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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1962
Page
6
The Swede Home Project Club plans a Friday meeting with Mrs. Myron Jones. Numerous local families attend New Year gatherings and dinners, sharing visits with relatives in Fort Collins Kelso Fremont Rock Island and Omaha.
The Younger Set completes a series of pictures by Waltz Studios. Parents are reminded to visit the Record Office for the free picture.
Ralph Jones and sons and Mrs. Paul Jones with sons hosted New Year dinner while the Banksons joined Don and family for the event. Harold W Johnson and family visited Carl G Johnson for New Year’s Eve. Delwyn Rystroms spent Saturday evening with Vance Teegerstrom. Linda Johnson returned to Fremont to attend Midland College after holidays. Ronald Sarow hosted New Year’s Day dinner for Floyd Everett and Christiana Sarow with Laurence. Wayne Johnson returned to Junction City after holidays with his parents. Dora Yungdahl left for Missoula Montana to attend Montana State College after Christmas with her parents. Roy Martin and wife from Columbus dined with Glenn Anderson and family New Year’s Day.
The U S Corps of Engineers awarded four contracts to Omaha and other firms to survey Nebraska for potential fallout shelters. The study covers multiple counties and targets daytime and nighttime population, with buildings needing 50 person capacity and radiation protection to one twentieth of open air levels.
The Board of Control, comprising three governor appointed members, is eliminated after 41 years. A new system places George Morris as director of state institutions and Frank Woods as director of public welfare, both reporting to the governor. Morris will oversee facilities with 3,500 staff and nearly 10,000 patients. Banking Deputy William R. Slagle is named to supervise building and loan associations, credit unions and trust companies, replacing Les Opper who was fired after denying retirement plans.
Nebraska now has 84 active districts to combat noxious weeds. The 84th district was created in Morrill county under a 1941 law targeting bindweed and eight other weed pests. The districts oversee control on more than 33 million acres across the state.
Mr and Mrs Ed Bonne and family returned to Ogallala Tuesday after ten days visiting here with relatives and friends during school vacation.
George E Gallup 67 of Friend Nebraska died December 28 1961 at Annie Jeffrey Memorial Hospital Osceola He farmed near Friend worked for Deere and Company and ran an implement business in Lincoln He married Ethel Miller in 1919 and later Anna M Paulsen in 1957 Surviving are wife Dorothy Donald E and four grandchildren Funeral services were held December 30 1961 at St Paul Methodist Lincoln Burial Lincoln Memorial Park
Thelma Allinder has a Shakespearean sonnet Babylon Is Dead in the hard cover Bluebook Of American Poetry 1961 edition from Young Publications Dryden Virginia. The work will be circulated nationwide to libraries, editors, reviewers, and literary agents with promotion through bookstores newsstands and mail order channels. Complimentary copies will be sent to celebrities and distinguished figures including educators politicians actors musicians and artists.
Osceola society notes show Mr. and Mrs. Don Hoffer and daughter Linda visiting the L. L. ers and Ed Bannes. Rolland Dahlin of Stromsburg spent New Year’s with Waldean Johnson. The Johnsons called on Alvin Dahlin in Polk. Mrs. Frank Hewitt, visiting daughter Jean Wilkinson, reports springlike weather in Loveland Colorado on Christmas Day and plans travel to Nampa Idaho before Nebraska return in early spring.
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