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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1972
Page
1
A humorous quote about livestock from a vendor surfaces in a friend’s clipping. Miriam and Bob Carey seek help distributing Heart Fund packets this weekend. The Opportunity Shop by the Association for Retarded Children asks for salable donations. Howe family looks forward to renewed Old Times Day window displays to showcase old items.
The Elsenpeter Marionettes will perform for Osceola pupils from K to 12 on Friday March 10 at 1 p.m. The long running assembly program has 30 years of school presentations and a puppetry tradition spanning 130 years from Elsen Germany.
At a Community Club meeting members planned drawings for a color TV a miniature Model T and a cassette recorder during the Centennial Celebration on June 2. They chose parade themes Days Past for adults and Our Youth for children and announced a teen dance. The group meets tonight at 7 30 p.m. at Chat and Chow Cafe with a Centennial Book Com slated for Friday March 10 at 8 p.m. in City Cafe.
Everett McCracken former mayor of David City and Buck O Hannon of Northern Natural Gas spoke at the Osceola Chamber dinner February 28. They presented slides on central business district renovations begun in 1965 after a fire and described ongoing improvements and community impact.
Church Women United of Osceola will host World Day of Prayer at St. Paul Lutheran Church on Friday March 3 at 2 00 p m The event themed All Joy Be Yours aims to unite Christian women across 169 countries through ecumenical prayer and outreach activities.
Several Polk County officials have filed or signaled filing for re election with County Clerk Dale Frizzell. Vacancies exist in four offices including County Commissioner Dist 3, County Judge, ESU 7 board, and three Noxious Weed District seats. Filing deadline is March 10.
Army Specialist Five Barry L Schmoker son of Mr and Mrs Donald E Schmoker Rt 2 Osceola Nebraska serves with the Staff and Faculty Battalion at Ft Sill Oklahoma as an assistant instructor for Ballistic Meteorology Battery A He entered the Army in February 1970 and was last stationed in Korea The 25 year old earned a Bachelor of Science from Kearney State College in 1969 His wife Lynda lives in Lawton Oklahoma. Wayne College Band to perform Osceola High School March 15 at 10 am Barry Hanson son of the Lowell Hansons to appear with the Wayne College Band grades 7 12 will attend Roger Carlson of Osceola pledged Sigma Rho at Midland College Fremon
Forty Ak-Sar-Ben post graduate scholarships of 150 each are available for elementary and high school teachers in Nebraska. Nick T. Newberry announces the 14th year of the program. Applicants need 60 semester hours and must plan six hours in summer. Stanley L. Hawley oversees the effort with an 11-member Nebraskan committee. Deadline is April 15.
County Clerk Dale Frizzell reports 200 new registrations since the last election. Among them 150 are aged 18 to 20 and will be new on the rolls, while the remaining 50 comprise new voters, movers, or party changers.
The Osceola race pool shows slow growth with Truman Bachenberg filing for the School Board and Lloyd L. Miller for City Council. By Tuesday, only these names stood, with a March 10 filing deadline before April 4 city elections and a May 10 Nebraska primary for school board.
March 10 1972 is set as the final date for farmers to sign up for the 1972 feed grain and wheat program. New options with higher payments are available and producers should review details before participating. The message urges timely enrollment and notes premeasurement service will close as signup ends.
The Lions Club at Osceola planned a pancake feed for the Centennial Celebration during a noon meeting on Monday. President Lee Draeger led discussion on the REAP Handbook and an order for Centennial plates. The club voted to finance an initial order of 144 plates bearing the Osceola Centennial Seal to be sold by Centennial Book Committee members before and during the celebration.
Osceola high school opened district play at David City against Cedar Rapids Tigers losing 63 to 53. Brad Farmer led CRHS with 29 points and 15 rebounds while Jim Carlson scored 21 for OHS. Colin McKeag added 10 points and 13 rebounds as shooting hovered around 29 percent for Osceola.
More than 140 long time employees of the Nebraska Department of Roads were honored in a February 9 1972 ceremony at the Lincoln headquarters. Director Thomas D Doyle awarded 10 20 and 30 year service certificates including a 20 year pin to Stanley E Van Hoosen. Open house plans announced for John and Braithwaite 50th wedding anniversary in Shelby. Social Security news notes pay as you go system with Lincoln office at 475 3581 and Osceola visit on March 8 1972 9 30 to 11 30 a.m.
The Polk County Soil and Water Conservation District held the February 22 event at the Methodist Church Osceola with twelve entrants. Robin Walgren Osceola freshman won first place with Mavis Peterson Stromsburg second and Teresa Campbell Osceola seventh grader taking third.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Jones and Mr. and Mrs. Hans Nielsen celebrate 50 years of marriage with open houses on Sunday March 12. Joneses at Calvary Lutheran Church Swede Home from 2 to 4 p.m. Nielsen at Evangelical Free Church Stromsburg from 2 to 4 p.m. No gifts please.
Barbara and Nancy Mills of Osceola Nebraska are alto and soprano in the 50 member Grinnell College Choir joining the Grinnell College Singers on a three day central Iowa concert tour beginning Sunday March 5. Barbara is a sophomore and Nancy a senior, daughters of Mr and Mrs Robert L Mills. Robin Walgren, son of Mr and Mrs Paul Walgren, won last year and will again represent Polk County SWCC at the area contest judged by Ron Bishop manager of the Mid Platte Valley Watershed Advisory Board from Grand Island.
Nebraska Public Power District will credit about 300 000 dollars to retail customers on their electric bills. The board meeting in Columbus voted to recompute 1971 electricity use on old rates, applying credits to future bills for consumption before January 1 1972. Wholesale customers are unaffected.
Barbara Mills daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Mills of Osceola is among Grinnell College's 300 students named to the Dean's List for the first semester. The honor requires a minimum 3.5 GPA on a 4.0 scale.
Osceola residents may be surveyed this weekend by the Osceola High School government class led by instructor Al Stroup. The public survey will cover local state and national election views with Friday start.
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