Summer Events and Visits Highlight Ainsworth Notes
Ainsworth community activities unfold with a picnic at Columbus Junction Park, a planned August break, and September hostess planning. Guests include Mrs Corliss from Washington DC and Mrs Williams London, with 4-H and Legion events, 4th of July picnic reports, tours, and trips to Iowa City and beyond.
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Ainsworth
Columbus Junction Park
George Lord
Orin Johnson
Glen Lord
Four Corners Club
Julie Wood
Mary Lord
Joe Wood
Floyd Edwards
Earl Wood
Clayton Corliss
Washington, D.C
Cordelia Williams
London
Eng
Cora McWilliams
Columbus Junction
Hugh Morris
Corliss
Morris
Lee Hunt
Clarence Richards
Live Miksch
Ric
Olive Miksch
Donald Jones
Ainsworth American Legion Auxiliary
Ora Marlett
Rita
Crawfordsville
Veterans Hospital
Iowa City
Stanley Shutt
Oakville
Church Activities Planned at Ainsworth
Vacation Bible school is planned by two Ainsworth churches August 6 to 10 from 9 to 11:30 a.m. A teachers meeting is set July 24 at 8 p.m. United Presbyterian Women meet Thursday at 7:30 p.m. with Mrs. Skubal. co hosts are Mrs. Orris and Mrs. Walker.
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Ainsworth
United Presbyterian Church
United Presbyterian
John Skubal
Fred Orris
Clarence Walker
K. A. Mathers
George T. Koehler
Lawrence Wilson
South Iowa
Wscs School of Missions
Simpson College
Indianola
Society of the
Ainsworth Methodist Church
Olive Miksch
Gene Stephens
W. D. Roberts
Methodist Church
Migrant Workers Day School
Muscatine
Fred Pfeifer
Levi Blanchard
Families Gather for Crawfordsville Get-Together
Sunday at the Bill Trotter home a joint gathering united the families of Mrs. Myrla Henderson and Mrs. Maude White of Crawfordsville with others from Rockford Burlington Davenport Mt. Pleasant Olds Washington Albia Betendorf and Davenport. Attendees numbered 46 with many spouses and children present.
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Tors
Denno Sheldon
Larry
Rockford
Ill
Bob Waters
Burlington
Bill Trotter
Myrla Henderson
Maude White
Crawfordsville
John White
Anna Mae White
Olds
Don White
Davenport
Dick Nau
Mt. Pleasant
Jerry Scheibler
Ethel Henderson
Mary Booth
Gene Booth
John Gamon
Harold Hamon
Washington
Don Argo
Albia
Robert Henderson
Roberta Henderson
Anita Fisher
Bettendorf
Alaska Native Student Visits Iowa Team Home Game
The student from Kodiak Island compares Alaska weather to Iowa, noting hot days and Gulf humidity. She says she has seen her first softball game and that Alaska focuses more on fishing than baseball, while Iowa hosts more baseball chatter.
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Alaska
Iowa
Kodiak Island
Kathryn
Gulf
Alaska girl tours the United States visiting relatives
Kathryn Alvine from Kodiak Island, Alaska, visiting at the Maurice Alvine farm near Ainsworth, says Iowa has fewer bugs and enjoys her trip across the country. She has spent three weeks in New York City and visits Washington D C Ohio Pennsylvania California and now Iowa with planned stops in Mexico and Seattle World’s Fair. Her father Stanely Alvine runs a ship repair business on Kodiak Island.
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Kathryn Alvine
Maurice Alvine
Ainsworth
Kathryn
Kodiak Island
Alaska
Journal
Bob Elliott
Iowa
Kathyryn
Stanley Alvine
United States
New York City
Washington D.C
Ohio
Pennsylvania
California
Mexico
Seattle
Wash
Bethel Church
Gulf of Alaska
Rockaway Park
Tested Boar Sale At Ames On Thursday
The first fall sale of tested boars from the Iowa Swine Testing Association at Ames will be held on July 12 at 8 00 p m Jim Frier says. Washington County Extension Director 70 tested boars will be sold. Farmers seeking higher quality pork will find offerings to suit needs. All boars carry records on gain rate feed efficiency and backfat plus carcass data from barrows of the same bloodline.
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Iowa Swine Testing Association
Ames
Jim Frier
Washington County Extension
Washington County
Frier
Eagle Grove
Iowa
Ida Grove
New Hampton
Mrs. Mary Pribyl Fetes 80th Birthday In Kalona
Kalona locals recount Mary Pribyl's 80th birthday with family visits on June 27. The piece also notes weddings and vacations among area residents, including Jane Bendixon and Robert Culp in Davenport and several trips to Canada and Colorado. Mitch Miller comments on song timing for NBC Sing Along.
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Eugene Way Kalona
Mary Pribyl
Charles Marek
James F. Shalla
Mary Te Bockhorst
Dale K. Gingerich
Jane Bendixon
Robert Culp
Davenport
Gingerichs
Gingerich
Ike Yoderan
Ardell Johnson
Canada
Ora Boone
Garwin
Boone
D. G. Sattler and
Mary Miller
Henry Muller
Philip Marner
Marvinf Miller
Luke Drescher
Elam Christner
Gene Crawford
Iowa City
Terry Spitzer
Mitch
New York
UPI
Mitch Miller
Nbc-Tv
CWO Max White Jr to be released from active duty
Fort Ord California Chief Warrant Officer Max M White Jr son of Mr and Mrs Max M White of Ainsworth Iowa will be released from active duty with the 301st Field Hospital of Cedar Rapids when the unit returns to its home station from Fort Ord and resumes reserve status on August 1 He is a 1945 Ainsworth high school graduate and medical administration specialist in the unit which trained at Fort Ord for Berlin crisis readiness He will return to Ainsworth and reenter the trucking business with his father
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Fort Ord
Calif
Max M. White Jr
Max M. White
Ainsworth
Iowa
301St Field Hospital
Cedar Rapids
White
Ainsworth High School
U. S
Berlin
Cwo White
Army Ordnance Ammunition and Intelligence
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