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Rolfe NewsMBS. LEE HARMON Phone 8-W04Good Neighbor DeedA good neighbor deed was held Wednesday, Nov. 7, at the Lawrence Hansen farm, when 24 men came with eight 2-row pickers, 24 wagons and a shel-ler to pick and crib 60 acres of com and to.shell some of it. Those furnishing pickers were Bob Pederson, Everett Burns, Mike Strong, Louie Wilson, Or-van Olerich, Wes DeWolf, Dave Brinkman, and Carl Hansen. Others assisting were Lloyd Thoren, Bob Struthers, Eldridge Kipfer, Bud Hansen, Earl Ives, Lloyd Cox, Ed VonBank, Geo. Beckord, Ralph Phelps, Larry Burns, Dutch DeWolf, Dick Higgins, Jean Hughes, Verne Jarvis, Alvin Thoren and Les Thoren.Thf* Indite* wVm KArved dinnerI wona, was uupuirpmuc jFor those curious enough tolisten, Werner would take them to his dim, cluttered shop and display a small, carved model of what we would now call a helicopter. This, he would proudly proclaim, would soon cause man ,to fly in the air like a bird and take him hundreds of miles in a matter of hours.The TryoutNow those people in town who had doubted that August was crazy started to reconsider. Those who thought all along the inventor was “touched” started saying ‘T told you so”.But August went on with his work undaunted. Despite the scoffs and the snickers he toiled away hour after hour, and finally completed the machine that he was convinced would “fly like a bird.”He announced to one and all that on the Fourth of July holiday, 1886, he would make his flight and all interested were invited to attend. Needless to
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Pocahontas Record Democrat
Pocahontas, Iowa, US
Thu, Nov 15, 1962
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