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Hancock Mayor Russell Griggs . . . displays equipment of the Hancock Volunteer Fire Department. This spring the town will make a second try to get rural people to help pay the costs of fire protection for Valley Township. Last fall a vote to levy a…

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Checking Insulation . . . in the Hancock Fire Hall are Mayor Russell Griggs and Fire Chief Lyle Neve. Hancock voters will be asked to approve construction of a new Fire Hall-Town Council Building this summer.

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This House In Downtown Hancock . . . includes a small telephone office at the left and an apartment on the right occupied by the night operator. When the night operator goes to bed, she connects a bell that rings in her apartment when someone wants…

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This Is It . . . all the wires and gadgets needed to run a telephone company, a small one like the one at Hancock. But soon this tiny, independently-owned operation may be part of the past, if its stockholders vote to put in a direct dial system.

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Hancock Mayor Russell Griggs . . . wants more equitable taxation for financing volunteer fire departments.

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AFS Student . . . Terje Froystein, right, and host John Martin pause to pet the Martin's setter, Nick.

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'Fine Tuning' Controls . . . are seen, above, while Bob Emken works on the 'rough' controls.

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Under Thunder Jug . . . is the rest of the Tri-B operation at Hancock, including the control center in shack, left.

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New Parsonage, Old Church . . . were crowded Sunday as the Silver Creek congregation visited the new home of the Rev. and Mrs. Charles Henry, shown here with trustee Clayton Young, left.

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On Speaking Terms . . . are two men who tied for the job of mayor of Hancock, Pete G. Jacobsen and Russell Griggs.

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Back To Work . . . at Hancock Bank are manager Willard Reineke and Mrs. Robert Hobson. They spent a frightening few minutes Monday in the vault in the background.

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Abandoned Car . . . believed to have been used as a getaway vehicle by the bandit who robbed the Hancock bank is checked for clues by Identification Sgt. C.E. (Pat) Moore.
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