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...Keogh, who was born 39 years ago on a 280-acre farm in Platte County, Neb., was eleven and in the seventh grade in 1928 when he was the lone pupil in District 42 School in Burrows Township. With the undivided attention of Teach er Elizabeth Liebig, he studied seventh and eighth-grade lessons simultaneously. In between, he argued politics with Teacher Liebig: she was for Prohibition and against Al Smith; he was for Smith, against Prohibition...
JOHN C. KELLEY Lincoln, Neb...
...White House conference. But the major goal of that conference is really intangible: to turn as many private citizens as possible into amateur Horace Manns. The preparations alone are achieving some of the objectives. One such amateur is Farmer Alvin Massman, who spearheaded a conference in Battle Creek, Neb. Says he: "We got people interested. The meeting adjourned at 4, but at 5 there were still several standing around talking. Considering that they were all farmers who had chores to do, that's something. And at every farm sale or any place farmers have met since, it was brought...
...farmer who has learned to buy machines and make them pay. With bigger crops from his machines and a good income, he can afford to pay high land prices to buy more acres, make more money, and thus buy still more land. Ten years ago Willard Wedberg of Fremont Neb. had two hired hands to help work 320 acres of corn land! Last year, with bigger and better cultivators and tractors he farmed 520 acres with only one part-time helper...
...lost during the Korean war-had been abruptly "deported." Colonel Heller, commander of an F-86 Sabre-jet squadron, had been imprisoned for 28 months; Captain Harold Fischer Jr., 28, of Swea City, Iowa, an F-86 flight commander, for 38 months; Lieut. Lyle W. Cameron, 26, of Lincoln, Neb., F-84 fighter-bomber pilot, for 31 months; and Lieut. Roland Parks, 25, of Omaha, F-86 pilot, for 33 months. From the bridge to freedom at Lo Wu, Air Force officers escorted the four pilots to the comfortable Fan Ling Jockey Club in Hong Kong. There, Lieut. Parks flopped...