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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1975
Page
2
The Scandia Journal announces Open House notices for readers. Subscription rates listed include Kansas at 3.50 plus tax and other states at 4.00 per year with tax included. Want ads are 1¢ per word with a 25¢ minimum.
The notice reveals new ownership at the F and R Store with Lester Richards retiring and Mr and Mrs Eugene McDaniel taking over. It also notes a correction from 3000 to 30000 BTU on a stove ad and mentions staff changes including Glen Soden and Alice Greenslade.
Local thank you notes praise relatives friends and neighbors for cards flowers and visits after birthdays illnesses and hospital stays. Names include Gudbjorg Isaacson Esther Johnson Neal McBride and many Scandia area residents with community events, birthdays, births, and visits mentioned alongside local officials and churches.
In the grade school office a three to four foot paper roll holder features Swedish costumed children on each end. Mrs Joe Johnson expanded a table napkin design from Mrs Algot Anderson, Stan Estes cut the wood figures, and Mrs Johnson with Mrs Anderson painted them. Mr Estes built the base and mounted the figures with ribbons flying as the Flying Swedes.
The article traces PL 480 introduced in 1954 to aid U S grain exports through foreign currency payments gifts and relief donations. It notes wheat as a major export, ties earnings to oil imports, mentions later shift to dollar transactions during a 1974 grain shortage, and ends with a local school classroom report.
As of mid September the October supply forecast predicts beef output to be seasonably high and near record, with pork below last year. Poultry and eggs show adequate broilers and turkeys, with egg output slightly under last year. Fresh fruits and vegetables including apples pears grapes and cranberries are plentiful and crops like wheat and rice are projected to set records or exceed averages.
A decoy police setup leads to a conviction as entrapment defenses fail. Court contrasts police trickery with planting criminal ideas, noting that legitimate artifice may catch criminals but not seed criminality in an innocent mind. Includes ABA feature intro and quotes Jefferson on a free press.
Friday October 3 Lebanon hosts a 7 30 game with high school teams then Saturday features the Belleville Invitational Volleyball Tournament for area schools.
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