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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1972
Page
1
Readers note miscaptioned Dunn wedding photo and a line missing in the threshing bee report. A correction identifies Bernie Gissler’s actual location near the fairgrounds. The piece also recalls Sister Virginia’s education views and Nebraska weather quirks, plus a Home Town Stores urging local shopping and a siren alert clarification.
Oats cut at Bernie Gissler farm with Greg Andreasen guiding the grain binder and Keith Miller driving an Oliver Hart Parr tractor. The six acre field lies near the fairgrounds. A second threshing event is planned July 17 at the Polk County Fair Grounds with Andreasen providing a threshing machine and a Rumley oil pull tractor. Volunteers with horses, grain wagons, and hay racks are still sought.
Myrl Edstrom of Wahoo and J C Hranac of David City have filed to run in the November general election for the District County Judge post in the Fifth Judicial District, which includes Butler Hamilton Polk Saunders Seward York. Both are attorneys. Edstrom has 16 years in private practice and six-term experience as Saunders County Attorney, while Hranac has served as Butler County Attorney and Butler County Judge since 1937.
John Matousek dies at home in Shelby with funeral services pending at Kepner-Roberts Mortuary. Curtis Flodman, 70, dies Tuesday at Annie Jeffrey Hospital Osceola. survivors include wife Mildred and two sons Burdette and Wayland with arrangements pending.
Five Polk County farm families will receive the Nebraska Pioneer Farm Award at the Polk County Fair on July 16. Frances A. Whaley of Central City Ralph and Catherine Willits of Clarks Homer and Virginia Farley of Osceola Fred and Hazel Benson Meridith of Clear Lake Iowa and Osceola and the Lindblade family are recognized for a century of continuous family ownership. The award, co sponsored by Ak Sar Ben and the Nebraska Association of Fair Managers, honors farms kept in the same family for 100 years or more.
City officials spent most of Thursday July 6 discussing next year’s budget. Fire Chief Jim Lewis asked for helmets face shields and hoses and the council approved funds and a fill tank for compressed air masks. A $25 car expense increase for Police Chief H D Thayer was OKed as part of the budget. A public hearing on the budget will be held later this month.
Osceola pounded out 16 hits to beat Genoa 10 to 7 Sunday night at Genoa. Osceola improves to 3 3 on the season while Columbus holds a 5 2 league lead. Marlon Bernt and Bob Prokop secured the win with Brad Fisher taking the loss. Osceola visits St Edward Sunday at 2 30 p.m.
Flood waters swept Osceola for the second time in three weeks as 4 inch rains from Swede Home and Davis Creek overflowed. Highway closures trapped motorists overnight while Samaritan Center staff rode in on a city tractor to reach work. Evacuations continued for residents including Homer Hastings and Hazel Williams as crews prepared cleanup efforts Tuesday morning.
Dan Husak earned a B S degree from California State University Fresno on June 7 and will pursue a master's at the same campus. Son of Mr and Mrs Fred Husak of San Rafael he helped found the University Repertory Company which plans two summer plays. He is a 1966 Osceola High School graduate.
Miss April Walgren daughter of Mr and Mrs Paul Walgren has arrived in Austria to study German at the University of Vienna for four weeks. The Nebraska Wesleyan University junior left New York City on July 4 by air to Brussels and then train to Vienna under a Belgian Educational Student Program.
A review presented at the Osceola Lions noon dinner shows over $1,000 spent on community projects including eyeglasses for needy students New York Times large print edition for Samaritan Center Girls State flowers for square boxes and plantings New officers named Mert Flodman president Joe Roberts Jim Wanderlich and Charles Roberts vice presidents Eugene Sterup secretary treasurer Truman Bakkenberg tailtwister Bernie Gissler lion tamer were installed for the coming year.
Polk County farmers received 896 900 dollars in farm set-aside payments during the first week of July, with total by month end near 2 800 000 to about 1 300 farms. Nationwide 750 000 producers were mailed roughly 850 million in preliminary payments for cotton feed grain and wheat to arrive July 1.
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