69 Apple Crop Biggest In 30 Years Says Dept
The Agriculture Department reports 1969 apple production in Washington and Oregon drove the national crop to about 6.7 billion pounds, the largest in over 30 years. Washington output reached 1.69 billion pounds, Oregon 160 million, led by Delicious at 30 percent of the total.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Oregon
New York
Michigan
East
Central
West
Golden Delicious
McIntosh
Rome Beauty
Jonathan
York Imperiall
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Pennsylvania— Centre
Lackawanna
Luzerne
Montgomery
Philadelphia
Susquehanna
Wyoming
Camden
Gloucester
Europe
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
New Hampshire
Vermont
Maine
State Gets Worlds Largest Paper Mill
The Weyerhauser announcement says trio of facilities in McCurtain County Oklahoma will cost over 100 million dollars. Val liant will host a 1600 ton daily liner board and corrugating medium mill with the world’s largest machine. Wright City and Craig will add plywood and particle board production as part of a broad southeastern Oklahoma economic boom.
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Broken Bow
McCurtain
Oklahoma
Weyerhauser Corp
Bartlett
Weyerhauser
George Weyerhauser
Valliant, Craig
Wright City
Craig
Prise
Arkansas
Mississippi
Valliant
Dewey Bartlett
Pontotoc County Paving Project Approved by OHC
The Oklahoma Highway Commission preliminarily approves a Pontotoc County paving project under the County Federal Aid Secondary program. It covers 1.7 miles of paving from SH 3 to the west crossing near Kerr Lab and connecting with the brick plant road at an estimated cost of $553,000.
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Oklahoma Highway Commission
Pontotoc County
SH 3
Kerr Lab
Ada Firefighters Contain West End Grass Fire
Firemen on Thursday controlled a grass fire west of Ada near Ethyl Atwood. The blaze started from burning trash and caused only minor damage.
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Ada
Ethyl Atwood
Fast talker nets $10 at Hamburger King then flees
A sandy haired man aged 30 to 40, driving a white over red Ford with a Texas tag, used a rapid pitch to net $10 from a Hamburger King cashier. After similar attempts at two service stations failed, officers chase the suspect who may try to talk his way out of police badges.
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Hamburger King
Oklahoma Beekeepers Launch Quality Seal for Local Honey
Oklahoma Beekeepers association and the state department of agriculture introduce the Oklahoma Premium Produced quality seal to help consumers distinguish natural honey. The motif features an outline map of Oklahoma with a honeybee and will appear on jars statewide as 55 000 colonies produced 2.4 million pounds in 1968 69.
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James H. Curtis
State Department Agriculture
Curtis
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Beekeepers Association
State Department of Agriculture
Pie Supper at Pickett Center School Christmas event
The Pickett Center School hosts its annual Christmas pie supper on Friday night December 5 at 7 p.m. Proceeds benefit the Christmas tree fund and related holiday needs.
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Pickett Center
Egg prices blamed for higher farm price index
Agri culture Department economists say sharply higher egg prices were greatly responsible for a 3 percent rise in the farm price index last month. Don Kendall AP Farm Writer reports Washington notes egg costs pushed up overall farm prices by month.
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Don Kendall
Washington
Agriculture Department
Oklahoma Water Project Funding Cut by Conference Committee
A House Senate conference committee trimmed several Oklahoma reservoir funds while preserving others. Birch Reservoir received nothing, Copan down to 600000, and Lukiata to 525000, with other projects like Oologah and Webbers Falls receiving multmillion figures. Eggs rose to 48.8 cents a dozen in mid November aiding farm commodity indices, while egg output fell nearly 2 percent in the first three quarters.
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Washington
House-Senate
Oklahoma
House
Senate
Birch Reservoir
Copan
Lukiata
Birch
Broken Bow
Copen
Crutcho Creek
Texas
Kansas
Candy Reservoir
Clayton Reservoir
Milk production in October falls as output hits multi-decade lows
Evaporated whole milk production dropped seven percent from a year earlier to 94.8 million pounds, the lowest for October since 1929. Nonfat dry milk output declined twelve percent to 55 million pounds, the smallest October total since 1955.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Farm electricity use hits record as costs rise
A Department survey shows farms averaged 878 kilowatts of electricity, up 59 kwh from last year, with an $18.40 monthly bill and electricity costing 2.09 cents per kilowatt hour. The report notes a decade of declining U.S. fruit exports amid growing global competition.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
The
Crop Reporting Board
Nixon Administration Delays 70 Grain Program Announcement
The Nixon administration may postpone the 1970 feed grains program until after January 1 or until hearings by the House Agriculture Committee conclude. Some officials cite White House budget reviews for tighter spending on corn sorghum and barley programs. The 1969 program was announced December 26 and required farmers to cut plantings, with price supports and acreage guarantees guiding the plan.
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House Agriculture Committee
White House Budget Bureau
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McLish
Lanny Bates
Byng
Janice LaCrone
Stonewall
Kay Kelly
Roff
Jesse Green
Sherry Hatch
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U.S
Foreign Agricultural Service
FAS
Taiwan
Australia
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Greece
Israel
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United Kingdom
China
Canada
Nixon
Don Cook
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