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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1956
Page
4
Association invites members to Sunday morning 1000 o clock worship and 10 am Sunday School with Communion on the first Sunday monthly. Ladies Aid meets first Thursday afternoon at the church. Members are urged to attend all services and gatherings.
Amana Lutheran Church led by Pastor WN Pearson lists Bundéy School and Bible Classes at 2.00 am and morning service at 11:00 on Sunday. Vernon Swanson notes a Friday 2:30 meeting for the Amana group in the church parlor hosted by Mrs. Irving Isaacson and Mrs. Olvie Isaacson.
Sunday schedule lists Sunday School at 9:00 a.m and morning worship at 10:00 a.m with evening youth groups. Local social items recount visits, trips and illnesses among residents including Mr. and Mrs. John Sjolander and Lena Fogelberg along with a Kansas irrigation district notice and probate appointment for Grace Jane Moe's estate.
The article lists a sequence of social visits and guests over a weekend including John Jensen and Alvin Peterson hosts, Conrad Florell with Belle Etter, Roger Anderson with Loren Jensen, Bernita Verton with Janice Florell, and Munson with Walter Saunders. It ends with a political notice urging voting and naming Albert Bachelor as Republican candidate for coroner.
Mrs. Rhodes Ingerton recalls quilting bees at Grandmother Rankin’s Cumberland River home in Kentucky. Women and children gathered to stitch while feasting on dishes, with quilts like Double Irish Chain and fern leaf patterns completed before sundown. The ritual crowned a wedding bell when a cat’s jump settled the final corner.
LKN CONNELLY PpanamoUNT plans a film version of The Joker is old with Joe E Lewis and Sinatra co starring. Tauny Kaye may join Merry Andrew at MGM and star in The Red Nichols Story. Janet Blair to replace Nanette Fabray on Sid Caesar show. Gordon MacRae previews I Asked the Lord with One Misty Morning on flip. Others: Joe Carr Portuguese Washerwomen plus Lucky Pierre on plane. Merrill Moore rocks Rock Island Line backed by King Porter Stomp. Les Paul Mary Ford issue Send Me Some Money and Say the Words I Love to Hear.
Detroit Tigers outfielder Bill Tuttle, superstitious about his slump, requests the team allow him to wear uniform number 13. He wore it during semi pro days in Illinois and believes the change might jolt his batting.
The 1956 U S Department of Agriculture outlook shows continued high food demand with prices near 1955 levels. Per capita consumption may rise for beef pork fluid milk chicken and processed foods while overall food spending increases though groceries stay about 25 percent of income. Stocks and livestock on farms remain high, signaling ample supplies.
Berkeley psychologist Dr. Jack Block reports that fathers with permissive child rearing attitudes tend to have healthier psychology and warmer personalities. In a study at UC Berkeley’s Institute of Personality Assessment, 40 men from a 100 participant pool were re-evaluated as 20 high scorers of restrictiveness and 20 low scorers of permissiveness.
New York Life says American wage earners and families faced far fewer deaths in 1955 than in 1911. Among Metropolitan Life policyholders, about 112,000 deaths occurred in 1955, versus an estimated 304,000 if 1911 rates had held, meaning 192,000 deaths were postponed. The mortality rate stayed at a record low 6.2 per 1,000 despite outbreaks and heat waves.
At Camp Hale Colorado mules and horses support cold weather and mountain training. The Fourth Field Artillery Battalion and 35th Quartermaster Company maintain 308 mules and a few horses, essential for supplying the 3690 soldiers in the subzero environment. They are the Army’s only two mule pack outfits.
Milwaukee police detained a woman accused of cashing both her paycheck and the stub to double her earnings. She reportedly paid groceries by endorsing the check stub before cashing the actual check, initially thought an innocent error.
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