First Male Teacher Honored As Pontotoc County Teacher Of The Year
C T Holland of Vanoss was named Pontotoc County Teacher of the Year at a secret announcement dinner in the East Central University Student Union Ballroom. The vocational agriculture teacher, known as Cotton, has taught since 1962 and plans to teach until retirement, also holding state and regional roles in Oklahoma vocational agriculture groups.
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C. T. Holland
Vaness
Pontotoc County
Holland
East Central University Student Union
Pontotoc Teachers’ Association
Vanoss
Cotton
Oklahoma
Kentucky
Yo Ag
Oklahoma Vocational Agriculture Teachers
American Vocational Association
Houston
Oklahoma State University
Tulsa
Colorado
University of Oklahoma
Ronald
Don Davis
Lawton
Lonnie Abbott
Kenneth Murphy
Stonewall
Association
Yvonna Stephens
Latta
Eldon Flynn
McLish
Virgil Romine
Byng
Oklahoma Education Association
Oklahoma City
Harold Haines
Edna Mae Query
Roff
Patsy Moyer
Lily Mae Cagel
Allen
Cheryl Melton
Jo Ann Prince
Clareta Gray
Pickett Center
Bill Homan
C.T. “Cotton” Holland
Vong
Vanoss School
Milk production up 2.5 percent in March National output rises
Agriculture Department estimates March milk output at 10.6 billion pounds up 2.5 percent from a year earlier and 5.9 percent above March 1975. First quarter output reaches about 29.8 billion pounds, with average per cow at 960 pounds and 11,003,000 milk cows in March. Japan to cut cotton imports in 1976-77 while U.S. shipments to Japan rise past one million bales.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Crop Reporting Board
Japan
U.S
Food policy conference to shape Carter trade plans
A USDA sponsored conference on international food policy set for April 28-29 aims to influence Carter administration policy on foreign trade negotiations global food reserves and aid to needy countries. Invitations highlight top White House OMB Treasury and State officials along with international agencies and think tanks.
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Washington
Carter Administration
Agriculture Department
USDA
County signs aid directions in Pontotoc Oklahoma
Pontotoc County Extension Homemakers design and install county road signs to mark section intersections. Ada sign shop volunteers produced five inch green signs with white letters costing about seven dollars each. Signs raised awareness and aid emergency responses across Ada and rural Pontotoc County.
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Pontotoc County
Pontotoc
State Highway Department
Oklahoma
Ada
City of
Ada Evening News
New Chemical Triacontanol Might Boost Crop Growth
MSU scientists report a natural alcohol, triacontanol, isolated from alfalfa and beeswax, could raise growth of corn rice barley wheat tomatoes lettuce and cucumbers by 10 to 40 percent under study at the East Lansing experiment station.
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East Lansing
Mich
Michigan State University
S.K. Ries
MSU
Ries
Co-ops Seek Bigger Role in U.S. Grain Deals
The Agriculture Department proposed letting cooperatives collect federal price support loans for farmers who grow wheat corn and other grains and run centralized grain pools to boost farmer bargaining power. Critics warn of co-op monopolies and higher food prices while supporters say it fits farmer controlled reserves. Public comment ends May 12. The plan expands co-op participation to grains already used in cotton rice soybeans and honey programs. Also Wool incentive payments fall to 7 million from 41 million due to higher market prices, while a two year Soil Conservation Service erosion study begins.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
U.S
Coop
National Grain and Feed Association
Continental
Cargill
Farmland real estate taxes rise steadily across decades
The USDA reports farm real estate taxes reached a 1975 nationwide average of 2.92 dollars per acre, up 7.7 percent from 1974, with taxes trending higher since 1944. The study cites rising state and local government expenditures as the main driver, noting Wisconsin up 20.2 percent in 1975.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
USDA
Department
Economic Research Service
Mary L. Bailey
Wisconsin
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Northwest
Southwest
Telligence Agency
The
World Bank
United Nations Food and Agricultural Agency
World Food Council
International Food Policy Research Institute
Brookings Institute
American Enterprise Institute For Public Policy Research
Rockefeller Foundation
Worldwatch Institute
Letters
International Wheat Council
Congress
Pontotoc County Extenson Homemakers
Syliva Brantley
Reuben Byrd
Ada Retirement Care Center
Byrd
U.S. Soil Conservation Service
R. M. Davis
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