Polk Community News From June and July Remembered
The column recalls 50 years past in Polk with details of a band stand contract, wheat tests, and bakery prices. It records families gatherings, births, marriages, relocations, and local races and fairs, plus town notices from Red Wood Falls to Des Moines during 1926 era recollections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sisty
Hord Eleevator
Polk
Jones Bros
Wind and secrecy threaten democracy in postwar critique
A columnist quotes David Brower on recurring conservation battles and warns that secretive government practices and subversive boards endanger democracy. The piece condemns SACB, Nixon appointee Otto Otepka, and a pattern of deception and repression echoing the Viet Nam era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Brower
New Yorker
Magas
Executive Branch
Congress
Joe McCarthy
SACB
FBI
House Un-American Activities Committee
Nixon
Otto F. Otepka
Mr. Otepka
John Birch Society
Liberty Lobby
American Defense Fund
Defenders of American Liberties
Stephen M. Young
Otepka
United States
U. S
New York Times
Woodrow Wilson
Community Visitors From Across Town and Region
Mr and Mrs Rudolph Gustafson visited in the Stanford Ang home on Friday evening. From Lawrence Kansas Mr and Mrs Darrel Miller and son Doug stayed from Thursday to Sunday in the Harold Carlson Home. Virgil Bayne of North Platte visited Joe Ehn Saturday for dinner and lunch. Dora Swanson and Katheryn of David City called on Walter Fisher Sunday afternoon. Evening visitors included Mr and Mrs Robert Vandergrift and Margaret of Stromsburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Stettner
Des Moines
Iowa
Philip Sack
D. N Carlson
Arnold Crow
Loup City
John Smith
Will Kingston
Harold Peterson
Harold
L D. Huston
Redpath-Horner
Cleveland
Bertha
Ebba
Reuben Hanquist
York
Anna Johnson
C. O. Streeter
Doris
Margaret
Red Wood Falls
Minn
Willy Newton
Harry Halleck
Kurey
Matson
Elgin
C. H. Lindburg
Lind
Charlies Ang
Marvin
Laverna
Rosenquist
Ree Seymour
Rockford
Til
Oliver Bush
Racine
Wis
Eda Getty
Holdrege
G W Gestrine
Edson A. Wilcox
Arborville
Freda Bellows
McCool
Osceola
Arborvile
Kenneth Samuels
Phyllis
Axel Sidwell
Sons
R. B. Williams
Polk
Ed Anderson
Mabel
Laramie
Wyo
John H. Anderson
Lillie
Hjalmar Shostrom
W E&. Hill
North Platte
Flora Ostberg
of and Lyle Ostberg
City Park
Albert Sundberg
Genealle Coover
Ed Coover
Clarks
Arlo Stevens
William A. Stevens
Methodist Church
Marvin Stromberg
Washington D. C
Edward Reckner
Farnum Schrader
Polk Park
Fort Crook
U. S. Army
Clifford Cramer
Nick McNaught
Kenneth Davis
Frank Davis
Nebraska University School of Pharmacy
Huskerville
Kenneth
Eugene Klingsporn
Army
Ft. Riley
Kansas
Jack Myers
Polk High School
Navy
Omaha
Donnette Kay
Donald Ostberg
Joseph S. Johnson
Hord Memorial Hospital
Central City
Lutheran Church
Hordville
Paul Lindburg
Hamilton County
Marvin Fredrickson
Alex Anderson
Gerald Anderson
Mason City
Minerva Rydson
Britt, Iowa
Ernest Flodman
James Wilson
Fort Collins
Colorado
Will Stevens
Joe Ehn
Elwyn Johnson
Mesdames
Fred Johnson
Ollie Johnson
Rudolph Gustafson
Milford Johnson
Joe Fisher
Kearney State College
Joe
Roger Clough
Yutan
Jeanelle Peterson
Harold Anderson
Mamne Evangelical Free Church
Marquette
Carroll Swenson
Stanford Ang
Darrel Miller
Doug
Lawrence
Harold Carlson
Virgil Bayne
North
Platte
Dora Swanson
Katheryn
David City
Walter Fisher
Robert Vandergrift
Stromsburg
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Polk Bakery
Bob Ostrander
Complete
Polk Oil CO
Nebraska
Nebraska Association
Alfalfa
Polk Area
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