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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1966
Page
5
Four $25 Buck prizes were awarded in Graettinger on Saturday with four $23 prizes totaling $100 in the weekly drawing. Don Oleson and Pred Masters attended to claim $25 prizes last Saturday. Winners drawn for $25 prizes included Mrs. Willard Herke Knut Swanson and Marie Pude.
Palo Alto county clerk Alma Burns announced the petit jurors for the March term who must appear before the district court at the courthouse at 10 a.m. on March 14. Joseph P. Hand will preside. Jurors include Ernest Gjerde Vernon township Joy Flankey Wayne Johnson Eunice Lammers John Nolan Walnut township Henry Peterson and Mrs Gunnar Thim Lost Island township.
On a highway near Provo Utah Bob and Elaine Schany and Richard and Licly Sehany met while en route to Las Vegas Nevada California and from Iowa. They described a chance encounter as both couples paused their cars for a visit amid winter travel. The note mentions Graettinger residents recalling cold weather and a separate farmers meeting invitation from Bob McDonald of Graettinger for a live stock nutrition session at the Legion hall on Tuesday February 15.
Graetlinger Community School announces first semester and second nine week honor rolls. 8th grade lists 9 weeks and first semester honorees including Barbara Beschorner Dennis Nelson Debra Reynolds and Tom Westfall. 7th 6th and 5th grades show multiple students across 9 weeks and 1st semester with names such as Steven Hoecker Linda Clipperton Michael Leblit Kathy DeVries and Diana Bortvit.
The Graecttinger State bank and all banks of Palo Alva will be closed on Saturday in observance of Lincoln Birthday. The post office will be open as usual with no holiday observance. Street routes and rural delivery will make normal deliveries. Roy
The 1966 Heart Fund campaign in Gractur kicks off with a business district solicitation named Heart- Days-for-Business led by chairman John DeVries. Volunteers plan to cover the Graettinger residential area on Heart Sunday Feb 20 as part of a broader effort to fight heart and vascular disease.
Gradtlinger residents woke to a Wednesday morning of milder temperatures as the week began with fog and recent showers. Tue nights thunder storms left over half an inch of rain and much of the snow pack has melted. Fog diminished by Wednesday, with forecasts calling for cooler conditions Wednesday night.
The Adult Farmers class will hold its regular meeting Wednesday evening February 16 at 7 30 in the school anchor room. The topic is High Moisture Corn and Low Moisture Forage. A film titled The People of Kolevn will be shown at 7 30, with Andy Groos in charge of the meeting. Refreshments follow. Everyone is encouraged to attend.
Several local farm sales and auctions planned around Graettinger Iowa with multiple sellers including Frank Kempf Alvin Poppinga WM Voigt Estate and Harvey Anderson. Auctions feature machinery hay straw and household goods with 1 pm starts and local bank clerks and auctioneers noted.
Graettinger School approved for 34479.36 under ESEA Title 1. Sectional play details show Rembrandt in the first round at Rue von Mundaniger, Peh, at 7:30. Semifinals set for Tuesday at Sioux Rapids, with consolation and championship rounds planned for Saturday night at Sioux Rapids.
Graettinger public library serves a town of about 400 with 1965 circulation of 21 500, up from 1961 by about 130. Stock totals 616 books, rising five to six per year with gifts to the memorial fund aiding additions. 4565 names on the Borrower’s List by year end. access to all. It is YOUR library.
The Graettinger town council will hold a public hearing Monday night at 7:30 p.m. in the town hall to consider passage of ordinance No. 35 amending the zone plan map. The reclassification covers east half of block two and Lots three, four and five in Spies Subdinof Outlets to enable a garage and warehouse on the Lars Petersen lot across from the light plant. Objections will be heard and received.
Pirates basketball game with South Clay scheduled for Friday at South Clay has been cancelled. Coach Hoekstra says the Paules are in a sectional game, forcing the cancellation to keep the schedule within the state association's game limit.
A barn and its contents were burned at Claude Shaffer’s farm five and a half miles south and a mile west of Graettinger on Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Shaffer and a small son were home. two 4-H heifers, two calves, hay, and ground feed were lost. Graettingue fire department responded after two o'clock and was still at the scene at press time. The cause was undetermined.
Graettinger Community School received approval for four math laboratories and a tentative approval for remedial reading under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Math lab funding totals 13,929 dollars and the remedial reading project 20,550 dollars. The district also allocates 3,952 dollars to a county cooperative project to expand special education services at a central Lions location in Lrometsburg, exhausting the 343,71 dollars allocated for fiscal year 1965 06.
The Farmers Creamery of Griettinger will hold its annual meeting Thursday Feb. 17 at the Legion. Manager W. J. Woodiwiss says a free lunch will be served at noon, followed by the business meeting and program. Reports will be given and directors elected. Door prizes will be awarded.
Graetlinger Mark reports Wednesday grain prices with corn oats and beans listed in cents per bushel or per unit. Prices shown include corn at 9 cents and beans around 1.13 dollars, with other values near 2.67 dollars for related commodities.
Extension specialists from Iowa State University Sylvester and Stockdale will speak in Emmetsburg on February 17 about agricultural chemicals and weed control. They will cover preemergence and postemergence chemicals, insect control rates, and latest developments. The public meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Mametsburg Methodist Church.
The junior high vocal and instrumental music program moved from Tuesday Feb 8 to Friday Feb 11 due to foggy roads and weather. It will start at 7 30 p m in the school auditorium under Kenley Zwietel vocal instructor and Gary Pease band director.
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