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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1958
Page
2
Local note reports the new Mike’s Bowl in Osceola offering open bowling until after holidays, run by Mr. and Mrs. Pfitzer. Weather remains frigid with zero-degree mornings, shoppers wary, while nearby SCS building nears completion. pheasant season ends with birds described as tasty but variable.
In the new book Of Lasting Interest James Playsted Wood chronicles DeWitt and Lila Wallace and the Reader's Digest rise from a Greenwich Village basement to an 80 acre plant. It notes 12 million subscribers 21 million readers and the shift to advertising boosting orders and prices.
Researchers at the University of Arizona are testing a solar home heating and cooling concept that uses a copper roof to collect winter sun heat to warm the house and to reject interior heat for summer cooling, leveraging sun and moonlight as energy sources.
In Tucson the Institute of Atmospheric Physics built a 1600 square foot ranch home priced at 16 000 to 18 000 that doubles as a lab. Copper solar collectors and ceiling tubes drive year round heating and cooling with a 4400 gallon tank storing heat transfer water. A heat pump supplements the system during extreme conditions, promising fuel free climate control in many new homes within the decade.
County Agent urges fall and winter pruning of trees to remove dead wood and prevent disease. burn all removed material. Nebraska experts say zinc fertilizer boosts irrigated corn yields, with a $3 return per $1 spent, and advise placement and rate to supply 10 to 20 pounds zinc per acre.
Researchers in Iowa discuss creating hybrids that yield more than one usable ear per stalk and larger ears, while Nebraska agronomists urge soil testing to tailor lime needs. A Nebraska service offers a one week soil test, with fall and winter applications improving soil readiness for spring seedings.
Attorneys Pierson and Blue announce in County Court of Polk County Nebraska that Albert A. Pierson died July 9 1956 a petition filed November 26 1958 seeks probate of the will and descent of all real and personal property and inheritance tax liability with hearing set December 30 1958 at 2 PM.
Dated December 1 1958 seal J E Steeple substitute county judge Lot five Blower s Sub Division Addition to Osceola Polk County Nebraska The time for redemption of said real estate from said tax sale will expire in three months from the date of the service of this notice after which the undersigned will apply to the County Treasurer of Polk County Nebraska for a tax deed for said real estate Application for a Tax Deed will be made on March 11 1959 Said Real Estate was assessed in the name of Amanda Waite Estate Dated this 19th day of November 1958
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