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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1956
Page
2
The piece invites all grades to contribute weekly school news and original work. It announces a suggestion box in the high school assembly for naming the new paper and outlines a process to select a final title by student vote.
The sixth grade class, led by Mrs. Baade, continues decimals and fractions work and emphasizes accurate decimal placement in addition and subtraction. Students study Iowa history with famous Indian chiefs and tribes, explorers, and also practice perspective drawing by setting a horizon line and vanishing point to create disappearing elements.
Local concert featured small groups and solos from the music department in the high school auditorium on Monday night March 26. Performers included vocal and instrumental soloists, ensembles, and student accompanists under Mr. Malthaus and Mr. Pringle.
The FFA boys visited the John Deere plant in Waterloo on a Tuesday trip leaving the schoolhouse at 6 am. They toured the foundry sheet metal shop and assembly lines seeing casting sand packing grinding and furnaces. Attendees included Kent Rippentrop Denny Wubben and twenty more members. the trip was sponsored by local dealer J R Schutter.
A group from Titanka travels to Sheldon for the District Speech Contest. Joy DeGolia earns a 2 rating for her original oration My America while Craig Sathoff receives a 1 rating for Ladies Night. Darlene Callies and the One Act Play Pink and Patches also earn ratings as the group awaits results.
The Band and vocal groups recorded on Wednesday March 28 and broadcast Friday March 30 at 4 30 pm over KSMN Mason City. Repertoire included Tinker Polka Belmont Overture In the Good Old Summertime Let Me Call You Sweetheart Metropolis Springtime Polka. The girls trio sang Sincerely the girls quartet Carolina Moon and the boys double quartet A Song of Friendship. Titanica merchants sponsored us.
On a sunny week students explored the outdoors sighting birds and a squirrel. They dyed Easter eggs and held an Easter party with a visit from the Easter Bunny. The class earned a brown bat named by Mr. Truesdell and built a cage.
April brings a breath of spring with budding trees bees and sun and showers. Children sing and dream of flying like birds while Miss Gorman reads verses about spring and Easter greetings from the second grade.
A spring column from a school notes April’s arrival with flowers and weather, citing jonquils and daffodils. March visitors and birthday treats from Laura May Michael Hatten and George Pommer are mentioned, along with a March 26 Easter basket delivery by Kathy Thilges.
A Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association report details raising disease-free baby pigs by Cesarean birth or sterile bag catching and immediate isolation. Despite lack of colostral antibodies, such pigs can thrive if fully isolated, showing better growth and feed efficiency and breaking herd disease cycles.
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