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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1977
Page
2
Reuben Hanquist bought a 1922 Ford Coupe from Mills Auto Co. and a polio clinic treated 145 children at the school auditorium. A wedding in April united Miss Louise Wilshusen and Carl Blase at Emanuel Lutheran Church.
At the April 6 Merrick County Tedders Association meeting in Silver Creek Mrs Ida Burmood chaired the program. The Burneys showed slides about their FWA trip to Pakistan while Dry Dusty Dirty Winter Blows into a dry spring and irrigation. Alma Oliver of Omaha moved into Merrick Manor and is Eddy Coover’s sister. Diane Thompson remains hospitalized then recuperates at home. American Legion Auxiliary members sewed carpet rags for the Grand Island Veterans Hospital and plan an April 17 Beatrice trip to collect plastic jugs and bottles. Charlene Haack won first prize in the Americanism Essay Contest with Lyle Lindgren second. Mr and Mrs Lindgren visited.
Rainbow Rebekah Lodge of Polk hosted District 14 fiftieth annual lesson on Thursday April 7 with seventy members and guests. District President Mildred Teegerstrom presided. Ada Taylor of Omaha gave a School of Instruction and received a district corsage. Nina Burke spoke on a fifty year history. several members were honored. New district officers were Margaret Pehrson Osceola president and Evelyn Uphoff Rising City vice president. Lunch by Arborville ladies. coffee by Polk Lodge.
A critical column questions U.S. reliance on imported oil, defense programs, and nuclear weapons plans. It criticizes the B-1 bomber, Concorde restrictions, and political actions shaping energy policy, while urging ethical leadership and clear constitutional limits.
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