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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1961
Page
8
The speaker highlights untapped potential of housewives observed at the Midwest Silver Lake Writer's Conference. Women participants showcased diverse talents, prompting reflection on expanding roles beyond traditional duties. The piece notes a call for men to step back and allow women to lead.
Luella Carr of Proctor sells her first juvenile novel A Way to California at 72 and hopes to live to sign the contract. Marie Holmstrand of Duluth sells two juvenile novels. Janet Ridler runs a children's resort and plans writing time from 5 30 to 6 30 am. Mary Lou Lundberg works in a newspaper office and aims to freelance. Ruth Carlson of Estherville pursues religious journalism. Mary Tahedl, in an insurance office, writes about her father's Austria and U S experiences. The piece notes many other women with secret writing lives in a man's world.
Federal support under the Smith Hughes Act funds part of local instructors salaries for a year round Vo Ag program. All students must join a supervised farming plan including a productive project, an improvement project, and supplementary practices. The guide emphasizes weed control by pulling everything and reweeding if it regrows.
A lawn care tip advises mowing at three inches to improve appearance and deter crab grass. The Vo Ag section notes top gains in livestock classes Loren Jamison with pigs in five months and Keith Norris with lambs in three months. A breakthrough on legume-caused bloat is reported, and a years long trend shows food prices rising while other costs surge and take home pay lags revenue.
A prize winning essay from the Palo Alto County Retarded Children's Association contest highlights a family welcoming a birth. The narrator reflects on a child labeled mentally retarded, with parents’s hope and a note on uncertain cause, describing the early days and the child’s placid nature.
Margaret Jensen writes a Ruthven High School piece about early childhood care for a child with special needs. She describes loving homes and patient teachers guiding the child through school, tests, and social adaptation, noting 15 percent of disabled children receive training.
The Rev. Mr. Albert Kinzler, longtime pastor of Lansing Presbyterian Church, plans to retire after a 55 year career in the ministry. He served through decades of community change and will conclude his ministry this year.
Specialist Ronald I. Duhn from Graettinger Iowa participated with the 8th Division's 26th Infantry in Army training tests in Baumholder Germany. He entered the Army in November 1959 after basic at Fort Riley and arrived overseas in April 1960. The 23 year old is a Graettinger High School graduate.
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