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a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a IT'S A FACT by JERRY CAHILL ALTHOUGH UNRELATED WILLIAM KRUGER AND CHARLES WERE FINISHED BORN THE SAME DAY DAY SAME GENERAL AND ELECTRIC COMPANY SAME DEPARTMENTS 1 THE AND LIKEWISE SHULTS AND JOHN MYZEJEWSKY! NEXT GEORDE A PREHISTORIC CLAY she BY BEAR, 2 FEET, FOUND SPAIN CAVE ESTIMATED AGE! 20,000 20 YEARS AGO From the Files of The Algona Upper Des Moines Jan. 11, 1933 A 10-inch baby alligator named Popeye was inhabiting the Upper Des Moines boiler room 20 years ago. He was the property of Lee Roy Mathison, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pr V.

Mathison. Lee Roy handled street sales for the paper. on press day. Seems he just liked alligators so bought one from a Florida alligator ranch. Just threes months old in 1933, the baby had a life expectancy of about 200 years.

Just what happened to Popeye isn't known but he hasn't been seen around the office for some time. Melzar Falkenhainer was elected secretary-treasurer of the Druggists Mutual to succeed father, Al, who had died a short time before. Ani Algona farmer who asked that unusual hts name watch be withheld New held Year's. an on Eve. Noticing strange footprints around his barn, he kept watch until he saw a stranger slink into the barn about midnight, The farmer took a light and a gun and found a transient sleeping in his hayloft.

He had hidden his bed in the hay along with a cached of food. He'd been around sev-: eral nights, milking a cow for his liquid refreshments. The softhearted farmer gave him a good bed for the night and sent him on his way in the morning with a few extra dollars in his pocket. The Kossuth County Mutual Fire Insurance Association reelected H. J.

Bode, president; Edward A. Droessler as vice presi- dent; N. A. Smith, treasurer; and Lloyd S. Bohannon, assistant secretary, D.

D. Paxson was named secretary, J. Bode, Reelected A. Mann directors and H. L.

Potter. Other directors were J. O. Paxson, Joseph Hauptmann, Nick Bormann, Edward A. Droessler, Ed A.

Miller and N. A. Smith. Algona firemen reelected all their officers. Frank Kohlhaas was' president; Oscar Anderson, chief; George St.

John, treasurer; Lloyd Muckey, secretary; Ostrum, first foreman, and Ralph Elbert, second foreman. Art Priebe of Lone Rock and Myrtle Larson of Decorah were married New Year's day at Decorah. They were attended by Miss Ella Larson, sister of the bride, and Raymond Priebe, brother of the groom. Mr. Priebe, the oldest son of Mr.

and Mrs. Carl Priebe of Fenton, was manager of the Diamond Oil station and a grocery store. Two roof fires were reported. one at the Fritz Granzow home and the other at the home of John McEnroe. Little damage was done.

Threatening bodily violence, a large delegation of farmers sucI cessfully stopped farm sale a few miles east of Corwith in Hancock county and enabled the farmer facing loss of his farm to settle the matter. Gathering in silent two and threes, before the sale, the farmers collected over $200 and then approached the mortgage holder, a banker. The mortgage was for $1.700 and after some persuasion the banker cancelled the mortgage and gave receipt for the payment in full upon being presented with the cash, according to reports received in Algona. were wowing 'em at the Call Adolph Menjou and Lupe Velez theater. Swea City was split by basketball strife as businessmen took sides and met in un "east sidewest side" game.

The score at the end of the game was 5-5. Players were H. Bowman, H. Christensen, Buell Pearson, Walter Bovis, F. A.

Griffith, Ray Sperbeck and' Dr. A. Whitlow for the east sici2 2-Algona (la.) Upper Des Maines Thursday, Jan. 8, 1953 RIAL PAGE of the Upper Des Momes FARM PRICES SLUMP Farm leaders are taking active interest, and well they might, in the continuing slump in farm prices. Some experts are calling for better production methods while others seek an end to all government controls as the answer.

Others feel that only natural market adjustments can pull farm prices up to the lucrative levels of previous years. One of the things that can be watched the most closely, is any future legislation which will have a bearing on maintaining or losing foreign markets for U. S. farm products. It might easily be a case of history repeating itself.

In the 1920's the country passed a series of tariff laws which were temporarily a great aid to our own business empires. They raised tariffs so high that foreign manufacturers could not compete with our own manufacturers. But in retaliation, other countries of the world raised tariff barriers against our own exports, chief of which were farm products. This loss of foreign markets, felt most heavily in the early 1930's, was one contributing cause of the great farm depression. Since that time we have developed a series of reciprocal trade treaties which have been beneficial for the most part to all nations concerned.

Those reciprocal trade treaties are about to expire. If they do, and the old-fashioned tariff barriers again are erected, our export farm market is going to be lost for certain. Perhaps there are better ways of handling farm production problems than our "ever normal granary" and production and marketing administration setup. But before we let that go, we'd better be sure that there are no dark gentlemen in the woodpile and that impending legislation isn't passed exclusively for the good of certain, well placed business and manufacturing groups. A BIG FIGHT Lyon County Reporter The dairy cow and the soy bean are going to be paired off in a battle of the giants before the Iowa legislature this year.

Officially the scrap will be over the matter of restrictions. on the sale of oleomargarine but when you get right down to it, the fight will be over the market for butter. Soy bean growers and processors are planning on the introduction of legislation which will remove the handicaps under which margarine is now marketed," as a boost for their product and it goes without saying that the dairy interests will be battling all -out to retain legal restrictions which now operate in favor of their This has, been at hot subject in dairy areas. tor many 'years rand now the processors WHO pro-. vide the materials for margarine have served notice that they are out to change the law.

Somehow we don't believe that the Iowa legislature will drop the laws which now give butter an advantage. After all, dairying is a mighty important activity in Iowa much more than the growing and processing of soy beans, if we are any judge. We believe the supporting of our own interests will indicate that the present laws on the subject might just as well be left alone. Algona Upper Bra Moines 111 E. Call Street--Phone 1100-Algona, Iowa Entered as second class matter at a the postoffice at Algona, Iowa, under Act of March 3, 1879.

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He was pointing out that there seems to be a growing tendency for a multitude of people to take out their spite and antagonisms on others by smearing them with false and misleading labels, and by trying to cram down their throats the taking of oaths and making of promises that are reminiscent of the early days of secret societies. "Liberties today are being repeatedly denied, restricted, or watered down," said Dr. Paul Schilling, Methodist theological professor. He cited the numerous cases where pressure groups endeavor to force teachers to take oaths restricting their own liberties and restricting their freedom of mind and speech of attacks on textbooks and teaching staffs by persons unqualified for intelligent judgment he cited the newly imposed McCarran immigration act which seems to deny access to our shores of anyone who doesn't think strictly as does one certain group, and also violates the age-old rights of seamen to visit foreign ports which their ships may touch. The doctor may have something there.

We have a few gentlemen in Congress who love nothing better than a witch hunt, and the witches they frequently hunt are time-tested 'and patriotic Americans who only have one fault they just don't always agree with the hunters. ENTER THE NEW YEAR Grinnell Herald-Register New Year's ain't what it used to be. As the. years have gone by, manners and customs have changed and we sometimes think that nowhere have they changed more than in the observance of the passing of the old year and the coming of the new. We can remember back to the days when New Year's was a rather staid occasion, when people dressed up in their best clothes and went calling on their friends to exchange good wishes nibble at the sandwiches and cake which had been provided in honor of the occasion, with perhaps a spot of coffee or a swig of tea to go along with them.

Times have changed now and we sometimes think not for the better. Most of the sedateness has gone out of New Year's. If you live in a city you can spend the evening in a night club, dancing and -enjoying the floor show and maybe having a. little. more to, drink than you oughter, and when the witching hour of 12 arrives you join hand with your next door neighbor and bellow "Auld Lang Syne" at the top of your lungs.

When the witching hour arrives all the whistle and sirens cut loose in a cacophany of sound calculated to scare the daylights out of the infant 1953 as he emerges from swaddling clothes. And instead of visiting his friends you will find the average man avidly taking in bowl games over his television set or radio. For all that, we cannot help feeling that there is a solid core of goodwill and seriousness in all this tinsel and glitter. New Year's should mean more than that to along with the goodfellowship and whoopee. It.

is a good time for serious consideration of the days that are passed and the days that lie ahead and to rededicate ourselves to the good things for the coming year. Both nationally and internationally the days that lie ahead seem to be full of perils. There are breakers ahead but with a now and trusted pilot at the helm of our ship of state we hope that our course may be plotted into calm and pleasant seas. Anyway, the old year is going and the New Year is coming. We bid farewell to 1952 without regret.

We look forward to 1953 with hope and confidence. And a happy New Year to you all. For twenty years the Democrats have held sway at the federal level. Their success, from a strictly political standpoint, is almost unparalleled in history. Yet throughout most of that time they have been constantly on the defensive.

And at the same time, it's not just quite nice to be a Democrat at least in many places. Must be a little like sin. Everybody talks agin it. But quite a few do it. Iowa Falls Citizen.

One bowling alley has this sign: "When bowl. ing, keep your eyes on the right pins." EVER MORE THAN BEFORE! The Algona Upper Des Moines Offers KOSSUTH COUNTY'S LARGEST CIRCULATION 4,534 Period Total Ending Net Sept. Paid 30, For 1952 ALGONA UPPER DES MOINES Established 1865 top this one. At any rate, bathing scenes did an abrupt about face and began using up less of the budget. However, the public still liked an occasional "shot" of its glamour, gals framed in frothy suds.

Few heroines have escaped least one such scene in the course of their careers. Thus, when pert, talented, Doris Day was told she had a "bath-sequence" to do in "April new Warner Bros. Technicolor musical, she envisioned a That is, until she'd glanced through the script. Then she discovered that her first bath would fall a bit short of being speetacular. ft seems that "April in Paris" presents Doris as at earthly, uninhibited, New York chorus girl named Dynamite Jackson, An explosive character, the aptly named Dynamite has nothing In mon with the real Doris Day temperament.

She engages in a slugfest with Miller, her rival for Ray Bolger's, affections in the script. In another scene, she bops Ray over the head with a champagne bucket which gets her the old "heave-ho" from a Paris night-club for rowdy conduct. -And far from languorously. reclining in any fabulous tub, she gets a bath all right. But it's under a spray shower that she's shoved into, with all of her clothes on! Photographing water has its problems.

Rain scenes, where water is sprayed from overhead pipes, are sometimes difficult to shoot at night, or against milk any dark background. Powdered is often fed into the water lines to give the prop-rain a lighter photographic quality. Heavy lighting "bounces off" flat liquid expanses to the annoyance of movie cameramen. Much time is wasted in placing lamps properly when shooting near large surfaces of water. Each arc must be "set" so that no glare is reflected into a camera lens.

If you're -bug you'll understand what a little hilation will do to your film. Cinematographer obstacles Joe Biroc film- ran into lighting while ing "Bwana Devil." His subjects had the 3rd dimension film, to receive light, from all angles to approximate the conditions of popping any light into his lenses! normal human sight. All without Stage Name Dept. Kathleen Hughes was born Elizabeth Margaret Von Gerkan! ICE FISHING Ice fishing got under way at Okoboji early in December. attraction Perch furnished the main as the season opened.

FRIDAY SATURDAYI TEA 'SEE THE BRILLIANT NEW 1953 CADILLAC On Display at ALGONA IMPLEMENT CO. See Large Elsewhere in This Paper for Complete tails on New Cadillac. The HOTTEST Bargains In Algona This Week! Two Used Adding Machines Both completely reconditioned and in tip-top shapel Smith Corona $74.50 Victor $82.50 SEE THESE NOWI THEY WON'T LAST Upper Des Moines Publishing Co. OFFICE SUPPLY DEPT. Phone 1100 Algong Masonry Cabinet Work BOWMAN BUILDERS General Carpentry Construction Home Repairs ALGONA, IOWA WARREN BOWMAN, 1075W ED BOWMAN, 855J 307 No.

Heckart 913 So. Jerome READ THE WANT ADS--IT PAYS Presenting the BUSINESS WOMEN Of Our Community Antoinette Bonnstetter and E. L. Hanson, Art Pehrson, B. Johnson, M.

Berkland, Jeff Hanifan, Sam Hethershaw and Leonard Applequist on the opposition. A Mexican who had worked in Bancroft for just two weeks was sentenced to 30 days in county jail for shoplifting. He tried to get out of the Kennedy Bros. department store with three pairs of trousers under his coat. Joe Sandschulte noticed the Mexican's coat was bulging, pulled it open and discovered the loot.

The Titonka fire department extinguished small fires Grady Smith and Kobas Tjaden. homes before the flames had caused much damage. Salaries for deputies in county offices were cut: between $5 and $10. The deputies salaries were: treasurer's office, $100; auto deputy, auditor's office, $92.50, $87.50. and $70.

L. L. Lease was selected chief of the Wesley fire department; Vincent Daughn, secretary, and L. Gerdes, treasurer. E.

M. Olson was added to the roll of volunteer firemen. 0 Mr, Pertained and. in Mrs. Itonor S.

D. of the Wilson birth- of their twin daugh- Guests liter, Bernice and Mr. and Mrs. H. R.

Sorensen, Sorensen and son, Dick. Behind The Movie Sets WITH BUDDY MASON C. B. DeMille really started something when he "shot" Sylvia Ashton in a bathtub, way back in 1918. The picture was "Old Wives For New," a film that marked the beginning of Filmland's dunking activities.

One year later, the great C. B. launched a bigger and better tub, complete with one leading lady Gloria Swanson. This feature, titled "Male and Female," rode a tidal -wave of box-office receipts across the nation and the Suds Derby was on! Propmen began searching for new ways of whipping up more photogenic soap-suds. Glycerin was adBicycle-pumps and then compressed air devices, were used to blow up'a bubbly lather for artistic-minded cameramen.

Leatrice Joy spent hours getting Night." Bebe Daniels soaked for waterlogged for "Saturday "Art" in "Why Change back Your Wife." Miss Swanson came to the bath-line, for seconds in "Don't Change Your Husband," establishing a record for being the only leading lady to grace 3 DeMille tub twice. As the infant industry grew its bathrooms kept paco. DeMille plumbers achieved. a status coniers. They hit an all high in parable to DeMille gown and such when the studio picked up a $10,000 tab in 1932 for an undersized-lake of marble that was used in "Sign of the Cross." around in enough milk float Claudette Colberi splashed a tug while cameras felt that it was useless to try and ground away.

Perhaps Hollywood GIVE! MARCH OF DAMES FIGHT March of Dimes One of the most beneficial and necessary services performed by an individual in any community is that of the school nurse whose efforts oftentimes are not realized by the general public. Algona's school nurse is Antoinette Bonnstetter who has for many years looked after the hundreds of children participating in the school program. As often happens, her duties have not been confined to the children alone for she has spent many hours with the children's parents, school lunch program and the many underprivileged families of the community. Miss Bonnstetter was born and raised in Kossuth County, Garfield township, and attended school at West Bend. Later she entered the Academy at Sparta, Wis.

In 1913 she graduated from the school of nursing at St. Francis Hos. chester, at LaCrosse, and Wis. then She took entered post the graduate public work health at fieldwith the Wisconsin Tuberculosis Association from 1918-19. following World War I.

During World War Miss Bonnstetter spent 22 months in the service both in the United States and overseas, She remembers her training at Fort Riley, Kansas, where there were 1800 patients and oply: 35 nurses. Her duties during the war wore with a traveling unit who met emergencies as they arose. Hermaln job was surgery, Miss Bonnstetter took an additional course in teacher training at Fort Collins, where she received her Red teaching certificate. Another course in Red Cross teacher training was taken in 1950 at Decorah. In 1920, Miss Bonnstetter returned to Kossuth County as county Red Cross She continued in this capacity for year and a half during which time she recalls there were three county Red Cross nurses.

The next three years were spent in Pocahontas county where she was a county public health nurse. She returned to the schools of Algona and Humboldt in 1923. Miss stetter served these two town's schools for 11 years. In 1933, during the depression, she became a full time school nurse for Algona in which capacity she has since remained. There were many adjustments that had to be made during these years.

She remembers answering the tole. phone seven or eight times in the morning before ever getting dressed. One year at Christmas 125 baskets of food and necessities were delivered to the needy. She was the only welfare worker and public health nurse in the county. In addition to her nursing duties, Miss Bonnstetter.

carried out the lunch program for 17 years. While Miss Bonnstetter has felt that taking care of babies was her real ambition in life, she has attached herself to the children in the schools so deeply that her feelinas for them are lovingly warm and sincere. As each child's problem is tackled, there's a feeling of wanting to know what happens as a result of her efforts. Miss Bonnstetter comments that "it's an uphill. pull all the way, but you can't do it by waving a magic wand." She says the community has given wonderful support to her in her many years of service, and this spirit is fur.

ther brought to light from discussions she has had with other school nurses in the state. A day's routine will find Miss Bonnstetter at the Algona high school from 8 to 9 a.m., the Lucia Wallace school and Third Ward schools from 10 a. m. and then to the Bryant school where she headquarters, These daily rounds include the checking of any pupil who has been absent from school or is in school but not feeling well, About 110 pupils a month need attention by the school nurse, Other duties include an annual health examination by the nurse and family physician for all kindergarten. fifth and ninth grade pupils plus all new entering the school for the first time, Grades three, six and nine are tested for hearing defects.

The school nurse works with a psychologist who comes twice a year for examination of pupils recommended by teachers. These examinations are followed up by the school nurse. Miss Bonnstetter is a past president of the Algona Soroptimist Club. a past president of St. Ann hospital Auxiliary, a mamber of the Legion Auxiliary, on the board of the Crippled Children's Society, the polio board and the board of the county TB organization, She is also a past president of the nurses' section of the Iowa State Educational Association, Although her day's schedule is full and her duties to other organizations many, Miss Bonnstetter still finds time to crochet, make afghans and knit dresses.

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