The Daily Journal from Fergus Falls, Minnesota • Page 5

TUESDAY, NOV. 27, FERGUS'FALLS (Minn.) DAILY JOURNAL PAG? FIVt Jaycees Plan Residential Christmas Lighting Contest The Fergus Falls Jaycees and Otter Tail Power Company will iponsor a residential Christmas Lighting Contest here this year, according to Norman Doeden, Jaycee chairman of the contest committee. The contest fs being promoted to spread the spirit of Christmas by means of decoration with light, Doeden said. Winners will be selected in each of the wards of the city, and there will also be a grand prize winner. Doeden said that "Our community will receive a great many benefits from an all-out effort to decorate our homes.

The contest will provide pleasure lor everyone participating, It will help beautify our city at this season of the year, and it will foster a friendlier community spirit." CHRISTMAS LIGHTING CONTEST RULES 1. Open to all residences or apartments in the City of Fergus Falls. 2. A winner will he selected in each of the four wards of the city. A separate grand prize will also he selected 3.

Otter Tail Power Company employees will compete for a separate prize. i 4. Deadline for entries is December 20, 1962. Entries should be mailed or left at Otter Tail; power Company, 125 South Mill' Street, Fergus Falls, on or before this date. 5.

Displays should he lighted between the hours of 6:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. during the contest to provide the judges adequate time to view each of the displays. Judging will be done on Dec. 21 and 22.

6. Judges' decisions will be based on the following points: artistic merit, originality, lighting techniques, and Ingenuity. The displays need not be expensive in order to win. 7. Prizes: Winner in each ward will receive an electric blanket.

Grand Prize: Winner will receive an electric rotisserie. II ENTRY BLANK Our Brightest Christmas CONTEST Sponsored by Fergus Falls Jaycees and Otter Tail Power Company Mail To: Otter Tail Power Company 135 South Mill Street Fergus Falls, Minnesota Please enter my home (apartment) in your 1962 Christinas Lighting Contest. Haugrud Sisters Enter District Speech Contest Kath.v and Kaythe Haugrud will represent West Otter Tail county in the district Soil and Water Conservation speaking contest at Detroit Lakes Thursday. The daughters of Mr. and Mrs.

Raymond Haugrud of Pelican Rapids, they were winners of the county contest Nov. 24. If tape recordings of their talks win at Detroit Lakes they will enter state competition in January. The contests are sponsored by the Soil Conservation district supervisors, Minnesota Daughters of the Soil and the Midland Co-op. NAME I Legislators, I Schoolmen to Meet Here Disaster Plan Stressed to Group Here A group of 80 persons, most of them nurses, heard ahout disaster preparedness In a talk last evening by Mrs.

Doris Fink, national nursing representative of the Red Cross. A disaster plan, no matter how well formulated, is no good if it's kept in a desk drawer and people are not familiar with it, she said. It's important, she said, to i plan three deep in setting Cross Is responsible for the relief of persons, providing food, shelter, clothing, medical and nursing aid and aid for recovery of families. Civil Defense is responsible for protection of life, property, public health and welfare. The government, operating through civil Defense, issues warnings, enforces evacuation, provides rescue and coordinates all government agencies.

In case of war, food and all other supplies would be frozen for five days, Mrs. Fink said. Families should at least keep on hand enough fond for five days and a supply of first aid materials, she said. She urged parents to find out what plan schools have for chil drpn in case disaster or war On Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Mil.

Mrs. Fink will speak on the duties of nurses in time of disaster. v-jiale Bank building 1 The meeting is open to all nurses. committees so someone will he available when disaster strikes. Committees can be coordinated between Civil Defense and Red i Cross.

In case of disaster the Red ADDRESS RESIDENTIAL CONTESTANT Legislators form the area and representatives of 80 schools have been invited to a dinner meeting -in Fergus Falls Thursday. Legislation will be the topic of the Fergus Falls, Minnesota SCSSlOn SpOHSOred by the i division of the Minnesota Educa- lion Association. Speakers will include John J. Neumaier, president of Moorhead State College, and A. L.

Gallup, executive secretary of the MEA. Board members, superintend Vergas Firemen Receive i Figuration i Midnight Call Committee Plans Action the VERGAS Vergas firemen were summoned to the Frank Ohman farm, 3 miles west of Vergas. at midnighf. Sunday. Mr.

Ohman was awakened by a bright light shining in his win- dow, and found that the hen The relationship between house was on fire. The 14x25 foot I business community and structure and about 20 chickens: ch Is reviewed this morn- were destroyed. Firemen 19 men gathered around however, able to keep the fire the breakfast table. Occasion was the first meeting of the new education committee jof the Chamber of Commerce called by Robert Allison, The breakfast session began at 7 at the River Inn. Council Meets Today to Ask Planning Funds Mrs.

Fink stressed the functions of nurses in case of disaster or They would be needed at hospitals and shelters and also lo work with first aid teams in the field. Further training sessions are planned for this week. Leaders will be trained for classes in "Fitness for the Future" and a refresher course will i be provided for home nursing TRULY DISTINCTIVE MIRRORS For Any Room 99, WILL HOLD TOUR MIRROR ON LATBY Free Wrapping and Deliv- sry at Christmas Time! A YEAR.AROUND REMEMBRANCE MIRRORS WITH BEVELED OH PLAIN EDGES by Libbey-Owens-Ford. See our large variety of Mirrors today! Open Daily lo 5:00 p.m. Close Saturdays at 12 Neon HOFFMAN GLASS CO.

On Highways 52-59 North Fergus Falls, Minn. The Fergus Falls city council; MU IU will hold a special meeting at from each i 5 P-m. today, at which they plan of some 80 schools in the 10-coun-1 to pass a special resolution asking ty area as well as newly elected. the federal government to grant legislators have been invited to i Planning funds for 1962 and 1963. the the meeting lo be held in the! The city from spreading to other buildings close by.

senior high school cafeteria. Iowa Steers Win Top Spots Bakken Case Is Judge Rol E. Barren yesterday dismissed the case of Gordon and Marilyn Bakken against the Sverdrup Mutual Insurance company. The action came after the plaintiff rested. Under cross-examination Bakken admitted he obtained a policy from Floyd Hoff, a former owner of the property, after the fire.

Victor McLeod of Christine, N. Mrs. Fred Ehlers, spent, Thanksgiving at the Pete Mounts and Pat McLeod homes. Friends and neighbors helped Ella Miles celebrate her 84th birthday Saturday afternoon. Mrs.

Clyde Wheeler and child- ren of Detroit Lakes spent several days at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Swanberg. Among items discussed were i CHICAGO caplur- the chamber in the competition in the International past, the future of the junior col- Livestock Exposition A South lege, a scholarship foundation be-1 Dakota steer placed third. ing organized for junior college students, educational television, The grand champion was shown by Lyle Miller, 33, of Osceola, and lnltl ng a work se- i owa winning over more than "T' I ries on "Freedom vs Communism." Allison announced subcommittee assignments made by him and 700 entries in the annual competition Mon'day.

Kaye Pollock, 17, of Auburn, Iowa, took reserve grand has received a telegram from the Federal Home and Housing Finance Authority which stated that since the city has promised to appoint a housing authority and survey housing needs in Fergus Falls, their hold on a federal planning grant is released. Because of that hold, the planning commission had been without funds since early in the year. The resolution Is directed to the State Department of Business Development, and asks that department to process a request for 511,300 in federal funds to be used for city planning. The stale then forwards the request to the federal government. As required by federal planning law, the city agrees to malch Mount tedeval funds wivh 54.900 in cash Mr.

and Mrs. Jack Busch and i Ed Larson, who is board advisor honors with her 900 Dean spent the weekend at Min- toc hue ommi te he ar pound shorthorn senior calf. Miss neapolis visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs.

Loyal Burmeister of Northfield and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Gleesing of Kenning were Thanksgiving guests at the Wm. Higher Education: Vernon Ar- Burmeister Home. 1 Mr.

and Mrs. Arthur Fuchs and Earl Williams, Wesley children of Fulda spent several i Waa Warren NxJ Vras- In Tordenskjold township in February, 1959. On Nov. 24, 19159, the home occupied by Barney Loerzel, was destroyed by fire. Bakken sought $2,400 for the loss.

It developed during testimony School Relations: L. E. Werma- Pollock had the grand champion ger, chairman, Erwin Davenport, 1960. Bruce Nelson, Robert Meister, The third steer, a summei Russ Washburn, Otho Buchnef. i yearling Hereford, was shown by Don Gepperl, 23, of Kimball, D.

The steer was named cham pion of the Hereford breed. The beeves go on sale Thursdays visiting Mrs Leona True i Jim Neal day. Grand champions at the Mr and Mrs Bill and 1Dr Stahn, Maurice J. Ness, exposition have brought as high 1 as S3Q a pound or a total of $31, 050. Bakkei) bought an 80-acrs farm Sallv of Cass a)ie were guests Economic Understanding: Harat the Eidred Schultz home on Thanksgiving Mrs.

Claude Christie of Duluth visited at the Cunkel and Markle homes last week. Neil Misegades, who attends old Erickson, Richard Pemberton. that the former owners had in- Teachers College at Seward, surance on the farm with the spent the weekend with his Sverdrup Mutual Insurance com- 1 parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard EVIDENCE IS AMERICANS FAR FROM CULTURAL CLODS pany but it had not been assigned to Bakken before the fire.

Bakken told of conversations he had had with Carl Larson', secretary of the insurance company, and indicated he believed the in- Misegades. Weekend guests at the Richard Buntrock home were Mr. and NEW YORK image of the American as a cultural clod, says the Stanford Research Institute of California, has been Mrs. Alvin Buntrock and' child-! to rout a statistical ren and Ida Bartels. of Hopkins.

Miss Bartels remained for a long- surance was in effect. visit. Jurors were drawn today for a Mr. and Mrs. case involving a fatal collision; and sons of DePere, spent near Perham last June 26.

i Thanksgiving here with relatives. Manuael Schanfield, as trustee Mrs. Herman Thalmann returned for the heirs of Ben Struzowsky, to Wisconsin with them where she will visit them for several decedent, has the action against Lawrence Gotschy and weeks. From there she will go to Gordon Sanders doing business! California where she will spend, as the Sanders Deep Rock Oil the winter with her daughter and company. i family.

Air. and Mrs. Leonard Struzowsky of St. Paul Was Cloutier, and other relatives. geon Studies show there now are more piano players than licensed Bernle Sanders I fishermen, as many painters as hunters and more theater-goers than golfers.

Fifty million Americans, the institute says, are "strumming, daubing, carving, acting, singing on their own." The trend, it indicates, is home- Behind success gadgets, it are instanl- the do-it-yourself urge, enterprising business, civic pride and social In effect, says Stanford, there is evidence that Americans are becoming interested more in aesthetics than athletics. Arnold Mitchell, an institute economist, counted these satisfies: 32 million players of musical instruments. 15 million Sunday painters, skctchers or sculptors, a million art photographers and a half-million actors. Amateur writers were not included. The result of such undertakings is a market for the arts now running about $2.5 billion a year, says Mitchell.

He predicts a total arts market of $7 billion by 1970. driving on Highway 10 five miles northwest of Perham last June. Gotschy was driving a truck owned by Sanders when the collision occurred. Injuries were fatal to Struzowsky. His trustee is suing for $25,000.

Woman Driver Dies In Skid Into Lake MINNEAPOLIS woman driver drowned Monday when her car left a boulevard along Cedar Lake and plunged into water. The victim was Mrs. Rivel Korsh, of suburban Golden Val-; ley, mother of two grown daugh-. ters. Witnesses said the car skidded across the road, glanced off a i tree and careened into the lake.

Bill Porteous, 20. Minneapolis, a witness, dived into the water fully clothed to attempt a rescue but the frigid water forced him to give up the effort. Police skin divers located the car and recovered the body in- side the vehicle, SHOP ltd tMIT Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Reese of Rochester were, guests at the Wm.

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