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Newspaper
Greene Recorder
Location
Greene, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1957
Page
3
For a long time man toyed with space travel and the moon. This year he will hurl his first challenge at space, the vast unknown beyond Earth.
Later this year a three stage rocket from Patrick Air Force Base Florida will loft a gold plated satellite packed with instruments to orbit between 200 and 1200 miles. The mission aims to measure ultraviolet solar radiation Earth's magnetic field high speed particles and energy balance while radio networks on Earth relay minute by minute data to scientists worldwide.
Reflections from Recorder Mirror Pearl letta Bellows of Greene became the bride of Loren J McRoberts son of Mr and Mrs John McRoberts also of Greene.
A candlelight ceremony at the First Presbyterian Church featured Stanley Mellinger son of Mrs Anna Mellinger. He left Monday for Dubuque to attend summer school at the University. Ruth Noehl is at Patricia Stevens modeling school in Chicago for five weeks. Mr and Mrs Gene Curis and family returned from a Leach Lake vacation. Linda Marie Burroughs was born June 9 at Cedar Valley Hospital weighing 7 pounds 6 ounces. Richard Lee Reints born June 5 at Cedar Valley Hospital weighing 6 pounds 5 ounces. Mrs Luella Thomas visited Waterloo to stay with her son Ray Thomas. Nelson Hartgraves and Ardith visited Mrs Hartgraves’ sister in Indianola for a farms reunion. Mr and Mrs Franklin Schuknecht and Miami Reids visited Des Moines. Dell Curtis and daughters left for a ten day western vacation. Ten Boy Scouts met. first class swimmers were Donald Rohwedder, Dick Witwer, Bobby Albrecht. Genevieve Lucas left for Evans ton Illinois for piano study under Dr Louis Crowder at Northwestern. Chief Specialist and Mrs Robert Curtis of Norfolk VA visited Greene. Mr Curtis to be stationed at Great Lakes. They were joined by Mrs Curtis sister Berniece Moon. Maurice Hagarty of Cedar Falls became a father to a son James Edward born June 2 at Sartor Hospital. Doroths May Mather and Harry G Mehlan wed Saturday in a Greene area ceremony.
Dorothy Schwartz daughter of Mrs Helen Schwartz has accepted an English instructorship at Conrad for the coming school year. Mrs Russell Meyers and daughter Mareille attended the wedding of Ruth Hulme and Alfred Van Benschoten at Plain held Friday. Mr and Mrs Paul Grey and daughters returned from a fishing trip in Canada. Robert Mead returned from Des Moines after completing a pharma course and will join Legget’s Drug Stores at Cedar Rapids. He will spend about two weeks here before starting duties.
Butler County produced 1,543,425 bushels of corn for 1956 placed under government price support by May 31 as announced by ASC chair J P Hartwig. Of this, 846,969 bushels qualified for the 1.44 rate, with the remainder at 1.19. 836 loans were completed on 1,286,525 bushels and 143 purchase agreements on 256,000 bushels.
A group of young friends gathered Tuesday evening in Allison to celebrate Dorothy Debner's sixth birthday on Saturday June 11. Attendees included Doris Butler Jeanette MacLeod Keith Swab Shirley Swab Shirley Moon Shirley Crabtree Irene Bischoff Irma Bischoff Alma Hemmerick Donald Voigts and Dorothy Voigts.
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