Westinghouse post strike unrest at Sharon Pennsylvania plant
In Sharon Pennsylvania the aftereffects of a 156 day Westinghouse walkout include vandalism threats and a silent pillory against workers who crossed picket lines. Affected workers report paint grease and stolen or damaged property while union leaders push for disciplinary actions and retaliation claims amid arbitration proceedings.
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LeMars
Law & Order
Pennsylvania
Wall Street Journal
Westinghouse, Electric Corp
Westinghouse
Sharon
Columbus
Ohio
Eugene Dull
A. F. L C. I. QO. International Union of Electrical Workers
tansformer
Bricklayers Deny Strike At Albertson Plant
Three or four union bricklayers told the Globe-Post they have worked steadily at the new Albertson plant under Nemmers Bros. LD.C. confirms no dispute with workers. A Sioux City rumor of a bricklayers strike next month is deemed unlikely to affect workers outside Sioux City.
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Globe-Post
Albertson
Nemmers Bros
LD. C
Each Farm To Stand On Own Corn Basis
A Washington memo states that for 1956 corn price support no aggregate compliance. Each farm will be considered separately to determine eligibility. R L Weidauer notes this change in policy for Plymouth County ASC Office.
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State Office
Washington
R. L. Weidauer
Plymouth Co. ASC
Storm Damage Impacts Hinton Merrill and Nearby Areas
Storm winds caused outages in Hinton Thursday night with repairs by 8 30. Merrill and James farm line disruptions fixed by Friday morning. Alton reports higher damage from wind. Le Mars reports cable rips and a fifty pair cable outage affecting twenty five telephones in the southwest. Five farm lines out of service until repairs completed Friday morning.
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Town Public Service Company
Hinton
Merrill
James
Alton
Le Mars
Mrs Lela Howe dies after heart attack in Elma Washington
Mrs Lela Howe formerly Lela Woodruff and Plymouth county resident died Sunday May 6 in Elma Washington after a heart attack. Funeral and burial were at Elma. She is survived by son Charles of Elma and sisters Eva Hansen of Aberdeen S Dut Mrs Earl Freeman and Mrs Fred Gowen of Elma.
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Lela Howe
Lela Woodruff
Plymouth county
Elma
Washington
Ed Howe
Merrill
Charles
Eva Hansen
Aberdeen
Earl Freeman
Fred Gowan
Funeral services for Le Mars businessman Anton Henn
Anton Henn 74 longtime Le Mars businessman died Thursday afternoon. Funeral 2 p m Monday May 3 at Wiltgen Luedtke with Rev Golden Thompson officiating. Burial in Le Mars city cemetery. Henn owned Henn Electric for 40 years. Born November 12 1881 Waterloo married Stella McCarthy September 11 1907 Le Mars. Survived by widow a daughter Mrs Richard Crayne three sisters Mrs A W Blackburn Mrs Ben Stearns Mrs P C Thiel two grandchildren. Member Le Mars Rotary Club and Masonic lodge.
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Anton Henn
Le Mars
Wiltgen
Saturday Night Shopping Debate Divides Local Merchants
The Globe Post reports an active discussion among Mars business men over moving to Friday night hours versus keeping Saturday nights. Some favor Friday, some prefer Saturday, and a few stay open both nights. A Sheldon merchant says the change hurts more than parking concerns.
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Mars
oool
Sheldon
Globe Post
Couple Married in Marcus At Holy Name Church
Miss Beuy Busch and Herman Freking Jr wed in a double ring ceremony at Holy Name Catholic church Marcus on May 3. The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Busch, is a Holy Name School graduate and former Marcus telephone operator. The groom, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Freking Sr., is a LeMars St. Joseph's High School graduate, now a farmer. The couple planned to rest on their farm near LeMars after a weeklong wedding trip.
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Beuy Busch
Herman Freking, Jr
Holy Name Catholic church
Marcus
Nunel
Henry Busch
Holy Name school
Herman Freking
LeMars
St. Joseph's high school
Pheasant Crashes Windshield Near Hospers
Mrs. Joe Verschoor of Hospers was badly cut when a pheasant shattered the car windshield about three miles north of Hospers on a Sunday evening. She was taken to a Sheldon hospital for glass splinter removal and several teeth damaged but later released. Mr. Verschoor and the children escaped injury though were splattered with blood from the bird.
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Joe Verschoor
Hospers
Obituary of Ralph Schrooten of Milford Iowa
Ralph Schrooten of Milford Iowa longtime Plymouth county resident died after a heart attack Friday He was 71 born July 8 1884 in Plymouth county and lived on a Stanton township farm before moving to Milford seven years ago He married Agda Begg May 31 1916 in Sioux City Funeral services May 13 at Liason Funeral Home Milford and 230 PM at Calvary Evangelical United Brethren Mars Rev Wendell Begg a nephew conducted burial in Le Mars cemetery Survivors include his widow two brothers George Hinton and Harry Le Mars two sisters Mrs Charles Begg Le Mars and Mrs Herman Kortemeyer Salem Oregon He was a Mason and member of the Order of the Eastern Star
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Ralph Schrooten
Milford
Iowa
Plymouth county
Sioux City
Liason funeral home
Calvary Evangelical United Brethren church
Mars
Wendell Begg
Le Mars
Mauer funeral home
Schrooten
Masonica lodge
Order of Eastern Star
George
Hinton
Harry
Charles Begs
Herman Kortemeyer
Salem
Oregon
Ply mouth Board to Remove and Move Traffic Signs
The Ply mouth Board of Supervisors announces summer plans to remove and relocate traffic signs across the county. Motorists are urged to use extra caution at intersections on county roads. The page also notes local social items including a Preston township church confirmation class photograph and visits by Hartley and Merrill residents.
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Board of Supervisors of
Plymouth counts
St. John’s American Lutheran church
Preston township
Neal
Stanley Kiemme
Sharon Wilken
Alfred Kiuse
Thomas Buhman
Arlen Nannen
Res
Henry J. Dirks
Bus Schedule Changes for Le Mars Route Announced
Mrs. Anna McCormick at the Carolina Terrace says Le Mars bus schedules change May 16. One eastbound bus daily, time 5:05 P.M. Sunday departure from Le Mars to Des Moines remains, with connections available on this bus.
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Anna McCormick
Carolina Terrace
Le Mars
Phas AL M
Te Mars
Des Moines
New Corn Planting Method Demonstrated at Local Farm
Elmer J. Lund announces a new tillage method to prepare land and plant corn in one operation. Demonstrations will be at George Bindner farm near Le Mars on May 17 at 2 00 PM and May 18 at 10 00 AM. The method leaves crop residue on the surface to protect soil and reduce evaporation. Rain may delay the demonstrations.
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George Bindner
Le Mars
Ovens
Elmer J. Lund
Lund
New Well Project Bid Letting For Le Mars
Bids for drilling a 70 foot deep six inch well with casing screen and pumping equipment and for a 24 by 36 foot brick tile and reinforced concrete control and pump house will be opened May 25 in Le Mars per Sioux City construction league bulletin. Darrel Ketelsen of Iowa Public Service says no water shortage expected.
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Le Mars
Sioux City construction league
t Buell
Winter
Sioux City project engineers
Darrel Ketelsen
Iown Public Service Company
Straks Piano Pupils To Give A Recital
Mrs. H. G. Straks will present her piano pupils in a recital at her home on Saturday afternoon May 19. Participants include Dick Reiser Verda Jean Olimann Barbara Tro meter Deanna Fisk Judy Klemme Beverly Tindall Barbara Tindall Judy Van Maasdam Janice Drees gen Lennie Popken Stephen Jans Carol Jans Linda Haage Vianne Casler Margert Post Martha Post Connie Lou Strong Sarah Jane Strong Jerry Straks and Barbara Straks.
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H. G. Straks
Dick Reiser
Verda Jean Olimann
Barbara Trometer
Deanna Fisk
Judy Klemme
Beverly Tindall
Barbara Tindall
Judy Van Maasdam
Janice Dreesgen
Lennie Popken
Stephen Jans
Carol Jans
Linda Haage
Vianne Casler
Margert Post
Martha Post
Connie Lou Strong
Sarah Jane Strong
Jerry Straks
Barbara Straks
Young Ministers from Le Mars to Address Le Mars Graduates
Two young ministers with Le Mars roots will speak at Le Mars High School seventy fifth commencement week events. Rev Harold H Becker of Wright Community Congregational Church Boise Idaho will deliver the commencement address at the municipal park amphitheater Friday June 1. Rev Raymond A Bjork of Adaville Evangelical United Brethren Church Johnson Township will give the baccalaureate sermon in the high school auditorium Sunday evening May 44. Becker, a 1936 Le Mars High School and 1945 Westar College graduate, studied at Biblical Seminary New York City and Eden Theological Seminary. Bjork, Westar College graduate 1945, hails from Illinois and is a pastor in Johnson Township. Becker has held multiple church roles and community leadership positions in Colorado and Englewood before moving to Idaho.
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Le Mars
Le Mars High Schools
Harold H. Becker
minster
Wright Community Convegational Church
Boise
Idaho
municipal park
Raymond A. Bjork
Adaville
Rev
Bjork
Westar College
Westar
Becker
Biblical Seminar
New York City
Eden Theological Seminary
St. John’s E and Ro
Sapoleon
Missouri
Zion boand
Kansas City
Aion
Burlington
Colorado
Mayflower Congregational Church
Englewood
Baise
othe large
new
Wright
Chinehim
Colorida
hends
coirectors
Commuunity Chest
Red Cross
Chamber of Commerce
Iiens Club
South Suburban Civic Music Association
Englewood Community Center Association
Inglewood Muintintenal Aliance
Colorado Conference of Cantonal
Herman Becker
fe Mars
Herman
Robert Becker
focal paintange contractors
Carol Maxficld Huff
St. Tours
Jeanne
Rath
William
Biork
Uhiness
Weather Report From Le Mio Observer
The Weather Rade Station LEM reveals weekly data for Le Mio with a period high of 80 degrees on the 12th and 1.12 inches of precipitation since Thursday night. Storm damage on Thursday night noted elsewhere.
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Rade
LEM
Le Mio
Right Address For John Swisher House Auction Advertised
The John Swisher house and furniture sale will be held at the residence at S06 7th St Ww due to a misprint on sale bills. Auctioneers are Richards, Ruden and Adams. Smatte left Friday for a week with Mr. and Mrs. Chas Harn of Minneapolis Minnesota.
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John Swisher
7th St
Richards, Ruden and
Adams
Rev Bjork Appointed Missionary to Kentucky Posts
The Rev Mio Bjork, a Westmar College graduate and Drake University student, was ordained in 1946 and has served as pastor in Evangelical United Brethren churches. He now moves to Kentucky as missionary for the General Board of Missions to organize and establish a community department in mission schools and serve as minister. Bjork, a talented musician, gave many concerts while a student and has two children in Mars High School. His baccalaureate sermon is titled What Does God Require. Becker’s commencement address urged Get on the Ball.
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om daude
rom Westmar College
Drake University of
Mio Bjork
oat Westman
matimbe
Mars High School
Victor
Carel
Bjork
Becker
Josephine Winslow Chosen Pageant Queen at Le Mars Jubilee
Le Mars public school officials announce Miss Josephine Winslow of Le Mars as Pageant Queen for the Diamond Jubilee production Through the Years to be staged May 22 and 23 at the high school auditorium. Winslow, a 1903 graduate, has long ties to the community and to the Clark School. Coronation will occur at the start with Gene Ohih, class of 1956 president, crowning her. The queen will be escorted by a S. H. S. band guard of honor and overture precede the ceremony.
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Harvey N. Kluckhohn
Le Mars
Josephine Winslow
Clark School
Winslow
Gene ohih
Merrill Public School Baccalaureate 1956 Class
The Merrill Public School held a Sunday baccalaureate on May 13 for the class of 1956. The service featured the motto Grant us the knowledge to know what is right and courage enough to do it with the class roster including Sharon Swanson Joyce Hamilton Carol Carstensen Willard Trometer Jack Crawford Barbara Powell Lloyd Carstensen Sara Hauff Edwin Erpelding Donald Husman Phyllis Galven Marvin Holtz Gerald Johnson Nancy Ruedy Arnold Schmid and Eugene Strab.
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Merrill Public School
Sharon Ruth Swanson
Joyce Marion Hamilton
Carol Ann Carstensen
Willard W. Trometer
Jack G. Crawford
Barbara Jean Powell
Lloyd Andrew Carstensen
Sara June Hauff
Edwin Erpelding
Donald Husman
Phyllis Galven
Marvin Holtz
Gerald Johnson
Nancy Ruedy
Arnold Schmid
Eugene Strab
Obituary for Mike Goetzinger longtime Oyens Remsen resident
Mike Goetzinger longtime Oyens and Remsen resident died May 10 at the Veterans Hospital in Knoxville Iowa after years of illness. Born April 15 1901 in Remsen he worked as a farm hand and never married. Funeral services were held May 4 at St Catherines church Ovens with Fr Schoeppner and Fr Theobald officiating. burial followed at St Mary's cemetery Remsen. A wake was held at Fisch funeral home. Survivors include sisters Sister Mary Michael Ashton Catherine Godainger Sioux City Mrs Mike Gengler Remsen Mrs Joe Schnepf Remsen Mrs Joe Ruden Le Mars Mrs Fred Weber Bridgewater S DO Mrs Pete Theobald Heron Lake Minn and Mrs Frank Wilmes Ovens plus brother Ray Le Mars. six nephews served as pallbearers.
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Mike Goetzinger
Remsen
Veteran's hospital
Knoxville
Iowa
Goetzinger
Michael Goetzinger
St.Catherines church
Ovens
Father Schoeppner
George Theobald
FE. Hoffman
St. Mary's cemetery
Fisch
Le Mars
Fred Weber
Bridgewater
S. oD
Pete Theobald
Heron Lake
Minn
Frank Wilmes
Ray
Nick Goelvinger
Teacher Mrs. Irwin Honored in Kingsley Retiring
Mrs Irwin Ella James the Kingsley public school second grade teacher retires after 29 years in Jawa schools. She previously taught three years at Storm Lake four and a half years in Grand Meadow township and received a purse from the Kingsley teachers for her service.
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James
Ella) Irwin
Teachers association
Kingsley public school
Irwin
Jawa
Kingsley
Storm Lake
Grand Meadow township
LeMars Engagement of Nancy Zimmer to Milo Kunkel
Mrs. J. J. Zimmer announces the engagement and approaching marriage of her daughter Nancy to Milo Kunkel of LeMars. The couple plan to wed at St. James Church in LeMars on June 16. The bride is a registered nurse at St. Joseph's Hospital in Sioux City.
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J. J. Zimmer
Nancy Jr
Milo Kunkel
Miro
J. A. Kunkel
LeMars
St. James church
St. Joseph's hospital
Sioux City
Rain lifts crop prospects and mocks political wind
LeMars area records a little over an inch of rain Thursday night from Radio KLEM, boosting crop outlook and church yields. Critics note prayers and tax money to politicians yield wind and hot air, while Kingsley residents recall Dayton Countryman’s stop sign incident and a $7.50 fine paid by the attorney general.
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LeMars
Radio KLEM
Washington
Des Moines
Kingsley
W. E. Kniseley
Births and Hospital Patients Leave Local Notices
Mrs. Al Orban and Mrs. Agnes Ladenberger are listed as medical patients at Sacred Heart hospital, admitted Saturday. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. William Van Mouw of Orange City at Grossman hospital. A daughter was born May 10 to Mr. and Mrs. Nicolas Kellen of LeMars at St. Josephs hospital in Sioux Center Community hospital. Mrs. Bernard Defager of Doon and Cornelius Schipper of Sioux Center Community hospital are noted with May birth dates.
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Al Orban
Sacred Heart hospital
Agnes Ladenberger
William Van Mouw
Orange City
Grossman hospital
Nicolas Kellen
LeMars
St. Joseph's hospital
Sioux City
Sioux Center Community hospital
Bernard Defager
Doon
Cornelius Schipper
the
Cooperation Clothing Drive Receives Wide County Thanks
Miss Christing J Petersen Plymout County Chairman for Used Clothing Drive thanks teachers pupils and parents for April participation. Fifty five bags about 1300 pounds shipped May 2 1956 to Knoxville Tennessee. Clothing will be distributed free to Navajo Reservation and rural U S areas sold for nominal charges to the Southern mountaineers and stocked for emergencies. Over three years more than two million pounds sent to Korea and emergency shipments to Greece Italy North Africa Austria and Haiti. Rev Clifford Dean and Mrs Dean of Free Methodist church attended district meeting in Boone after visiting Fort Dodge Des Moines Delta Centerville.
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Christing J. Petersen
Plymouth County
Miss Petersen
Knoxville
Tennessee
United States
Korea
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Santa Marina
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Mrs. Herron
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Dull
Charles H. Chance
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Ohd
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Robert McCollum
Tiger” McCollum
Nick Ankovic
William F. Smart
Lloyd E. Gressle
St. John Episcopal Church
Mrs
Orlan Hein
Straks
Grads
Ajork Naef Photo
Harold Becker
Naef
Henrietta Pendleton
Chevrolet
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Robert Stratton
Kenneth Cronin
Nelson Brown
Oldsmobile
Richard Dirks
Akron
Louis Galetich
OAL Gi. Smatte
Mro
Chas. Harn
Miinneapolis
Josephine
Thomases
Heaven
Dayton
Clifferd
Free Methodist church
Fort Dodge
Delta
Ouumwa
Centerville
Boone
James Midvaney
James Green
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