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...Sioux City, Iowa...
...ancient Sioux held an oldtimers' reunion at South Dakota's Custer State Park. They were the last of the Indian band which had massacred Lieut. Colonel George A. Custer and 250 troopers of the 7th U.S. Cavalry at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. Now the buffalo were gone and the white man had taken their Black Hills. Said one irascible old brave: "I wish my people were strong enough to get them back...
This week, the new council voted 4 to 1 to renew the movie license for a year. It looked as if the great god Progress might yet bring to Sioux Center's Main Street the last detail it needed to make it the duplicate of Main Streets up & down the land: a neon-trimmed marquee and posters showing Betty Grable's legs...
Nightly Except Sunday. Movies have never been popular with the churchmen of Sioux Center. An outsider wanted to erect a theater in 1938, but a popular referendum stopped him. The youngsters took to driving the eleven miles to Orange City's Tulip Theatre. A year ago, the Sioux Center American Legion post leased the Town Hall for a nightly (except Sunday) movie. The resulting uproar split the town squarely down the middle. Merchants liked the trade it brought to town; some citizens thought it kept Sioux Center's youth off the highways. But the Ministerial Association...
Last Detail. Sioux Center's five-man town council ducked the issue, put it up for referendum. Once again, "Satan's tool" lost-by 61 votes. But that did not settle the matter. The Legion's lease ran until April 1, and the town council, which had leased the Town Hall to the Legion, was up for election before then. Meantime, the issue of a municipally owned light plant arose, and Sioux Center's high school team reached the semifinals in the state basketball tournament. In the excitement, the antimovie forces failed to line...