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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1953
Page
7
Community notes detail Thanksgiving gatherings at multiple homes including the Ernest Peterson and Dick Kuchenreuther families, with visits from Krominga, Spear, Isebrand, and Ostermann. Births are reported for a second son to Bob and Florence Spear at Bouffalo Center hospital on November 30.
Mr and Mrs Robert Spear and Richard visited Geo L Schmidt's home Sunday. Local shoppers advertise cigars lighters and men’s gifts at the drug store. Gob Lang had hernia surgery at Buffalo Center hospital last week. The Litt le Scotsman is recovering. Leo Rysak of Pittsburgh visited Danny Wabben. they served in the air force together. C D Vigars of Eldora spent the weekend with Miller Nelsons. Mrs Vigars brothers. Titania Woman's Club meets Mrs Betty Brandt Thursday. School program and adult education highlighted. Mona Bonacker and Joan Johnson visited Johnson family. La Vonne Larson of northern Minnesota in nurses training at Northwestern hospital. Fay Ward, in the navy at Pensacola, visited his mother and wife and two sons. pilots linked to Des Moines and Cedar Rapids. August Brandt in Minneapolis for a wedding. Brandt family attended music festival in Des Moines. grandmother Mrs Ella Brandt cared for Brandt children. Snow and sleet with slippery roads. temperatures between 10 and 14 degrees. weather cleared Monday as snow melted.
A new record for cattle shipment from Schleswig was set at 103 carloads sent to Chicago. Shipping cattle to Chicago for the International show has long been a Schleswig tradition, dating back to the first 22-car shipment in 1922.
Toronto expands by annexing 32 suburban communities totaling about 1.2 million people in 240 square miles. A 24 member council governs Greater Toronto with Toronto proper holding 12 votes. New powers include planning, housing, parks, arterial roads, water, sewage, and wide-area assessments. A separate Toronto Transit Commission will coordinate public transport. Metropolitan Board of Education stands apart from the council while suburbs retain full taxing power.
Surgeons at Jefferson Medical College Hospital used a mechanical heart and lung apparatus to take over both functions for 26 minutes during heart surgery in an 18-year-old Pennsylvania girl. The device, invented by Dr. John M. Gibbon Jr., is not a universal cure and suits congenital defects, not aging or diseased hearts.
London based Professor Guy Pas coe Browden of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine defends lazy housewives arguing fatigue studies demand frequent rest and structured routines including a minute break after four minutes of work. He urges avoiding standing work, morning tea, proper lighting, and nutritious food to reduce strain. The piece ends by asking when housewives will finish chores and meals.
ALBUQUERQUE New Mexico cotton fields host flocks of geese replacing many imported laborers. Farmers find geese cheaper for weed control, though they won’t eat cotton until after a year, requiring sale thereafter. Also notes soil testing history dating to 1600 A D and an Indian brave testing ground warmth by sneeze.
New York report from the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs shows 44 percent of 160000 respondents earn under $8,000 annually with 45 percent between $3,000 and $4,000 and 4 percent at or above $6,000. Age, marital status, and education influence earnings. 78 percent support families, 56 percent are or have been married, and education ranges from high school or less to college.
Chicago reports the American Medical Association Journal urges parents to teach children bicycle safety noting about 600 bicycle fatalities annually. Most deaths occur May to October with 70 percent among males aged 5 to 19. Collisions with motor vehicles cause about four fifths of fatalities and risky practices include cutting in, extra passengers, signaling, and riding in poor mechanical condition.
The Aircraft Industries Association reports scheduled airlines have carried more than 166,000,000 passengers since the Air Commerce Act of 1926. In 27 years civil aviation has logged over 85 million passenger miles, described as an airlift equaling sending every human on earth 34 miles.
New York reports a stuffed living room chair that provides a massage as you recline. It contains motors and floating foam panels activated by a switch, offering three positions from sitting to horizontal.
Los Angeles sequence reports Floyd Mills, deaf since 1950 after diphtheria, regained hearing following a traffic collision when his head struck the dashboard. He woke in an ambulance and exclaimed I hear noises as attendants interviewed him, confirming a remarkable recovery.
Edith Doyle of Marquette was hurt in the face neck and chest when a neighbor fired a shotgun about 40 yards away. She was treated at a Waterloo hospital. In a separate incident, Mrs Walter Johnson of Sioux City survived a boat overturn on Okoboji Lake when a buoyant park jacket saved her life as her husband clung to the capsized craft until assistance arrived.
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