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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1949
Page
2
Lou Little Columbia's famed football coach offers players as baby sitters with a firm guarantee of dependability. Reactions vary as parents ponder fullbacks balancing chores with off tackle play while kids improvise rules.
A nostalgic piece blends weather and home life with a sitter praised for football grit. It then pivots to chaotic sports viewing as video might trap fans between baseball and horse racing, capturing the era’s split attention and fervent chatter.
Jane Bieberman of Cynwyd at age ten earned an amateur radio license after training with her father, a Philadelphia area teacher and operator. She copied 13 words a minute on the test, impressed FCC examiner Herbert Lipsom, and received the B license six weeks after examination.
I Y Howard, 31, leads a second career as writer and producer for radio shows like My Friend Irma Life with Luigi and The Private Lives of Eddie and Anne He is also associate director producer and writer for motion pictures CBS and Paramount have him under contract While MGM shoots Adam's Rib in New York the scene is busy with appearances by top actresses Lady Holliday Tom Ewell and John Lund Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis are named by Howard but he voices Joe on the phone Dorothy Barrett sings on set and Capra notices her Her next step is a featured role in Copper Canyon Technicolor western
Kirby, a young lawyer, buys the racehorse I'm-a-Runnin' for $50,000 after losing bets on Black Fox and other horses. He plans to quit racing and establish himself in law, despite a tensefarewell at the stables and a new partnership with Col. Stratton. Polly Hayden offers company and sympathy as Kirby navigates mounting debts and the gamble of a fresh start.
Polly Hayden confronts Kirby about abandoning racing as he admits he faked a break with the sport to ease her. He shows a bill of sale and a check, declaring love and plans to be respectable lawyers. They discuss buying another horse in the future.
Crossword puzzle listing across and down clues with items ranging from pen to kettle. The partial listing includes definitions for elements like circle of light and metallic rock, plus various wordplay entries and multilingual hints.
Salisbury report highlights Delmarva as a national broiler powerhouse producing about one third of U S output. Annual value near eighty million dollars with nine million broilers raised yearly. Local backyard operations persist as small side lines with professional gains from the enterprise. Dr R M Knox of Salisbury operates a fifteen thousand bird flock.
The eight foot Holcombe Indian wooden figure, carved by Luke Lyons from white pine, will be housed in a glass enclosed niche in the new Holcombe hydroelectric dam. The monument, tied to river lumbering history since 1876, survived a flood and relocations before its 1950 display.
Wanda Woog of Random Lake Wisconsin becomes an assistant trainer for Charles Morgan a renowned handler of two national retriever champions. She pursued five years of field training learned from Morgan before attending Whitewater State Teachers College and returning to start her dog training career.
Raleigh NC reports that North Carolina will permit teachers to ride state buses to work only as hitchhikers with no teaching authority while aboard. Drivers must stay on regular routes and seat etiquette requires teachers to yield seats when space is needed for children.
Question answers provide sources on curved rafters with National Lumber Manufacturers Association in Washington DC offering publications. Also describes silver tarnish protection by lacquer coatings from jewelers or paint-store lacquers and steps after polishing.
In New York bagianes along Sullivan Street residents hear banshee wails from Roco Costello, likely the city’s last Italian bagpipe virtuoso. Immigrated from southern Italy in 1901 at age 24 he recalls touring seas, teaching tune via tarantella and polka, tuning pipes with wax and bone pin, while neighbors listen despite the piercing tones.
In 1833 Mike Bennett in Tensleep Wyoming cut five Indian ponies tails to make a horsehair checkrein. Indians, mourning a death, threatened revenge, and the tale says they killed him. The episode is cited in the U S Forest Service history of the Bighorn National Forest.
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