Legion Turkey Carnival to Aid Christmas Cheer Fund
Huron Legionnaires will hold a Friday night turkey carnival at the Legion clubrooms starting at 8 p.m. to raise funds for a large Christmas cheer program. Prizes include turkeys geese and ducks from corn games and contests. Chairman L A Zieske said the public is welcome and 200 sacks of candy and as many sacks of nuts will be distributed. The drive also gathers used clothing and repairs toys for needy families, with a toy matinee and community project ongoing at the Community Service Center under Miss Mary Baker.
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Huron Legionnaires
L. A. Zieske
Legion
Zieske
Huron
The
Community Service Center
Mary Baker
Western Union Students Killed In Crossing Collision near Le Mars
Tragedy struck the Western Union College community as a car carrying six students collided with an Illinois Central train near Le Mars. Neva Phelps of Cozad Neb died instantly Mil deed Menke Odessa Minn died later Claude Miller Callaway Neb died early today. Victims included Vincent Buss Le Mars senior and others injured with varying severity.
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LE Mars
Western Union College
Neva Phelps
Cozad
Neb
Mildeed Menke
Odessa
Minn
Claude Miller
Callaway
Ilinois
Vincent Buss
Student crash injures two Nebraska Iowa travelers
A Hastings Nebraska sophomore Mae Ellen Nelson sustained minor injuries and shock after a car crash on a trip home from Sioux City Iowa where Junes Meade a Cole Iowa senior football player suffered a broken leg and head injuries in a serious condition. The group was returning from Sioux City where they planned arrangements for the annual senior class gift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mae Ellen Nelson
Blind Deaf Girl To Study Braille
Six year old Joan Higgins, blind and deaf, will study Braille under Northwestern psychologist Dr. Robert Gault. Using a phonograph-like device he devised in 1937, she learns letters by associating vibrations with spoken words. Found on a hospital doorstep at five days old, she began instruction after becoming a ward of the state.
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Chicago
Robert Gault
Northwestern University
Joan Higgins
Helen Keller
Gault
American Institute For the Deaf
Joan
Funeral Held For Mrs Addie Swab
Funeral services were held Sunday in Lawrence for Mrs. Addie Swab 74 longtime St Lawrence resident who died Thursday at her daughter’s home in Lexington Kentucky. The service at Community Church was led by Rev N A Luke. Survived by four daughters Mrs Ray Vander Werth Mrs Leslie Kiel of Rapid City Miss Clara Swab St Paul Minn and Mrs H Bruce Price Lexington Ky and two sons Preston Swab St Paul Minn and A E Swab Huron plus a sister three brothers fifteen grandchildren and one great grandchild.
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Sr. Lawrence
Addie Swab
St. Lawrences
Lexington
N. A. Luke
Ray Vander Werth
Leslie Kiel
Rapid City
Clara Swab
St. Paul
Minn
Trapper Leads Shipwreck Survivors Toward Lituya Bay
In Alaska a released trapper guide Nels Ludwingson organized 16 shipwreck survivors into a hiking party after departing from Juneau. They trek 30 miles toward Lituya Bay while two survivors receive medical aid. The Patterson wrecked December 11 near Otter Creek amid heavy surf and strong winds. one officer drowned, another man perished attempting shore. Chief Engineer Clair McDowell and Third Mate Steven Johnson survived injuries.
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Juneau
Alaska
Cape Fairweather Country
Litugg Bay
Nels Ludwingson
Sheldon Simmons
Patterson
T ‘Simmons
Ludwingson
Lituya Bay
Clair McDowell
Seattle
Steven Johnson
Ketchikan
Gustaf Swanson
James Moore
Sea Otter Creek
Christmas Party Brightens Veterans At Battle Mountain
A Christmas program at Battle Mountain Sanitarium in Hot Springs drew 469 attendees as 186 nonattendees received gifts later. The event, led by Mrs. Zella Scofield and hospital committees, featured cards, one dollar bills, playing cards, and stuffed Santa Clauses for World War veterans and patients, with similar events the next day at the state soldiers home for 66 veterans.
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Battle Mountain Sanitarium
Hot Springs
Zella Scofield
de Smet
State Rehabilitation
District 2
Scofield
State Soldiers Home
Fern Beck
Irene Ottman
Theo Larive
Lee Craft
John Sweem
Gertrude Andre
D. K. Dalager
William Lang
Turner Rudesill
Rapid City
State
American Legion
Eleanor. Wright
Gregory
Mr. Dalager
E. A. Welch
Carl Ollman
Joe Manley
Rapid City Post
Harry Strouse
District 13
Guy Squires
William Andre
Sons of Veterans
Lang
Arthur Nelson
State Auxiliary
State O. T
Community program details for 198 units yearlong events
Mrs Scofield reports a yearlong program with weekly treats and special days including a January commanders bingo party and a February patriotic bingo party. The effort is funded by contributions from 198 units and members. A Battle Mountain Sanitarium Christmas party report was prepared by Mrs Scofield for Mrs Olive Adams in Huron, state Auxiliary publicity chairman.
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Scofieild
Battle Mountain Sanitarium
Scofield
Olive Adams
Huron
State Auxiliary
Program At Parochial School In a Christmas Pageant
Students at St. Teresa's School presented a Christmas program titled In Santa's Shop The Empty Room and Why the Chimes Rang featured pantomime readings and a nativity tableau with Dolores Gordon reading and numerous pupils taking roles in scenes from a church Christmas mass to gifts for the Christ child The cast included Gordon Dailey Edler Kott Kirby and many others in the Primary Grades dances and dramatic readings.
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St. Teresa's School
Santa
Dolores Gordon
Christ Child
Santa Claus
Gordon Dailey
Lucian Edler
Larry Kott
Duane Kirby
Elizabeth Matson
Donna Hansowitz
Beverly Milks
Alice Hagen
June Hedblom
Joan Coughlin
Elaine Myers
Jane Sanderson
Everette Reinartz
Dolly
Joseph Kime
Helene Raymond
Leah Kirby
Kay Parker
Patsy Dargen
Teresa Poelinger
Bailey, King and Queen Named by Local Pupils
Kathleen Dargen and Jack Dargen lead students from grades 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 of Other Townspeple in selecting town figures Bailey and King as the year’s school pageant royalty amid a school assembly.
Lutheran Pastors To Hold Conclave In Sioux Falls
More than 100 pastors from South Dakota Nebraska Wyoming and Colorado attend the annual district pastoral conference of the Norwegian Lutheran church at Augustana College Sioux Falls from January 1 to 4. Principal speakers include R E Galladay Herman A Preus and R W Kraushaar. Conference runs 7 30 p m to noon January 4 with invitation extended to all American Lutheran pastors.
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Ohio
Herman A. Preus
St. Paul
Minn
R. W. Kraushaar
Augustana College
Grevstad
Coast Guard Plane Crashes Near Boerne Killing Four
A Coast Guard plane crashed in a Boerne pasture near the San Antonio highway late last night, killing four men. Victims were Lieut. P. S. Lyons, unit commander in El Paso. Rupert H. Germaine of El Paso. George C. Latham, Fort Bliss. and Co. H. Peague, Navy ensign, El Paso. The craft was seen in flames over Boerne. sheriff believes the pilot steered away from town to avoid landing.
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San Antonio
Tex
Dee
United States Coast Guard
Boerne
Here
P. S. Lyons
Coast Guard
el Paso
Rupert H. Germaine
George C. Latham
Fort Bliss
Ed Bierschwabe
San Antonio-Boerne
Rushing crash leaves scattered wreckage and unclear identity
Bits of flesh strewn over a two acre area with the body of Peague not located until today near wreckage. Justice of the Peace H. L. Davis Jr heard the ship zoom and crash into nearby pasture. He said the craft struck nose down and rolled, parts scattered for 200 yards with none large enough to identify.
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Peague
Justice of the Peace
H. L. Davis, Jr
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