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ABBOTSFORD T RIBUNE PUBLISHED IN ABBOTSFORD THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1952
Harry Bender resigns as principal at Colby School Harry Bender, principal of the Colby High School for the past 30 years, has resigned and will retire from active teaching work.
Mr. Bender taught school for 38 years, six years at West Salem, one year at Ontario, one year as principal of the Colby graded school and 30 years as principal of the Colby high school.
On Monday, Lowell F. Ives, Oshkosh, a graduate of the Milwaukee Teachers’ College class of 1950, took over the duties of band instructor at the Colby high school, taking the place of Ray Plesser, who resigned. Mr. Ives taught at Ft. Summer, New Mexico, last year.
Snow piles up Tuesday after mild weekend The snow storm, sweeping over the country, struck this area Tuesday. Snow, coupled with high wind, made visibility so bad that school was dismissed about 1:30, so the buses could get the students home. The Pleasant Hill bus also went early.
The north and south roads were especially hard to drive and several car accidents, with considerable property damage, occurred on Highway 13, between here and Colby, that afternoon.
Drivers who were caught in the storm, had little else than the telephone poles to guide them.
Wednesday was a school holiday. Some attempts were made a plowing the roads but continued wind made it an unsatisfactory job. Thursday was quieter and a little colder and street crews hauled the snow away from the Main Street.
THE TRIBUNE-P HONOGRAPH PUBLISHED IN COLBY THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1972
Glidden group travel to Curtiss derby by snowmobile A group of hardy snowmobilers traveled all the way from Glidden to Curtiss on snowmobiles early Saturday morning, about a 140-mile trip, to attend the sixth annual Snowmobile Derby sponsored by the Boom-Town Sno-Chaser’s Club. Leaving Glidden at 2:10 a.m. Saturday and arriving at Curtiss at 8 a.m., he snowmobilers braved the five degrees below zero weather with winds at about 20 mph which would make for a 45 below zero wind chill. All belonging to the Morse Area Snowm obile Club, they said, got cold but not so cold they couldn’t keep going. It took about a week to plan the trip using all back roads and fire lanes. The machines used 75 gallons of gas for the trip. Of the eight machines starting the expedition, their longest so far, six made it all the way, A woman, Mrs. Shirley Peterson rode for 50 miles, quite an accomplishment.
After resting a while some of the members participated in the racing events. Those completing the trip were James Park, Mark Carl, Gary Pankratz, Mike Zeilke, Ricky Peterson and Randy Pohl.
Offering encouragement along the way were Mrs. Park, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert Thorp and son Willy, Lynn Holter, Mr. and Mrs. Pete Peterson and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Eickermann.
More snowmobilers came up from Glidden during the day and on Sunday they were all feted in a parade on the oval track during a break between races.
