15 Aug 1963
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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1963
Page
1
A couple of readers share tips to deter corn pests spraying a dip around patch edges or sprinkling black pepper on ear silks. rain requires reapplication. Warning to watch for rabid skunks after Greg Elbert found several unwell on his farm. Local quotes celebrate community effort and small town life with brief notes on local milestones and humorous lines.
Quotes about experience and gossip open with wit from Francis Rodman and Dan Revello. A late night encounter outside a parish home shows a minister aiding a drunken man, asking if he can enter the house with him for the old lady to meet who he’s been out with.
A 20 pound porcupine was killed by a motor vehicle in the Sylvan Hill County Park area. The porcupine is the third killed in that area in the last two months and is rare to the area and to the state of Iowa. Social Security Contact Schedule announced by the Fort Dodge district office lists exact dates and locations including Emmetsburg Estherville Spencer and requires writing for an appointment.
The Independent School District of Graettinger will vote next Wednesday August 17 on a 15000 bond to build a new gymnasium auditorium and to reconstruct the existing gym building for additional classrooms. Fire department responded Sunday to a blaze in Andrew Sandanger’s car and Robbins Avenue paving is noted.
Directory lists Immaculate Conception, Bethel Lutheran, Wallingford Lutheran, Grace Baptist, Methodist, and Manual Lutheran churches with pastors. It also notes Graettinger organizations including the Graettinger Businessmen’s Association and the American Legion Auxiliary with officers.
Graettinger Say the street project is finished and the town endured a heavy rain event Saturday night into Sunday. Following the downpour, hot humid conditions prevailed Monday and Tuesday, with discomfort from high moisture in the air noted. The Times lists teachers for the coming school year including Edna Louise Wyatt Manning Home Economics Arthur Brown Iowa City Social Science and coach Marjorie Orwick Newton Vocal Music Madonna Umland Manilla Commercial Arthur Goldstein La Crosse Wisconsin Science and Instrumental Music Gordon Shelgren Storm Lake Agriculture Mathematics and coach Maurine Kelly Ayrshire Third and Fourth part time Ruth Adeline Torkelson Osgood Fourth and Fifth Lillian Tinkle Graettinger First Florence Conway Ringsted Second Cora Christopher Graettinger Fifth and Sixth part time Joel Ball Principal English Latin and Dramatics Kyle Jones Superintendent. CACTUS bloom at New Hampton residence after 13 years without blossoms.
A Western businessman travels to Red China to sell engines and aid a friend, but the murder of a Scottish defector in his hotel room propels him into a harrowing sequence of events in a bizarre world. New member Thomas Patrick Robinson joins Mr. and Mrs. Leland Boblit at the library notice.
Barry Gustin found a black on top snake with a coral ring just below the head and coral scales beneath near Glenwood. SCS staff, not herpetologists, tentatively identify it as a South American Ringneck snake. The native ringneck species are relatively rare.
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