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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1956
Page
4
Sutmarine Topeka holds Sunday morning worship at 1600 and Divine Service at 3490 am with Communion on the first Sunday monthly. The Ladies Aid meets the first Thursday afternoon. all members are urged to attend church activities.
Sunday School and Bible Classes at 9 60 a.m. conducted by Vernon Swanson. Morning services at 11 00 a.m. led by Barry Olsson. Luther League at 6 30 p.m. Choir practice tonight at 7 30.
Rev R B Witke Sunday services at Pike, with Sunday School and Morning Worship. Senior MYF watch night party on December 31 at 11 30 p m. No youth fellowship Sunday night. Choir practice Thursday at 8 p m. Various Christmas hostings and visits listed with local families and guests.
Arminta Fike born Arminta Stillwell August 6 1891 at Gelleville died at 10 a.m. Saturday at her home after a heart attack. She married Andrew N Mellen in 1914 who died in 1918 and later David R Fike in 1919. She worked nine years at Rath Packing and retired last year. Survived by six sons two sisters two brothers and 15 grandchildren. one son Roy Leon Fike killed in action in 1944. She was active in veterans groups including the Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary and Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Melissa discovers a long lost love letter from Caleb hidden in the post office after forty years. She recalls their shy romance and the moment he wrote heartfelt words, ending with a promise of enduring love as they reunite in the store.
Mary Larson aged 82 died December 6 1956 on a Scandia farm after a life largely in Scandia with brief spells in South Dakota and Missouri. She married John D Larson in 1898 and was survived by daughter Grace Squires three grandchildren and four sisters and brothers. Funeral services were held December 10 1956 at Amana Lutheran Church Scandia with Interment in Riverview Cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Thomas and family of Beloit spent from Saturday until Tuesday morning with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Tedrow. Mrs. Lora Dell Freed and boys left Monday for Lincoln Nebraska to spend Christmas and this week with Mr and Mrs. O. E. Searcy.
A New York report shows many American families now receive income payments from life insurance rather than lump sums. The practice has grown dramatically since 1920 with 1956 estimates around 800 million dollars set aside for future income and total income payments reaching 720 million last year.
Arthur L. Koch, 29, paralyzed by polio for four years, enters 75 writing contests. He types 15 to 20 words a minute using an aluminum tube and mouthpiece with a rubber thumb. He has a nurse load a ball point pen into a tube to write, is married with two daughters, and has won prizes including a dresser set and Braves game tickets.
Penn State dean Dr. Elbert F. Osborn says the sun will eventually be the world’s primary energy source as fossil fuels run out in a few hundred years. He warns atomic energy also has finite uranium and thorium supplies, making solar power the ultimate solution.
CHICAGO The trend is toward more subdued designs and colors in automobile seat covers and interiors. Howard F Leopold president of a seat cover firm says its the peoples choice. People want it that way he says Its some thing like a change in womens fashions Forecasts for 1957 passenger cars indicate that interior styling colors will be more subdued he said.
Police hunt two suspects, a man and a woman, who allegedly dug up a 50 foot hedge eight feet high from Lupe Padilla’s California home and loaded it into a truck after claims of permission were disputed by Padilla.
Lusk Trice murders a man in Oro Grande then hides in a cabin near a remote oak. After drinking and a failed attempt to stay warm, he starts a fire that consumes the cabin. Two miners report the blaze as they wonder if the killer will be caught, noting the victim Cal.
Fifty years of Christmas Seal Sales unite 3000 TB associations across the United States and territories. Originating in Wilmington Delaware in 1907, Miss Emily Bissell created the seal to fund a modest hospital facing closure. The first sale on December 7 drew $300. with North American and Leigh Mitchell Hodges backing, proceeds jumped to $3000. Newspapers helped spread the campaign as it expanded nationwide.
Medical note explains vitreous opacities are floating specks seen in front of vision. Causes include emotional stress and anxiety but most specks come from waste cells in the eye. denser spots may reflect broken blood vessels and vary in seriousness.
Washington reports a long term decline in the U S buckwheat crop from a 1905 peak of nearly 16 million bushels to 1954 levels under 2 8 million. Soaring urban life reduces old time breakfasts though buckwheat remains vital for other uses with Russia the top producer at about 50 million bushels annually.
The 1956 State Fair of Texas ended after a two week run with a total attendance of 2,672,252, surpassing last year's figure by 60,982. Dallas kept its grip on a leading first, reflecting strong public turnout and continued interest in the fair.
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