History of Ahloso Community and Its Early Features
Ahloso grew up before statehood with land donated for a school by Luther Salers. The first two story school held a Masonic Lodge atop, teachers included J. R. McMinn and family, Elmer Anderson. Early commerce centered on four stores operated by Mack McCord, Lon Williams, Nate Herrin, J. R. Young. post office run by Lon Williams. railroad with flag-down boxcar depot. Lone Star School preceded the current Ahloso school, now a five teacher facility with headstart program and 16 pupils. Ahloso hosts two churches First Baptist and Christian, a grocery and two service stations, and the historic R. C. Ross home built 1915.
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Ahloso
Stateood
Luther Salers
Masonic Lodge
J. R. McMinn
Johnie
Elmer Anderson
Mack McCord
Lon Williams
Nate Herrin
J. R. Young
Herrin
Cyrus
Young
Oris Herrin
Lone Star
Gerald Stewart
J. C. Trease
Vernell Moore
Deloris Davis
Louie Mishier
Kenneth Martin
First Baptist
Christian Church
Ray Barker
J. N. Anglin
R. C. Ross
Sooner charges Nixon with misuse of funds
Oklahoma Democratic Party Chair J. Kennedy charged that the Nixon Administration misused $100,000 of Agriculture Department funds for political promotion. He cited a White House lawn event May 7 with exhibitors and farmers, urging that funds be used for direct farm loans instead. Kennedy condemned the administration’s farm policy and called for accountability.
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J. ©. Kennedy
Oklahoma
Democratic Party
Nixon
Agriculture Department
Kennedy
White House Lawn
Republican National Committee
Spiro Agnew
White House
California
Richard Nixon
Herbert Hoover
America
Madison Avenue
Congress
Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Conservation
Extension Service
Senate Agriculture Committee
Economy shows steady but slack growth in April
Federal Reserve reports industrial production rose 0.3 percent in April after a 0.6 percent gain in March, indicating a modest expansion with no signs of a vigorous upswing. Auto output fell 8 percent from March but production of consumer goods and industrial materials rose, while business equipment declined.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Cattle Drug Controversy Over DES Raises Health Questions
A government official said public health seems not jeopardized by the cattle fattening drug DES despite new cancer risk evidence. Harvard researchers linked DES to a rare vaginal cancer in daughters of seven pregnant women, urging stricter use in pregnancy. DES is also used for menopause, vaginitis, and prostate cancer, and fed to about 8 percent of beef cattle with dosage limits recently doubled.
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Washington
Harvard
New England Journal of Medicine
Wheat harvest to start in southwest Oklahoma soon
The Associated Press reports Oklahoma crops are maturing, with wheat nearly headed and one third dough, barley headed, oats largely headed, and corn planting lagging. Cotton progress is slow awaiting rain as surface soil dries. peanuts and soybeans show small plantings. alfalfa first cut is far behind 1976. Water hauling and some supplemental feeding continue in western Oklahoma.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma
Southwest
Ishr
Best bermuda turf method for ponds and spillways
Countian C TL Moore, near Stonewall, shares a practical conservation plan from 1959. He digs holes two feet apart, places 3 or 4 bermuda roots, covers with dirt, then footprints to seal air pockets, broadcasts 100 pounds of ammonium nitrate, and over 60 days his pond dam and spillway are coated. since then he built four ponds and planted over 10 acres of bermuda with yellow hop clover, noting the labor is worth preventing washouts and repairs.
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C. TL
Moore
Stonewall
Bermuda
Bellmon attacks credit control by cattlemen
Oklahoma Senator Henry Bellmon, a cattleman and Republican, told a U.S. Senate subcommittee that cattlemen control the Production Credit Association in Oklahoma. He said boards are dominated by wealthy older cattlemen, limiting PCA loans for small and young farmers and excluding tenant and young farmers from board memberships. He cited surveys urging corrective legislation in Guymon Exid Duncan Ponca City Chickasha and Kiamichi.
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Washington
Oklahoma
Henry Bellmon
Production Credit Association
Bellmon
U. S. Senate
PCA
Guymon
Exid
Duncan
Ponca City
Chic Bathe
Kiamichi
Cattle feeding in six states up six per cent in May
The Agriculture Department reports May 1 totals show more than 7 million cattle in six major producing states, up 6 percent from a year earlier, with Texas up 97 percent in feedlots, California 12, Arizona 9, Colorado 23, and Nebraska down 7. Iowa leads in April sales decline, while Arizona gains 22 percent. state feedlot figures are listed against a year earlier. Livestock range conditions improve modestly by May 1 but remain below last year. irrigation prospects in the West are favorable while Southwestern streams fall. A separate note estimates dairy milk usage by farmers and consumption in processing, bottling, and manufacturing.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Texas
Colorado
California
Arizona
Crop Reporting Board
Iowa
Nebraska
Town
Southwest
Balers twine sculpture wowed at New Holland studio
George Bucher, art professor at Susquehanna University, sculpted a colossal ball of baler twine with 117000 feet of twine, 3 feet in circumference, over two months. He built a wire frame, wound twine with students, then painted with polyester for strength as visitors watched at New Holland’s Sperry Rand studio.
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New Holland
George Bucher
Susquehanna University
Pennsylvania
Professor Bucher
Bucher
Freeburg
Lancaster County
New York
Ivan Karp
Karp
Sperry Rand Corporation
United States
Canada
Watcha
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Sandra Hodges
den Cook
Sooner
Hendrik Houthakker
Council of Economic Advisers
Houthakker
Andex
Countian
U.S. Soil Conservation Service
Wyoming
Montana
Idaho
Oregon
Utah
Nevada
New Mexico
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