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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1949
Page
1
Rates shown: 2.00 per year in advance within Kossuth County and Titonka trade territory, 2.50 outside it, 3.00 per year for Canada and foreign countries. Local subscriptions are continuing yearly unless canceled by the subscriber or at the publisher's discretion.
Visits and family news include Chalmas Chestnut and Grace Van Hoorn calling on relatives in Mason City and Marshalltown. A baby girl born to Mr and Mrs John Miller at Mercy Hospital Mason City last Wednesday October 10. Church services at Presbyterian Church Oct 30 led by Wm Johnson student at University of Dubuque. Birthday group hosted by Mrs John Mathison with eleven members.
Several Tama and surrounding area residents were diversely occupied with visits and births. Wayne Naser welcomed a son named David Alen at Forest City hospital. Des Moines trips included visits by the Rudisill and Goslin families and a hunting trip by W L Tindall and Charles Lounsberry from Ames. Sorghum makers Elmer Reining and Willis Hinegardner each reach fifty years.
In Hattiesburg Mississippi police enforce Sunday blue laws limiting after six pm film showings. Twenty four theater workers are arrested and released on bond repeatedly totaling eighty nine detentions for attempting to keep screenings running amid rain and peppered tomatoes. The Saenger theater faced a locked projection room and an ax and crowbar confrontation before operations resumed at usual closing times.
The navy experiments with a pulsating pure tone test to quickly identify sailors with acute hearing for antisubmarine duties. It can test up to 900 men at once, comparing pulsations as the sound fades to gauge sensitivity beyond the older whispered phrase method.
The Wesley Homemakers gathered Tuesday afternoon at Lawrence Hanson's. Assistant hostess Theron Hanson helped. Mr. and Mrs. Joe De Maine and son returned Sunday from a visit with relatives in Sioux City. Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Loebig and daughter Judy visited Rapid City after two weeks with relatives in Wesley and Algona. A buffet tea followed with J E Telkamp pouring tea and Theodore Vallentine serving coffee. Lessons will be held at regular meetings the second Friday of each month.
The Lakota event gathered twenty five women from Ledyard and Lincoln townships at the Jerry Heetland home Friday afternoon. Mrs. Elmer Paulsen spoke on German relief boxes while Mrs. Swen Larson outlined Farm Bureau extension cooperation. Gertie Grainline led sewing tips via slides and samples of extension service projects were shown.
Brookings analyst Wilfred Owen reports nationwide highway systems hinder affordable car transport. Only five to ten cents of each highway dollar funds roads while the rest pays for car costs, gasoline, and upkeep amid 40 million motor vehicles, 20 percent above prewar peaks, and a shift to suburban growth.
Two Germans develop an electric device that attracts and stuns fish or whales, guiding them into nets or for inspection aboard a former German mine sweeper. Physicist Konrad Kreutzer and engineer Herbert Peglaw say current type and strength control size of prey and can aid fishing and whaling operations.
The American Cancer Society invites the general public to attend a Wednesday evening meeting at St. Ann's Hospital in Algona. Mrs. Rose Lee Tye will be the speaker.
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