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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1948
Page
5
The Polk County 4-H program advances with themes Creating Better Homes for a More Responsible Citizenship Tomorrow. County Extension Agents and leaders note growing clubs and enrollments and outline parade, demonstration, and landscaping efforts for the county fair.
A Hastings picnic brought together Mr and Mrs Wallace Sande and family Mr and Mrs Gordon Fossberg Mr and Mrs Frank Fossberg Mr and Mrs John Adams and Mrs Don Upton and children. Nearby Central City hosts Mr and Mrs Clarence Munn and children for dinner with Mrs Green and son Merlin. Mrs Robert Richardson near Hardville hosted a Thursday coffee party for a group of ladies.
In Newport Rhode Island a shop on Thames street houses John Howard Benson and assistants who still carve inscriptions by the methods and tools of 5,000 years ago. Visitors from across America watch as gold letters are painted and leafed onto marble, echoing pre Revolutionary era artistry from English stonecutters who settled there 243 years ago.
The article profiles mechanization in forest fire operations, noting the use of buses, trucks, bulldozers, plows, tanks, and other equipment to deploy crews and fight fires. It highlights the airplane with smoke jumpers and expanding helicopter use as tests. A trencher is also under development to digging mineral earth fire lines for containment.
The Navy starts storing fighters in large corrugated steel cans at six bases. Each container holds two or more planes with a dehumidifying agent to prevent moisture and corrosion, promising protection for at least five years. Chimney Rock gains an inside elevator for sky lounge tours.
The article ranks birds by speed with the duck hawk noted as the fastest in the United States at about 65 mph. A stopwatch test recorded 180 mph in a test flight. Racing pigeons outrun others for speed durability, while the sparrow hawk tops at 25 mph and the sparrow at 17 mph.
The passage outlines uses of buttermilk similar to skim milk, highlighting liquid, condens ed, and dried forms as convenient for bakery goods and foods. It notes buttermilk products feed to animals and that casein derived from buttermilk differs from skim milk casein in several ways.
Billy flees a beach camp after clashing with two tramps who steal his shoes and mock his schooling. He contemplates running away and tails the two men as they settle to a grim meal of stewed pig tails and worms by a fire. The scene shifts to a past column noting local society entries and town news from 1923 to 1933.
The item records a visit by Mrs W M Aubry of Council Bluffs to her twin sister Mrs Joh Cohagen for a 66th birthday. It notes Polk County Farm Bureau contest winners, a Sweden born death, a Gettiesburg anniversary trip, a Gresham birth, and a Milwaukee birth with local physicians and family ties.
Judy traveled to Abilene Kansas for a weekend at the Orlie Adelson home. Their daughter Sharon, who stayed the week, returned home with them. Mr and Mrs Fred Johnson joined the Adelsons for Sunday evening luncheon.
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