Braniff pilot Ray Shrader receives 25 year pin at Dallas ceremony
Braniff International Airways vice president Ray C. Shrader, age 59, was awarded the airline’s first 25 year pin in a mass employee gathering at a Dallas hangar. Shrader has logged about 2,000,000 miles since soloing in 1917 and joined Braniff 25 years ago as chief pilot.
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Braniff
Ray C. Shrader
Braniff International Airways
Charles E. Beard
Branniff
Dallas
Texas
Shrader
Forty years of marriage blessed Myron and Myra Brown
Fort Wayne residents Mr and Mrs Myron J Brown celebrate their golden wedding at home with friends and family. They married in Lost Prairie Illinois in 1866 and homesteaded in Valley precinct before moving to the city in 1914.
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Myron J. Brown
Lost Prairie
Valley Precinct
Connie Thelen
Ideal Bakery
Surveyors Consider Graveling City Streets and New Skating Rink Lease
Engineers from Grant Fulton and Letton surveyed streets at city request to estimate graveling costs including State Street north from the square to Gospel Ridge and Gospel Ridge street. Kelly Waller and Dr. George Flippin lease the skating rink building for a year, with maple floor laid swiftly by Kelly and local Osceola workers. A relative birthday party honored J O Jacobson on his 90th. Birth announcements report a nine pound boy for Ballenger and an eight and a half pound boy for Newcomer.
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Grant, Fulton and Letton
State Street
the Square
Gospel Ridge
Frank Shelmadine
Kelly and Waller
George Flippin
Kelly
J. O. Jacobson
George Ballenger
Dwight Newcomer
Osceola Community Club Banquet Honors Football Team
Alumni and fathers join Coach Snugg for a banquet as Allen Herrmann is named captain. A wedding at the Lutheran parsonage unites Vivian Hans and Morgan Lambert with plans to live in Grand Island. Birth announced for Rev. and Mrs. Paul Melin’s son January 18. The 1936 Birthday Ball to be held at the Legion Hall includes dancing and cards. Reports note railroad livestock traffic fell to zero in 1935. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Anderson announce the birth of a son. Maye Peterson is the mother.
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Snugg
Osceola
Allen Herrmann
Lutheran Parsonage
Vivian Hans
Morgan Lambert
Grand Island
Lambert
Food Centers, Inc
Paul Melin
Legion Hall
Herbert K. Anderson
Anderson
Maye Peterson
Gunnard Peterson
Ten Years Ago War Losses Reported In Osceola Area
Lt Theron A Dreier Osceola is presumed dead after a 1943 missing mission over Rabaul. In Polk County politics Carleton Anderson files for re election as county treasurer on the Democratic ticket. The Bulldogs drop a conference opener 9 16 to Polk with Sigler scoring 6 and Norton 5. Warren Umshler recently arrived on the west coast and called his wife.
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Theron A. Drier
Albert A. Dreier
Osceola
War Department
Rabaul
New Britain
Polk County
Carleton Anderson
Anderson
Leroy M. Smith
Bulldogs
Polk
Sigler
Norton
Bernard Berck
Warren Umshler
West Coast
Navy MIA Sailor Presumed Dead After Pacific Patrol
Werner Claud Timm, USN, listed as Missing in Action on November 6, 1943 while aboard the submarine Cisco in the Pacific. The Navy now presumes the crew dead with a death date set for January 8, 1946. Meanwhile, Warren Hartson, grandson of Mrs. Floyd Hartson, was wounded in northern China on November 8 when a Marine buddy accidentally discharged a pistol. he faces surgery as his wife and baby son travel to be with him.
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Osceola
Floyd Hartson
Warren
China
Werner Claud Timm
USN
Navy
Cisco
Pacific
West Side News social roundup from PasaDena area
Local notes show Elmer Anderson and others visiting in Pasa Dena Colum bus Lincoln and Osceola. Luther League youth conference at Wahoo. Cornhusker Council Banquet in York. Doty Brant wedding in Shelby church. Community events include dinners, birthdays, club luncheons, and a clown party at church basement.
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Richard Anderson
Elmer Anderson
Walter Anderson
Pasadena
California
Russell Kries
Morris C. Johnson
Lincoln
Chester Clark
Columbus
Ray Nuffler
Howard Sundberg
Orval Eikenhorst
Osceola
Lynn
Davida Sundberg
Franklin Peterson
Luther League
Wahoo
B. W. Gertsch
Dorothy Gertsch
Bob Irmer
Harold Covey
Denver
Elmore Nelson
Ralph
Arvada
Colorado
Maureen Johnson
Marlene Fjell
Eugene Fusby
Paul
Fredolph Johnson
Ed Oberg
Alice
Vance Toline
Arthur Samuelson
Mary Louise
Arthur Hornung
Roca
Carl Lundborg
Verner Gustafson
Gilbert Gertsch
Clarks
Clara Falk
Jennie
Allegra Johnson
Ellen Wittgren
Otto Johnson
Kenneth Anderson
John Ellis
Cornhusker Council
City Auditorium
York
Beda Noyd
Lowell Bennett
Roger Bennett
Easter sunrise service followed by ham breakfast planned
The Wayland community will hold a sunrise Easter service with a men’s ham and eggs breakfast to follow. Lloyd Hartman and Calmar Stephenson lead the general arrangements, with worship at 10:30. Merry Workers held their final winter all day meeting recently. Ardle Eklund led devotions. President Mrs Craven Stream.
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Stromsburg
Association
Exeter
Mesdames
Ted Gonnerman
Craven Stream
Carl Richter
Sophia Walford
Doty-Brant
Shelby Methodist Church
Paul Gondringer
Daughters of Columbus
Lloyd Walford
Ronald Eklund
Raymond Bond
Calmar Stephenson
Eastern Star
Chas. Wiswell
Gresham
Foy Rosenberry
Seward
Rosenberry
Merry Makers
Harley Heaston
N and G
Lyle Cockles
Calmar Stephensons
Ralph Allisons
Eklund
Holly
Regg
Larry Ferrell
Duane Keyes
Ted
Tom Gonnerman
Ford Bond
Delmar Johnson
Osceola
Harry Sterup
Columbus
Victor Sterup
Fay Rosenberry
Gary Neptune
George Bond
Ardle Eklund
Lloyd Hartman
Aurora
Mrs. Hartman
David Smith
Joyce Richter
Denver
Lee Campbell
Don
Charles Hawley
Grand Island
Alice Sechtem
Max Lott
Leon Hopwood
Shelby
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Richard Malek
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Max
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Norman
Larry
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