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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1973
Page
7
Graettinger residents will wait another week to use the Municipal Swimming Pool as repairs and painting cannot be finished by the June 3 opening. City spokesman Russel Lastine says the pool will officially open Saturday, June 9 with details in the inside advertisement.
Edward C. Norland of Palo Alto County reports April Savings Bond sales totaled 31679 dollars. The county chair listed the figure as the month’s total in Emmetsburg.
Mary Ann Prather was named outstanding junior student in Home Economics for attitude responsibility and cooperation as well as scholastic ability. Daughter of Master Sgt. and Mrs. Robert H. Prather of Graettinger Iowa she received the award from Mrs. Dawson at awards night May 16 at Graettinger High School.
Markets report horizontal prices for corn May at 1.73 and 1.70 on nearby. August-September 1.79. on1nd 1.70. Beans May at 9.78 with August around 5.96 to 5.86 for January. Oats quoted at 85 with nearby and deferred figures.
Mrs. Mary M. Skattebo and her third grade class spent part of a day with Joe Gabrielsen, a local horticulturist and Your Graet tinger Times columnist. He showed his eight and a half acre truck garden, one and two thirds acre strawberry patch, four acres of raspberries, and an eight acre apple orchard, one of only two in northwest Iowa. He spoke on pruning, tree identification, and discussed Norway spruce seedlings the students will take home, gifts from the Iowa Conservation Commission and Mrs. Hanawalt.
Heavy rainfall over Memorial Day weekend reached 3.01 inches with Saturday and Sunday delivering moisture well above prior May totals. Through May 28 the area recorded 5.60 inches, the largest May total since 1965 when Graettinger saw 6.5 inches.
Applications are now being taken for Graettinger Community Apartments Inc. five units will be available for rental possibly by mid August. One bedroom units will rent for 90 dollars and two bedrooms for 105 dollars. Applications must include one month’s rent and be sent to John Ennen or Thomas Thomson. Jim Spies joins the board replacing Dennis Essing who leaves for Newton bank.
Larry Masters of Omaha Nebraska has won a second term as Treasurer of the Nebraska State Education Association. He has served nine years as a Business Education Teacher at Omaha South High School, a 3400 plus enrollment school. He earned a BA from Morningside College and an MS from University of Nebraska Omaha Campus. He and his wife Linda will receive an expense paid trip in June to the National Education Association meeting in Portland Oregon and will visit his relatives Tom and Reiko Masters in Salem Oregon.
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