Mills County Flood Battle Promises Wide Coverage In Issue
Mills County reports ongoing flood fight attention with future data for readers. Prudence Burlington of Glenwood wrote a Red Cross piece aired Wednesday over WOT at Town State college. A documentary on the flood is in production. Delayed printing plates for this issue will appear next. An article by C. H. Amick of Emerson discusses Missouri River flow at flood crest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mills County
Red Cross
Prudence Burlington
Glenwood
Town State College
C. H. Amick
Emerson
Missouri River
Tenderfoot Pins Awarded To Malvern Boy Scouts
Seventeen Malvern Boy Scouts received tenderfoot pins at an investiture service in the Community building on Thursday. Tabor Boy Scout troop, directed by Scoutmaster Ward Slothower and Rev. John Blough, led the ceremony. Mothers received miniature pins as the boys wore badges upside down until completing the good turn daily. Malvern Scoutmaster Keith Hughes presented theft badges and the group listed names of the award recipients: Ronnie Archer, Jerry Biggerstar, Bill Collen, Marlon Ellis, Gary Marshbarger, Dilly Hyde, Gary Hossie, Larry Lewis, Dan Johnson, Eddie Mulholland, Jack Rice, Morgan Robbina, Eddie Seaton, David Selpald, Stanley Waller, Bill Wortman, and Dee Zandorx.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malvern
Tabor
Ward Slothower
John Blough
Malvern Boys
Boya
Malverna
Keith Hughes
Ronnie Archer
Jerry Biggerstar
Bill Collen
Marlon Ellis
Gary Marshbarger
Dilly Hyde
Gary Hossie
Larry Lewis
Dan Johnson
Eddie Mulholland
Jack Rice
Morgan Robbina
Eddie Seaton
David Selpald
Stanley Waller
Bill Wortman
Dee Zandorx
Malvern School Bands Concert May 8
Malvern's senior and junior bands will present a concert next Thursday in the Community building under Warren Darrah. A varied program of music and specialties will be performed. Public invited with admission 25 cents.
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Malvern
Warren Darrah
Gas Line Work to Begin North of Silver City
The Northern Gas Co plans to start laying a new gas line from north of Silver City to Council Bluffs. A crew of about 25 workmen is unloading pipes and preparing to begin the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northern Gas Co
Silver City
Council Bluffs
Graduation in Milwaukee for Jacqueline Juanes
Jacqueline Juanes accompanied by her parents Mr and Mrs Kenneth Jones her brother Tim and her grandmother Mrs FLOE Pace traveled to Milwaukee Friday for a Sunday graduation service at Mount Sisal hospital where she learned her state board exam grades placed second in a group of 80. She completed training in January and has worked with her parents driving daily to Eu nundsen hospital. On May first she will begin duties in the offices of Drs Shonka and Schelfel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacqueline Juanes
Kenneth Jones
Tim
Floe. Pace
Milwaukee
Jaque- Mune
Mount Sisal Hospital
Eunundsen Hospital
Drs
Shonka and Schelfel
Henderson Sophs Host Roller Skating Party Event
Henderson high school sophomores hosted a roller skating party at Portersville on Tuesday evening April 2. Chaperones were Mr. Leving and Mr. Ford. Attendees reported a good time.
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Henderson High School
Portersvikle
Leving
Ford
Old St. Marys Two Cemetery Victim of Missouri River Flood
One of Mills county's historic spots, the Old St. Marys Two cemetery, was washed away by the Missouri River flood. Only one grave, dated 1870 and bearing the Hacker name, remained. The site near St. Marys township shows graves and cedar trees washed out, a 25 ft deep road hole, and two skulls found after flood subsided. Sheriff Don Rhoden sought Red Cross help for reburial of remains found nearby.
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Old St. Marys Two
Mills County
Hacker
Gerald Mullen
St. Marys
Don Rhodenmans
Red Crogs
Wabash Schedule Slightly Changed
Ray Reed Jr., agent of the Wabash railroad, announces a time change for trains No. 14 and No. 11. No. 14 leaves Malvern southbound at 8:19 p.m. instead of 5:16 p.m. No. 11 leaves Malvern northbound at 6:22 a.m. instead of 6:11 a.m. The change took effect Saturday, April 26, at midnight.
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Ray Reed Jr
Wabash Railroad
Malvern
Seniors Present Class Play on Friday Night
Malvern seniors will present the three act comedy If You Knew Suzie Friday at 8 p m in the Community building. The cast of 12 includes Lois Martin as Aunt Sally Janet Martin as Trudy Van Pane Rosie Ellis as Suzie Simpking and Barbara Brewer as Artey Allen.
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Malvern
Suzie
Glaodya Knight Ag
Daley Jenka
Lois Martin
Aunt Sally
Barbara Brewer
Artey Allen
Janet Martin
Trudy van Pane
Rosie Ellis
Suzie Simpking
Naomi Chamberlain
Frances Tasha
Joan Kine
Charlene Cassidy
Dan Phelps
Bob Barringer
Gene Dooley
Billy Wade
Tim Jones
Catey Waters
Harold Selpold
Prof
Chauncey Cluney
Yvonna Swadlay
Mrs. Chase
Archer Awarded Journalistic Merit at Cedar Walls College
Dan Archer of Malvern receives a certificate of merit from Town State Teachers College Cedar Walls for outstanding work in journalism on the College Eye student paper. The award was presented at the Gridiran dinner honoring staff, board of control, and guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan Archer
Malvern
Town State Teachers College
Cedar Walls
College Eye
Archer
Uamness
May Breakfast Honors Henderson Seniors
A senior breakfast was held this Thursday at 7 40 a m in the home economics room. Seniors of Henderson were honored by their parents and the faculty. A three course breakfast was served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Economitc
Henderson
John C Niday Trains At San Diego Calif Cipher
John C Niday a seaman recruit in the US Navy and son of Mr and Mrs John J Niday of Emerson Nebraska has been transferred from the Great Lakes Navy training center San Diego Calif He entered naval service March 1 and attended the University of Nebraska His initial training covers gunnery fire fighting seamanship and other drills to prepare him for Navy life Upon completion of recruit training he will be assigned to duty stations or sent to service schools for advanced training
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John C. Niday
USN
John J. Niday
Emerson
Great Lakes
San Diego
Calif
Niday
University of Nebraska
Navy
Glenwood Coach to Shenandoah Named in County Sports Shuffle
Cole Miller of Glenwood, who led the county seat in quarter fouls this spring, has been announced as basketball and track coach at Shenandoah. Nuckolls remains at Glenwood as football and baseball coach.
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Cole Glen Miller
Glenwoed
Shenandoah
Nuckolls
Glen Wood
Two Jury Trials Open Mills County April Term Court
Mills county district court opened in Glenwood for the April term with two damage suit trials set. Judge Harold Davidson opened the term then left as grand jury work was unavailable. First case Philip Kellogg vs Northern Natural Gas Co involves trespass damages. Second case Paul P Glynn vs Falls City Mercantile Co concerns an auto crash near Malvern. Five criminal actions listed were disposed of day one. State vs Kenneth Wilson bond supported. State vs Paul Medders dismissed. State vs Donald Noel, burglary, defendant absent. Noel parents granted 10 days to appear and pay 3500 bond pledged on farm. Two cases continued State v James Duncan and State v Clifford Saar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mills County District Court
Glenwood
Harold Davidson
Philip Kellogg
Northern Natural Gas Co
Paul P. Glynn
Falls City Mercantile Co
Malvern
State
Kenneth Wilson
Paul Medders
Donald Noel
W. H. Noel
Red Oak
James Duncan
Chifford
Saar
Food Sale May 10 At Mansfield Store For Mothers Day
Cakes dressed chickens and other foods will be sold at a bake sale at Mansfield's store on Saturday May 10 starting at 1 30 p m The Hastings W S is sponsoring this event adv
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Mansfield's
The
Hastings W. S
Adv
Barbara Bolton Named District MYF President
Barbara Bolton of Strahan and Richard Northrup of Emerson were named to top offices of the Council Bluffs district Methodist Youth Fellowship at a Sunday meeting in Atlantic. Harbsrn was named president and Richard vice president. Mary Ann Edmund of Red Oak was elected secretary and Alfred Sorenson of Harlan treasurer. Mrs. Emmett was named W.8 counselor as about 300 delegates from 74 churches attended.
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Mills County
Barbara Bolton
Strahan
Richard Northrup
Emerson
Council Bluffs
Methodist
Atlantic
Harbsrn
Richard
Mary Ann Edmund
Red Oak
Alfred Sorenson
Harlan
Emmett
Ipe
O. E. Codley
Smpctire
Barbara
Giju
Charles Kier
Judy
Jackie Isain
Carolyn Cozad
Carl Woodfi
Donald Gee
Larry Gipe
Malvern
John Beebour
Janet Mar UN
Hurley
Carol Brammer
Homer Zanders
McCrary Buys Darrah Jewelry In Malvern Opening Planned
Nathan McCrary of Red Oak has purchased Darrah Jewelry in Malvern and will run the new store with upcoming announcements next week. He also owns McCrary Jewelry in Red Oak and will be in Malvern Tuesday and Thursday afternoons with Mrs. June Anderson in charge. The Malvern shop follows his seven years of watchmaking and repair experience.
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Nathan McCrary
Red Oak
Darrah Jewelry
Malvern
Merary
McCrary Jewelry
Darrah’s
O’neill
Neb
McCrary
June Anderson
Weather forecast for the area turns warmer and cloudy
The official forecast calls for cloudy skies and rising temperatures over the next several days. Ground is dry from a long dry spell and only a trace of rain has been recorded locally. Last Friday's low reached 35 degrees and Tuesday's high was 865.
Open House for W. E. Wilson Sunday Birthday Event
W. E. Wilson will observe his 90th birthday Sunday May 4 with an open house from 2 to 5 PM at his farm home north of Wesley Chapel church. Weather may mud roads. guests are invited to greet him then. The date also marks Ralph Wilson's birthday.
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W. E. Wilson
Wesley Chapel
Mr. Wilson
Weasley Chapel
Ralph
Crink Attends Educators Meet in Omaha Conference
Crink of the Malvern schools attends an international conference of exceptional children in Omaha. The session runs Thursday through Saturday and will study needs of slower learners and fast learners to address overdze svhanl system challenges.
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Supt
N.Y. Crink
Malvern Schools
Omaha
Concert Sunday Evening On New Methodist Organ
The new Wurlitzer organ in stalled recently in Malvern’s Methodist Church will be dedicated at a concert next Sunday May 4. Roe T. Benford head of the organ department at Peru Neb State Teachers College will present a program. One admission charged. The instrument installed April 20 and first used during Muster services. The program promises many types of organ music and a wide variety of numbers to please all music lovers.
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Malvern
Roe T. Benford
Peru
Neb. State Teachers College
Jedi
Bellford Hus
Ivy
Queen Juliana Provides Aid to Mills County Flood Victims
Queen Juliana of the Netherlands sent food to Mills County flood victims. She selected six Iowa counties for aid, with Mills County Red Cross receiving 50 tins of ham, 100 chocolate bars, 165 boxes of cocoa, and 50 tins of biscuits. Citizens in need should register with Glenwood Red Cross. none had registered yet. The Red Cross has spent 2096 dollars on emergency assistance including mass care, shelter, canteens, and medical care, and helped evacuate families and restore them home.
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Mills
Red Cross
Pollitts to Hold Open House for 10th Anniversary
Mr and Mrs E Pollitt will hold an open house Sunday May 4 from 2 to 3 pm at their Peareville home in honor of their 10th wedding anniversary. They invite relatives neighbors and friends to attend.
Baptist Rummage Sale May 3 at Community Building
Rummage sale hosted by the Baptist church on Saturday May 3 at the Community Building. Doors open at 9 a.m. Proceeds support church programs and community outreach. Includes clothing, household items, and miscellaneous goods for sale.
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Baptist
Final Rites for John B. Taylor
John B. Taylor longtime Mills County resident died at his home in Tabor on Tuesday April 29 at 83 years four months and 27 days. He was born near Silver City on December 2 1865 and worked at a general store before moving to Chicago and Philadelphia. He married Mildred Schuttz in 1907, moved to Tabor, led the Tabor concert band for 14 years, farmed, and helped organize Palor Bank while serving as director of First State Bank for 18 years. Surviving are his widow Mildred C. Taylor of Tabor two sons Jack Reat of Tabor and Earl of Live City a sister Mrs Prod Mauk of Tabor two grandchildren and one great grandchild. Funeral services held Thursday at Reeves Funeral Home with burial at the local cemetery.
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John B. Taylor
Mills County
Tabor
Mr. Taylor
Silver City
Philadelphia
Schuttz
Palor Bank
First State Bank
Tie
Mint Nie C. Taylor
Jack Reat Tabor
Earl
Liver City
Prod Mauk
Vabor
Reeves Funeral Home
Sil Sen TV
Tey Gaye Parker
Conmell Blutis Eeudaer Edo
Saeset
Summers to Film Flood Results in Wills
In a tentative project, P Summers plans to film flood aftermath and related documents. The effort, linked to visual education at Tuwa State College, aims to chronicle local impacts and community responses through archival footage and interviews.
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P. Summers
Wills
Farm Bureau Aids Missouri Flood Victims Initiative
Farm Bureau officials on Monday voted to organize aid for rehabilitating damaged farmsteads after the Missouri flood. Directors urged members to donate labor and machinery and to contact the Farm Bureau office for assistance and to arrange relief efforts.
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Missouri
Farn Bureau
Ueh Help Wa
Faon
Twa 1
Adivancy
Mills Musicians Earn Seven State Contest Placings
Mills county high school students earned ratings at the state music contest final in Perry for solo and ensemble events. Preliminaries were held earlier at Corning and Woodbine. Notable ratings included Sally Mull holland, I, piano solo and Naomi Chamberlain, I, cornet trumpet solo, with several Malvern and Glenwood students also progressing.
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Sis Mills County
Perry
Corning
Woodbine
Malvern
Sally Mulholland
Naomi Chamberlain
Joanna Mackey
Mesdames Gordon McMillan
F. A. Mulholland
Cliiford Mackey
Frank Chamberlain
Kathryn Dalrymple
Glenwood
Susan Darting
Donna Boyer
Shirley Chirk
Barbara Boyer
Girla Sextet
County seat notes on grade exams and wedding licenses
Tuesday morning 47 rural eighth graders sat for annual exams to qualify for graduation. Several marriage licenses were issued in April, with names including Ray Kruger, Nore Burke, Marilyn Leqr, and others connected to Henderson, Ford, and Stidebakers, per county treasurer records.
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Donner
Goi Canples
Ray Kruger
Nore Burke
Sidrew Poon Wid
Enceline White Roy Gytedter
Marilyn Leqr
Foo
Rabe
Holden Drives Spiker Truck On Farm Power Route
Burdette Spifrar reports wiring Jone Holden to operate the farm power truck this week. Thig WH Teave Hin fates to drive spiare WONTON to the produce station and to be for the cudiimar sepy fee Ue station.
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Burdette Spifrar
Jone Holden
Teave Hin
Piare Wonton
Coll Club Reelects All Officers
The Fairview club reelected all officers amid a report of continued membership activity. Members discussed goals for the coming year and the club's community service plans while noting progress on ongoing projects and future events.
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Coll Club
Flood Damage Estimates Up on Closer Study
Nochser study cof flood damage aufferel by dikes and drainage sys tems i Mills, Fremont and West Pate fawattamity counties recently revealed that earlier estimates of loss woth need to be nearly doubled. An initial meeting of trustees at all drainage districts, boards of super visors, CLOS, and county engineers was held last Friday, with a fallow up Tuesdy. A third session was scheduled for Thureday evening of this week. Vensters of the drainage districts is inspected: their ditches and dikes carefully after the first meeting and brought back reports of qntire sys tems almost destrayed, luge sectioni ng dikes washed out all ditches filled feveral use. The McCartney drainage district in Mills county suffered especial damage, the estimates of its relat ition indicated that a sum threequarters the size of the entire ini cost might be needed. Others suffered in varying degree but all will have an expensive program of repair. Ray W. Jones, conservationist for the Mills County Soil Conservation district, worked with the enpineers, trustees, etc. In the study and reporterd that many farms in the area were ss seriously damaged as to prevent any cropping this season. one farm re ported on would feed $78 per acre to restore it to production position. He also reported that the total dam age in Mills county to farm. baildinges, land, fences, roads, bridges, etc, in addition to crop loss, would run well over S1100,000 and might ever go to SS.500,000. Earlier estimates had set the figure at £ 669,01%).
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Nochser
I Mills
Fremont
West Pate
Boards of Supervisors
CLOS
McCartney
Mills County
Ray W. Jones
Kellner to Manage Oxford Plant in Nebraska
Carl Kellner, longtime manager at the C. A. Swinson & Sons Oxford processing plant, was named manager of the Oxford Nebraska facility on Saturday and assumed duties Monday. He began with Swinson in 1942 and will relocate after selling his Oxford home. The plant parallels the local operation in size and function.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Kellner
Oxford
C. A. Swinson & Sons
Neb
Kellner
Swinson
Hardtis
Keltner Phin
Glenwood Lad Killed When Tractor Tips
Willie Crawford Jr. was killed when the tractor he rode with his father tipped seven miles northwest of Glenwood. The Crawford family reported the tragedy to Mills County authorities. The coroner noted details as the accident was investigated and Willie is survived by his parents and siblings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie Crawford Jr
Crawford Tarnt
Glenwood
Bae Mills County
Willie
Dbs
Miro Uid
Mies
Willie Eirawford
Dave Doothers
Sas
Henderson Defeats Clenwood 6 5 in Tight Setback
A garbled scoreline reports Henderson edging Clenwood 6 to 5 in a close set. Readable fragments reference a death or event in Glenwood with date hints. full details are unclear in the OCR but the result indicates a narrow victory for Henderson over Clenwood at Glenwood with a dated note around April 28.
Fragmented OCR text, unclear historical item
The readable fragment hints at a political or local event but contains many garbled words and names. No clear entities or concrete facts emerge beyond a general sense of voting or names like Patel and Pleyel.
Notice on Bank Wall Closure in Council Bluffs
Trust and savings bank announces closure all day due to southwest Iowa hankers meeting in Council Bluffs. No other details provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phe Madvern
Iowa
Hankers Weeting
Council Bluffs
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Civea
Boy Scouts
Orville Dali
St. Marys Township
Pottawattamie
Wabash
Nans. TC
John Niday
MYF
Crink
Educators Meet
New Methodist
Queen
Pollitts
Nosjuw
Geate
Nisier
Pian G
Sul Wérs
Tuwa State College
Farm Bureau
Holden
Fairview Che Iutis Clib
Mulverh
Arpane Bubaner
Peery Etter
Peter
Ian
Clenwood
Seth
Wendin
Wits Wales
THANE
Abel
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