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ABBOTSFORD T RIBUNE PUBLISHED IN ABBOTSFORD THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1951
THE TRIBUNE-P HONOGRAPH PUBLISHED IN ABBOTSFORD WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1981
Skating rink not for cars Village officials report that there have been several instances where young drivers have driven their cars on the skating rink across from the high school. This practice is frowned upon and they ask that cars be kept off the rink as a safety measure, if for no other reason.
Colby G.I. on missing list Pvt. Alphonse R. Schmitt, 24, has been reported missing in action in the Korean fighting, according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Alphonse J.
Schmitt, town of Hull, from the Department of Defense at Washington, D.C. The message gave no details.
A member of the infantry, Pvt. Schmitt has been in Korea since last May. He was inducted Oct. 24, 1950, and served as Camp Polk, La. and Ft. Ord, Calif., before being assigned to overseas duty.
Prior to induction, Pvt. Schmitt was employed on the Marathon county farm of his parents.
Resuscitator demonstrated Norman Olsen and Clarence Weller of the Abbotsford Volunteer Fire Department, demonstrated the resuscitator at a meeting of the Curtiss P.T.A. recently. It is hoped a similar demonstration can be given here in the near future, to acquaint people with the work this machine can do.
It is available to anyone when artificial resuscitation is required. All that is necessary is for you to contact the fire department.
Tri-County Soil Center facility should start to roll this week Tri-County Soil Center of Abbotsford is expected to begin operations this week with its new 100-foot fertilizer mixing tower and storage facilities, which were built in response to the loss of Chicago and Northwestern Railroad service in the area. The building and the tower, which went up in just a couple months, are a joint venture of the Edgar and Stratford Co-ops, along with Ed-Mar Soil Center of Marathon. The operation was organized by Don Pernsteiner, manager of the Stratford Co-op.
The facilities will replace the former rail shipments of fertilizer and components by Chicago and Northwestern, which decided recently to abandon its service to this area.
“We (the cooperatives) were invited to purchase part of the track and make a local short line out of it, but after studying the proposal, we realized we couldn’t do it profitably,” Pernsteiner said, “so we decided to abandon that idea and instead seek a closer site off a major railroad line.”
The group looked at sites in Wausau and Mosinee before deciding on the former Holtz and Barrett Soil Service site, just west of the Soo Line Railroad tracks in Abbotsford. The co-op group bought out the owners, Mike Barrett and Ray Holtz, and also leased additional adjoining land from the Soo Line before hitting the drawing boards with plans for the new facility.
Once the plans were ready, the new potash storage building and mixing tower went up in short order.
