The Leigh World publishes a weekly column entitled Looking Back at the World, which is comprised of articles taken from earlier Leigh World files. A special thank you to the Leigh World for allowing me to reprint those articles. The following are selections from that column:
July 30, 1953 - reprinted April 11, 2007Your Leigh World will have a new editor and publisher as of next week. Mr. Don Emanuel of Fort Collins, CO, will assume that position on AUgust 1st, and he will publish your next issue of The Leigh World.
Mr. Emanuel is an experienced printer and we believe he will give the Leigh World readers and advertisers a newspaper that will meet with their full approval and be a credit to the community.
He will be assisted by Miss Lorinda Van Heufeln, linotypist, and by his wife, Dolores. We invite you to come into The Leigh World office soon and make your acquaintance with your new editor.
We, your editors and publishers of the Leigh World since January, 1949, wish to extend to you our thanks for your cooperation in giving us the news and for your support in giving us your advertisements without which we could not have given you a newspaper.John D. Wurdeman suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on Saturday morning, July 25th. On Wednesday, July 29th, he was removed from his home and taken to the Methodist Hospital in Omaha, NE. During his absence, the key to the harness shop will be left with Wm. Hespe and sons for any persons desiring goods.
For the third consecutive year, Rolland Ahrens is the winner of a Regents scholarship in the University of NE, Lincoln. He is entering his senior year and following graduation will accept an assistantship in the College of Chemistry at NE.
The note accompanying his scholarship stated "because of your outstanding record and your promise for the future we are increasing the scholarship to $200.Mr. and Mrs. Earl B. Miller of Creston are the proud parents of a son born to them at St. Mary's Hospital at Columbus on July 22. The baby boy tipped the scales at 6 pounds and 8 ounces and has been given the name of Everett Earl Leon Miller. Mrs. Miller is the former Gladys Hanak, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hanak of Clarkson.
Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Settje of Creston are the parents of a daughter born Thursday at Columbus hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Conyers, Jr. of Creston are parents of a son whom they have named Robert James. The baby was born Wednesday at the hospital in Columbus.
Friends and neighbors gathered at the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hollatz several days last week to windrow, combine and bale the small grain from a 105 acre field. Mr. Hollatz is recuperating from a broken leg suffered a few weeks ago at a softball game here in Leigh while playing first base.
Cold drinks were furnished the men by George Merry and Ted Engelbart and Mrs. Hollatz served the group a lunch.Naval Airman and Mrs. Frederick Schriber of Lincoln and Miss Darlene Henke, student of Concordia Teachers College of Seward, spent the weekend visiting at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Adolf Henke.
The Kensington members gathered at the Park for their meeting on Thursday afternoon. The social afternoon was followed by a brief business meeting and a covered dish lunch.
Mrs. Ed Kugler entertained at a linen shower Tuesday evening, honoring Miss Idamae McCollock of Toronto, fiancee of Richard Westcott.
Prizes were won by Mrs. Alfred Hollatz, Mrs. Myron Rosendahl, Mrs. Fred Gigax, Mrs. Robert Schultze and Mrs. Plageman.
The hostess served a delicious lunch after the gifts were opened.
Out of town guests were Mrs. Vern Leach and Mrs. Myron Westcott.You may be lighting your fields in years to come to control crop production.
It isn't something that will be done next year, or even ten years hence. But there are indications that it will be a part of the farming of the future.
Plant scientists of the U.S. Department of Agriculture say we now have a much better understanding of plant responses to light and see fieldlighting as a definite possibility.
Research has demonstrated that night length is one "trigger force" that promotes flowering and fruit, seed or bulb formation in many crops.A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Milan Loseke on Wednesday of last week at St. Mary's Hospital at Columbus. He has been named Rickey Lee.
August 6, 1953 - reprinted April 11, 2007At the last meeting of the Leigh Community Club, it was voted unanimously to again have a parade of floats to start off the Colfax County Fair with a bang. Elmer Wurdeman was named chairman of the float committee.
John A. Glandt, H.J. Luchtel, Ed Callies and James Hanel were also named to the committee as promotion assistants and to collect funds from the businessmen for prizes in the Kiddies parade.
Plans are already underway to make this, the third consecutive year since the float parade was started, the best ever.A shower of rain was welcomed in the Leigh vicinity Monday. However reports that have come into The World office were not as enlightening as we hoped they would be. We understand the rain was confined to a small area.
It was reported we received around .80 of an inch of moisture in Leigh.On Sunday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Folken entertained relatives in honor of the 89th birthday of grandma, Mrs. Mary Dobes.
In the group were Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lapour, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Navrkal, Mrs. John Navrkal, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dobes, Mrs. Wilma Deichmann, LaVern and Franklin, Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Folken, Carol and Connie, all of Clarkson and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Rarouka, Calvin and Johnny of Laramie, Wyoming.Mr. and Mrs. Harold Aspinall are the parents of a daughter born Monday morning at the Lutheran Hospital in Columbus.
Funeral services were held for William Korte, 67, of Columbus, formerly of Leigh, at 1:30 at the Immanuel Lutheran Church at Columbus on Wednesday, August 5th. Rev. Martin Bornemann, pastor of Christ Lutheran Church, officiated at the last rites. Burial was made at Rose Lawn Memorial Cemetery.
Mr. Korte had been ill since the first part of December of last year and on June 30, underwent a major operation from which he was recuperating wonderfully, however on Friday, he suddenly became seriously ill again and passed away on Sunday, August 2, 1953 at the Lutheran Hospital where he was taken at 5:30 p.m. Gass Funeral Home, Columbus, was in charge of the funeral arrnagements.At the close of the summer sessions Friday, the University of Nebraska granted 316 degrees.
Among those of this vicinity who received the Master of Education degree were John D. Sloey of Leigh and William J. Ottersberg of Howells. Mr. Sloey is our coach in the Leigh High School. John J. Heitz of Schuyler and Burmeil E. Gingery of Stanton received the Master of Science degree.
August 6, 1953 - reprinted April 18, 2007On Sunday evening, August 2, Miss Ruth Willeford and Richard Ritter were united in marriage at the Community Church in Tobias. Reverend Earl Anderson, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Creston, officiated at the double ring ceremony.
The bride was given in marriage by her father. The bride is the youngest duaghter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Willeford of Tobias. She received her B.A. degree from Doane College in Crete this spring. During her senior year, she was president of her sorority, Omega Psi Thita, president of the Doane College Drum Corps and a member of the Tigerettes.
The groom is the son of Dr. and Mrs. W.J. Ritter of Creston. After graduating from Creston High School, he attended Doane College for two years and then enlisted in the Navy, serving four years, 18 months of which his ship was in Korean waters. After his discharge in 1952, he returned to college.The responsibility of transferrng the news, joys and sorrows of a community from its time of happening into printed form and made available to all the public to read lies in the hands of the publisher and editor of your local newspaper, The Leigh World.
I, Donald Emanuel, have assumed these responsibilities from a very provicient couple, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Leigh.
You people of Leigh and the surrounding community may be proud to receive into your home a newspaper with as high a praise and ideals as the Leigh World. It shall be my pledge to you people to continue publishing the Leigh World in these high standards.Mr. and Mrs. Fred Reininger and children, Delores and Dick, Mrs. Emma Reininger and Mrs. Lizzie Aukerman drove to Sioux City Sunday where they visited with Mr. and Mrs. Don Schneider, Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Julch, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Julch, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Julch, and Mr. and Mrs. Adam C. Julch of Tulia, Texas.
Twelve friends of Lois Osterthun had a surprise celebration for her on her birthday Saturday. The affair started off with a swimming party at the pool at four o'clock and a picnic supper at the Loseke home afterwards.
Then the group went to Columbus to a show and eight of the girls returned to the home of Beverly Loseke for a slumber party. Sunday morning most of them attended church together.
Those in the gruop were Lois Osterthun, Beverly Loseke, Kathleen Walter, Karen Boning, Naomi Hunsinger, Faye Oeltjen, JoAnn Sander, Edna Osterthun, Barbara Hellbusch, Norma Hellbusch, Shirley Correll, Janice Prang and Donna Osten.Linda Kay, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kumpf was baptized during Sunday morning services at Zion Lutheran Church by Rev. E.C. Werner, pastor of the church.
Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Kumpf were sponsors for the little girl.
Dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kumpf following the services were Mr. and Mrs. Chester Sumption and Karen, Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Kumpf, and Mrs. Anna Gobler.There's a lot of loose talk these days about profits, attacking them as though they were evil. The very existence of the world depends on profits; the improvement of the world depends on big profits. A farmer plants one potato and usually gets back 15. Even allowing for all his costs, that's more than 1,000 per cent profit! He plants one pound of corn and gets back 336 pounds; that's 33,600 percent profit. These are big profits. Is that bad?
Should the farmer be scorned as anti-social? Should his excess profit be taken away from him? Should he be told that from now on he must limit his profit to say, 6 per cent? To legislate against profits is as silly as to legislate against things growing.Recent high sellers at the Omaha market included:
From Colfax County: Lavern Wendt, 9 steers, wt. 992,$25.25; James Kmoch, 22 steers, wt. 993, $25.75.
Longin Jedlicka, 14 steers, wt. 951, $25.00; 12 steers and heifers, wt. 985, $24.50; Victor Olson, 30 steers, wt. 1113, $24.75; W.B. Kemper, 24 heifers, wt. 876, $26.00 (top July 23); Ed J. Severa, 10 heifers, wt. 893, $24.50; Asche Bros., 18 steers, wt. 1234, $26.25.
From Platte County: Clarence Hellbusch, 28 hogs, wt. 197, $25.50; Paul Johannes, 9 steers, wt. 1033, $26.00; Dennis Kuester, 20 steers, wt. 1261, $26.50.
From Stanton County: Art Barr, Jr., 50 hogs, wt. 249, $24.50 (top Aug. 3); Art Barr, Jr., 25 steers, wt. 1084, $26.75.Mrs. Velda Held and Georgianna Bruhn were hostesses to a personal shower at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Bruhn, Jr. on Wednesday evening, July 29th honoring Miss Marilyn Bruhn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Bruhn who will become the bride of Mr. Vernon Loseke on August 19th.
Games and bingo were played for which prizes were given, Mrs. [sic] Lorinda Van Heufeln won the door prize.
Those present were Misses Marilyn Bruhn, honoree, Florence Herink, Agnes Herink, Carolyn Hobel, Lorinda Van Heufeln, NOrma Littelman, Dolores Bruns, Mrs. Harry Kumpf, Mrs. Leonard Hanel, Mrs. Roland Watchorn and Mrs. Gordon HOff of Fremont.The first step toward bringing "compatible" color television to the Missouri Valley area has been announed by Frank P. Fogarty, General Manager of Merideth WOW, Inc. He disclosed that WOW-TV has ordered RCA equipment to modifty its black and white transmission facilities to provide network full color television as well.
August 13, 1953 - Reprinted April 18, 2007Clinton Johannes and Mrs. Anna Johannes and Ellen went to Elmwood on Sunday to take Virgil and Billy Timblin to their home there after spending a week with their grandmother.
Mrs. Johannes stayed at the Timblin home as a daughter, Rhea Ellen, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Timblin on August 1st.Funeral services were held on Tuesday at 1:45 at the Holmes Funeral Home and at 2:00 p.m. at the Zion Lutheran Church at Leigh for Mr. Gerhard Asche, long time resident of the Leigh community.
Mr. and Mrs. Orville Hartman of Denver, CO are the parents of a daughter, Diane Marie. The baby weighed 6 pounds 12 ounces. Mrs. Hartman is the former Ruth Ludwig of Leigh.
Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Hanak are the proud parents of a son born at the Lutheran Hospital at Columbus on July 21st. The baby weighed 7 pounds 14 ounces and has been named Roger Allen.
Rev E.C. Werner's voice will be transcribed over the program "Daily Devotions" on station KJSK at Columbus on AUgust 13th and 29th at 6:15 p.m.
Mrs. Werner has received word from Rev. Werner that he will be in Cairo on August 13th and in Switzerland on the 29th."Oil up that old souvenir" says Jos. F. Jirovec of Schuyler, and come and play in the second annual Colfax County Musicians concert which will be held at the Schuyler Community Park at Schuyler on August 23rd.
Last year, the unrehearsed concert was such a huge success that it was decided to hold one every year. If every musician that came out last year would bring one new one, there would be over a 100 piece band this year, stated Mr. Jirovec. Anyone ever playing an instrument is urged to come to the park on the 23rd and play in this county wide concert.
August 13, 1953 - reprinted April 25, 2007Mr. Roy Sayers and son, Ernest, Mr. Robert Sayers and daughter, Miss Mary Lou Severa and Miss Dorothy Oeltjen returned Saturday evening from a ten day vacation trip which took them through six states, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.
They spent the weekend in Fort Smith, Arkansas, where they visited with Pvt. Alvin R. Sayers, who is stationed in Camp Chaffee, Arkansas. Continuing their trip on down through Texas, spending some time around Corpus Christi and Robstown, Texas.
It has been dry in that part of Texas for the past six years.
They visited Kings Ranch at Kingville, Texas, which is the largest ranch in the United States. It also is dried up. Stopping at San Antonio for some time, they visited the Alamo and the Brackenridge Park, which is 320 acres.Mr. and Mrs. Don Emanuel and family were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Minarick and family of Scribner. The occasion was in honor of the birthdays of their children, Michael and Susan.
Others present were Mr. and Mrs. Joe Minarick and Mary, Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Ulrich and Jerry of North Bend, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Deppe of Omaha and Mr. and Mrs. M.C. Emanuel of Fremont.Miss Jewell Hughes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L.R. Hughes of Grand Island, will become the bride of Gordon Deichmann, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Deichmann of Central City in a planned fall wedding.
Six girls from the Leigh vicinity will attend the retreat to be held at Our Lady of Lourdes Convent and Hospital in Norfolk this weekend.
This retreat will begin Thursday and close Sunday afternoon.
Those attending from Leigh will be Ramona and Theresa Reichmuth, Charlotte Jedlicka, Arlene Morfeld, Dolores Reininger and Regina Hogendorn.Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Reichmuth accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Reichmuth, Sr., and Frankie, drove to Clarks on Saturday to attend the wedding of Miss Mary Ann Hayes to Dr. James R. Condon of Omaha. Bishop William Condon of Omaha, Bishop William Condon of Great Falls, Montana officiated at the marriage ceremony.
Mrs. Lumir Stodola of Leigh returned from St. Mary's Hospital of Columbus where she was confined for two weeks following major surgery.
She was recuperating at the home of her mother, Mrs. Mary Belohrad at Clarkson, for a few days. She is feeling quite well now so is back at her home in Leigh now and has her niece Charlotte Belohrad staying with her for a few days. While she was confined at the hospital, she had 114 visitors to her bedside and received 103 cards.The wheat marketing referendum to be held August 14 will be conducted at four voting places in Colfax County, advises Chairman, Adolph C. Kudrna, of the County Production and Marketing Administration Committee.
Chairman Adolph C. Kudrna, urges every eligible wheat grower to vote, since the outcome of the referendum will materially affect the price farmers receive for their 1954 wheat. He points out that if two thirds or more of those voting favor marketing quotas, wheat loans at 90 percent of parity will be available to those who plant within their wheat acreage allotments.Mr. and Mrs. Ves Hollatz are parents of a daughter born Friday at St. Mary's Hospital in Columbus.
Last Sunday, a dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Summers honored a former Creston resident, Mrs. Carl Flitcher now of Forest Grove, Oregon. Mrs. Flitcher has spent a month with Nebraska relatives.
Present at Sunday's gathering were Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Henry and Judy of Leigh; Mr. and Mrs. Merlin Preston and family of Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. Andy Bachman of Lincoln; Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Orndoff and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Enderlee and family of Cairo; Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Palmateer and family of Madison; Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Cunningham and son of Omaha; Mr. and Mrs. Bob Henry and son, Mr. and Mrs. Basil Wallace and daughter, Mrs. John Collins, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Zuroski and daughter, Mrs. Fred Henry, Carolyn Polark, and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Jensen and family, all of Columbus; and Mr. and Mrs. Julius Engel and Harlan, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hoesly and family, Mrs. John Barrett, Mrs. Clara Palmateer, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Jansen, Mr. and Mrs. DeForest Jansen, all of Creston.Mr. W.J. Ritter, Emilie Ritter and Mrs. Lola Farnsley will drive to Omaha Thursday morning. From there, Mrs. Farnsley will leave by plane for Los Angeles where she will join three counsins, Mrs. Jo Miller, Mrs. Anna Scott and Mrs. Flora Ogan, and a niece, Millie Miller on a three week's auto trip up the coast and into Canada.
Emilie Ritter remained in Omaha for a visit with Carolyn Ditter and Dallas and Sheryl before returning to her home in Kansas City, Kansas.Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Kratochvil and family drove to Madison Friday evening.
After a ball game between the Green Garden team and the Madison Presbyterian team, Mrs. Earl Anderson entertained the Presbyterian team and their families at a surprise birthday party for her husband, Rev. Anderson.
Marvin Kratochvil is pitcher for the Presbyterian Church team.
August 20, 1953 - reprinted April 25, 2007One of Leigh's earliest pioneers, Gerhard Asche, was laid to rest on Tuesday, August 11, 1953, in Zion Lutheran Cemetery. Mr. Asche passed away on Saturday morning at the Ashland Nursing Home, Ashland, Nebr. where he had spent the past year. His death was caused by old age.
His remains were brought to Leigh and Holmes Funeral Home had charge of the funeral arrangements. Funeral services were held at 1:45 at the Holmes Funeral Home and at 2:00 p.m. at the Zion Lutheran Church. Rev. Martin Bornemann conducted the last rites.Mrs. Emma M. Holmes, while taking care of some business in the bank on Monday morning, collapsed with a heart attack.
She was taken to the Lutheran hospital in Columbus via Holmes Ambulance with Harold Gernstein as the driver. Last reports are that she is resting comfortably.A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Arlen Beck on Wednesday, August, [sic] at the Lutheran hospital at Columbus. She was named Rita Kay and tipped the scales at 8 pounds and 1 ounce.
The Maurice Dasenbrock family and pictures of their modern dairy farm, their home and livestock will be televised on Friday, August 21, as the Dasenbrock family will be the "Mal Hansen farm family of the week" on his regular program, televised on his farm program over TV station WOWTV at 12:30 p.m., Friday.
Several days ago, a representive of the station came to the Dasenbrock farm and took a series of pictures of their home inside and outside, their farm buidlings, their children and Mr. and Mrs. Dasenbrock. These will be shown over television on Friday noon. Mr. and Mrs. Dasenbrock and family will travel to Omaha on that day and appear on the program, at which time Mr. Hansen will interview them in person.
September 17, 1953 - reprinted May 23, 2007Funeral rites for the late Vaclav Novak, 85, were held Friday morning at Miller's funeral home at Clarkson and later at SS. Cyril and Methodius Church of Clarkson. Burial was in the Catholic cemetery, west of Clarkson.
Mr. Novak died September 8th, 1953 at the home of his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Anton Novak of Leigh with whom he made his home for over seventeen years. There he was always given the care of loving hands.
The deceased was born in the county of Caslav, Bohemia, September 28, 1868. His parents died when he was a small boy and at the age of 14 years he came to America with his friends, the Karel Bartak farmily, and located in the vicinity of Howells.
March 7, 1893 he was united in marriage to Anna Spulak and they established their home on a farm north of Howells, where they had to encounter hardships and privations, along with other early day peioneers. A few years later they moved onto a farm north of Leigh, and later, north of Clarkson.Nebraska'a request for an Oct. 16 - Dec. 14 migratory waterfowl season has received the approval of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service according to an announcement made by Paul T. Gilbert, executive secretary of the Nebraska Game Commission.
Gilbert said the 60-day season, starting five days later than last year, will give Nebraska hunters nine weekends of hunting.Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Muhle celectrated their 25th wedding anniversary on Sunday at a 5:30 supper for attendants, friends and relatives.
Those present were Rev. and Mrs. Van Boening of Columbus, Mr. and Mrs. Louis French and Dean of Bellwood, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Muhle and Lois Ann, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Hilbert and Ernest, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Muhle and family, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Muhle and family, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Sohl and family, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Severin, Mr. and Mrs. Hans Hilbert and Lorraine, Mr. and Mrs. Hmeran Muhle and Emil Muhle.A number of Leigh people drove to Wayne, NE Sunday at attend the wedding of Ardyce Stevens and Jerry Lightner at the Methodist Church. Adryce is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Stevens, formerly of Leigh.
Those present from Leigh included: Mr. and Mrs. O.H. Wullschleger, Mr. and Mrs. John Wullschleger, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marty, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Loseke, Mrs. Bill Loseke, Mr. and Mrs. Duane Loseke and family, Mrs. Otto Loseke, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stevens and Judy, and Mrs. Anna Stevens.A locust plague was effectively dispelled for the first time in the history of the Middle East recently, the American Peoples Encyclopedia Yearbook for 1953, reports. U.S. and British aircraft were used to spray insecticide over areas teeming with locusts in Iraq and Iran. The operation was completed in two weeks and damage to grazing and cultivated areas was held to a minimum.
Guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Reichmuth and family on Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Don Hayes and Kathy of Silver Creek, Mrs. Anne Riechmuth of Madison, Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Bahns and children and Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Reichmuth and family.
Dinner guests on Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. N.F. Lowe, Carroll and Dick were Mrs. Ida Lowe, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Lowe, Harold, Noreen and Kenneth of Cedar Rapids, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Leckey, Janet and Shirley Best of Omaha, and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Best, Louallen and Denise and Kurt, and Mrs. Cleda Best, Beverly and Bob of North Bend.
The ocasion was the 78th birthday anniversary of Mr. Lowe's mother, Mrs. Ida Lowe.Mr. and Mrs. Fred Leigh and Nona Belle and Mrs. Leigh's sister, Miss Florence Herold, R.N. of San Francisco CA arrived in Leigh. Miss Herold will visit until the first of the week when she will be joined by another sister, Agnes of Los Angeles after which they will return to CA to their respective positions.
September 24, 1953 - reprinted May 23, 2007Elsewhere in this issue Miss Emma Holmes states that "if she can find the key to the Theatre, she may reopen it's doors for business soon." We hope as do many others in the community, that Miss Holmes has little trouble finding the key and Leigh will again have shows to attend.
Watch next week's advertisements and we will then know if she found the key and also which will be the first show to be shown. Miss Holmes closed the Theatre on June 1st of this year because of a serious heart condition.The park project, sponsored by the Leigh Community Club, got off to a good start when workers came in the morning and again in the afternoon, to clean off the grounds for a picnic site at the Sandy Banks. The workers cut out brush, trimmed trees, and leveled the ground with blades and scrapers mounted on tractors. Also some small trees were pulled out. However, the work needed to be done is only about half completed. The cooperation of everyone in the community is needed to make the next cleanup date, a success.
There will be a civil Defense meeting at the Leigh Public Schoolhouse. The meeting is open to the public.
Members of the Air Force will be here to explain details of the corp. duties and all observation corp. members are expected to be in attendance. It is possible that members that have participated in the drills may be awarded their ground corp. wings.Not long ago the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that prices in general had touched a record high.
There is considerable argument as to whether this barometer or any other can be considered an accurate reflection of the cost of living. However, without arguing that point, it is a notable fact that one basic budget item has been going against the general trend so far as price is concerned.
That item is beef. As August ended, the American Meat Institute reported, Consumers are buying more beef this year than at any time in history and at low prices, as a result of the bountiful cattle supply. This more than offests the sharp decline in pork supplies, which in turn has resulted in seasonable price increase for some pork cuts.