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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1973
Page
1
The Bulldogs basketball team energizes local fans with a state tournament mood. Despite changes at Howe house and a new program, the note hints at planning for potential state success, plus local sports chatter and upcoming interviews about county small claims court service.
Upper Big Blue NRD directors at York approve Clarke McNary Tree Planting for 1973 and plan bulk orders through York and SCS offices. A mobile planting crew will assist landowners with site prep and tractor power, with optional spraying. They urge reinstate and fund REAP funding and will meet February 5 in York.
The Soil Conservation Service report shows 300 Polk County farmers received technical help on conservation and land use in 1972. Fifteen other land users and government units used SCS services. Environmental improvements included critical area plantings debris basins disposal lagoons diversions ponds grade stabilization land leveling irrigation tail water recovery wind breaks and wildlife habitat planting.
Duane Hahn earned a 132 lb medal with two pins and a bye as Osceola wrestlers show strong results, while the Bulldog dual meet vs Palmer featured pins by McMeekin Runquist Urban Girard and Coffin with Lemp and Tenniges each scoring for the team. The Jones Creek project details flood protection and conservation progress in Polk County with 1020 cooperators and 96 900 acres under plans.
A 30 minute color film shows California farm workers recounting life before and after joining Cesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers Union. The January 22, 1973, event at Catholic Hall in Osceola, Nebraska is sponsored by Polk County Farm Bureau and produced by the American Farm Bureau Federation.
At Osceola Lodge 65 A F and A M regular communication on January 11 1973 Edward E Watts was installed Worshipful Master with Marvin L Dawes Senior Warden Dale A Hiemer Junior Warden John A Inness Treasurer Mervin E Ransom Sr Secretary Virgil V Bugbee Chaplain Joseph M Roberts Senior Deacon Gerald L Krieger Junior Deacon Charles A Roberts Senior Steward Lowell D Hanson Junior Steward Harold W Pearson Tyler and Installing Officer Mervin Ransom Sr assisted by David Rutter Installing Marshal and Mervin Ransom Jr Installing Chaplin. Alex Kozisek moved last week to the ridge. Mrs Larry Larson returned from Clarkson Hospital in Omaha for tests. Mrs Alfred Hanson notified of Rev Gene Cappen illness, a former Osceola band director, who suffered a stroke in December and is at Immanuel Hospital in Omaha. Mrs Charles Kucera discharged Friday from Doctors underwent surgery nine days earlier.
Osceola O E S Chapter held a January 9 installation with Carol Krieger named Worthy Matron. Installing officer Virginia Monson presented a carved gavel to Krieger. Delores Hanson led a lunch committee after the ceremony.
The Nebraska Conservation Contractor's Association will host its Fourteenth Annual Meeting at the Holiday Inn North Platte on January 18 and 19, 1973. The conference targets earth moving contractors, equipment dealers, farmers, and others in soil and water conservation with the theme Resources for Tomorrow. Paul and Fausta Reisdorff, natives of Shelby now in San Diego, have purchased Whip-O-Creme in Osceola and plan a Jan 19 opening. They will move to Osceola in February after buying the Neya Leidloff home.
Osceola defeated David City Aquinas 73-72 on a Lindley Lamb layup with 4 seconds left. Johnston led Osceola with 24 points as the heart stopping finish drew 750 fans into a roaring celebration.
Nebraska State Senator Loran Schmit urged a wide public turnout for a hearing on the Federal takeover of pollution control. He argues Nebraska already runs its own Environmental Control Council and plans to seek funds to replace REAP losses for agricultural pollution control while rural and urban lawmakers weigh in on local funding.
The U S Department of Agriculture announced on January 10 1973 that loans on farm stored and warehouse stored grains for several crop years will not be extended beyond maturity dates to boost free market grain supplies. Wheat corn barley oats grain sorghum and rye loans for 1968 to 1972 crops are affected with 1971 and 1972 crop loans highlighted.
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