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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1962
Page
1
By attending the athletic dinner next Tuesday night you help honor Graettinger high athletes who provided sports entertainment this past year. Purchase a Booster ticket to assist meals for athlete guests and help the event break even financially.
A circulating item parades a man’s life from public housing to army service and GI education, then college, marriage to a public nurse, and land and business loans. It traces a path from school to farming via FHA REC veteran programs. The piece ends with notes of a county hospital birth and a veteran’s land purchase.
The narrative recounts a farmer who benefited from government programs such as land restoration, soil banking, REA electricity, terraces, fish pond stocking, price guarantees, library deliveries, insured savings, school meals and buses, and federal projects. He supported infrastructure like a post office, federal building, and an industrial plan, while later opposing socialistic trends and taxes, claiming rugged individualism. He urged local and national action, including a dam and air base transfers, and wrote to his Congressman critiquing excessive expenditures.
District 2 3 4 list includes W H Bargman Walter High Lester Johnson Russell Peterson A P Ricklefs adent with unspecified roles. No further context or actions provided.
A garbled OCR collection cites Exodus Luke Mark Joshua Matthew and Ephesians verses. The piece references Exodus 20 16 Luke 1 27 Mark 13 15 19 Joshua 7 19 26 Matthew 23 1 5 and Ephesians 4 25 in a heading.
An incident involving a Axor Pai ome 410 was reported on Thursday March 4 1937. Details are limited in the available text. Authorities may investigate the event to determine cause and any involved parties.
A Graettinger column discusses honesty and theft, quoting sermons on paying taxes and cheating, then notes local civic items. It highlights mayoral and school matters, including a March 11 play and upcoming election campaigning by Ben Reeves, George Frick, and local stores hiring clerks.
The Des Moines Register cartoonist Jay N. Darling known as Ding is celebrated posthumously with the book Midwest Farming at the library. The collection spans 1907 to 1948 and showcases his timely humor and conservation advocacy as a Pulitzer Prize winner. Also notes new club and Golden 100 members.
Mrs Albert Bergstrom of Ogden reports a remarkable amaryllis with four blossoms on a single stalk. Last year the plant produced two stalks, one bearing four blooms and the other three.
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