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...Wink. Kenneth Grouwinkel's hogs look pretty good. He has seven of them, which he brought 150 miles from his farm in Wapello. While his ten-year-old son Kenny tries the 40-ft. giant slide outside, Grouwinkel and his wife and younger son Michael, 3, spend most of their time watching over their animals in the semidarkness of the swine barn. The three-year-old keeps tapping the hogs with a short stick, in order, his mother says, "to keep 'em awake. Lordy, little Michael keeps those hogs so awake they've hardly had a wink...
Creston's worried parents scouted around, found that the grownups of Eldora, Wapello, Clinton, Columbus Junction and other Iowa towns had met the menace by offering an annual community-sponsored all-night fling. Last week Creston tried the same remedy. Druggist Rex L. Mitchell sparked the party, got 33 local organizations to cooperate. The junior and senior classes approved the plans, added stipulations: 1) no teachers allowed after the prom, 2) other adults could serve food and drive the cars but were in no way to act like chaperons. The kids picked a name for the fling: "Crestubilee...
Farmers switched in Iowa too. Ike was leading in heavily pro-labor Wapello County, in Holland-Dutch Sioux County, and in heavily Catholic Dubuque County...
...around Wapello, Iowa, hunting parties beat the brush for a lion and a black panther, supposed to have been turned loose by an itinerant showman at the height of last summer's meat shortage...
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