Kohl Receives Air Force Commendation Medal
Staff Sergeant William H. Kohl Jr. son of Clarks residents, earned the U S Air Force Commendation Medal for meritorious service in Da Nang Vietnam. He was presented the award at Fort Meade Maryland where he is stationed. Kohl is a 1963 Clarks High School graduate who attended the University of Nebraska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Kohl
W. H. Kohl
Clarks
da Nang AB
Vietnam
Kohl
Ft. George G. Meade
Clarks Public High School
University of Nebraska
Bonnie
Robert Fairbairn
Fourth St., Grand Island
American Legion Auxiliary Plans Birthday Observance
The American Legion Auxiliary met March 8 in the Legion Hall. President Janice Saylor led the meeting with reports on the Heart Fund and an Eastern Star supper rescheduled to March 22. Doris Ostberg reported 95 plates served at the Polk County American Legion Convention banquet and a 15 dollar donation to the Junior Auxiliary was approved.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Hall
Janice Saylor
Trene Green
Heart Fund
Myrtle Johnson
Doris Ostberg
Polk County
American Legion
Jesus
Trinity LCW Meets and Community Notices
The Trinity Lutheran Church LCW met in the basement on Wednesday March 3 for a Lenten service led by Pastor Ronaldt. Jeanine Hoffman led a short business meeting. The World Day of Prayer, postponed from March 5, will be held March 12 at 2 00 pm at Sweden Plain Methodist Church. A spot luck supper and film are planned for Friday evening to honor Pastor Wolf. A pot luck lunch fed fourteen members and families. hostesses were Joyce Baack and Francis Tenniges. Guests in the Carl Carlstrom home celebrated Mrs Hannah Carlson’s birthday with Elmer Swanson and LeMoyne of Central City. Dennis Bjerrum, Layne Hanquist, Bill Miller, and Scott Lindburg stayed overnight at Joe Augustine’s in Lincoln and attended a basketball tournament on Saturday. Kermit Lindgren and Paul visited the Carl Carlstrom home Friday evening.
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LCW
Trinity Lutheran Church
Ronaldt
Jeanine Hoffman
Sweden Plain Methodist Church
Trinity Lutheran
Wolf
Joyce Baack
Francis Tenniges
Elmer Swanson
LeMoyne
Central City
Carl Carlstrom
Hannah Carlson
Dennis Bjerrum
Layne Hanquist
Bill Miller
Scott Lindburg
Joe Augustine
Lincoln
Polk Neighbors Attend School Program and Visits
Local residents from Polk and nearby towns spent a weekend with relatives in Axtell and Macksville, attended a Minden elementary school operetta with 350 pupils, and shared meals and hospitality across multiple homes including Lind, Johnson, and Lindholm families. Several trips to Lincoln, Omaha, and Stillwater are noted along with hospital and funeral attendance.
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Lloyd Lind
Wilbur Whitacre
Emma Anderson
Axtell
Galyn Lind
Minden
Edd Johnson
Arlyce Johnson
Polk
Arnold Neuhaus
Dean Myers
Meryl Stewart
Stillwater
Okla
Wayne Ramsey
Lyn
Mark Ramsey
Macksville
Kansas
Claude Shenk
Ollie Johnson
Dwayne Sterner
Chula Vista
California
Hillis Sterner
Hastings
Floyd Miller
Earl Stevens
Horace Stevens
Lennis Lind
Tom Stevens
Kearney
Martin Hoffman
Donald Kinney
Des Moines
Iowa
Goodrich Co
York
McCoy
Helen Samuels
Mervin
Ron Johnson
Rodney Johnson
Willard Lindburg
Walter Nelson
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Nebraska
Easter Seal Society
Jimmy Majors
J. J. Exon
Richard Johnson
M. W. Bragg
Edith Benson
Martin Hoffman, Sr
Sadie Clark
Merrick Manor
Larry Anderson
Towa
Oscar Anderson
Leonard Anderson
James Brazda
Glen Brazda
Fullerton
Polk, Nebraska
Elaine Miller
Orpha Due
Ruth Bills
Garnet Miller
Robert Brazda
Robert Bechtolt
Melvin Bender
Terry
Trinity Lcw
Kermit Lindgren
Paul
Polk Community Hall
Pete Hahn
Dean Ostberg
Glen Thomas
Enoch Peterson
Leonard Johnson
Stella. Hobbensiesken
Monroe
Peterson
Urban Spoor
Donovan Widga
Roland Bodine
Bill Pullman
Mary Lou Sandell
Elwood Sandell
Polk Gideon
Norman Stromberg
Genoa
Ethel Ostrander
Bill Coover
Parsons, Kansas
Paul Coover
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