Gas stations adjust hours for holidays as AAA advises
Availability of gasoline varies with closures on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in metro areas, while 50 percent of interstate stations stay open 24 hours during holidays. New Year’s Eve closures rise to 44 percent with 55 percent closed on New Year’s Day. Most stations resume normal hours by December 26 and January 2. AAA warns drivers to prepare survival kits including shovel, blankets, matches, candles, metal cans, bags, and food, and to run the engine briefly to stay warm while watching tailpipe ventilation.
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Palo Alto ASC selects Drew as chair at county convention
Maurice J. Drew, Cylinder area farmer, is re elected to a 3 year term on the Palo Alto County ASC Committee at the County ASCS Convention held Saturday December 17. Elected as alternates were Keyron Fogarty Rodman and Raymond J Kollasch Rodman. Drew chosen as Chairman John C Nolan Graettinger as vice chairman Olaf Norland Cylinder as regular member for 1978. The committee oversees local federal farm programs including Feed Grain set aside Agriculture Conservation Commodity Loan and Nebraska Boundary Commission.
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Maurice J. Drew
Cylinder Area
Palo Alto County
ASC
ASCS
Keyron Fogarty
Rodman
Raymond J. Kollasch
Drew
Graettinger Junior High Girls End Season With Losses
Graettinger junior high girls wrap up the season with defeats to West Bend. In seventh grade, Graettinger fell 38-16. halftime 6-21. Scorers: Cindy Park 8, Tami Thompson 6, Diana Voigt 2. Eighth grade lost 33-25. halftime 14-13 Graettinger led. Marilyn Elsenbast 15, Patsy Sampson 6, Kelly Peterson 4. Final records 5-3.
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Graettinger
West Bend
Cindy Park
Tami Thompson
Diana Voigt
Teresa Gray
Marcia Herke
Tami Studer
Marilyn Elsenbast
Patsy Sampson
Kelly Peterson
Denise Moyer
Rhonda Hoffman
Kathy Platter
Iowa Nebraska Boundary Dispute Subcommittee Meets Omaha
State Representative Don Spencer of Ruthven said the Iowa Nebraska Boundary Dispute Subcommittee met Monday with the Nebraska Boundary Commission in Omaha. It was the first Iowa Nebraska boundary meeting in nearly ten years and aimed to set an agenda for 1978 regarding Missouri River boundary delineation.
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Don Spencer
Ruthven
Nebraska Boundary Commission
Omaha
Nebraska
Iowa
Spencer
Missouri River
Susan Jacobsen to Visit Europe on Buena Vista Tour
Susan Jacobsen of rural Graettinger joins 19 other Buena Vista College students for a January interim Europe trip. The group, led by Drs Jon Hutchins and Charles Slagle, flies from New York to London December 28 and returns January 27 after stops in London Paris Barcelona Nice Rome Vienna Munich Amsterdam Naples and the Vesuvius area with visits to the Tower of London Louvre Coliseum and Van Gogh Gallery. Jacobsen is a BV sophomore.
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Lowell Jacobsen
Graettinger
Buena Vista College
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New York
London
Paris
Barcelona
Nice
Rome
Vienna
Munich
Amsterdam
Naples
Vesuvius
Tower of London
Louvre
Coliseum
van Gogh
Jon Hutchins
Charles Slagle
Buena Vista
Hutchins
England
Slagle
Jacobsen
4-H Officers Attend Area Retreat
New Palo Alto County 4-H officers attended an area retreat December 3 and 4 at Lutheran Lakeside Camp near the lake.
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New Palo Alto County
Lutheran Lakeside Camp
New 4-H Officers Attend Ten-County Retreat
Spirit Lake source Tracy Remy notes the ten-county retreat trained Palo Alto county officers Jackie Kibbie Bruce Appel Nancy Finnestad and Cindy Twait. The program by the 4-H Area Council taught duties leadership skills team building and planning for the year with recreation activities.
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Spirit Lake
Tracy Remy
Palo Alto County
Jackie Kibbie
Finmersburg
Bruce Appel
Curlew
Nancy Finnestad
Cylinder
Cindy Twait
Ringsted
Keep These Survival Items In Your Car
The AAA Motor Club of Iowa notes gasoline prices remain virtually unchanged from Thanksgiving through Christmas and New Year holidays. The report highlights the need to carry survival items in vehicles for holiday travel.
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AAA Motor Club of Iowa
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