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April 5, 1956
HARTINGTON - Holy Trinity high school’s senior class will don the dipping hemlines and peg leg pants of the “Roaring Twenties” for their presentation of “Our Hearts Were Young and Gay.”
The play will be given in the city auditorium Friday evening, April 6. Curtain time is 8 o’clock.
The three-act comedy deals with the European vacation of two 19-yearolds in the summer of 1923. The two girls, played by Elizabeth Walz and Sharon Dougherty, battle through attacks of measles and bedbugs to find themselves involved in one ridiculous situation after another.
Much of the mirth is provided by their shipboard romance with the wisecracking Dick Winters and the gullible Leo McEvoy, portrayed by Richard Wieseler and Robert Potts. The cryptic remarks of Richard Hochstein and the unconscious wit of Arlene Eickhoff, who are cast as one of the girls’ parents, contribute to the general amusement.
Gene Sudbeck, Dennis Foecke, Anita Feilmeier, Mark Wubben and Betty Schrempp comprise the genial personnel of the ship. The rather eccentric acquaintances of the girls are played by Rose Mary Litz, Kay Rossiter, Geralda Kathol, Frances Hirschman, Charles Frigge and Henry Sudbeck.
April 5, 1956
LAUREL — Edwin Stalder, 61, manager of the Laurel hotel, was killed Friday when he fell from a tractor beneath a plow on the Kenneth Graham farm, 2¾ miles west of here.
Sheriff Ralph Clements and County Coroner Max Goetz investigated the accident.
Mr. Stalder was assisting Mr. Graham in spring plowing when the accident occurred.
Graham, who was operating another tractor nearby, said Stalder had stopped the tractor to grease the plow.
In reaching for the grease gun, Stalder accidentally kicked the tractor into gear and was thrown backward, falling under the plow.
Graham ran to Stalder’s aid and succeeded in stopping the tractor after it had traveled about 75 feet.
Coroner Goetz said death was due to extensive skull fractures.
This was the second fatal farm accident in Cedar county within ten days. Robert Wintz, 49, Randolph farmer, was killed when a loaded farm wagon crushed him March 22.
April 5, 1956
HARTINGTON - Rubin Bird of Hartington had unusual license plates issued him Wednesday by County Treasurer Louis G. Riibe.
They were permanent antique license plates for a 1909 Reo touring car. Riibe said this was the first time he had issued license plates of this type. The plates cost $5 and they are issued to cars 40 years old or older.
The inscriptions “103-NEB” and “Antique” appear on the plates. The auto is in Sioux City now.
