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Newspaper
Hardin County Index
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1955
Page
4
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Teen safety champions led by Jim Messerschmitt of Elizabeth Colorado discuss teen driving risks andRoad safety advocacy. National 4-H Safety Program winners received 300 college scholarships from General Motors and all expenses for Congress trips. Over 486000 youths joined safety efforts, with many forming clubs, giving talks, and promoting signs to reduce highway danger.
Eldora adult farmers night school hosts a meeting Monday at 7 30 p m in the vocational building with Bernard Ebbing of Rath Packing Waterloo to discuss production testing carcass quality and other livestock developments An election of four councilmen will be held to replace two year terms A social gathering and coffee will follow the session.
Funeral services for Anna Sophie Bjerkestrand were held at Bergeson Funeral Home and Our Savior's Lutheran Church with Rev. A I Kramme officiating. She was born November 8, 1885, in Kendall County Illinois and died January 20, 1955 at age 89. Survivors include three sons Ole Joseph and Lewis, daughters Gertie Esther Gladys, and several grandchildren. Interment was in Radcliffe cemetery.
FOR SALE Baled fed clover hay six to seven feet endless rubber belt Phone 24 F 2 Bubba 6e BOR SALE Hawkeye soybeans Nemaha Abbeweight tots Phone 161 Ith tials CARD OF THANKS I wish to thank my relatives and friends for their calls cards gifts and flowers during my recent hospitalization also Drs Shuris and Nyquist and the hospital staff for their excellent care and Rev Zimmermann for his words of comfort and his prayers John Follett Whitten
In The Hospital patients include Blanche Hinshaw Nettie Strother Charles EB Thompson Mrs Charles W West Columbus Knott T Glen Sheldon Fred Lewis Mrs Dallas Raab and baby girl Arkley Clarence Sheffield New Providence Mrs E C White Iowa Falls Reginald Houck Hubbard Mrs Rena Hankemeier Mrs Charlotta Walters August Meier Wonewac Wise Mrs Nora Craven Births: Cole Mrs Stanley Sampson girl Jan 25
Truck drivers and chauffeurs can obtain licenses Thursdays from 8 30 a m to 4 p m. Fees include 2 dollars for chauffeurs licenses 1 50 dollars for drivers licenses instruction permits and school licenses. The Hardin county examiner is Mel Allen a Highway Patrolman from Hampton.
Final rites were held at the Nevada Methodist church for James Thornton Hubbard aged 77. Burial followed at Nevada cemetery. Surviving are six sons and two daughters with grandchildren and great grandchildren. Born May 18 1877 in Marshall county he died January 18 1955 in Nevada. He married Myrtle Belle Brunton May 18 1898 in Marshalltown before moving to Story county and settling near Nevada.
VistaVision, the new wide screen system, comes to the New Grand Theatre for a three day run February 2 to 4. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis circus comedy 3 Ring Circus will be shown in VistaVision with VistaVision Visits Norway as the featurette. The Eldora venue is upgrading to the VistaVision presentation system developed by Paramount Pictures.
In motion picture production 8 Hardin County Index notes VistaVision uses 45 mm film, two and a half times wider than 36 mm, oriented horizontally for greater clarity. The Martin and Lewis circus film Ehrfi dirty Ring Circus is the first VistaVision production, filmed on tour and set to be shown nightly at 8 p.m. with regular admission.
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