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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1954
Page
2
The Titonka Topic is a weekly newspaper published in Titonka, Iowa by Clark. It announces post office publication details and circulation without additional coverage specifics.
Subscriptions are 2.00 per year in advance for Kossuth County and Titonka trade area. Outside the territory the rate is 2.50 per year, and 3.00 per year in Canada and foreign countries. All county and Titonka trade subscriptions are continuing yearly unless canceled by the subscriber or at the publisher's discretion.
Washington reports the United States population passed 160 million in August, registered by an automatic census calculator in the Commerce Department. The device logs a new resident every twelve seconds, with births every eight seconds and deaths every 21 seconds, reflecting growth since 1927 at over 2.5 million yearly. Between 1950 and mid-1952, 38 states and the capital gained population while nine states mostly in the south declined.
Chief Petty Officer Robert Wigmore, a naval diver near Esquimalt, spotted a friendly octopus clinging to a piling as he surfaced. The octopus, with five tentacles on the piling and three reaching toward him, prompted Wigmore to hurry back aboard. He was assured the animal posed no harm, though shipmates did not assist his dive to test the claim.
Ohio's Franklin County now boasts 56 sirens tied to a new air raid warning network. A sheriff's office transmitter near Columbus starts the tone to ring the alert, linking with fire and emergency radio telephones. An operator remains on duty around the clock to trigger alert and all-clear signals.
Denver received 5600 dollars as its share of a wheat crop harvested from 225 acres planted on Stapleton Airport land. The 1100 acre municipal site has been leased for six years to a grain company and now yields barley and winter wheat. About 49 percent of the crop value goes to the city.
World readers learn that many fish once deemed worthless are now valuable food. Rosefish, once discarded as marine trash until 1934, are marketed widely, while swordfish, once unknown outside New England after World War I, faced nets and market challenges. Education changes tastes and perceptions of aquatic bounty.
Banns were read at St Josephs Catholic Church for Donald Olson and Norma Rhubee of Buffalo Center, to be married March 1. Norma works at Mercy Hospital Mason City, Donald attends Hamilton Business College.
Good Hope Lutheran Church lists a Sunday School Bible class at 9:330 am and church service at 1:45 pm. Basketball games with Corwith on Wednesday February 17, choir rehearsal February 18, pancake supper February 19, bowling trip February 19, confirmation instruction February 20, Luther League February 22 on Korea by Irvin Schmidt, hosted by the Fritz Hanna and Honken families, with additional choir rehearsals February 24.
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