14 Apr 1955
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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1955
Page
1
The Record mourns co-publisher Lela who died Friday April 7 in an auto accident. A former newspaper novice who quickly embraced the role of a newsroom personality she became essential to the paper. She handled local items calendars reminders and business questions keeping the paper’s life and service intact for readers and staff alike.
Polk County Board of Health approved plans to inoculate all First and Second grade students with the Salk Polio Vaccine. Vaccination dates are April 26 May 3 and May 31 at Osceola Shelby and Stromsburg high schools. Vaccines provided free by the National Polio Foundation with parental consent.
Osceola high school seniors stage a three act comedy If Mother Only Knew in the auditorium on Tuesday April 19. The program features Homer and Jethro in a specialty number alongside the senior play. Dixie Walgreen plays Mother and Kenny Prososki is her husband John Maxwell with a cast including Carolyn Marak Mary Anderson Janell Bowman and others in supporting roles.
Polk county board of commissioners abandoned a mile of road in Hackberry precinct near Osceola. The 66 foot right of way along Section 9 and 32 will revert to adjacent landowners. Harry A. Carlson and Birdelle Clark Fleming each receive about two acres and Edith O. Hiemer about four acres.
The Legion Auxiliary sponsors a child welfare tea on Friday April 15 at 2 30 PM in Legion club rooms. Proceeds benefit child welfare. Co chairmen are Mrs Delmar McFadden and Mrs Flossie Deeds.
The piece urges Easter devotion as life giving strength, citing Rev Homer Bollinger on enduring trials. It stresses church worship, ministers, and friends as essential sources of comfort, faith, and courage through life’s changes and death.
Lone Star 4-H'ers met at the Hegi boys' home. Kenneth Schmidt showed a swine movie. Next meeting set for Gordon Inselman home. Dick Hegi won the prize after a post meeting game. Mrs Hegi served refreshments. Tim Olcott, Reporter.
Two Osceola and Shelby district officials met last Saturday morning before the State School Reorganization Committee. W. R. Kepner, president, and W. W. Norton, member, sought to clarify the boundary line between the newly reorganized Shelby District and the proposed Osceola District with Shelby board members assisting.
Mr and Mrs Bud Deeds and daughters of Beaver Crossing with Mr and Mrs Irvin Deeds and family of Lincoln visited their mother Mrs Flossie Deeds over the Easter weekend, sharing time with relatives.
More than 450 students will be honored at the University of Nebraska Honors Convocation on April 19. Ronald D Swanson of Osceola, a senior in Engineering, will receive the Westinghouse Educational Foundation Achievement Award and has been elected to Sigma Xi. The event features top 10 percent scholars and top 3 percent seniors, with Creighton University’s Very Rev Carl M Reinert as speaker. About 600 additional students win prizes and awards.
Mr and Mrs Don Miller and Mrs Wendell Miller moved their son Pvt W Miller to Fort Riley Kansas for military assignment after a weekend departure for home in California.
A Denver caller Robert Douglas son of late Grant Douglas former Osceola Record publisher visits the office. He recalls the place and notes less ink smell now. A Firemen's Dance on April 20 is urged to support volunteers who answer calls for fires. Dust bowl days give way to spring rain softening streets and spirits. By-lines mark this issue with thanks to Vern Scofield Nebraska Press Association secretary manager and local contributors for their help.
Five speeders face county judge L M Merrick on April 29 for speeding at night. County attorney W H Norton said the arrests followed a radar trap by the state highway patrol between Osceola and Shelby. All five were clocked between 60 and 67 mph, exceeding the limit by at least ten mph.
Captain O H Witt spoke at Lutheran Brotherhood on traffic problems noting eight thousand injuries annually and a 32 million annual loss from crashes. He cited driver error at 85 percent and emphasized dangers on country roads with gravel and blind intersections while urging patrol stops to protect motorists. Tragedy followed with Mrs. Perry Sapp's death in a highway collision near Lebanon Kansas involving a semi truck.
Osceola begins a door to door cancer fund drive next Monday or Tuesday led by city chairman Mrs. Martin Roberts. Residents will pass a large envelope with education material and a money receptacle between neighbors, with ten volunteers supporting the effort in defined districts. A business district canvass will also occur as Polk county aims for a $500 quota.
The Camera Club will meet April 21 at 8 30 p m at the Lutheran Church. Members please not change of date.
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