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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1963
Page
1
A Swedish reader in Tyringe sends a note to The Record praising the paper and asking to renew his subscription. Nels Paulson from Sweden writes he enjoys weekly news from Osceola and hopes to continue receiving the hometown paper.
The Bloodmobile will visit Shelby on Monday August 19 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The drive aims to collect a 100 pint quota from all willing donors in the area.
Governor Morrison defends secrecy for juvenile court cases while promising a special session to fix driver education funding misplacements. The Osceola Record column also previews the upcoming donkeys ball game, football practice, school start and circus dates, welcomes visiting relatives, and plans brief biographical sketches of teachers to improve community familiarity.
Army PFC Francis E. Alt Jr. of Shelby participates in Exercise Swift Strike III in Georgia and the Carolinas with over 75,000 personnel. The four week mock war ends August 16 and includes airborne maneuvers airlifts air ground support and counter guerrilla operations. Alt serves with Headquarters Company 2d Airborne Battle Group 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell Kentucky and entered service in February 1962. He is a 1960 Shelby High School graduate.
Osceola faces a consolidated mill levy just over 70 mills this year up from under 68. A $10 000 home assessed at about 3000 would owe roughly 210 in taxes, up from 203. The county plans a full real property re appraisal and lists levies by state county Osceola School District 19 and fire districts with changes versus last year. Little League results and schedule noted for Osceola and neighboring towns.
Parents urged to enroll their children by calling the school. Morning and afternoon kindergarten sessions are set for the first semester with lists of participating pupils. Rural bus pickup times will be notified. bus drivers include Grossnicklaus and Mrkvicka. Barbara Wieseman graduated from Bryan Memorial Hospital School of Nursing after completing the three year course.
Wren Sherwood displays gravel sculpture with people animals and a cart plus a blue County Fair ribbon and a glue toothpick miniature farm scene. Cobbling is noted as his shoe polish painting hobby not on display. Lois Grossnicklaus plans a spoon collection showcase next week.
Miss Anne Schott daughter of Mrs Joseph Schott was appointed by the Texas League for Nursing to serve as a faculty member for 1963 1964 a workshop on hospital management for directors of nursing service and in service education assistant directors supervisors and head nurses The workshop sponsored by the Texas League for Nursing and the United States Public Health Services will be held in Fort Worth starting Sept 8 Miss Schott attended Creighton University and earned her nursing degree from Loretto Heights College Denver CO Real estate transfers listed include Sheriff Reynolds Peterson to Conrad Olson and several Osceola and Stromsburg properties and tracts across multiple additions and lots
Tom DeLand and John Autrey, both 17 and Boulder high seniors, rode from Boulder to Osceola totaling about 494 miles. They planned a slow trip via Greeley Yuma Benkelman McCook Grand Island and Osceola before intending to return by bus or train, not by bike.
Miss Ulla Syvanen of Kipohja Finland arrives August 14 to 29 as an IFYE delegate hosted by the Henry Buresh home in Osceola. She has 18 years of farming on a 100 acre Finnish farm, joins a program that fosters agricultural youth relations, and is sponsored locally by Farmers Co op Oil Association for travel and a small stipend.
The Madison race meet starts this Saturday for a 10 day run through August 28. General manager Morris Moyer notes more and better class entries this year, including over 50 Canadian horses. A new automatic odds system updates the board every 90 seconds and bleacher seating expands capacity to 3 000.
Calvary Church of Swede Home will celebrate its 90th anniversary with a 10:00 a.m. Sunday worship led by Pastor Larry Casper and a 3:00 p.m. address by Dr. Alfred W. Young, president of the Nebraska Synod. The church diary notes include eight pastors and a history dating to 1914 with a stable membership around 300.
Oscedla Chamber of Commerce sponsors a free two day circus downtown September 9 and 10. Four performances will run after school and in the evening each day, featuring six major acts including an elephant, clowns, dog act, monkeys, and horses. Six rides priced at 10 cents with tickets from sponsor stores and elephant and pony rides at 25 cents. Circus run by Jack Miller and brothers who tout a clean show with no high pressure sales or gambling. Rides operate all day and into the evening.
Osceola school system seeks suitable housing for a new chemistry and mathematics teacher, his wife, and children. Superintendent Virgil Bugbee and the school board ask residents with rentals to contact Bugbee or any board member. Robert Starr of Grand Island is elected to fill the post and is a Hastings College graduate.
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