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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1967
Page
8
Young rider Robert Ribbeck won a Polo Bicycle at Trawbarger’s Drug Store after turning in a record 3 943 empty toothpaste tubes. He said they like to brush their teeth.
Iowa reports winter wheat acreage on June 1 at 80 000 acres up 54 percent from last year. Total production forecast at 2.4 million bushels up 39 percent from 1966. Outlook says U S production should rise for winter and spring wheat. Planted winter wheat acreage nationally up about 27 percent from 1966. Some abandonments due to dry land, land shifted to grain sorghum. Wheat carryover on July 1 expected around 410 million bushels.
Lloyd R. Smith announced that the 1966 Bremer County annual audit is filed for public inspection. The report lists 1966 taxes due of 3,589,556.37 with 3,578,728.10 collected, school district collection at 2,267,480.11, cities and towns at 397,975.97, and delinquent taxes at 0.1 percent. It covers county balances, bond activity, fines, and major fund disbursements.
Dennis Harkrader, son of Mr and Mrs Floyd Harkrader, serves with the 554th Engineering Company in Viet Nam. Since arriving in Saigon on December 20 1968 he has sent troubling reports of unit work. The unit faced monsoon floods and a bridge site survived VC bombing and rapid rebuilds.
Dennis, a soldier assigned to a bridge unit, narrowly escaped a deadly ammunition depot blaze in Vietnam. Explosions and fire destroyed his supply truck and others, injuring 14 of his fellow soldiers while he fled with only his rifle and clothes. He has six months of duty left, stationed at Duong Pho.
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