Galen Cupps Visit Ties To Keota Alumni Banquet
Oregon visitors Galen and Mrs. Cupp arrived in Keota to stay at the Boyd Blattner home and attend Kinross alumni events. The week’s social notes list Rolling Green Club meeting, family arrivals, and several local gatherings including graduations, receptions, and trips to Bettendorf and Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Siewert Keota
Galen Cupp
Portland
Oregon
Russell Bell
Boyd Blattner
Kinross
Cupp
Rolling Green Club
Armorelle Miller
Oskaloosa
A. K. Stoutner
Phil Stinemates
Broomfield
Colo
Eric
Austin Zehr
Freeport
Ill
Donald Bolen
Zehr
Phil Heisdorffer
Steve Keeler
Chris
Powersville
Don Keeler
Kevin
West Liberty
John Keeler
Brenda
Tammi
Alvie Heisdorffer
Fred
Gene Heisdorffer
Chad
Keota
Jim Keeler
Abbie Balk
Washington
Ron Keeler
Pauline Keeler
Jerry
Randy
Columbus Junction
Jim Watson
Mt. Pleasant
Carl Luers
Greenfield
Vernon Luers
Michael Lillig
Veronica Lillig
Paula Shaffer
Elmer Wagler
Lela Miller
Luella Richardson
Reno
Nev
Carl Vogel
Bettendorf
Ronald Vogel
Craig Charles
John Adam
Fairfield
Carl
Comics boom in Alaska towns fuels spread of reading
In Kotzebue Alaska a new bookstore draws 2400 residents and Eskimo villages with a weekly rush for comics and magazines. Ricky Henry a 10 year old from Selawik plans to swap unread comics on future bush planes. The owner Keith Ragsdale opened mid March after a mistaken order sparked a local reading revival. A separate study notes married men live longer while divorced men show higher death rates at most ages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kotzebue, Alaska
UPI
Ricky Henry
Ricky
Arctic Circle
Kotzebue
Selawik
Keith Ragsdale
Ragsdale
Anchorage
Kotzebue Sound
Victim of CF battles to find key to a cure
Brenda Joy Mayo, 25, a University of Texas Medical Branch student, lives with cystic fibrosis and pursues a doctorate in human genetics. Hospitalized repeatedly, she aims to identify the gene causing CF, plans medical school in 1977, and seeks to finish her research despite a short life expectancy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ronald L. Littlepage
Galveston, Tex
UPI
Brenda Joy Mayo
University of Texas Medical Branch
Brenda
National Foundation
March of Dimes
Weather report on corn and bean planting by reporters
Days of all corn planted except report field work. Rainfall details start with Scott Holmes at Lime Creek and Terry Berger. Beans nine tenths planted for Scott Sieren at Seventy six. Others report bean progress and hay work across Cedar Jackson Highland Oregon Marion and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott Holmes
Terry Berger
Lime Creek
Scott Sieren
Eddie Chabal
Cedar
Myron Sojka
Jackson
Robert Sandburg
Highland
Paul Tobin
Oregon
Marion
Bertha Holt to be honored for humanitarian service
Iowa City honors Bertha Holt of Eugene Oregon a 1926 University of Iowa nursing graduate with an honorary award for distinguished humanitarian service. A noon to 2 pm open house at Bethany Baptist Church will celebrate her work through Holt International Children’s Services which has placed thousands of Asian orphans in homes worldwide and continues expansion into Taiwan and the Philippines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Bertha Holt
Eugene
Ore
Harry
University of Iowa College of Nursing
Holt
Evelyn Barritt
College of Nursing
Bethany Baptist Church
Muscatine Avenue
Holt International Children’s Services, Inc
Holts
Cresswell
Far East
Holt Agency
Taiwan
Philippines
Frank Comments on Busy Season at Agripro Seed Co
Frank thanks customers for a busy period and patience during service. He notes Agripro varieties boosted soybean seed sales, with limited regular varieties left. Wells and Moens seeds available, plus late sowing Sorghum Sudangrass and Rudy-Patrick Mor-Su II. Reminder to rinse and dispose of empty herbicide cans. Environmental disposal drives planned. Amine 2 4 D offered to reduce drift and protect plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank
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Galen Cupps
Alaska
Scientific American
Margaret Scott
Wellman
Mary Sue Salmon
Maine
Carol Hunter
Webster City
Iowa State University Home Economics Alumni Association
Scheman Continuing Education
Iowa State University
Mrs. Scott
Robert Frost
and Weather Report
Washington County Extension Service
Brian Stone
Crawford
Chris Hagemeier
Franklin Joe Reed
Patterson Seed and Supply
U S.A
Pico Rivera
California
Carnation Company
Los Angeles
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