THE MAZEPPA JOURNAL, Editor and Publisher: Barbara and Reider Tommeraas

FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1956

U. MINN. RESEARCH BALLOON BEING SOUGHT IN THIS AREA
The University of Minn. Research Dept. Balloon Project called this office Tuesday evening and asked The Journal to announce that a balloon from this project had been lost and
was believed in the Mazeppa area.
According to Berton M. Atkinson, project engineer, the balloon was launched from Minneapolis, Monday evening at 9 and landed in this area about 6 a.m., Tuesday. It was a 12 ft.
orange nylon parachute and attached to it was a package 12 x 12 in. square, 6 in. high covered with aluminum foil. On the bottom of this package is a black painted window covered
with transparent material which holds a camera lens—no value to anyone. Also hanging outside the package, is a plastic cylinder, 8 inches long with a 3 inch diameter which holds a
radio transmitter.
The package and the plastic cylinder are the objects the research department wishes to recover and a reward is offered the finder. Anyone that finds it is asked to phone collect the
following number; Federal 28158, Extension 224, night or day.
Just One of Those Things
Some days it surely doesn’t pay to get out of bed, but we had a whole week like that----and we still haven’t recovered.
The cesspool at our place has been there longer that I can remember—and we took it for granted. We h ad troubles last week, for the first time, and didn’t even know where the
thing was. Well, the boss dug for a couple of days, found a piece of pipe shot and everybody figure that was it. However, it wasn’t so this week we’re in the cesspool business---jus
when it looks like village sewers will become a reality. (School protestors, please note!)
Then, in rapid succession, our roof sprung a leak, and an essential piece of plumbing had to be repl aced. Everything was completed when the youngest came down with an ear
infection and cried, every morning because she couldn’t go to kindergarten.
Postscript: Climax came when Randi, watching her father dig like a mote about six feet down, asked; “Are you digging angleworms, Daddy?”
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FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1956

Obituaries
NILE A. REDDING
Marion- Nile Redding, Rochester area and Marion resident for the past 23 years, died Sunday at St. M ary’s hospital after a 10-day illness. He was 62 years old.
Mr. Redding was born Aug. 27, 1893, at Mazeppa. He married Thyrza Jones, Nov. 26, 1918, at Mazeppa. The couple resided in Marion the past 11 years. Mr. Redding was a truck driver.
Surviving are his wife, sons, Harry, Earl and John of Rochester and Shirley of Oronoco; a daughter, Mrs. Milo Berndt of Rochester; a brother George of St. Paul; a sister, Mrs. Mayme Hilger of St. Paul; 10 grandchildren. A daughter preceded him in death.
Funeral services were held at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Francis Catholic church, Rochester, with buri al in SS Peter and Paul cemetery at Mazeppa.

DRIVING ROADE-0
Want to give Recognition to a group of students that represented Mazeppa at the Driving Roade-o in R ochester, April 28. The annual event is sponsored by the Rochester Jaycees.
Students who tried for the prize were Emery Bremer, Glenn Anding, Dean Majerus, Florian Reding, Harold Wobschall, Bernard Reiland, Larry Windhorst, Barbara Prokasky,
Melinda Sommerfield and Patsy Tupper.
In the morning written tests were taken to qualify the students for the driving test.
Mazeppa can justly be proud of its young drivers because out of the 10 who went, three qualified for the driving test. Melinda, the only girl to qualify, placed seventh, Harold
Wobschall placed 14th and Larry Windhost placed fourth. Larry just missed third place and a trophy b y two points.

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