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Aug. 4, 1955
HARTINGTON — For six consecutive days this past week, residents of this area sweltered in temperatures that soared over 100 degrees, according to reports from Hirschel Forinash, official weather observer.
Since Friday, the mercury has reached 104 degrees or higher each day and at night, the temperatures never dropped below 73 degrees.
Sunday through Tuesday it was 105 degrees and on Wednesday it dropped to 104. Temperatures in the Hartington area have been on par with the record-breaking readings all over the country. Many corn fields in the area have been seriously damaged by the high temperatures.
Aug. 4, 1955
HARTINGTON — Hartington residents used 778,000 gallons of water from the city wells Monday, according to Mayor Kenneth Miller. This would be an average of 474 gallons used by every man, woman and child in Hartington on a typical hot day. Most of the water was undoubtedly used to combat the heat, ranging from making cold drinks to running it through air conditioners. Hartington’s water supply is obtained from three wells in the east part of town. Monday one well pumped an average of 315 gallons per minute for 19 hours. One well pumped 200 gallons of water per minute for 17 hours and the third well pumped 250 gallons of water per minute for five hours. These wells pump water into the city water tank where it is then distributed.
Aug. 4, 1955
ATEN — The vital importance of water in the national economy was emphasized by Secretary of the Army Wilber Brucker in his address Sunday at the celebration of the closure of the Gavins’ Point Dam west of Yankton.
Many Cedar County residents were among some 4,000 people who attended the closure ceremony. Actual closure of the dam was accomplished at 4:08 a.m. Sunday with two mammoth drag lines dropping chalk rock into the closure gap. River flow at this point was stopped, at which time the Corps of Engineers diverted the Missouri River flow into a channel of concrete and steel at the powerhouse on the Nebraska side of the river. It was estimated that an additional 2,000 people came to the closure area Saturday night and throughout the area Sunday to watch the operations. Secretary Brucker was the only speaker on the program to talk at any length, with the rest of the participants making their remarks brief. Also on the program were Governors Joe Foss of South Dakota and Victor E. Anerson of Nebraska, Lt. Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis, Chief of the Army Engineers and U.S. Senators Roman Hruska and Carl Curtis and Congressman Robert Harrison and Jackson Chase of Nebraska.
Aug. 4, 1965
HARTINGTON — Appointment of Roy Carlson as a member of the Farmers Home Administration County Committee has been announced by Alfred J. Voelker, Acting County Supervisor for Cedar County.
Carlson does general farming in the Wausa area. Two other members make up the three member committee which works with the county supervisor to see that the best possible use is made of the agency’s farm credit service program consistent with the local farmers’ needs. The other two members are Robert D. Havekost of Coleridge and Francis J. Hoesing of Fordyce.
Each member is appointed to a three-year term. Carlson succeeds Ralph Westadt of the Randolph area.
The committee determines the eligibility of individual applicants for all types of loans.
It also reviews borrowers’ progress and aids the county supervisor in adapting the agency’s loan policies to conditions faced by farmers in this area. Members are selected and appointed so that as far as possible, different area or neighborhoods are represented.
Aug. 4, 1965
COLERIDGE — Nearly three years of work on the part of the Coleridge Community Development Assn. came to a successful close this week when Dr. Eugene C. Hermanson officially opened the Coleridge Medical Clinic Monday.
Dr. and Mrs. Hermanson and daughters moved to Coleridge this week and are residing in the former Ed Roth home. Dr. Hermanson, a native of Michigan, has spent the last 10-12 years in the Lincoln-Omaha area. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska College of Medicine and he interned at University Hospital in Lincoln.
Early in 1963, a drive to obtain a doctor in Coleridge was started when a group of Coleridge citizens formed the Coleridge Development Association which was designed after a similar plan was used successfully in Wausa.
In March of 1963 the association was officially incorporated with 25 stockholders and it was decided to issue the stockholders participation certificates. Elroy Hefner, Clarence Kalin, Dr. H. P. Lortz, Willis Jones, Jim Gray, Marvin Hartung and Earl Papenhausen were elected directors. Hefner was elected president and Dr. Lortz vice president.
