Swamp buggy races draw crowds to Naples in November
Visitors to Naples in November find an unusual lure the swamp buggy races. In Big Cypress the South Under built by George Espenlaub powers through mud with a Ford engine and a bow-and-half truck chassis. Naples promots the event drawing 5000 spectators and even Army officials to watch the mudslinging race between Democrats and Republicans.
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Naples
Florida
South Under
Big Cypress Swamp
George Espenlaub
George
Ford
Army
Local Women Volunteer At Public Graettinger Library
The Graettinger library relies on dedicated local women volunteers to handle check out and desk duties beyond staffed hours. Regular helpers include Mildred Warren and Hertha Frick since 1955, with several others contributing monthly or more, ensuring efficient service and funds for books.
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Graettinger
Brary
Mildred Warren
Hertha Frick
Cora Christopher
Coy Coan
Arlette Lastine
Esther Rasmussen
Thelma Carter
Lillian Barringer
Peggy Peterson
Marie Singer
Mildred Sampson
Helen Erickson
Menagerie at Red Oak Farm Includes Lions Coyotes and Bears
At the Mrs. Fred Halvin farm in north Red Oak a lion cub owned by her grandson Dennis, a Hama, a coyote, Shetland ponies, and soon two female Grizzly bears with Muffet sheep are kept as pets or sale stock. The animals are raised for resale to circuses, zoos, and other sources.
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Fred Halvin
North Red Oak
Dennis
Legion Hall Feeds Fifty Men at Noon and Fifty Six at 3 PM
A list of numerous local women volunteers provided refreshments for a Legion hall event. They served fifty men at the noon meal and fifty six at the 3 p.m. lunch, with many names for the hosting community group.
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Norman Anderson
Anderson
Torreson DX Service
Wallingford Cooperative Elevator
Wallingford
C. W. Olson
Robert Fay
Sylvester Johnson
Bernard Nielsen
Lloyd Petersen
Clifford Ingvall
Alvin Johnson
Dale Young
Harold Nitchall
Edgar Iverson
Keith Clark
George Brix
James
Loyet Skatteho
Thomas Johnson
Paul Johnson
Dwight Frick
Leland McQuown
Arnold Olson
Bill Elis
Albert Richard
Alfred Luke
Vernon Torreson
Ordine Olson
Levi Olson
Donald Peterson
Aftrnoon
Harold Rustad
August Andreasen
Joe Herum
Chester Angerson
Robert Russell
Gary Osher
Legion Hall
Don Richard
Alfred Lammers
Russell Frick
LeRoy Olson
Duane Kiner
Vernon Fredrickson
Ordern Olson
E. 5S. Skattebo
Hilda Luke
Edwin Osher
Johnnie Johnson
Smoon
Wesley Anderson
Loyed Skattebo
Fritz Skattebo
Nordein Peterson
John Thomas
Jeffrey Olson
Norman Egeland
Wilma Refsell
Mildred Luke
Beverly Felkey
Selma Olson
Pearl Frick
Almira Anderson
Irma Fredrickson
Alice Torreson
Ethel Richard
Mildred Refsell
Lloyd
Fred ‘Peterson
Marines in 1942 to death on a butte near Pima reserve
A service member who joined in 1942 endured alcoholism and exposure, dying on a remote butte overlooking the Pima Indian reservation in 1955, marking a tragic postwar chapter in his military life.
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The
Marines
Pima Indian Reservation
Local Residents Move Near Iowa Falls
Mr and Mrs Marlin McCullah moved to 809 Woodland Ave Iowa Falls. He manages Thompson Distributing in Iowa Falls. Mr and Mrs Palmer Cody visited Sunday at sister and family home of Mr and Mrs Stanley Clarken in Mallard. Mr and Mrs Orland Thoreson of Minneapolis visited his parents Mr and Mrs Curt Thoreson for the weekend.
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Marlin McCullah
Woodland Ave
Iowa Falls
Mr. McCullah
Thompson Distributing Company
Palmer Cody
Stanley Clarken
Mallard
Orland Thoreson
Minneapolis
Curt Thoreson
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Outsider film screens at Graettinger Theatre
The dramatic film The Outsider starring Tony Curtis tells Ira Hayes story not a war movie. Producer Sy Bartlett says the drama focuses on Hayes after the Iwo Jima flag raising and his tragic life following enlistment. The feature plays Saturday and Sunday at the Graettinger theatre.
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Ira Hayes
Iwo Jima
Graettinger Theatre
Tony Curtis
Sy Bartlett
Iwo
Mt. Suribachi
Hut
Hayes
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Espenlano
By Marj Vandervelde
Iowa State University
Graettinger Coop Grain
FELCO
Jim Iverson
Myr
TIMES
Graettinger Times Graettinger
Anderson Farm
U.S
Treasury
U.S. Savings Bonds
Ed Herke
Emmetsburg, Iowa
Palo Alto County
Emmetsburg
Iowa
County Auditor
County Engi
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