Virginia and Phyllis Detasseled Corn - Sunday, July 14, 1963

This has been a good weekend. I have added to my appearance by getting a hair cut and a suntan, got my feature article written, and am looking forward to the coming week. I always do, of course, but I'm thinking more specifically of Monday and Tuesday night , for a change. There were only fifteen people in church today and twelve for Sunday School. There weren't any kids downstairs except Isabelle "taught" Ann. Virginia and Phyllis detasseled corn. They had the day off yesterday since it was too wet. Mom and Dad went down to Bishops but they had a lot of company.

Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company - Saturday, July 13, 1963

I got the information I sent for from the Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company in Kenora. They forwarded my letter to the Minneapolis office. They also sent seven nice photographs, so I should be able to do a real nice feature article on "The Evening Journal from Start to Finish." I also heard from Flo. She has a nice job this summer, too, at Parke-Davis in Detroit. She wants me to be thinking of plans for rush and seeing about getting some favors. Ann wanted me to get some buttons for her, so I went to McLellans, and the manager himself waited on me. We had an awful time with mistakes and changes in a wedding. The groom came in an hour before the ceremony to change around a groomsman and an usher. Then I had to call the Journal after I got home - I'd forgotten to tell them that it was to be sent to the Fairfield Ledger.

Looked at Our Slides - Friday, July 12, 1963

We looked at our slides of Park and Tarkio, Phyl's graduation and our trip to Canada tonight. We got our own screen and projector last spring. This was Virginia and Phyllis's second day of detasseling corn with the two Lindas, Betty and Mary. They are on a crew so get to ride a machine. Some of the Wellman girls work in the same fields, over by Prairie Flower. I wrote a letter to Carolyn Reed (to find out what's going on at Park) and finished one to Margie. Terry Seelye sent me and a picture she took of Margie and me a year ago February but just now got developed.

Met New Manager of Dime Stoore - Thursday, July 11, 1963

We had the club ice cream supper tonight. Connie Bombei, Phyllis and I (along with various others) played badminton and looked at my scrapbook, photograph album and yearbook from Park. I finally saw David Vanderbilt and got a chance to ask him about his trip to the Grand Prix auto races in Garnett, Kansas last weekend. He was at some plays at KU, the Liberty Memorial, and the Country Club Plaza. He's the new dime store manager - real nice - used to work at the store in Kansas City, Kansas. I didn't have much luck getting local news items today. I've got a new feature promised - a glass blower. 

Took Nancy and Sherion to Dog 'N Suds - Wednesday, July 10, 1963

It seemed like July 10 has some significance. What happened on July 10? I had gone to the State Café for lunch today but it was too crowded, and then Nancy and Sherion were coming along, so I took them out to the new Dog 'N Suds stand to eat. This was the day to stuff Journal inserts again. I had a lot of local news items for a Wednesday it seemed like - they always manage to come from somewhere. This turned out to be one of my busiest mornings, though it began on the slow side, sort of, anyway.

Record Number of Local News Items - Tuesday, July 9, 1963

I had a record number of locals today - 31. A year ago today - I was looking at last summer's Journals last week - Barbara Glassburner had 28. Stewarts left this morning at 7:00. I mowed the last of the grass this evening after the kids had done most of it. I've been looking at the Narva. Wish we had this year's. To look through a yearbook carefully a while later brings back such nice memories.

Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Sparked Interest in Park - Monday, July 8, 1963

Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Stewart of Texico, Illinois are staying here tonight. They're on their way home from visiting in South Dakota and Nebraska. Prof Stewart was one of Daddy's college professors and they're the ones who got me interested in Park. Virginia had to go babysit at Joyce's tonight. This was a good day for local news items - I spent most of the morning writing them, and got quite a lot for tomorrow's Journal. I wonder what a lady thought when she saw her "wedding write-up" [wedding was on June 27 in Sigourney, 30 miles northwest of Washington] that we made into a local news item.