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Newspaper
Greene Recorder
Location
Greene, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1959
Page
3
A critique argues for a single United Fund style campaign per community to reduce overhead and avoid rackets. It notes some drives raise more money than needed while remaining diseases see less support, citing TB, polio, and Mothers March. It questions allocation, urging centralized oversight and efficiency.
Community notes report the Helping Hand Club meeting at Mrs Rex Christofferson’s home where Mrs Paul Mason was chosen president Mrs Percy Morehouse secretary and Mrs Ruth Buttier treasurer. Six new church members were welcomed at Easter including Harold Lloyd Barley Vern Earley Shaidl Kay Hansen Valere Earley and Leland Wickwire. Easter Sunday baptisms and local social visits fill the weekend with family gatherings and church events across Dike Chapin Hampton and surrounding areas.
Mr and Mrs Francis Billington returned home to Bainefall Canada after spending two weeks with Mr and Mrs Claude Sidmore and other relatives. Mrs Sidmore accompanied them to Davenport to visit more relatives.
Ronald Ritter was discharged and returned home Wednesday after receiving treatment at a Mason City hospital.
A reader urges city action to curb double parking on main street and near the Post Office and grocery stores. Proposes stricter five and thirty minute limits, enforcement, and better curb markings to improve safety, plus calls for schools to teach walking rather than drive lessons and for careful driving near intersections and crosswalks.
County Extension Director Wil iam Patton advises pruning raspberries from now to leaf-out with five or six sprays before harvest to lift yields by up to fifty percent. A. E. Cott of Iowa State College notes years of practice yield double the present harvest, citing a favorable 1958 season and prospects for a heavy bloom this year. Removing weak canes and using a trellis boosts harvests. black and purple varieties need three prunings annually with specific height targets and postharvest work.
Mr and Mrs Ernest J Koester of Shell Rock spend after hours at their Greene residence supervising a remodeling project. The home is being given a complete renovation with new paint varnish and flooring upstairs and down. First floor features heavy oak floors and paneled wood ceilings a new kitchen and double sink.
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