30 Dec 1976
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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1976
Page
1
The Polk Progress advocates slow is better with a humorous critique of speed limits. It argues for a national speed limit of two miles per hour, urging slow driving, walking, and deliberate speech as a banner for a new conviction and cultural shift.
The Polk Market listing shows prices for Wheat at 2.32, Soybeans at 6.53, Oats at 1.50 and Mile at 3.47 per 100 pounds, dated Tuesday December 28, 1976. The note apologizes for limited local Christmas news and promises more next week.
Mrs Dwight Burney received a telephone greeting from Rome Italy on Christmas Day. Her daughters Natalie Hahn and Marilyn Pierpont extended best wishes to Mr and Mrs Burney and spoke with granddaughters Dawn and Diane Pierpont. The Pierponts are visiting Rome for the holidays after a day at Isle Capri.
The roster lists patients admitted or present at Annie Jeffrey Memorial Hospital during the December 2027 week. Names include Ralph Nightingale Osceola Raymond Johnson Stromsburg Jane Roberts Osceola Blanche Donelson Stromsburg Wren Sherwood Stromsburg Frank Korinek Osceola Frank Thelen Shelby Nellie Olson Stromsburg Clara Tenniges Osceola Mollie DeLand Osceola Ella Anderson Stromsburg Anna Carlson Stromsburg Jennifer Voss Colorado George Buchta Osceola Cora Brockman Osceola Emma Anderson Stroms Fred Williams Stromsburg Anna Rudeen Stromsburg Mathilda Wagner Osceola Robert Reiling Stromsburg Roxanne Vidlak Osceola Minnie Watts Osceola Bernita Cederberg Osceola Earl Smith Shelby Donha Kreis Osceola Nancy Asche Stromsburg Chancey Cremeen Osceola Edward Dillsaver Stroms Anna Appleton Stromsburg Thelma Siffring Rising City Louise Pearson Osceola Steven Sterup Osceola.
Monday offers barbecue beef on a bun with fruit salad vegetables cake and milk. Tuesday features goulash with corn rolls fruit and milk. Wednesday includes baked chicken vegetables potatoes and rolls. Thursday serves chili soup cin rolls celery and carrot sticks pudding and milk. Friday presents tator tot casserole lettuce salad applesauce rolls cookies and milk.
Jolene Lingwall of Sidney and Mrs Denis Bohn of Ellsworth Air Force Base South Dakota phoned their parents Sunday to extend Christmas greetings.
The Polk County Mental Health Association launches its annual $1 membership drive to fund workshops advertising and printing for the Pioneer Mental Health Center. Membership grants voting rights at the June annual meeting and supports the Polk County Clinic in Osceola alongside seven Region V centers.
Senior citizens plan a bingo session on January 5 at 2 00 PM at Legion Hall with participation encouraged for local seniors.
Mary Wischmeier entered Bryan Memorial Hospital Sunday night for surgery Monday and again Wednesday. Her room number is 509.
A fifty member Lind family group met at Polk Community Hall on Christmas Eve for a supper and gift exchange. Numerous relatives and guests from Lincoln Stromsburg York and Omaha joined in Christmas weekend visits and meals with the Lind and Baack families and others.
A humorous peek into a busy household as Christmas preparations loom from Halloween through the end of the season. The narrator watches family routines, decorations, catalogs, and the tug of gifts, with kids eager for toys and a mom counting down the days.
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