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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1967
Page
1
At the 1967 Polk County Fair August 17 to 19 the Thrillarama thrill show headlines with auto and motorcycle daredevils testing skill against death plus the T Bone crash. Pat O'Brien, three time champion, will present. The hour long spectacle features Captain Dynamite, acts, and clowns.
Next week's county wide issue aims to mail the Polk County Fairbook to every home, with ads and early copy urged. Osceola Development Corp moves ahead. a legal notice of incorporation and recreation committees progress. Ambulance funding hearing July 26 at the courthouse. school starts Aug 28. various local community notes and baseball results included.
Kenneth Krieg reports rainfall for the week ending Saturday as none. Surface and subsoil moisture are adequate. Winter wheat and wild hay are good. other crops fair. Alfalfa first cut 100 percent, second cut 20 percent. Farm work includes laying by cultivation baling hay and harvesting wheat. Corn leaf spot and corn rootworm damage noted in many fields.
Hospital report lists patients and transfers including Mrs Martin Scholz Osceola Mrs Adolph Grossnicklaus Osceola Thomas Heine Waco Mrs Jimmie Bowersock Thayer etc. Osceola locals recount visits guests trips and family events with multiple named residents and towns such as Goodfield Col orado Cannon Falls Omaha Kearney Olean N Y.
Planning for Polk county's 92nd annual fair is underway led by agassn president Henry Galus. Highlights include the Olympic Daredevils show auto and motorcycle exhibit Grand Ole Opry and the free beef barbecue. Entry day is August 16 and events run through August 19 with a baby beef auction and Opry show scheduled.
Courthouse entries list traffic fines for Wallace, Doremus, Carlstrom, Ahlquist, Anderson, Graham, Bamber, Thomas and Dunn with amounts from 10 to 125 dollars. Legal deeds record survivorship and property transfers involving Cornish, Evans, and Smith's addition in Osceola. Local social notes report visitors, parade plans, a car transfer mishap, social security visit, and naval recruit Albert Rommers Jr. in Osceola lines.
Osceola members voted Dan Armbruster as president of the new Osceola Development Corporation at a July meeting. Also elected were Philip Hixyberg as vice president Bert Gissler secretary and H Jay McDonald treasurer with several directors named. The group aims to attract small industries, publicize Osceola, assist local businesses, and plan land buildings and loans to lure industry. Shares are $1 with a 25-share minimum toward a $5,000 goal and $100,000 authorized.
A regional column covers bingo winner Lois Gross nicklaus earning 200 in Ulysses with a blackout game ending as only 57 numbers called. The piece notes Rock Miller handing out gum since 1905, Marian Inness in Salzburg with Nebraskan peers, and Bill Kepner leading juniors in Europe. Also mentions a birthday myth, moon child traits for June 22 to July 21, and musings on marriage, travel, and a humorous quip about arguing two to one.
A group of seven Model T Fords, mostly 1914 to 1920 models, led by former Polk County residents Mr and Mrs Orville Eyechart, traveled from Long Beach California to Dearborn Michigan visiting the Ford plant. They left July 7 and plan to reach Dearborn by July 15 while camping along the route.
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