
In Pittsburgh on October 19, 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt warned that a nation living beyond its income faces near bankruptcy while stressing prudent spending and debt limits. A New Orleans columnist notes the value of a pay-as-you-go approach for students, proposing expanded low-cost loans repaid after graduation through higher lifetime earnings.
Tubercle bacilli that cause tuberculosis can survive outside the body for hours or days and may later be inhaled by a person, posing ongoing infection risk.
Field Representative Bill Bjorn explains retirement age earnings credits and limits. Work after retirement age counts toward benefits and earnings rules vary by income type. Creston office serves nine Iowa counties and provides contact details for questions.
Blockton residents travel to Des Moines to visit Elbert Drake in hospital. Families from Ames and local couples spend weekends with relatives. Church schedules and activities listed for Methodist Baptist Christian congregations. Visitors include Wendell Sellars family from Clearfield and Emma Dungy from California staying with Marie Wolfe and Everett King.
Dean Bentley son of Mr and Mrs Glen Bentley Blockton is enroute to the United States after army service in Korea and expects to be home early in July following discharge.
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