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Local Attendance Highlights State Distance Run Contest
Residents gathered for the State Distance Running Contest at West Union with numerous families visiting and hosting relatives from Blue Earth Minnesota and Kalispell Montana. The social pages note a weekend in Ames featuring Oklahoma at Fisher Theatre and a Saturday Iowa football win over Minnesota.
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Harold Frerk
Dan
Jim
Lawrence Nelson
Mike
Bill
Jack Stover
Dick Bennett
West Union
Doug Hilton
Anamosa
Mitch Murrays
Doug
State Reformatory
Virgil Knawle
Ron
Bagley
Minn
Bob Thompson
Art Boeckholt
Joe Boeckholt
Troy
Tom
Joe Tiernan
Suzie
Heidi
Fred Dirks
Alfred Tuma
Kelly
Pocahontas
Don Cran
Phyllis
Peggy
Bradgate
Virgil Dirks
Jeff Dirks
Grace Smith
Kalispell
Mont
Mary Christensen
Jack McDonald
Pat Nelson
Blue Earth
Dick Barretts
Dean Yezek
Manly
Yezek
Lester Ferden
Laura Anderson
Des Moines
J.A. Ferrier
C.E. Eppelsheimer
Plover
Minnie Hollenbeck
Mary Lou
Jim Keeble
Atkins
Emma Brock
Russell Hitchcock
Spencer
Eldon Ham
Bill Brinkman
Mary Ann
Joe Clinton
Minneapolis
Iowa
Minnesota
H.E. Olerich
Cedar Rapids
Ellwood Olerich
Cheryl Wilson
Mason City
Barb
L.D. Wilson
Oklahoma
Fisher Theatre
Isu
Ames
Franklyn Brinkman
Pensacola
Fla
Anna Vaughn
John Brinkman
Don Eikenberry
Frank Tellier
Doon
Ed Welter
Mia
Alma Martins
Laguna Hills
Calif
Orvan Olerich
R.D. Higgins
Irving Cornwell
Gowrie Methodist Church
Carl F. Bohn
Bohn
Higgins
Cornwell
Dick Bierstedt
Lou Reinen
West Bend
Bierstedts
Lillian Fehr
Helen Nielsen
Ferden
Elna Kerns
Hilda
Fremond Nielsen
Chet Truelsen
Kenton Kerns
St. Paul
Eldon Ellingson
West Concord
Gene Jackson
Mary Lawman
Pine Island
Community College
Emmetsburg
Kossuth
Humboldt
Goveror
KHBT
KLGA
Pard
Alto County
Rolfe Liquor