Polk County Fair Opens Plans for August entertainment
The Polk County Fair directors announce a near complete 1952 program with horse races on August 6 and 7, a Polk County only race on August 5, midget baseball and a kit tanball game between Polk and Osceola, Harvest Moon Revue evenings August 5 and 6, and a horse show plus fireworks on August 7. A 4H winners parade and a children’s pet parade with prizes follow the events, plus an antique parade with cash prizes. The KDK Amusement Company will run eight rides and 27 concessions with reduced ride prices for county patrons. tickets available via local merchants.
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Polk County
Polk County Agricultural Society
Polk and
Osceola
Robert L. Mills
KDK Amusement Company
Fair Board
Polk County Fair
Robert L Mills
Friendly Families Extension Club social notes and plans
The Friendly Families Extension Club met at Mrs Glenn Petersons home to discuss the annual August 31 picnic at Buckley Park and a County Fair booth project. Guests included Mrs Raymond Hansen and Miss Lavern A Matloch. A birthday party at Mr and Mrs Harry Jones home honored several local residents. Local visitors from Denver and Des Moines were noted. Alvin WeberReporter
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Friendly Families Extension Club
Glenn Peterson
Buckley Park
Raymond Hansen
Nincols
Laverne A. Matloch
McCool
Polk
Harry Jones
Hardville
Herbert Lamb
Des Moines
Leo Wurtz
Estas Park
Lamb
Beryl Smith
Busy Bee Club
Regy Green
Central City
Pate Jessen
Billy
Myers Family hosts Poole dinner and visits kin
Mr and Mrs Dean Myers and daughters spent Sunday at Poole as dinner guests of her uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs Ervin Bock and had supper with Mrs Myers parents Mr and Mrs Lewis Bock This card of thanks expresses gratitude for kindness shown after the death of their husband and father Mrs E W Hahn and family
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Dean Myers
Poole
Ervin Bock
Myers
Lewis Bock
E. W. Hahn
Card of Thanks to York Hospital Friends
I wish to say thank you to all my friends and others who sent me cards flowers and gifts while I was in the hospital in York. I liked them all very much Beth Ann Bolton.
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York
Top Sergeant Sam Chambers Finds Family Key To Calm
Oklahoma City’s Sam A Chambers says the most important thing in life to a man is his family. He credits cheerful wife Mrs Chambers and their two daughters for his lack of worry, faith in God, and effort to live by Christian principles while facing daily challenges.
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Sam A. Chambers
Oklahoma City
Okla
Jesus Christ
Sam Chambers
Sam
Congress Adopts Massive 1953 Defense and Budget Projections
The piece notes expected presidential summoning of Congress for a summer special session after conventions amid rising food prices. It details roughly 48 billion dollars in late pace appropriations, upcoming defense outlays surpassing 50 billion in the next year, and 75 billion in 1953 with 21 billion more than 1952, while praising military expenditures and noting objections to a Russian-firepower claim. It covers personnel shifts, the lands bill adjournment, and mentions long-serving lawmakers Connally and Doughton not seeking reelection.
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Truman
82Nd Congress
Congress
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
House
Senate
Poent
Tom Connally
Texas
Robert Doughton
North Carol
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Doughton
Ways and Means
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