November 1950
Dudley Henderson was elected president of the Chamber of Commerce to take office Jan. 1.
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The annual 4-H club achievement banquet will be a more gay party this year. Instead of an inspirational oratory (which has at times been dull for the younger guests) the program will include the Cook Family of KGB, Coffeyville, which will provide music and entertainment features at intervals throughout the evening. Also performing will be the Kiwanis Hillbilly band, plus there will be square dancing and games. Instead of a formal meal, hot dogs, pop, and similar refreshments will be served. The principal event of the evening will be the presentation of awards won during the past year by the members of Allen County’s 12 4-H clubs.
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The Gaede Implement Co., 212 N. Jefferson, has been appointed dealer for the Packard Motor Co., for both Allen and Woodson counties, N.H. Gaede announced today. Gaede will continue to be the local distributor for Allis Chalmers farm implements and machinery.
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For the past seven weeks the boys and girls in the McKinley Elementary School have been spending an hour each school day, pecking out their reading or spelling lessons on portable typewriters. The objective was not to produce skilled typists but to determine if the use of a typewriter would tend to improve the spelling grammar, punctuation and reading ability of the students. Harry Ingels, principal at McKinley, believes the experiment has been a success, but it is difficult to measure the progress because the children were not given tests before or after the experiment.
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The Register mailed 300 postcard questionnaires to a random group of its rural subscribers yesterday in an effort to determine what they think about the oft-discussed proposal to put parking meters around the business side of the square in Iola. People are always glibly saying “what the farmers would think” about parking meters in Iola, but nobody has bothered actually to ask them. The Register is now doing just that.
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TOKYO, (AP) — Complete collapse of the United Nations end-the-war offensive was threatened today by heavy new Chinese attacks by more than 100,000 men in the pre-dawn darkness on the frozen northwest Korean front.
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Orville Kretzmeier was named young man of the year at a joint banquet held by the Jaycees and the Chamber of Commerce.
