11 Sep 1952
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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1952
Page
1
In a Palo Alto Tribune column, Highway Patrol Sergeant Don French recounts post accident duties after four victims are carried away. He sees the emotional toll as he calls families and reports a death while continuing patrol. The piece highlights the human cost behind crash scenes.
The article urges parents to ensure children eat a well balanced diet with minimum servings from each Basic 7 food group. Nutritionist Mrs. Helen Lovell of the Town State Department of Health advises planning meals and obtaining the Basic 7 copy by writing to the Iowa State Department of Health.
The text outlines daily servings for vegetables fruit and vitamin C rich foods, multiple servings of potatoes and other produce, milk intake for children and adults, meat or fish once daily with eggs weekly, bread and fats, and a practical after school snack plan. It emphasizes including fruit milk bread butter cereal and raw vegetables to meet child needs without spoiling appetite.
A man wakes to a routine morning and a stale outlook as he drives to work. He nearly runs a school crossing while distracted, only stopping when the scene reminds him that school zone signs reopen after summer. The incident underscores how life returns to normal with students back in session.
A German displaced person named Ewald Dahm died recently in Iowa after a passing automobile fatally injured him while he rode his bicycle on a highway.
A son recalls his father in a blue serge suit, the color of happier days. Tension with his mother frames a summer journey to visit her own kin. A reunion at Oak Leaf Junction ends with the father wearing the beloved suit again as they return home.
John Johnston, a 20 year old from County Derry Ireland, spent three weeks visiting the Everett Crane farm near Wall. He notes Ireland has concrete or blacktop roads while Iowa mud roads disappoint him. In Decorah, Paul Moen and son Curtis report seeing “flying saucers” as a cream separator exploded sending disks across the barn. A thief took $20 during morning worship at Bloomfield Methodist church.
Mrs Clare Skattebo and two and a half month old Mary Jane arrived in Minneapolis Friday at 8 30 a m by plane from Fairbanks Alaska after connections in Seattle. They stay with Floyd Hatens of Lost Island while Mr Skattebo plans to join after Army discharge. Nearby, two year old Bobby Krause of Riceville was stung 33 times by a bumble bee nest while visiting near Algona.
Real estate listing states a five room house with two and a quarter lots for sale in northeast Graettinger priced to move by H A Elsenbast. Also notes insurance agency motto and thanks from Mrs Albert Schealler for hospital well wishes.
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