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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1955
Page
8
A three year old, Jean, greets a newborn with expected jealousy. Parents avoid punishment, teaching both children that parental love remains constant. With time, children gain independence and social activities, reducing envy. Wise parenting helps outgrow jealousy without fostering guilt.
In the tale a husband underestimates his wife and errs in judgment. He gifts her an old clunker to ease her need for a car, but the plan backfires as she uses the vehicle while he pretends it’s a hot rod. The couple laughs, yet the car’s stubborn flaws test their balance.
Wipers failed and lights dimmed with age while Harry refused to secure the car. When the brakes finally failed he spent a month in hospital with both legs raised to the ceiling. The piece ends with the caution that nothing on wheels is a joke.
Graettinger boys share 1954-55 county basketball title with Rodman according to County Supt J EB Smith. Graettinger girls finish fifth in final standings.
Chris Detje, a Truer youth, had a pencil fragment lodged in his leg for two years. A recent lump prompted surgery revealing the concealed piece that a playmate had slipped under him earlier. Earlier the doctor had removed part of the pencil.
Mercer B Richter, Treasurer of Palo Alto County Iowa, presents a semi annual financial report for the period June 1 to December 31 1954. It itemizes receipts and disbursements across funds including soldiers bonus, city and school district warrants, licenses, old age pensions, use tax, drainage and refunds with a final balance as of December 31 1954. Emmetsburg Iowa February 15 1955. I Mercer B Richter Treasurer certifies the report as correct.
The champion bull of the Polled Shorthorn show in Omaha, consigned by Otto Johnson of Lohrville, drew 1500 at auction.
Iowa officials expect about 150000 first through fourth graders to receive polio vaccine this April if the Salk vaccine gains approval from the Michigan trial review and NIH licensing. Distribution will be county based with local doctors administering in schools, aided by medical societies nursing groups PTAs and school officials.
State of Iowa Palo Alto County notice announces an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of Anna Thorson Resh deceased. Hearing proof is set for Monday March 28 1955. Clerk L W Frost affixes official seal and signature.
Two year old Janet Mae Evans of Pleasantville ingested a small amount of poisonous fly killer thinking it was candy. She was treated at the hospital and recovered nicely.
An obituary notes that 89 year old A. J. Black spent most of his life on a Riverton farm, with five years on a farm west of Hamburg. The piece highlights a long rural working life and ties to two communities.
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