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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1976
Page
3
Community notes from Polk detail visits by Margaret Lott Helen Lind of Lincoln and families hosting and attending gatherings. Reports include Thanksgiving meals and a birthday celebration for Grandma Biase, plus upcoming showers for Opal Fredrickson and other local exchanges.
Mr and Mrs M O Johnson visited Sunday afternoon with Mrs Alvena Monson at Osceola. Reuben Swanson visited Sunday afternoon with Cliff Branting at Central City hospital, and Mrs Cliff Branting and Bessie Green at Parkview. The Brazdas joined John Vogeltanz family in Lincoln for Thanksgiving. Marvin Branting hosts included Terrell Branting and Adam, and Norman Branting from Lincoln. Robbie Glasser joined Thanksgiving Day. Bruce Cramer and family from York and Larry Cramer with Susan and Roger Olson of Stromsburg dined and supped with Emory Cramer. Clarence Johnson and Lavaughn Adelson with boys were Thanksgiving dinner guests of Merlin-Lampshire in Holdrege.
Funeral services for 80 year old William C. Blase were held at Immanuel Lutheran Church on Tuesday December 6. Survivors include his widow one daughter Mrs Anna Driewer of Hordville five sons Carl Herbert Ervin Clarence all of Hordville and Lorence of Hampton and Mrs Mabel Lucado a former Polk Schools teacher now at Good Samaritan Village Hastings. Dennis and Mrs Van Housen announce a 7 pound 14 ounce son born December 2 at Central City hospital named Craig Alan. Mrs Corona Cook remains a patient at Central City hospital wife of Rev Lindley Cook of Arborville Congregational Church and the Friends Church in Central City.
The piece argues Nebraska irrigation wells deepen while groundwater declines, urging limits on fast buck deep-well drilling. It cites Ted Hoffman and experts on soil life, warns regulation delay risks court battles over water rights, and calls groundwater a crop insurance to sustain future harvests.
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