Mom's 1946 letter home becomes a part of Truman Library collection

Editor's Note: The author is the son of Hartington natives Ruth (Petersen) Stevens and Walt Stevens, who met in the early 1930s while working at the Cedar County News. Paul Stevens worked as a correspondent, Bureau Chief and finally Vice President of the Associated Press for 36 years before retiring in 2009. — Paul Stevens Retired Associated Press Bureau Chief If you’d have told my mother back in 1946 that a letter she wrote home announcing the birth of her first child - me - would one day be part of the collection of the Truman Library, she would have laughed it off.