Metric talk and travel memories from a Midwest editor
Editor Peter Graham reflects on metrication debates, European travel notes, and a long diary of daily events. He details converting inches and kilos, visits in Sweden and England, a hospital stay, health care costs, social visits, and community activities with Zelma and friends across Iowa and Europe.
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Peter Graham
Zelma
Europe
United Kingdom
U.K
Sweden
Claes
Gundla Johnson
Johnsons
Onsala Fjord
Gothenburg
Drought prayers and a storm alter Fremont-Mills beat
A Dots and Dashes column author prays for rain amid four years of drought in farming country. A violent 2 a.m. storm arrives, bringing an inch of rain and damaging corn fields with hail. The storm triggers a humorous, chaotic household scramble as a Gremlin window debate ends with wet chaos.
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Fremont-Mills Beacon Enterprise
Dot
Tractor-Trailer Tips Driver Is Injured in Wreck
An eastbound eighteen wheeler left Highway 34 two miles west of the Highway 278 junction, rolled onto its side after a high speed slide. The Bedford man driver was injured and his wife, initially missing, was later found in a Council Bluffs tavern after the crash. He was hospitalized in Council Bluffs.
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L.A. Baer
Council Bluffs
Glenwood
Bedford
Hail and Court Report From the Week in Iowa Crops
Charges piled up after a high speed chase led to a guilty plea and five day sentences for John Dean Peterson in Mills County. The court also listed numerous fines for speeding and public intoxication across Glenwood Council Bluffs Omaha Bellevue and other towns. Moisture welcome but hail damaged crops southeast of Malvern Strahan Randolph and Imogene amid hot humid week.
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John Dean Peterson
Percival
John Watson
Peterson
Glenwood
Steve Spitzer
Mills County
Howard Clark
Robert Rigby
Lincoln
Nebr
George W. White
Omaha
Beatrice A. Murray
South Shore
Billy Lee Frew
Ainsworth
Cheryl Ann Raw
Independence
Robert J. Hays
Dakota City
George W. Bledsoe
Council Bluffs
Herschel Stoller
Donald R. Hoover
Peculiar
Oneta H. Card
Timber Lake
M.D
David Lynn Darby
Emerson
Johnnie M. Yates
Warren
Barbara Jane Rainey
Northboro
Leo F. Heng
Nebraska City
Esther Engle
Ruth Louise Howard
Malvern
Martha Jane Heumann
New Carlton
Maryland
Carol Lindstrom
Karen Jackie Ragsdale
James P. Stiles
Strahan
Randolph
Imogene
Langone Open House in Malvern marks two years
Dr. Dennis Langone opens his Malvern dental practice in 1975 in the former Scheffel building. An open house is set for Thursday from 4 to 6 p.m. Staff will greet guests and display the space age facilities while offering snacks, punch, cake and coffee to attendees.
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Dennis Langone
Malvern
Dennis
Doctor Langone
Creighton University School of Dentistry
Mel Scheffel
Jim Beckwith
Nobody's Perfect Bridge Club Attends Marriage Go Round
Thursday the Nobody's Perfect bridge club watched Marriage Go Round at the Firehouse Dinner theater in the Old Market, Omaha. Friday featured a bridge luncheon at Carolyn Owen's in Glenwood at 11 a.m. Rick returns from Des Moines, and the narrator jokes about talking to herself.
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Rick
Red Oak
Teresa Buffington
Harva Hillyer
James Paul
Henderson
Bernice Schuster
Christian Women's Club
Atlantic
Jean
Jennie Fleming
Hastings
Jennie
Leonard Schuster
The
Clicks
Nobody's Perfect
Bridge Club
Firehouse
Old Market
Omaha
Carolyn Owen
Glenwood
Des Moines
Adoption series explores modern and historic views on parenting
Joy Johnson explains the adoption journey with Centering Corporation ties and her daughter Jennifer, blending old folklore with modern realities. The column traces shifts from stigma to foster care, wartime paternity, and changing demand for adoptive children, inviting readers to share experiences.
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Red Oak
Jennifer
Chicago Times
P J Gains 581 500 HUD Block Grant
Congressman Tom Harkin announces Pacific Junction receives an 81 500 Community Development Block Grant from HUD. The funds will renovate the P J community center and expand local housing rehabilitation. Mayor Virgil Faulkner led the grant effort through research forms and federal procedures.
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Tom Harkin
Pacific Junction
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
P.J
Virgil Faulkner
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