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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1970
Page
1
A Polk editorial argues state inspectors overreach, urging balanced regulation that preserves business freedom. The piece recalls clean safety history, condemns sink requirements, and notes snow and birds during winter as aside reflections. Continuous inspection pressure is blamed for eroding local liberty and press freedom.
The Polk's Progress office will close Friday and Saturday January 2 and 3. It will reopen for business Monday January 5. The note wishes subscribers a joyful New Year's Eve and a cheerful New Year's Day.
The Pork Progress launches a fund drive to finance a kidney transplant for Warren Bedient 27 hospitalized in a Denver hospital. Bedient is married with one daughter son of Mr and Mrs Fred Bedient and his wife is a McCook Nebraska teacher. Donors include his family and community with tests underway to check compatibility and Polk Progress begins with ten dollars.
Mr and Mrs John Hegwood announce the birth of a son on December 29 at Aurora hospital weighing 7 pounds 8.5 ounces. Mr and Mrs Doyle Klingsporn announce the birth of a son Gail Dean at Aurora Hospital on December 23 weighing 9 pounds 14 ounces.
Marie E. Baeder Claims Representative from Lincoln will visit Osceola to assist the public. She will be in the courthouse second floor on Wednesday January 7 1976 from 9 30 to 11 30 A M.
A compact 1969 progress roundup lists local events and notable life events. Anniversaries births marriages obituaries school honors and civic activities are noted with dates and names including Bedient Sharp Anderson Gustafson Kent Jones and Meerkatz.
Local families celebrate birthdays for Richard Person and Phillis Blase with a pot luck supper hosted by Bud and Ellen Person and guests from nearby farms. Christmas activities include multiple visits and dinners among Anderson, Wilshusen, Blase, and Larson families, with gatherings at Central City, Stromsburg, Valley, and Omaha venues.
Week of December 22 to 29 reports list patients in Osceola Stromsburg Shelby and surrounding areas. Names include Earl Bond Chester Dawes Alma Anderson Jimmy Majors William Liedloff Arthur Beatty Paul Lamoree Henry Augustin Emily Rinterman Carrie Wisely Ernest Donelson Frank Anderson Bertha Bahr Reynold Peterson Ettie Anderson and others. Several residents were dismissed, including Charles Roberts Maek Twarling Edna Berryhill Lillie Johnson Walford Hellstrom Eva Willits Carl Lindquist Marlene LeSner Esther Brown and Donald Nordberg.
A string of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day visits list numerous families from Ashton Idaho to Hastings and York. Names include Harvey Sorensen Cora Honness Henry Kisler Roger Gustafson Joe Tyler Leigh Ann Gustafson Judy Gartner Clarence Creech Ivan Johnson Wayne Creech Edith Benson Esther Peterson and Don Johnson plus others.
A humorous dialogue lists resolutions from various archetypes such as SCHOOL TEACHER PUPIL BOSS PAPER BOY TEENAGE REBEL SMOKER OLD MAID BACK SLIDER HIGH SCHOOL DROP OUT WIFE HUSBAND PARENTS and ends with a punch line about being less suspicious of others intentions.
Veterans Administration requires income questionnaires returned by January 15, 1970. M A Mills Jr Polk County Veterans’ Service Officer urges timely completion to avoid losing January benefits for 18,000 Nebraska veterans widows and parents. Osceola office hours 8 30 am to 5 pm daily. Bill Williams patient at Methodist Hospital Omaha room 818.
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