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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1966
Page
1
Last night’s OHS Band Blast featured young performers, with a full story to come next week. Weather brought an inch of soggy snow and forecasts hint at 99-degree heat before fall. The OHS track team won the county meet, with Coach McKeever promising a report.
Community notices include a Miss Congeniality winner at York pageant and home show events. Parents with kindergarteners to be contacted by Mrs. or Mrkvicka or Mr. Bugbee. kindergarten mothers visit details to follow by May first. Open house April twenty four at 2 to 5 p.m. honors Mr. and Mrs. Bohuslavsky. Seaman Apprentice Richard E. Lewis named honor man after recruit training in San Diego. American Legion posts sponsor a benefit fish fry Friday 7 to 9 p.m. with a later dance. profits support summer baseball and league activities.
Birth announcements from York Hospital announce the April 19 birth of Tommie Lamar Grantham weighing 7 pounds 14 ounces to Mr and Mrs Tom Grantham with Clyde Miller as maternal grandfather. A daughter born April 18 to Mr and Mrs Q Tin Torell of Gresham weighed 8 pounds 6 ounces. Penny Swanson, daughter of Mr and Mrs Paul Swanson, is chosen to represent Polk County at the district public speaking contest in Fremont on May 7 after winning the county event on April 14 with I Challenge You.
Leonard M Thelander 52 died April 13 1966 at his Littleton Colorado home after a long illness. Survived by Wilma Ebert wife three children Jean Mary Jane Richard and parents and sister. Edward Rosenberry 80 of Shelby died Saturday at Annie Jeffrey Hospital. Services held and burial in Shelby. Annie Jeffrey Memorial County Hospital nurses met at the hospital April 14. Osceola locals report visits and family movements including Martin Jones and Theo Hansons.
Rainfall for the week ending Saturday was trace. Surface moisture is short while subsoil moisture is surplus. Oats are 100 percent planted. pasture feed is average. Main farm work includes discing fertilizing plowing and oats planting. One weather delay slowed field activity. Wheat looks excellent and ground is working up well. Cattle in some locations can be turned to pasture with adequate supplies.
Lieut Comdr Ernest Howard Gleim born February 23 1932 in Gresham Nebraska died April 9 1966 in a Pacific air crash. He served in Korea and earned a commendation and held Allies with Patrol Squadron 19 as Operations Officer. A memorial service is set for 3 p.m. Sunday at Polk High School.
Rev. Alfield Franzen 60 died April 14 after surgery in Sioux City Iowa. Funeral Monday at St Peter’s Lutheran Pilger officiated by Rev. Farstrup. Burial in Logan Park Cemetery Sioux City. Survivors include widow four daughters son and four grandchildren. He served St Peter’s Pilger and St Luke’s Stanton with prior posts across area.
City library adds numerous titles across fiction non fiction and juvenile sections. Highlights include Adele St Johns No One Hears But Him Caldwell Mr. Three Butler Daughter of the Legend Field Feud at Silvermine Hill Maracaibo Mission Mason Long White Night Sherman Incongruous Spy LeCarre Night's Evil McShane The Last Hero Capote In Cold Blood and The Embezzler Cadell plus Gift of Prophecy Montgomery William Jennings Bryan Colleta Let Us Have Peace Meyers Familiary Quotations Bartlett Lasso Your Heart Cavanna Clue of the Tapping Heels Keene Clue in the Old Stagecoach Keene Dearest Debbie Dale Evans Rogers Boy on the Mayflower Vinton The Most Beautiful Kitten Young A Trip on a Bus Green.
Bess Shelmadine leaves for Cheyenne after visiting Elsie Cerny and friends. Kenneth Cornishes head to Lake Ericson to open a cabin for summer. Dr. Paul Kucera and sons from Omaha visit his brother Charles. Leonard Thelander funeral attendees include Carl Thelander Stromsburg Howard Bodens Elmer Johnson Osceola Warren Johnson Stromsburg Rolland Johnson Syracuse. Easter guests at Don Byers home include Walter Byers of Lincoln.
Osceola boosters plan a summer program with four Little League teams and a Pony League team plus a Midget team sponsored by the Legion. Funds are sought from churches, businessmen, and new donors to provide uniforms and equipment for about 100 players. Tryouts are set for Sunday April 23 at 1 30 p m at the ball park with a weather backup in the Legion hall.
Polk County leaders meet Friday night at Osceola City Hall to organize a county wide Century Girl contest. Ray Conrad urges participation from county organizations to form a governing group. The winner will advance to a state wide competition.
The annual Highway 81 Association meeting convened April 12 at the Madison Hotel in Norfolk with seventeen Osceola representatives led by Chairman Richard Klein, plus attendees from Stromsburg and Shelby. Reports outlined future work. no Polk County plans soon. Also notes Bethel College and Wesleyan athletes. ANNIVERSARY DINNER HONORED 2 COUPLES.
An article stresses soil and water conservation planning as key to prosperous farms and communities. It highlights benefits like moisture retention and reduced costs, and invites readers to contact the SCS district office in Osceola for a plan. A Lincoln social security representative visits Osceola April 25. Mrs Donald Forss of Minneapolis dies of heart attack April 7, survived by husband and four children. funeral in Minneapolis April 11.
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