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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1957
Page
9
Birthday party honors Barbie and Mary Kay with cake ice cream and circus decor. Guests include Ann Haker Jackie Fitzpatrick Timmy Millen Vicki Dane DesCombez Steve Christensen Gary Cecilia and Jerome Thomsen and their mothers and Mrs Henry Thiel. Walters segment continues with community club notices and a silver anniversary report among local groups including Walnut Homemakers St Pauls ladies TOPS Emmet County Legion and hospital updates.
Mr and Mrs Leland McQuown of Wallingford announce a daughter born at Holy Family hospital on March 18 weighing 7 lbs 4 oz named Michelle Ann. Grandparents Fred Kulow Marathon and Wm Lodge Graettinger. Mr and Mrs Elroy Kulaw Graettinger parents of baby girl born March 13 at Graettinger hospital. Also Mr and Mrs Hoval Staver Emmetsburg announce a son born Wednesday morning at Emmetsburg hospital. Mrs Staver formerly Laura Griggs. Easter Seals Help crippled children mentioned.
Marlyn Johnson accepts a bookkeeper role at Gradlinger State Bank, succeeding Dorothy Luke who recently resigned. A 1956 graduate of Gracttinger High School, she completed a bookkeeping course at Mankato Business College and is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Russell Johnson of Gracttinger. Mrs Luke will join her husband Delbert, stationed with the armed services in California.
Leonard Torkelson and Gracttinger recently purchased the registered Brown Swiss bull Gilda's Mode 126075 from Lemures Womacks & Family of Waukee Iowa. The report is from Fred S. Idise secretary of the Brown Swiss Cattle Breeders Association Beloit Wisconsin.
The past week brought heavy wet snow and strong winds. Temperatures rose to melt but Sunday night and Monday brought another five to six inches of snow, closing schools and blocking roads. By Saturday streets were cleared, but Monday snow lingered and totals reached about eight inches locally.
Notice for seed corn distribution at the building near Hansen's Cleaners on Mondays Wednesdays and Saturdays. Prizes awarded next Wednesday include 10 15 and 50 dollars with past winners Lester Perkins claiming 10 dollars Leo Schang not claiming 15 dollars and Henry Popinga missing 50 dollars.
Knutson of Gradlinges completed two weeks of active duty with the 2463th Fighter Bomber Wing at Minneapolis International Airport. He serves as a First Lieutenant in the Air Force Reserve.
Next week's school lunch menu includes Monday roast pork with mashed potatoes and beans, Tuesday barbecued hamburger and baked beans, Wednesday orange juice and salmon loaf, Thursday bak hum and peas, Friday fish sticks with cabbage salad. Safe Driver Henry Bode of Woden rural mail earned a pin for 26 years of accident free driving.
The fragment notes Mr. Bode carried mail for 84 years without an accident and mentions the National Safety Council program not beginning until 1930, but the text is fragmentary and unclear.
More than five hundred teenage girls and advisers traveled to Des Moines for the 1957 State Leadership Conference of the Future Homemakers of America. Iowa’s FHA includes 7,478 members in 144 chapters coached by the Division of Vocational Education. Miss Louise Keller serves as State Adviser. District officers and local presidents were invited to sharpen leadership skills, with Graettinger representatives Patty Watson, Rosemary Graettinger, Lois Fr and teacher Mrs Pratt among those attending.
Hospital notes list admissions on March 13 19 for Graettinger residents including Mrs Her bert Curry Mrs Dora Johnson and patient Elroy Malow A birth is noted for Graettinger and discharge dates include Henry Duus Roland Leduc and a baby girl at Graettinger Several names are misspelled or partially obscured in the source.
Storm Lakes man Noamin Pierry sustained a broken right tibia after slipping on a farm near Sachin. He crawled to his car and drove about two miles to Buena Vista hospital for treatment.
ST. PATRICK Mo a verdant northeast Missouri town gains fame as a shrine of St Patrick that visitors flock to see though still unfinished. The round tower church features cut stone walls and Dublin stained glass windows depicting Irish saints with a vivid choir window. The central figure is St Patrick surrounded by Ireland’s heraldry including the Red Hand of ONeill and the Harp of Leinster.
New York report links visual skills to highway safety. Two thirds of traffic deaths occur at night, and poor seeing conditions such as rain or snow contribute to one fifth of fatal crashes. Repeater drivers show worse depth perception and acuity, with accidents rising as vision worsens from 20/35 to 20/50.
New York reports that catastrophes defined as accidents with five or more deaths killed over 1,300 people in the United States during 1956, about 150 fewer than 1955. Major disasters with 24 or more deaths fell sharply, while earlier high death tolls from hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes did not recur, marking a notably calmer year.
Smithsonian trop ical preserve in Panama Canal Zone hosts unusual birds. The turkeylike curassow shows a roaring male and silent female while the burja hawk a coal black back with white belly red feet and greenish yellow bill.
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