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Newspaper
Hamburg Reporter
Location
Hamburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1962
Page
2
A compact look back at Hamburg items from twenty and thirty years ago, highlighting notable events, local figures, and community moments preserved in the Reporter files.
Ten years ago Hamburg schools introduced a new bus in service. Donna Howell Terry Sullivan and Sandra Stephens Jr high students achieved ratings in county preliminary declam contest. Bill Harmes sold his insurance agency planning to move to Reno Nevada to serve as an Air Force officer. Marianne Gottsche cast as Clara in Traviata. Four more inches of snow fell bringing weekly total to 11 inches. Carl Stalin purchased the C V Gilbert property at 2208 Park Street. Norma Brown won first in an amateur singing program at the Polish home in Omaha.
Mrs. Ruby Beasley bought the Robert Mullins home on E Street. Mrs. Frank Whitlow moved to Hamburg to live with her parents while her husband served in the air force. Local merchants advertised Christmas gifts including shirts $1.29, men’s robes $3.96, hats $2.99 and $5.00, rayon hose $1.60 $1.69, satin gowns $1.98. A letter from Issam mine years old asks Santa for a doll, baking set, houseshippers, and candy and nuts. Norma Jean Pennington signs with Merry Christmas.
A historical snippet notes November 30 years ago as an exceptionally dry month with only 144 inches of precipitation, marking a notable deviation in local climate records.
In Waterloo Iowa the Sullivan family mourns five sons lost aboard the U S S Juneau after the November 13 1942 sinking near the Solomon Islands. The town honors the brothers Joseph 23 Mat 22 Al 19 Frank 25 George 27, who enlisted together and served in the Navy. The Roosevelts lettered support.
A Iowa family memory and a Missouri ASCS award highlight a report on Bill Jack Harmon of Watson receiving a 7165 incentive for solving a bin moisture problem at Atchison County CCC sites. The piece covers tributes to the Sullivans, wartime heroism, and Harmon's plastic bin extension that reduces grain loss, plus 1963 ACP signup sites and a Scouters award for John Henry Cox in Rock Port.
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