A Look Back: October 27, 2017

Posted 10/27/17

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A Look Back: October 27, 2017

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100 Years Ago

Nov. 1, 1917

Goshen County Journal

What food to save and how to save it

By request of President Wilson and Food Administrator Hoover, the time from Oct. 29 to Nov. 5 is designated as Food Saver Week. They say that, “In order to help the United States make good to her allies, the homes, the hotels and the restaurants of this country must help us save food.”

They hope to enlist as nearly as possible 100 percent of America’s 22 million households in an army that will wholeheartedly support food conservation.

Here’s an abbreviated list:

Use every meat scrap for soups, gravies and flavorings. Meat is not necessary if you get the right substitutes.

Use all the milk supply - buttermilk, sour milk and cheese. Even at present prices, milk is cheap. Give the children plenty.

Save all foods left from general table service. Use for soup, salad, stews or scalloped dishes.

Store food and screen it from dust and flies to keep it from spoiling. Then watch and use before it starts to spoil.

Can the surplus, especially of garden products.

Increase in first class postage rate

Pursuant to amended Postal Laws and Regulations, postage is paid at the rate of 3-cents per ounce or fraction thereof on letters and other first class matter, except drop letters. All drop letters - letters mailed for delivery from the office at which posted, including those for delivery by city, rural or other carrier of such office - are required to have postage paid on them at the rate of 2-cents per ounce or fraction thereof.

Postal cards are required to be prepaid at 2-cents and, therefore, 1-cent postal cards must have an additional 1-cent stamp affixed to them in addition to the 1-cent stamp impressed on such cards. Post cards (private mailing cards) bearing written messages must have 2-cents postage prepaid on them.

75 Years Ago

Oct. 28, 1942

Keenan reports for service Monday

Dr. Leo Keenan, prominent Torrington physician, Saturday received his notification to report for duty this week at San Diego, Calif. He left here Monday morning.

Dr. Keenan is a commissioned officer in the medical corps of the Naval Reserve. Mrs. Keenan and their two children will remain in Torrington until Dr. Keenan receives his assignment, when they plan to join him.

Mrs. Scott to reopen Platte Valley Hospital

Extensive remodeling and rearranging has been started this week in the Platte Valley Hospital building. Considerable new and up-to-date furnishings are being procured and as soon as the building is in readiness, Mrs. John Scott will close her cottage hospital and move to the new location.

With both floors arranged for hospital use, the building will accommodate from 16 to 20 beds, according to the new management, and will provide the Torrington community with a well-equipped and up-to-date hospital.

Deep sewer connections will greatly improve the basement, said Mrs. Scott. It will have a modern, convenient kitchen, laundry room, bath and dumb-waiter service.

Announcement as to the opening date will be made in a later issue.

50 Years Ago

Oct. 26, 1967

Ohio publisher named to head Telegram

A former Ohio publisher and advertising executive has been named publisher of the Torrington Telegram. The announcement was made by Richard W. Chapin, executive vice president of Stuart Enterprises of Lincoln, Neb., owners of the newspaper.

Richard D. Kostic, formerly of Mentor Ohio, a Cleveland suburb, was advertising director of the Evening Independent, Massillon, Ohio, and evening newspaper in the 20,000 circulation class, prior to joining the Telegram.

From 1958 until last year, Kostic was president of The Mentor Printing Company, publishers of hte Mentor Shopping News, a weekly publication with more than 11,000 circulation. 

He and his wife, Jackie, have three children: Jane, 12, a seventh-grader at Torrington Junior High, David, 9, in the third grade at Lincoln Elementary School, and Beth, 4.

In making the appointment, Mr. Chapin said, “We feel fortunate in having Dick Kostic join our organization. His excellent newspaper background will be an added asset to the community, the Telegram and Stuart Enterprises.

Farm Bureau to honor Queen

The Goshen County Farm Bureau will host a coffee in honor of their Queen, Miss Lynnea Hergert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hergert of Lingle, at the Wyoming Grill on Sunday, Oct. 29 at 2 p.m.

Miss Hergert will give a two-minute speech on “Go and Grow With Farm Bureau,” and will present a talent number.

Also attending as a guest will be the immediate past Farm Bureau Queen, Miss Margaret Greenwald, also of Lingle. All Farm Bureau members are cordially invited to attend.

25 Years Ago

Oct. 28, 1992

State budget will improve if treasurer’s reins loosened

Deputy State Treasurer Glenn Shaffer was in Torrington on Monday to explain the proposed Constitutional Amendment. 

What the amendment will do is allow the state treasurer’s office more flexibility in investments of state funds, Shaffer said. If people want to vote against the amendment, that’s fine, he said. He’s trying to get it across to people that not voting on the issue counts as a “no” vote.”

“If 100,000 people vote in the general elections, and out of that, 40,000 vote yes, and no one votes no, then the measure is still defeated,” Shaffer said. “If people don’t want the amendment, that’s fine. But we would like them to be able vote from an intelligent point of view.”

He said Wyoming currently is very restrictive and does not allow officials the same flexibility that many of the other states have in placing investments.

“Currently, we can invest only in certain funds, even if there are higher-yield investments available that are just as stable,” Shaffer said. In 1984, the treasure and the retirement system people introduced an amendment allowing them to invest in common stocks, but only with retirement funds. Since then, their portfolio has grown from $800 million to $1.8 billion - in only seven years.”

Karpan: ‘There’s a new world coming

Wyoming Secretary of State Kathy Karpan spoke to a gathering of Torrington Democrats on Sunday at Eastern Wyoming College, telling them, “Our turn has come – not only at the federal level, but at the state level, too.”

Karpan said on Wednesday that she had tried to keep her message upbeat to get the point across that the new Democratic Party is prepared to offer answers to the problems that are affecting the country today. Karpan said one of the newest buzz-words around the country is to “re-invent government.

“We are a party that has been out there, thinking about answers for the current problems,” she said. “We need a brand new economy to go along with the concept of a global economy.”