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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1951
Page
2
The Titonka Topic lists subscription pricing: $2.00 per year in advance within Kossuth County and Titonka trade territory. $2.50 per year outside these areas. $3.00 per year for Canada and foreign countries.
Local news from Wesley covers March 15 army call including Bob Goetz Donovan Studer and Russell Willis. Visitors and travel notes name several families and towns such as Sheldon Camp McCoy Fort Dodge and Algona. Community events include Lions Club dinner and 4-H meeting with meat cookery demos at Wesley, plus local workers starting shifts and a range of visits and illnesses.
Washington reports the air transport service under MATS now moves U S wounded from battle areas to hospitals and home faster than ships or trains. Since Korean fighting began, over 7,000 patients have flown to the United States from Pacific bases. Air evacuation, first used in 1918, is now the major worldwide method, with 1,360,000 patients moved by air during World War II.
Lakota group including Geraldine Jansen Darlene Ennen Darlene Farrow Betty Olson Pearl Farrow Gertrude Stecker and Ilene Hart accompanied Supt John W Cook to Des Moines for the state basketball tournament across Friday and Saturday. They faced bad weather on the trip and Ruth Swanson from Wasta went 33 of 35 at the free throw line to win. The girls toured the capital and appeared on television both nights and shopped Saturday.
Agricultural engineers urge dairy farmers to wire barns for ample illumination to speed work and aid sanitation. Place lighting outlets every 12 feet along the litter alley center line and every 20 feet along the feed alley. add a second lit line over hind quarters if more light is needed. Flood lights at outside corners and yard lights improve safety on the path to the house. Milk house platforms should be well lit.
A livestock publication reports a lifetime meat quota of 55 animals for a 68.3 year lifespan, detailing 33 hogs 10 lambs 8 steers and 4 veal calves based on 52 year average consumption. It notes per capita meat intake from 1900 to present, peaking in 1918 at 163 pounds and dipping to 117 pounds in 1935, with recent levels around 150 pounds yearly.
Final dose of vaccine was given in a three year effort to eradicate foot-and-mouth disease in Mexico. Director Oscar Flores and General Harry H. Johnson observed as about 17,000,000 animals were vaccinated three times and most received a fourth immunization. No outbreaks have occurred since December 1949.
A whimsical profile claims a nonexistent U S spy named Major Lincoln has risen to colonel for covert work in the middle and far east. Justice William O Douglas confirms meetings and travel suggesting Lincoln’s elusive career spans Iran Korea Tibet and beyond amid Soviet ridicule and expected more disclosures.
In Tulsa Oklahoma seven year old Peter Ogle saved 3.80 from weekly 50 cent allowance and sought a wedding ring for his mother. Jewelry store manager Joseph W Alley offered a plan to take 3.80 as a down payment and 50 cents weekly. Alvey called the mother and she agreed to the ten dollar ring.
John F. Gerdes underwent an appendectomy at Forest City hospital last Thursday and is recovering. A series of dinners, bridge games, and visits followed with locals including the Tindalls, Helm, Goslin, Hunt, Holder, Smith, and Wood families. Visitors from Denver and Des Moines attended events and a girls basketball tournament. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Dudekirk, and preparations for Las Vegas relocation were noted for Chalmas Chestnut and family.
A patient from Iowa Methodist Hospital in Des Moines arrived Monday for a short visit at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard VanHoorn.
Fresh market vegetable tonnage for the 1950 summer season rose about four percent from the prior year. The United States Department of Agriculture reports larger quantities of onions watermelons and cabbage and more lettuce. Tonnages of celery tomatoes and peas declined somewhat.
In Chicago Illinois Fred J Miller called police after returning home and finding Paul Bernard Hoppe sleeping on the couch. Hoppe had broken in showered used hair oil shaving cream worn Miller’s underwear shirt his son’s necktie and shoes made a sandwich drank beer ate bananas and fruit cake and took 7 38 from the penny jar. Hoppe faces a year in jail.
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