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April 25, 1951
LAUREL —The three new village board members were sworn in last night at a special meeting of the board at the municipal building.
D. W. Curtiss, village attorney, installed the new officers: Willard Tangeman, H. H. Fleer and John Urwiler.
The board members elected C. W. Shurtleff as chairman of the board. They also elected Bernard Pehrson as village clerk. D. W.
Curtiss was elected village attorney.
In a telephone conversation with Mr. Pehrson this morning he stated that he will accept the position as clerk.
The board will hold their regular monthly meeting in the municipal building next Tuesday night, May 1. This meeting will be primarily to reorganize the board members as heads of departments.
April 25, 1951
LAUREL —Miss Arlys Thompson, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thompson of the Logan Center community north of Laurel, has been selected and approved to represent the Laurel American Legion Auxiliary at Cornhusker Girl’s State at Lincoln in June.
Arlys is a Junior in the Laurel high school and is majoring in English and Social Science. She also takes an active part in Band, girls glee club and mixed chorus.
The Laurel American Legion Auxiliary and the Laurel Girl Scouts are sponsoring her trip to Lincoln.
April 25, 1951
LAUREL — F. J. Hopkins, who now lives at South Sioux City, but formerly of Dixon, announced he has sold his insurance business and building in Dixon to J. C. McCaw.
Mr. Hopkins has been in business in Dixon for the past 50 years. He started when a lad of 20 by working in a creamery. He worked there for about a year and then took a job on the Dixon dray line for a short time. Following the dray business he worked for the Dixon Lumber and Grain Co. for 17 years.
He then bought the grain business and later sold it to Sioux City’s Albert Meyers Grain Co. in 1943. It was then he entered into the real estate and insurance business in Dixon.
He remained in this line of work until he sold the insurance and office building to J. C. McCaw, a local Dixon man.
Mr. Hopkins stated he would help Mr. McCaw until he became familiar with this line of work.
April 25, 1951
LAUREL - Terry Wright, 16, son of Rev. and Mrs. A. L. Wright of Laurel has been selected to represent the Laurel American Legion Post 54 at Cornhusker Boy’s State at Lincoln in June.
Terry is a Junior in the Laurel high school and is majoring in Mathematics and English. He is also very active in athletics—football and track and music—boys quartette and mixed chorus at the Laurel school.
The Laurel American Legion Post No. 54 and the Laurel Commercial Club are sponsoring his trip to Boy’s State.
April 25, 1951
LAUREL - The destroyer USS Cunningham has added her might to the growing armada of warships in Korea and aboard her is Claude E. Lukes sonarman, second class USN, son of Mrs. Wm. H. Lukes of Laurel, and husband of Mrs. Frances L.
Lukes of 7642 Genty ave., North Hollywood, Calif.
The Cunningham arrived in the Far East in January after being recommissioned from the Pacific Reserve Fleet at San Diego, Calif.
The ship is providing plane guard and screening protection for a fast carrier force which is striking at the enemy daily.
April 26, 1956
LAUREL - Mr. and Mrs. Dwaine Petersen and Mrs. Jim Withee of Tilden were on their way home from a concert at Wayne State Teachers College Thursday, when their car struck a Black Angus bull on Highway 15, 13 miles south of Wayne. Harold Carlson and Bill Fahnestock arrived on the scene and took the injured persons to a hospital.
Mrs. Petersen the former Carole Tuttle of Laurel, suffered a broken collar bone and knee injuries.
Dwaine Petersen and Mrs. Withee received cuts and bruises. They were treated at the Wayne hospital.
The Angus bull, weighing approximately 1,400 pounds, had to be killed. It was owned by Hugo Micholson of Wisner.
The Petersen car was damaged extensively. It plunged into a 12foot ditch, but did not overturn.
Patrolman Carl Schell of Norfolk investigated the accident.
April 26, 1951
COLERIDGE — Television has reached Coleridge. I.W. Cady installed a television set at the Cady residence last week.
