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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1971
Page
5
The menu lists meals for a week at a school. Monday serves meat loaf with green beans buns and butter fruit and milk. Tuesday offers fried chicken buttered peas dark bread and butter sandwich. Wednesday features macaroni and cheese one half egg celery stick fruit and milk. Thursday presents goulash tossed salad biscuits and butter. Friday serves creamed tuna over biscuits corn carrot stick and apple crisp.
Secretary of Agriculture Clif ford M Hardin announced 1971 crop set asides of 20 percent for feed grain and upland cotton and 75 percent for wheat. Payments and loan levels tied to base yields begin after July 1 with phased reviews through December 1971. Farmers may plant eight alternate crops on set aside acreage with a $10 per acre reduction in payments.
The calendar lists events from February including Town Team basketball on the 3rd and 5th, a 6th wrestling tournament at Stromsburg Junior High, 9th grade basketball tournaments at Genoa on the 11th, dramatics at Clarks on the 11th, Genoa basketball on the 12th, Henderson basketball at 1:30 on the 13th, district wrestling at Friend on the 15th, National Merit Test on the 16th, St Edward basketball on the 19th, Silver Creek junior high on the 20th, district basketball tournaments from the 22nd to 26th, and the six weeks end on the 26th.
Nebraska Supreme Court defines tractors and other self propelled farm machines as motor vehicles. Youth under 16 may not operate them without a permit and owners who allow such operation commit a misdemeanor. Licensing or registration not required for tractors at present, but liability remains for accidents.
The Friendly Neighbors Club held a Feb. 9 gathering at Mary Ann Schott’s home with 12 members. Sheila Grossnicklaus led games while Irene Treadway, Dixie Augustin, Lola Schmoker and Mary Rose Girard won prizes. Mary Jo Gabel claimed the door prize. Valentine themed lunch served. next meeting set as a Daughters' Tea at May Jo Gabel's with committee members named.
Mrs Homer Green reports a weekend of visits with Lincoln and Denver connections. Guests include Carlson and Sundberg families plus Johnsons from Wichita and Osceola. Hospital and wedding events anchor a busy social week with multiple dinners and interstate travel.
The plan notes windbreaks reduce wind velocity near a farmstead to limit damage and snow deposition. A windbreak 20 ft high protects about 200 feet leeward, but must be placed to avoid impairing road visibility and safety while also considering beauty and snow deposition effects.
The text explains windbreak design with at least five tree rows, 12 foot row spacing, and tree spacing based on location and species. It notes snow trapping benefits, tillage access, and cost sharing via the Resource Environmental Assistance program. Planting is advised in April 1971 with planning help from the Soil Conservation Service.
Mr and Mrs Jesse Stodghill visited Osceola from Wednesday to Sunday staying at the home of her brother Tillman Joy in Rock Island Illinois.
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