Rolfe High School Opens With Strong Enrollment
Rolfe public schools opened September 8 with an overall enrollment near 300. The senior high shows gains despite a small graduating class, with 40 freshmen, 33 sophomores, 26 juniors and 11 seniors. Activities start include football practice and a developing high school orchestra under Miss Peters and Mr Spotvoldt. The library plans shift to allow day loans. Miss Mary Pollock to run the library with new hours. An added Manson game and eight-game schedule set the football tone for fall.
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Hol
Miss Peters
Mary Pollock
R.H.S
Manson
Schdale
Evans
Manson High School
Rolfe High
Edward Calligan
Harold Calligan
Donald Green
Leland Hix
Sydney Lothian
Lawrence Heathman
Dale Spiker
Paul Amick
Tom Tiernan
Reuben Wangberg
Rolfe High School
D M T School Notes Highlight Busy Campus Life
D M T pupils learn spelling and punctuation with daily dictated sentences and personal progress sheets. Geometry lessons focus on compass work while physics covers the metric system. A new bus arrives on the Des Moines Township Consolidated route, and student government officers are elected across senior to sophomore classes.
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Des Moines Township Consolidated School
Ed Boles
Henry Holcomb
D.M.T
Hot School Lunches Made Simple for Rural Schools
A home economics extension worker from Iowa State College advocates simple hot dishes at school lunches. A sample week includes hot cocoa and various hot items with cold lunches, emphasizing milk and vegetables as protective foods. A rural school reports underweight rates dropping from 54 to under 25 percent in a year after introducing hot lunches.
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John
Mary
Home Economics
Iowa State College
Hog Cholera Claims 5689 Hogs in Iowa First Half 1980
Dr. Peter Malcolm reports a special survey covering Jan 1 to July 1 1980 finds 664 hog cholera cases exposing 49282 hogs and killing 5689 before vaccination. The survey notes 185955 hogs were vaccinated and concludes trained administration of serum and virus can control hog cholera.
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Iowa
Peter Malcolm
Gray matters and scarcity clash as global issue
The line contrasts the prominence of gray matter with its relative scarcity in world resources. It frames a pondering on cognitive emphasis versus material abundance and invites reflection on value and distribution.
Student Leadership Team Roster Listed
The document shows student leaders with Vice-President Merle Christensen and Secretary-Treasurer Gilbert Weishaar. Freshman Class sponsor is Miss Scheffers, while President Ivan Smith and Vice-President Maxine George, Secretary-Treasurer Russell Johnson are also named.
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Merle Christensen
Secy.-Treas
Gilbert Weishaar
Miss Scheffers
Ivan Smith
Maxine George
Russell Johnson
Alfalfa and farm notes from Pocahontas County
County Agent Bowers reports on soil testing at Pocahontas Farm Bureau, fall alfalfa cutting, second crops, windbreaks, apple crop via spraying, Canada thistle control, cheaper feeder cattle, poultry yard cleanup, rye or winter wheat seeding, culling hens, honey production rising, hog storage planning, cucumber yield near Gilmore City, and Sudan grass yield on low ground near Lizard Lake.
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Lizard Lake
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Henry Hermansen
Eldon Ham
Leonard Weishaar
Gene Ryen
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Russell Kauffman
Doris Kauffman
Frances Vaughn
Naomi Spencer
Gladys Cox
Donald Carlton
Edith Cox
Robert Rutgers
Elwood Ryen
Stanley Kauffman
D. M. T. Woman’s Club
Arlene Cook
Marjorie Vaughn
Graydon Thornton
Russel Ives
Arlo Ives
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Ken C. Dailey
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