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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1966
Page
1
The Agriculture Department raises export subsidies to 26 to 60 cents a bushel to keep U S wheat price competitive abroad. No 1 hard winter wheat with 13 percent protein sold for 1 82 a bushel in May Kansas City versus 1 55 in 1965. A freeze branding method for animals uses intense cold to create a pigment free mark without harming hides.
East Central State College biology and botany professor Dr Doyle McCoy will leave Ada for Brownwood Texas to become academic dean at Howard Payne College. He and his wife plan to move in August after a long local career including teaching at Ada High and East Central.
Oklahoma crop agencies report 40 percent of wheat harvested statewide. Southwestern wheat 90 percent, Panhandle only 0.5 percent. Oats nearing halfway. barley largely hauled. Row crops slow due to moisture shortages. about 80 percent cotton planted with replant risk. Subsoil moisture and stock ponds are low in many areas.
House Bill 962 creates the Oklahoma Peanut Growers Association funded by a one dollar per ton assessment. A nine member board is elected by growers from three districts, with a six member Oklahoma Peanut Commission appointed from ten nominees per district. Leaders must be active peanut growers. contact Glen Suter, executive secretary, in Eakly, Oklahoma. The groups aim to promote peanut use, research, and product promotion.
The National Commission on Food Marketing publicizes a BLS study comparing prices and quality of 18 staple items in six cities. It finds no overall price differences by income when comparable stores and sizes are used, but notes higher prices in small independents in low income areas and poorer overall store conditions.
Oklahoma Wildlife Department lifts skunks, opossums, and civet cats from protected status. From June 25 no limits govern taking. daylight skunk sightings are urged to be destroyed if considered diseased. Rabies cases rise with 143 total confirmed in 1965 across species.
The American Farm Bureau Federation called for legislation to set fair play rules in farmer processor dealings. President Charles B. Shuman testified before a Senate agriculture subcommittee defending a bill to shield growers in voluntary marketing associations from discrimination. Allen A. Lauterbach said current laws fail to protect injured farm groups from coercive tactics.
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