14 Jan 1954
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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1954
Page
1
With little snow the rink at Boyden draws crowds as Marshall Henry Ruyter floods the surface and installs lights with help from local youths. The photo shows a hockey game in progress. Community hopes for older skaters to demonstrate capers on ice.
Navy search crews recovered the bodies of Lloyd Rensink and a fellow crewman from a liferaft adrift southwest of Korea last Friday. The patrol plane, B2V Neptune, had engine trouble and sank with eight others aboard. Lloyd, 24, had been serving three years and was ordered to Korea in January. He was a 1947 graduate of Hespers Public High School and is survived by his parents and sister.
The Last Will and Testament of J M Collenbaugh is slated for probate with a February 9 hearing. Frederick C. Brandt and Andrew Brummel estates paid inheritance taxes, while Libbe Draagom's ward Margaret N. Dyk’s 80 acres are leased to Richard Schaafsma for 13.25 per acre. A partition suit Richard S. Wiard et al vs Charlie Vander Ploeg et al appoints a referee to sell land and distribute funds, with three apraisers named.
An analysis of how Eastern literary forms and parables convey spiritual truths in the Bible. It contrasts parable meaning with historic incidence, explains Eve’s creation as equality rather than domination, and notes sin as moral struggle arising from the fall.
A column recalls a Marlene Dietrich piece in a popular women's magazine about how to treat husbands for a happy marriage. The writer notes reader reactions and connects the article to wartime sentiments, plus reflections on Iowa migration, politics, and biblical topics, while praising Christmas correspondence.
The Reporter's newest staff member Marian Vagts sits at the linotype and learns the printing office routine. She has only been with the paper a few months and already handles type casting, feeding the press, and operating the folder. The paper trains young people, offering exposure to linotype and related trades with modest pay and strong learning potential.
Reader reports hearing a segment on WHO in Des Moines about the pelican shot near Sioux Center. The feature credits Boyden Reporter, recalls earlier coverage and notes the pelican died after delivery to a conservation officer.
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