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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1965
Page
1
Mixed week with a Wednesday low of 15 degrees below zero and a peak around 67 degrees on Saturday. Snow totals reached four inches Tuesday and three inches in March, with two school closures and a Monday wind storm causing 5 foot drifts, poor visibility, and postponed meetings as eastern Nebraska faced harsher conditions.
Obituary piece recalls Perry N Sapp a booster of Osceola Polk County and Nebraska who died of heart trouble leaving his wife Eidena. He loved travel and fishing and worked to help the community. The column notes his role in establishing Annie Jeffrey Memorial Hospital and Good Samaritan Village and praises his teamwork and accomplishments.
Save the Children Federation launches its 23rd Bundle Day Drive from March 1 to 8 to collect wearable used clothing for children in the southern Appalachian Mountains. Osceola Public School and Jeffrey Elementary join as local sponsors with Superintendent Vigil Bugbee urging community contributions of coats dresses suits and underwear.
The 1965 Young America Gardens Contest, announced by the Flower and Garden Foundation, offers top prizes including a Disneyland trip for older contestants and deluxe bicycles for younger participants. Entries require planting eight seed packets, reporting results, and a 25 cent entry fee plus sponsor details.
Robert L. Clark, counselor for the Division of Rehabilitation Services, will be in Osceola March 9 and at the county welfare office part of the day for those wishing to meet him. OSCEOLA LOCALS Kathy McVeigh and Connie Stromberg celebrate 15th birthdays with Sunday dinner at the local cafe. Mervin Stromberg and Arthur McVeigh families attend.
Clarks High School will host the Goldenrod conference grade school tournament next week. First round games Monday March 8 from 5 to 8 p.m. Semi finals March 9 and finals March 16. Pairings Genoa vs Silver Creek Polk vs St Edward Osceola vs Stromsburg Clarks vs Palmer. A good sportsmanship trophy will be awarded.
Monte L. Madsen of the State Game Commission will be principal speaker at the Polk County Wildlife meeting at the Osceola Legion hall Sunday evening March 7. He will show films and discuss fish management. Meeting starts promptly at 7 30.
Very few attended Tuesday evenings city and school caucus. School caucus results list Paul Walgren John Wieseman Levert Oquist and Mervin Ransom Sr for the Board of Education with Wes Peterson declining and Bob Mills and Earl Watts named incumbents for north and south ward council seats.
Perry N Sapp longtime Osceola Polk and Shelby newspaper publisher died of a heart attack on February 27 at age 59 He was born July 3 1905 in Balckow Missouri and moved to Osceola in 1947 He sold his papers in 1957 and retired Survived by wife Eldena and a brother funeral services were held at First Methodist Osceola with pallbearers drawn from newspaper friends and burial in Osceola Cemetery.
Design and plans for a memorial to the old Thayer Flour Mill were approved. Construction is set to begin early next spring on land once owned by the Burlington and Missouri Railroad Co. The half acre park will include the mill site and parts of the foundation. Donations and miniature railroad fees will fund the project.
An NFO dining event occurs March 16 at the Osceola high school auditorium with dinner at 6 p.m. and speaker Oren Lee Staley at 7:30 p.m. Staley, president of the National Mariners Organizations, farms in northwest Missouri, raises purebred cattle, is a 4-H and FFA leader, Navy World War II veteran, and has served as NFC president since 1955.
Mrs. Doris Ourecky of Wilber, district Eastern Star supervisor, made an official visit to the CSCorla Chanter Tuesday February 23. A school of instruction was held at the Chapter rooms in the afternoon, followed by a dinner at the L and M Cafe hosted by the Past Matrons for Mrs. Durecky and Worthy Matron Joyce Trnes.
Lincoln H. I. Hornby, Social Security representative, will visit Osceola on March 10 in the courthouse on the second floor from 9 to 12 noon. If you received Social Security benefits in 1964 and earned over $1200 while under 72 in any part of the year, report to your Social Security office by April 15, 1965.
The Board of Education warns parents that Osceola public schools do not sponsor attendance to the state high school basketball tournament. Students may miss school time only if the district is directly involved, and games are on Saturday with four top matches available without school disruption. Also notes local social visits: Mr and Mrs Glenn Anderson hosted a 6 p.m. dinner for Everett Anderson's birthday, Roy Martins of Columbus visited.
Osceola under coach Donald Bartek ended the season with an 80-57 loss to Fullerton in the Class C district final. They earlier beat Stromsburg 50-49 in a dramatic semifinal, with Gissler scoring 24 to lead a balanced offense and Ransom adding 20.
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