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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1971
Page
2
Art Gustafson relocates repair shop to the old hotel on North Main Street to service cars from a public facility. Numerous Thanksgiving gatherings and community events fill the town as families unite. a bright boy joins the An dersons, and football and grade school activities resume after the holiday.
Classified notice lists obituary poetry and Card of Thanks lines with pricing per line. Publication details indicate 10 cents per line, minimum charge, and entry as second class matter at Polk Nebraska post office.
Savings bonds E and H sold in Polk County during October totaled 5,070 bringing ten month sales to 128,462 and reaching 1143 percent of the year quota per county chairman W. E. Johnson. October Nebraska bond sales reached 4,113,709, 18 percent above last year, with ten month state sales at 42,937,398 up 22 percent and 98.9 percent of the 1971 quota.
Readers note a series of Thanksgiving visits and dinners across Hastings Central City Stromsburg and nearby areas. Families including Ostbergs Lindahls Glasser Adams Sterner and Petersons share meals with relatives and friends while watching the Oklahoma Nebraska game and planning travels to Lincoln for Hawaii.
A reflective essay traces faith in US democracy after World War II and the Vietnam era. It recalls Pearl Harbor shock, Tonkin Gulf images, McCarthyism’s chill, and warns of creeping fascist risks from a growing military with civil rights erosion and surveillance.
Donette and Carita Jones and Brad Albin joined Mark Albin in Des Moines for Thanksgiving. Leslie Adelson hosted Sunday luncheon with Mrs Kenneth Wilson of Whitefish Montana Mrs Allen Sloan of Wisner Neb Mr and Mrs Arthur Pinneo and Mr and Mrs Byron Covey and families of York and Grand Island. Terry Branting and sons Adam and Norman from Lincoln visited Marvin and family for the holiday.
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