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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1964
Page
1
Polk county property owners must file 1964 tax assessment schedules by Monday March 2 per Assessor Roy Horst. The deadline moved from February 29 due to that day falling on a Saturday. Untaxed or omitted property will incur a penalty as taxpayers rush to complete their tax duties.
Dr. Donald C. Dearborn of Osceola was installed as president of Catawba College in Salisbury North Carolina after serving as dean. He earned a BA from Hastings College a master’s at Nebraska and a doctorate at Duke and joined Catawba as a math instructor becoming registrar in 1940 and dean in 1947. An Opportunity Center meeting in Columbus will screen A Child is Waiting starring Judy Garland and Burt Lancaster Friday evening.
Osceola offers large 17 by 22 inch city maps for one dollar each. Maps show street names lots additions schools hospital highways railroads and legal descriptions. Also notes caucus dates and upcoming community items including a Girl Scout cookie sale running until March 2 with deliveries after April 3 to fund Day Camp expenses.
The 1964 feed grain signup progresses well at the local ASCS office. Producers receive information and sign ing intentions at a brisk pace. Participation remains voluntary as in the past.
The golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Gissler was celebrated at St. Pauls Lutheran in Osceola with about 250 guests. Their seven children and twenty grandchildren attended, with family photos displayed and a Swedish hymn sing by Mrs. Otto Olson. The couple, married February 25, 1914, on farms near Osceola, received congratulations from attendees including relatives traveling from Sweden and Colorado.
Dr Vance Rogers president of Nebraska Wesleyan University will be keynote speaker at a seven county regional education conference Monday at Stromsburg. The event begins at 1 p.m. at the Stromsburg Methodist Church with group discussions and reports. Reservations contact Mrs Betty Majors Courthouse Osceola with a $1 registration fee.
Lyndon B. Johnson reaches 100 days in office on March 1 as polls show broad approval. The narrative divides into three stages from the assassination shock through budgeting cuts and aggressive congressional push for tax cuts and civil rights.
Mel Heibel new owner of the Shelby Fertizer Feed and Seed invites everyone to visit during an open house at his business Saturday. Heibel has worked in the feed business since 1947 and offers free ham sandwiches and coffee.
Music lovers urged to attend the Bulldog Band Blast directed by Gene Dappen at 8 p m in the Osceola auditorium featuring a symphony and overture plus Cha Cha Samba lessons a dance contest a guest conductor and more Proceeds fund new band uniforms Also listed are speeding fines for multiple individuals and the Sweetheart selection Carol Thorp daughter of Mrs Marvin Mick of Shelby a Nebraska university freshman with Alpha Chi Omega sorority affiliation
An off campus course session on Nebraska School Law will begin at 7:00 PM Monday March 2 at the High School. Dr. Freeman Decker, former education commissioner, will teach the class. County residents bought $66,060 in series E and H savings bonds in January, representing 11.3 percent of the annual county sales goal. Elgin Tenniges of Columbus filed to run for director of Polk County Rural Public Power District on a non political ticket.
An Ethiopian visitor Zaudneh Yimatau discussed education and rural schools during a Monday Chamber of Commerce gathering. He noted large rural class sizes in Ethiopia, described government control, and outlined aims to use his studies to improve schooling back home. Next meeting set for March 30.
Osceola closed the season with a 54 32 loss to Utica in the district tournament at York. Leon Johnson scored 12 points for Osceola while Roger Ellrod added 22 for Utica. The Bulldogs finished 4 wins and 12 losses after also dropping a 52 50 regular season game at St Edward last Friday.
March deadlines for state and federal taxes in Nebraska include foreign corporation annual reports intangibles and personal property filings due March 1. March 15 to 31 covers OASI and payroll withholding returns Form 450 and multiple corporate and individual 1040 and estimated tax filings with various due dates and conditions.
Perry N. Sapp reflects on social quips about stretch-pants, recalls Ed Apking's sudden death in Onaway Michigan after a stroke, urges readers to write congress on the meat crisis, and shares local anecdotes about Pat Bond Chuck Thone and a polite hotel corner incident with Don Byers Ed Lewis and Dale Frizzell.
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