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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1971
Page
2
Osceola Nebraska publication begun as The Homesteader in August 1872 by H T Arnold with editor Kathleen A Howe. Subscription rates listed and membership in national associations cited. Included is Edmund Burke quote about evil and silence.
Notice to subscribers explains a corporate name change from Orro Chemical, Inc. to Osceola Fertilizer Co effective June 1, 1971. Subscriptions must be renewed. The notice is dated July 1, 1931.
Notices in Polk County Nebraska probate court announce hearings for Vida E Reckmeyer Verlena M Simonsen and Gordon L Clark as executors and administrators with will annexed. Final report by Guy F Ball sets July 8 1971 hearing for settlement and discharge. Creditors must file by September 30 1971. County Judge Eldon R Johnson.
City Council met with Mayor E D Buffington and members McDonald Pearson Watts and Soukup. They read the minutes and treasurer's report, approved bills from numerous local vendors, and authorized purchase of a tractor from Osceola Implement Co. The meeting adjourned sine die, to reconvene June 17 at 8:00 PM.
Osceola Board of Education approves continued plans to add classrooms and a storage room to the elementary building. Salaries for bus drivers custodians and cooks are fixed. Audit with Howard A. Stewart Co and revised Fair Board agreement pass. Board reorganizes electing Eugene Sterup president and Eugene Johansen vice president. Next meeting set for July 5, 1971 at 8 p.m.
Polk County Nebraska Board in regular session approves road sign bid process under Federal Aid Secondary Project S-9999 20 but no contract yet. A culvert under a county road for irrigation is authorized. Expenditures audited include non resident high school tuition and numerous local vendor payments. The board adjourned to meet June 22 1971.
Social notes from district 54 include funeral attendance in St Joseph Missouri for Mrs L A Krumme and multiple visits among the Wyman, Imhoff, Schott, Tooker, Blaser, and Wyman families. Romanian agricultural attaches and guests from Nebraska were hosted at local homes. Families shared birthdays and Father's Day activities with dinners, picnics, and weekend trips to Omaha Lincoln and the Black Hills.
Notice is hereby given that the Articles of Incorporation of Orro Chemical Inc have been amended.
The Otto B Nelsons and the Har ry Sterups of Osceola along with Jim Sterup of Columbus and Vic tor Sterups of Stromsburg attended the funeral of their sister in law and aunt Mrs Robert Nelson in York on Saturday. Mr and Mrs Raymond Clem mer of David City brought lunch to the Ray Conrad home for his birthday last week.
Mrs. Lee Bayer of Polk visits Mr. and Mrs. Ear Burke. Lodgepole guests include Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hern Bloom and Morris Hern Bloom. Washington visitor Mrs. Stanley Cook stays with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Teegerstrom and relatives. Several local gatherings, picnics, and family visits noted with Teegerstrom, Lauerman, Rystrom, Harless, and other area families. Kansas and Nebraska connections appear among guests and relatives, with a Swedish Festival attendance and hospital news.
The item lists numerous local hosting and visiting arrangements. It names Mildred Kreis, George Olson and families, with guests from Tempe Arizona to Lincoln and Ames Iowa, including Hennings, Rystrom, Burnham, Beatty, Torell, Fusby and others visiting at Buckley Park, Buckley Park and Lincoln.
Neighbors pressure to join a farmer collective bargaining effort and sell as members. Plans to rent more ground. In February buys another tractor on credit and new overshoes for his wife. In April milk prices fall, buys more cows on credit and struggles to hire at $1.00 an hour. Teaches wife to run tractor. In May businessmen and ministers bait NFO, quits church, plans to charge goods in another town, wife runs tractor when not milking.
A farmer writes of rising costs and strikes with the NFO urging support and warning that 2500 farmers go to the auction block weekly. He notes medical bills, bank pressure, and moving plans while NFO withholds hogs and corn to push prices higher.
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