Cattle Crisis Talk Set At Farmers and Feeders Day
The World Herald co author Howard Silber outlines the cattle crisis in a Saturday session at 1 30 p m in King's Ballroom Shelby He will discuss where he found pricing data and how he reached his conclusions Other speakers include Dave Garst Tom Moates and Robert E Johnson A panel will follow with a question answer period First National Banks of Osceola and Shelby sponsor the event with a post talk coffee and doughnut session at 4 p m
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World-Herald
Howard “Silber
King’s Ballroom
Shelby
Silber
Dave Garst
Bob Garst
Tom Moates
Robert E. Johnson
First National Banks of Osceola and
Mrs. Perry Sapp Chosen Head of Polk County GOP Women
Osceola residents fill leadership roles in the Polk County Republican Women at the spring luncheon in Stromsburg. Mrs. Perry Sapp becomes president with Mrs. Lulu Ward as vice president and Margaret Huston as secretary-treasurer. Willard Larson oversees the luncheon. Retiring president Mrs. Lloyd Hahn leads a governmental issues quiz won by Mrs. Lois Strong. Recognition goes to Mrs. Walter Rystrom, Mrs. Roy Horst, and Mrs. C. J. McCoy for voting records. A May luncheon plans a Lincoln guest speaker, Dr. H. S. Eklund travels to Kansas City for a medical course, returning Monday.
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Perry Sapp
Osceola
Polk County
Stromsburg
Lulu Ward
Margaret Huston
Willard Larson
Shelby
Lloyd Hahn
Polk
Lois Strong
Walter Rystrom
Roy Horst
C. J. McCoy
Sapp
E. Thorenson
Lincoln
State Women’s Republican Club
Colorful Record Highlights Local Ads and Starry Sky Event
The issue features a full color advertisement for Andreasen Implement of Shelby and notes a recent local visit by Don Waterman from the Sunny South. Mrs. John S. Anderson shares a clipping about Venus and Jupiter near their conjunction on Feb 28, with a bright moon display. Ralph Bond reports on profit sharing or charter life insurance warned against by the Nebraska Insurance Department.
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Andreasen
Shelby
John S. Anderson
Ralph Bond
Stromsburg
Nebraska Insurance Department
Conservancy districts push faster land treatment progress
Polk County SWCD supervisors report rapid conservation work with more dams built than ever, rising irrigation development, and new till-plant methods boosting crop production. Waterways terraces and cover practices attract interest though many question the current progress rate. A watershed program offers potential relief by accelerating efforts.
Goodwill Bags Distributed for Community Drive
Scout Leaders Lyndon Mulford and Stanley Van Hoosen report 100 bags delivered to Osceola homes for the Good Turn by Goodwill Industries. Residents are urged to fill bags with clothing shoes toys and household items to aid handicapped workers in re processing and marketing. Call for more bags or place a box on the porch labeled Goodwill. Cubs Scouts and leaders will collect the bags next Saturday.
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Lyndon Mulford
Stanley van Hoosen
Osceola
Goodwill Industries
Polk County drives support for Crippled Children appeal
An appeal for the Nebraska Society for Crippled Children and Adults began this month in Polk County. Letters were mailed by the Polk County division with no door to door canvassing. Please return gifts to Dale Frizzen of Osceola, with Betty Majors as chairman and Max Hennings as secretary.
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Nebraska Society For Crippled Children
Polk County Division of Society
Dale Frizzen
Osceola
Betty Majors
Max Hennings
Osceola Athletes Feted At Friday Banquet
Osceola high school honors local athletes at Friday night athletic banquet in the school gym with George Kelly as speaker from the University of Nebraska athletic staff and Notre Dame background. The event recognizes outstanding sports figures among Osceola students and coaches.
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Osceola High School
George Kelly
University of Nebraska
Notre Dame
Girl shines with top rating at Longmont music contest
Nancy Lee Wilkinson, 12, of Greeley Colo, played a piano solo at the All State Musical Contest in Longmont Colo and earned the highest rating in her division after only one year of lessons. She and sister Connie play clarinets in Greeley Junior High band. Parents Mr and Mrs Duane Wilkinson live in Greeley. Theo Hanson, formerly of Osceola now in Alma, entered Grand Island Veterans Hospital. Stromsburg community chorus will present the Messiah on Palm Sunday evening March 22 at 7 30 in the high school gym under Mrs Clement Anderson.
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Cora Hewitt
Greeley
Colo
Longmont
Nancy Lee Wilkinson
Nancy
Connie
Cole
Duane Wilkinson
Jean Hewitt
Theo Hanson
Osceola
Alma
Veterans’ Hospital
Grand Island
Community Chorus of
Stromsburg
Clement Anderson
Norton Named Chairman of Nebraska Power Board
Osceola attorney William H. Norton was selected last week as chairman of the Nebraska Power Review Board. He succeeds former chairman Clair Callan who resigned to pursue a Democratic nomination. Norton has served on the board since its creation last year. Marilyn Oberg of Osceola, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ivar Oberg, was initiated into the Iota Zeta chapter of Chi Omega at Kearney State College where she is a junior.
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Osceola
William H. Norton
Nebraska’ Power Review Board
Clair Callan
Con
Norton
Board
Marilyn Oberg
Ivar Oberg
Iota Zeta
Chi Omega Sorority
Kearney State College
Kearney
Red Cross Fund Drive Under Way in Osceola and Stromsburg
The Red Cross drive is under way with soliciting contact. Contributions can be sent to Martin Roberts in Osceola or John Falk in Stromsburg. Funds support Red Cross activities including swimming lessons and the Bloodmobile.
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Red Cross Drive
Red Cross
Martin Roberts
Osceola
John Falk
Stromsburg
Farm Bureau Banquet Planned in Osceola
The Polk county Farm Bureau will hold its annual banquet March 31 at 7 p m in the Osceola Methodist church basement. Guest speaker Bernie Camp of the Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation will attend with musical entertainment by Polk and Butler County Farm Bureau members. Tickets available from the Osceola office or Ben Peterson Polk Oscar Imm Silver Creek Anselm Fredrickson Stromsburg. The board sent a telegram to Orville Freeman expressing sympathy with the Cat tle Feeders Association stand on beef imports.
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Polk County Farm Bureau
Methodist
Osceola
Bernie Camp
Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation
Polk County
Butler County Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
Ben Peterson
Polk
Oscar Imm
Silver Creek
Anselm Fredrickson
Stromsburg
Polk County Farm Bureau Board
Orville Freeman
Cattle Feeders Association
Miss Branting Initiated into Alpha Chi Omega at Nebraska
Carol Branting daughter of Mr and Mrs Raymond Branting of Osceola was initiated into active membership in Xi Chapter Alpha Chi Omega at the University of Nebraska Lincoln Sunday. At the initiation banquet she received a charm bracelet for her pledgeship service and was elected music chairman for the coming year. Roy Dinsdale of Palmer was appointed third congressional district finance chairman for the Nebraska Goldwater for President Committee.
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Carol Brahtting
Raymond Branting
Osceola
Alpha Chi Omega
University of Nebraska i. Lincoln
Lincekx
Miss Branting
Alpha Chi Omega House
Roy Dinsdale
Palmer
Third Congressional District
Nebraska Goldwater
Penny Carnival Plans Set for April 3 in Osceola
Osceola planners announce the Penny Carnival on April 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the school auditorium. Elementary grades have themes and others prepare booths games and contests. Proceeds will help fund a foreign student project at Osceola High School.
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Osceola
Osceola High School
Osceola workers win four safety awards
Four Western Power and Gas Co. employees from Osceola received safety awards for safe working and safe driving from Columbus district manager R. M. Crooks. Mildred Snodgrass 12 years safe working. Victor Cerny 13 years safe working and 12 safe driving. Mervin Hiemer 13 years safe working and 13 safe driving. Chris Dahmke 11 years safe working and 10 safe driving. Cerny and Hiemer also earned certificates for completing a two week gas school training and safety course at Lincoln.
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Osceola
Western Power and Gas Co
R. M. Crooks
Columbus
Mildred Snodgrass
Victor Cerny
Mervin Hiemer
Chris Dahmke
Cerny
Hiemer
The
Gas School of Training and Safety
Lincoln
Two Shelby Burglaries Result in Confession
A young couple in Harrison County jail Gulfport Mississippi admitted break ins at Richards TV and Andrea's at Shelby January 28. Sheriff Reynold Peterson said Ronald Lester Hazer and Jane Stone were arrested with a trailer-load of goods, unsure if all items came from the Shelby burglaries.
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Harrison County
Gulfport
Miss
Richards TV
Andreasen
Shelby
Reynold Peterson
Ronald Lester Hazer
Jane Stone
Osceola High Track Team Prepares for Opening Meet
Osceola High School trackmen 27 strong with 8 lettermen practice daily for the March 25 opener at Osceola 3 p.m. East Butler and Henderson visit. Coaches Scheer Bartek lead. Joel Einsenhort mile record holder and Larry Miley 880 yard record holder among a roster of lettermen.
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Osceola High School
East Butler
Henderson
Osceola
Denny Scheer
Don Bartek
Joel Eikenhorst
Larry Miley
G. Ahlquist
C. Carlson
C. Monson
G. Ransom
B. Schmoker
M. Wieseman
L. Boden
B. Bugbee
R. Ekstrom
B. Engert
D. Husar
L. Johnson
D. Jones
R .Klein J. McCormick
B. McMeekin
J. Nelson
R. Prell
E. Prososki
C. Roberts
R. Rutter
Population growth in Polk County since 1960 census
Polk County population rose from 7 210 in 1960 to an estimated 7 285 in 1963 per University of Nebraska Bureau of Business Research. During 1960s, 52 Nebraska counties declined while most counties gained, with Sarpy County showing up to 43 percent increase.
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Polk County
University of Nebraska Bureau of Business Research
Nebraska
Sarpy
Osceola Office of Lincoln Telephone to Close
Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Co. will close the Osceola business office effective June 1. Electronic billing and posting equipment will shift operations to central headquarters in Lincoln. The former office space will house new telephone equipment. Sterling Nelson cited 71 percent of customers paying by mail to Lincoln. A depository will be added in the telephone exchange building.
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Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Co
Osceola
Lincoln
Sterling Nelson
Lincoln Tel
Tel
Telephone Exchange
Junior High Basketball Wins Goldenton Conference Title
Osceola junior high retained the Goldenton crown with a 37 33 win over Stromsburg after beating St Edward 43 15 and Genoa 39 18. Top scorers included Don Augustin 16 against St Edward and 15 versus Genoa. Jack Cerny 16 against St Edward and 12 against Stromsburg. Calvin Kropatsch 12 against St Edward and 11 versus Stromsburg. The roster features Vernon Crow Bill Snodgrass Gregg Johnson and others.
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Osceola
Junior High
Stromsburg
St. Edward
Genoa
Don Augustin
Little Bulldogs
Jack Cerny
Calvin Kropatsch
Vernon Crow
Bill Snodgrass
David White
Doug Jones
Delmer Jones
Gregg Johnson
Tom Kodene
Vic Sterup
Joey Fijell
Don Barry
Cerny
Augustin
Johnson
White
Fjell
Tom Rodene
Kropatsch
Crow
Jones
Rodene
Snodgrass
Sterup
Barry
Spelling Contest Planned Here Saturday
The Polk county spelling contest will be Saturday at Jefferson Elementary School. Contestants begin spelling promptly at 1 30 p m Schools represented include Sacred Heart Stromsburg Osceola Shelby Polk and rural schools.
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Polk County
Jeffrey
Sacred Heart
Stromsburg
Osceola
Shelby
Polk
Mother of Polk County woman named Nebraska Mother of the Year
Perry XK Sapp notes Mrs. Frank Reichmuth of Leigh is named Nebraska Mother of the Year. Her daughter Mrs. Don Hayes lives near Silver Creek in Polk County. The column also shares light observations on gardening fishing and local charity efforts at Good Samaritan Home Osceola.
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Perry XK. Sapp
Polk County
Nebraska
Frank Reichmuth
Leigh
Reichmuth
Don Hayes
Silver Creek
Noot
Good Samaritan
Osceolay
Phillips County Review
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GOP
H. S. Eklund
Kansas City
University of Kansas Medical School
Secretary of State
Don Waterman
Conservancy
Swcd Supervisors
Crippled Children
Conservancy District
Dwain
Emery Nelson
Lancaster County
Allen Boettcher
George Round
Gerald W. Gaer
Omaha
Matthew L. Hansen
Potter
Edward Gembica
Jeanne M. Barr
David L. Cerny
Glenn D. Brammer
Dawson
Edward A. Haaland
Charles A. Laird
Kans
John P. Thelen
Nev
Donald G. Larson
Power Board
Penny Carnival
OHS
Butler
Clarks
Crete
KSTC
Goldenrod
St. Paul
Telephone Company
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