Card of Thanks for Swanson Relatives and Honored Guests
Relatives of Don W. Swanson express heartfelt thanks to H V Andrews for funeral arrangements to the men at the graveside to the American Legion for service to the American Legion Auxiliary for lunch to Rev Goldman for conducting the service and to others. Also thanks to Mr and Mrs John Swanson Mr and Mrs Lewis Swanson Mr and Mrs Paul Sorensen and Mr and Mrs Hans Petersen. CARD OF THANKS I thank my relatives friends and neighbors for cards letters gifts and flowers. Special thanks to Rev Kroon for prayers before and after operation and to doctors nurses and aids at Buffalo Center Hospital. Mrs Ralph Harms
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Don W. Swanson
H. V. Andrews
American Legion
American Legion Auxiliary
Goldman
John Swanson
Lewis Swanson
Paul Sorensen
Hans Petersen
Rev. Kroon
Buffalo Center Hospital
Ralph Harms
Woden PTA Meet and Local Church Activities
The Woden P T A will meet Monday evening November 19 at the Legion Hall. St John s Lutheran Aid and M Y F met November 14 at church parlors with hostesses Mrs Anthony Buns and Mrs James Buns. Various residents traveled or prepared for hospital visits and Thanksgiving services were announced including St John s Lutheran Church events and a bazaar by St John s Aid on November 15 with an 8 00 sale and lunches served.
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Woden P. T. A
Legion Hall
Harold Johnson
Indianola
Walter Pihl
St. John's Lutheran Aid
Antony Buns
James Buns
Herbert Doege
Hillcrest Hospital
Des Moines
Dale Rittenhouse
Fairmont
Minnesota
May Goslin
Nancy Peters
Presbyterian Ladies Aid
Albert Weishaar
Ralph Stalzer
Algona
John Rudisill
Edwin Weishaar
William Wood
Alvin Hanna
Harlan Kruse
Lakota
Presbyterian Church
Janice Johnson
Buffalo Center
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Paul Nyman
Randy Alan
Forest City
Otto Karles
St. John’s Lutheran Aid
Remembering Sulphur Spring Days in Kentucky
Kyle W. Stone recalls childhood on a country road near a two‑room log cabin. He describes open fireplaces, a small wood stove, a one‑legged teacher, a one‑room school, washing days under a beech tree, wagon trips to Woodville, threshing, trips to Griffithsville mill, Lum n’a store, and apple butter jars. Contributions to the Servies column are invited.
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Kyle W. Stone
No.1
Mr. Crawford
Woodville
Griffithsville
Lumn'a
Frankfori
Kentucky
Best Answer to Iowa Junior College Aid Raises Enrollment
Iowa Farm Bureau resolutions committee heard Vern Lisle advocate a larger state grant for junior colleges to lift enrollment. The 23 junior colleges, serving about 2,500 students, now receive 45 dollars per pupil annually, requested to rise to 180. Other speakers urged district reorganization planning, a state water rights office, beef and pork promotion, and increased library funding for bookmobiles and larger libraries.
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Iowa
Vern Lisle
Clarinda
Iowa Farm Bureau
Resolutions Committee
Page County
Iowa Junior College Association
IFBF
Des Moines
Farm Bureau
Lisle
Farm Bureau Committee
Paul Johnson
Johnson
Wendell Pendleton
National Resources Council
J. C. Holbert
Marion Steddom
Iowa Swine Producers
Ernestine Grafton
State Traveling Library
Consumers call for fewer farms and larger units
Farm economists Earl O. Heady and John Heer of Iowa State College report that consumer buying trends signal three goals: fewer people in agricultural production, fewer farms, and larger farm sizes able to cut per unit costs. They argue adjustment to a growing national economy offers the real path to solving the farming squeeze.
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Earl O. Heady
John Heer
Iowa State College
Heer
Out on a Limb by Stumpy McCulloch
A humor column recounts a theater quip about a PM’s wife and a daughter, praises Canada’s national parks and forest beauty, and promotes the Keep Green movement. It notes the Sky Forest tree farm with Santa’s Village and shares a wedding anecdote as a closing joke.
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Stumpy McCulloch
Joe
Keep Green
Minnesota
Alabama
California
American Forest Products Industries
N Street NW
Washington, D.C
Sky Forest
San Bernardino Mountains
Santa Claus
Mister Henck
Illinois Dominates 1956 Corn Harvest Records
Illinois leads 1956 corn harvest with near perfect quality. Yields dip east and west due to weather: low rainfall west and late spring with heavy rains east. National crop expected at 34 billion bushels, second largest ever, with Illinois projected yield 66 bushels per acre and production around 86 million bushels.
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Aslinois
Illinois
Ilinois
Health News Thanksgiving Health Progress
On Thanksgiving Day the Iowa State Department of Health notes life expectancy at 71 and cites immunizations as reducing diphtheria typhoid fever smallpox and whooping cough. It expects Salk vaccine to reduce paralytic polio and urges gratitude for medical advances in disease prevention and public health.
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Iowa
Frost on the Pumpkin Brings Slippery Hiways
Des Moines reports frost on pumpkin warns drivers of slippery highway conditions across Iowa. David Herrick, chief of the Iowa Highway Patrol, urges cautious driving as frosts linger on bridges and shaded areas. He notes higher accident risk with the first frost and cautions at railroad crossings with reduced train signals.
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Des Moines
Iowa Highway Patrol
David Herrick
Iowa
Herrick
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Ed Brandt
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