09 Oct 1947
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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1947
Page
1
From where I sit the column argues aging is not about years but attitude. It notes old folks who mock neighbors having wholesome fun lose youthfulness of spirit, even if their age remains low. The piece highlights horseshoes beer and fishing as wholesome pleasures that prompt self-reflection on maturity.
Readers recall a Gowrie singer Mrs Ernest Racing and sister Beulah Hauser from Des Moines perform a duet praised as one of the best numbers on a chautauqua program. The paper also salutes a then unknown Gladys Swarthout noted as pretty good. A furnace boiler explosion disrupted the Newell post office with injuries but no serious harm.
The Iowa Department of Public Safety announces a five point highway safety program led by Commissioner Alfred W. Kahl. It calls for intensified enforcement, public information efforts, a driver improvement plan, school driver training, and active safety groups. A day of crashes killed nine in a 24 hour period as the program opens. Dean Altenhofen of Keswick died while trenching a natural gas line. four others were trapped but rescued.
Case in The American Weekly links a Sesqui Centennial revival of the USS Constitution restoration funded by 650000 from American schoolchildren. It highlights Svend J Skou’s 42 years Navy service and seven campaigns from Spanish American War to WWI, noting Pensacola’s near sinks and Ranger’s 1778 foreign honor under Captain John Paul Jones.
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