Meet Nation's Wonder Farmers of the Sixties
Indiana brothers Bill and Erland Rothenberger run a high tech, high yield farm system that triples production through fertilizer, pesticides, and modern machinery. They manage 360 acres, raise 1396 market hogs and 345 yearling steers while growing 130 bushels per acre of corn. They rely on a network of specialists and highlight the rise of agri-business in America.
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Frankfort
Nea
Indiana
Bill
Erland Rothenberger
Rothenbergers
Rothenbergers Spe
America
Iowa
Fashion Farms
Bill Rothenberger
Erland
Austin Board Raises Teacher Pay in 1963 64 Schedule
The Austin Board of Education adopted a new salary schedule for the 1963-64 year after four January meetings. The raise totals about 116000 to 117000, with bachelor’s degree teachers gaining 200 annually in year one, 50 above AEA, but less than AFT for later years. Two abstained, and officials cited fiscal limits and aims to compete with similar districts.
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Austin
Board of Education
Austin Education Association
Austin Federation of Teachers
Harlow Sayles
Alf Ziemer
Farlier
Ziemer
AEA
AFT
Mickelson
Irwin T. Mickelson
Chester Sitz
S. L. Coumbe
Coumbe
William Hartman
Sayles
James Huntting Jr
Austin’s
Bob Bell
the Herald
Hammel and Green, Inc
St. Paul
Mondale Show Fizzles at Minnesota Appropriations Hearing
In St. Paul a crowded subcommittee session grilled Attorney General Mondale on lawyer assignments to state departments. Mondale defended the practice, sparking questions about shifting hiring power and potential push-button lawyers, while lawmakers pressed on budgets and procedure.
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ST. Paul
Walter F. Mondale
Appropriations Committee
Mondale
James C. Marshall
Marshall
Marsh
Subcommittee
Minnesota
Edward Volstad
Minneapolis
Flakne
Volsted
Wilson elected leader of Britain's Labour party
J Harold Wilson age 46 pipe smoking intellectual was elected leader of the Labour party in London AP report. He succeeds the late Hugh Gaitskell who died January 18 creating a leadership vacancy as Labour rose in popularity challenging Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the Conservatives.
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London
J. Harold Wilson
Britain
Labor Party
Wilson
Hugh Gaitskell
Harold Macmillan
Andersen asked to withhold action on appointments
St Paul ap reports Governor Elmer L. Andersen was urged to send a letter to the Senate requesting that further action on appointments be withheld.
Factory work week slips to 40.1 hours in January
The Labor Department reports the factory work week averaged 40.1 hours in January, a 0.4 hour drop and the second straight decline. In Minnesota, Highway Commissioner James C. Marshall calls for overtime pay for patrolmen as a substitute for moonlighting income.
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Washington
Labor Department
ST. Paul
James C. Marshall
Well Digger Rescued After 14 Hours Buried in Sand Cave
Raymond Fink 31 known as Fuzzy was freed at 5:40 a.m. after 14 hours trapped in shifting sand in Lake Tomahawk Wisconsin. He walked away with minimal help, greeted by his wife and medical staff keeping him for checks and X-rays.
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Lake Tomahawk
Wis
Raymond
Fuzzy) Fink
Wisconsin
Fink
Lakeland Memorial Hospital
Woodruff
Charles H. Flint
Bernice
Lawrence
Jerome Tranton
Father Tranton
Athens
Paul Fink
Art Frank
Syncom Satellite Loses Radio Contact After Launch
Spacecraft Syncom roared into orbit aboard a Delta rocket but radio signals failed 13 seconds after a kick motor fired. Officials reported brief contact at 7 a.m. and warned the craft could be off course or facing thermal issues as ground teams prepared to restore systems after the failed synchronization maneuver.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Kennedy Urges Youth Programs Across Nation
President Kennedy presents Congress with a broad package of youth aid including a Youth Conservation Corps a home town youth corps a National Service Corps and an expanded Peace Corps. The plan seeks funding of about 160 million with state and local contributions and targets parks schools health hospitals and impoverished rural areas.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Washington
Kennedy
Congress
Youth Conservation Corps
Peace Corps
National Service Corps
Reds Leader Denies Plan to Oust U S Government at Yale
Gus Hall head of the American Communist party told 400 Yale students that his group seeks peaceful transition not forceful change. He attacked the McCarran Act under which he is indicted, saying the belief in violent overthrow is infantile. A band of about 12 pickets gathered outside with anti Red messages.
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New Haven
Communist Party
Hall
Yale
Man Bound Over in Third Degree Murder Case
Merle Andrew Bush. 21, Nayta waush, bound over to District Court on a third degree murder charge in the death of Eugene Roggenbuck, 36, of Badger and Nayta waush. Roggenbuck was beaten and found dead in a car near Lengthy Saturday. Bush, unharmed, was slumped over the body after preliminary hearing.
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Mahnomen, Minn
Merle Andrew Bush
Naytawaush
District Court
Eugene V. Roggenbuck
Badger
Roggenbuck
Lengthy
Bush
Valentine Closure Sparks Studio Backdrop Heist
Providence R I Journal Bulletin reports photographer Tom Stevens took a roll of backdrop paper from the photo studio and carried it to the fourth grade class at Nelsas, prompting questions about property and handling during a school event.
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Providence
R. J
Journal Bulletin
Tom Stevens
Nelsas
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U.S
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Webber Coffen
Howard Benedict
Solons
Civilian Conservation Corps
Valentine
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