Reader's Digest Prize Pledge Sparks Local Scrutiny
The column jokes about a Reader's Digest promotion offering 100 dollars a month for life or a lump sum, noting tax, timing, and the risk of receiving nothing. Local readers in Osceola and nearby towns, including Pleasanton, react to the mix of humor and pressure to subscribe amid references to Cornhuskers and small-town bonds.
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Reader's Digest
Reader’s Digest
Life
Angry Eagle
Osceola
Nebraska
Pleasanton
Shelby Schools Host Career Day and Parent-Teacher Conference
Shelby Public Schools will hold Career Day and Parent-Teacher Conferences on Friday January 22 1971. Lunch available for 40 cents with sessions 10 45 to 1 15. Last name initials M to Z attend 8 00 to 12 00 AM A to L attend 12 00 to 4 30 PM. Schools and agencies attending include University of Nebraska Kearney State College Platte College Service Unit 7 State Employment Agency Milford Trade School Lincoln School of Commerce.
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Shelby Public Schools
Shelby Public School
University of Nebraska
Kearney State College
Platte College Service Unit
Milford Trade School
Lincoln School of Commerce
Board of Education
Shelby
Bulldogs Rally Fails to Overcome Sutton in Late Push
In a tight contest the Bulldogs trailed late but surged with 23 points in the fourth, led by Bob Gissler with 20 total and 15 in the final period. Mustangs top scorer Doug Pope had 17 as David City Aquinas visits the OHS gym Friday, January 15.
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Bulldogs
Sutton
Bob Gissler
Dick Wyman
Lynn Boden
Cal Coffin
Keith Peterson
Larry Neujahr
Mustangs
Doug Pope
David City Aquinas
OHS
Postcards Urge Humane Treatment of POWs in Hanoi
With January billings to customers Congas will provide postcards addressed to the President of North Vietnam urging more humane treatment for 450 American POWs. The cards request a prisoner list, names of the ill and wounded and those dead, release for the ill, and free mail flow. Cards are signed by customers for fifteen cents and sent via Hong Kong to Hanoi.
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North Vietnam
Hong Kong
Hanoi
Obituaries in Shelby area list Kuhnel Gonsier and Hutchison deaths
Adolph E Kuhnel of Shelby died January 8 1971 at St Mary Hospital Columbus funeral January 11 at Sacred Heart Church Shelby burial parish cemetery survivors include wife two sons daughter and extended kin. Julius B Gonsier 77 died after a month illness funeral January ent St Bonaventure Columbus born April 18 1893 in Polk County survived by wife Stella daughters Irene Mirr Marie Ann Gonsier granddaughter Patricia Ann Mirr brothers and sister and other relatives. Mrs Susie M Hutchison 82 formerly of Silver Creek died in Elizabethton Tennessee funeral January 6 at McKown Funeral Chapel Silver Creek burial Silver Creek Cemetery survivors include two daughters and two sons.
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Adolph E. Kuhnel
Shelby
St. Mary Hospital
Columbus
Sacred Heart Church
Anthony Trausch
Msgr
L. F. Obrist
Osceola
Vernon, Lavern
Doug
Steve
Greg Kuhnel
Pat Lenihan
Silver Creek
Adolph Kuhnel
Nellie Lawson
St. Mary Church
David City
Gresham
Robert
Memphis
Tenn
Paul
Leo Lenihan
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Louie
Arosi
Calif
Alfred
Julius B. Gonsior
Julius ‘B. Gonsier
St. Bonaventure Catholic Church
Mr. Gonsier
St. Mary’ Hospital
Polk County
Clem Gonsier
Stella Brudny
St. Michael Catholic Church
Tarnov
Nance County
Gonsier
Farmers State of
Omaha
Stella
Irene A. Mirr
Marie Ann Gonsier
New York
Patricia Ann Mirr
Charles
Genoa
Frank L
Dallas
Annette Gonsier
Mary
Josephine Liss
Adolph
Susie M. Hutchison
Elizabethton
Tennessee
Illinois
McKown Funeral Chapel
John E. Kess
Nebraska
Hutchison
Thomas B. Hutchison
First United Methodist Church of
Lincoln
C. L
Janice) Emmons
Norwalk
W. B
Mildred) Hyder
Ray T
Downers Grove
Ill
Lowell E
Western Springs
Aliens Must Register in January Registration notice from INS officials
District Director R C Williams of the Omaha INS says alien address reports are confidential by statute. Reports must be filed each January with few exceptions. Forms are available at post offices or INS offices and ill or disabled individuals may have someone obtain a card for them. Parents file for under14s. Also includes local notices of medical trips and hospital tests for several residents and a patient at Clarkson Hospital with room 658.
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R. C. Williams
Omaha, Nebraska
Immigration and Naturalization Service Office
United States
The
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Osceola Freshmen Fall to Columbus 39 29
Osceola Bulldog freshmen trailed after three quarters and lost to Columbus 39 to 29 Monday afternoon in Osceola. Steve Monson led Osceola with 12 points, joined by Rick Morris 8 Alan Sipes 4 Tom Peterson 3 and David Watts 2. Columbus top scorers Evans and Cdonnell had 16 and 10 despite fouls.
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Osceola Bulldog
Columbus
Osceola
Steve Monson
Rick Morris
Alan Sipes
Tom Peterson
David Watts
Evans
Cdonnell
Sheephead Card Club Meets. Wiesemanes Return From Southern Trip
The Sheephead Card Club gathered Sunday at Tom Schmoker's home. Larry and Mrs. Wieseman returned Friday from a two week trip including the Orange Bowl in Miami and visits in Fort Lauderdale Inverness and New Orleans. Dawn Cudaback of Exeter spent a week with her grandparents Mr and Mrs Oscar Imm and returned home Friday. Lena R Janing 87 died in Omaha last week services held Friday at Crosby Kunold Mortuary burial at Hillcrest Memorial Park Survivors include son Theodore Omaha two sisters Martha Davis and Clara Bell five grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren. The former Lena Herrmann of Osceola.
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Sheephead Card Club
Tom Schmoker
Larry Wieseman
Miami
Ft. Lauderdale
Iverness
Florida
Ralph Watts
New Orleans
Dawn Cudaback
Exeter
Oscar Imm
Janing
Lena R. Janing
Omaha
Crosby-Kunold Mortuary
Hillcrest Memorial Park
Theodore J
Martha Davis
Clara Bell
Yakima
Washington
Lena Herrmann
Osceola
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Clarkson Hospital
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Central Nebraska Technical College
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Osceola News
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Boston
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Here
Albion Choral Clinic
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Jr. High
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