4-H Achievement Banquet Held at Pontotoc College
The Pontotoc County 4 H Achievement Banquet drew 222 attendees Monday at 7 p.m. in the East Central Ballroom. Awards honored 4 H members for the prior year with wins in bread making, state record books, and livestock achievement among others, plus jackets and honorary memberships.
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Pontotoc County 4H
East Central
County 4H
Ers
Terry Logsdon
Charlene Coplen
Cassie Duffer
Donna Moore
Kathy Bennett
Sherry Logsdon
U.S
Lanny Bates
Jack Sanders
Gary Golden
Asa Hutchinson
Pontotoc County
Brent Stewart
Kent Thompson
Vicky Stanford
Melissa Green
Elayne Young
Glenda King
Tana Poteet
Linda Williams
Kay Kelley
Gerald Fender
Bobby Bradley
Roger Reeves
Mike Roberts
Raymond Ward
Frank Jared
Jo Dean Stanford
Elwanda Walters
Iola Burroughs
Johnnie Enis
M. R. Tucker
Delma Walker
Loyce Gerth
Bill Gerth
Anna Rhea Thomas
Helen Love
Mildred Payton
Wanda White
Pauline Whitsett
Vaness
Iola Burrough
McLish
Farm Bureau Members To Attend Meeting In Oklahoma City
Over 1,000 Oklahoma Farm Bureau delegates will convene for the 28th annual state convention in downtown Oklahoma City November 10 12 at the Oklahoma Hotel and Motor Inn. Deliberations will cover beverages narcotics elections and the legislature with possible actions on the national farm bill corporate farming rural trash disposal and ad valorem tax. Oklahoma Farm Bureau Woman of the Year and Farm Family of the Year awards will be presented during ceremonies November 11. Dr. Kenneth Hood of the American Agricultural Marketing Association will address the Marketing Association on day one.
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Oklahoma Farm Bureau
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Hotel and Motor Inn
Oklahoma
Farm Bureau
Kenneth Hood
American Agricultural Marketing Association
Chicago
Oklahoma Farm Bureau Marketing Association
OSU Introduces Checota Oat Variety for Oklahoma
Oklahoma State University agronomists released a new winter oat named Checota. Foundational seed for growers is expected after the 1970 harvest. Checota outyielded Cimarron Bronco and Forkedeer in tests across seven Oklahoma locations totaling 23 station-years, showing good lodging resistance and a mid-season maturity.
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Oklahoma State University
Oklahoma
OSU Agricultural Experiment Station
Stillwater
Woodward
Cherokee
Goodwell
Granite
Altus
Muskogee
Decline In Milk Production May Halt This Year
The Agriculture Department reports 1969 milk output may total 116 billion pounds, 1 percent below 1968, as output per cow rises and herd declines slow. Production started rising in August and is expected to stay higher through 1969, with prices and receipts edging up 2 to 3 percent.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Americans Increase Use Of Canned Foods And Telephones
Agriculture Department data show farmers average local telephone service costs rose 5 percent to 5.55 dollars monthly, with New England highest and western north central lowest. About 83 percent of farms now have phones, up from 1968. Americans also shifted from fresh vegetables to canned and frozen, with per capita consumption at 211.8 pounds last year. Uppland cotton growers will fund a 10.6 million research and promotion program next year via a one dollar per bale assessment, with 3.7 million for research and 6.9 million for sales promotion.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Crop Reporting Board
Alaska
Hawaii
New England
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
National Cotton Board
Cotton Producers Institute
Pork Belly Futures Rise in Market Activity Says CEA
The Agriculture Department report notes frozen pork bellies rank high in futures trading since 1964 when contracts surged. It explains how hog slaughter seasons affect supply, how bellies move to bacon and salt pork, and profiles traders by occupation with 5,835 individuals holding 18,942 contracts as of January 31.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Commodities Exchange Authority
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
CEA
Oklahoma Senate Leader Rules Out 1965 Con Convention Call
Oklahoma Senate Leader Finis Smith said the 1965 concurrent resolution seeking a constitutional convention to alter one man, one vote is dead. He noted an attorney general opinion saying the measure lasted only with that legislature and forwarded it to Congress. He urged Congress to question the instrument's legality and opposed reviving the issue.
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Oklahoma City
Senate
Oklahoma
Supreme Court
Finis Smith
Congress
Utah
Smith
Dirksen
Attorney General
House of Representatives
United States Senate
Pardoned convict worries Atoka couple in Oklahoma
Frank Sawyer, 70, ex convict pardoned by Kansas, faces 99 year Oklahoma term and a lingering fear in Atoka. District Attorney Gates seeks Sawyer’s return while Judge McPheron rules he is not a fugitive on parole. Mrs. Fau dree recalls 1956 kidnap and Sawyer’s notorious escapes and crimes.
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Atoka
Okla
Frank Sawyer
Kansas
Oklahoma
Wallace W. Gates
Durant
Sawyer
Sooner
Alen B. McPheron
McPheron
Ross Faudree
Fred Winchester
Faudree
Winchester
Wilburton
Odessa
Tex
Atoka County
Sawyer Is Out of Prison,” Said Mrs. Faudree
Gates
Joe Lee
Montreal
Canada
John Bailey
Manhattan
Kan
Faudrees
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Karen En
Hood
Pennsylvania State College
Cornell University
American Farm Bureau Federation
Pontotoc County Fair Queens
Rita Roberson
Jamae Hunter
Jesse Green
Janice LaCrone
Karen Enis
Karen Timmons
Greg Nanney
OSU
Commodity Credit Corp
United States
Bryan County
Martin
Sand Springs
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