Half Iowa growers sign up for emergency feed grain plan
More than half of Iowa corn and grain sorghum producers joined the 1 percent emergency feed grain program and plan to remove about three million acres from production. Iowa committee chairman Fred R. McLain said actual participation may reach 60 percent, with payments topping $100 million to town farmers.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Fred R. McLain
Iowa Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Committee
Austin Herald June 7 1961页 header item
Austin Minn Herald dated Wednesday June 7 1961 reports local news items including community events and notices. Page highlights civic, school, and business notes with brief updates and upcoming dates.
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Austin (Minn
Herald
Sentimetal Switches Promise Faster Computing
Switches made of antimony and bismuth in research stage could operate much faster than present transistors in computing machines. Researchers aim to leverage these switches for quicker processing.
Charles Cillan Quits GOP State Board
Charles City attorney E W Henke says he will resign from the Republican State Central Committee effective at the next Des Moines meeting in June. He cited personal business reasons after clashing with members over a 1961 bill to cut central committee size. The bill, vetoed by Gov Norman Erbe, would have reduced members to 14 across seven districts, with existing members serving until summer 1962.
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Charles City
Iowa
E. W. Henke
Republican State Central Committee
Des Moines
Henke
Norman Erbe
Sioux City Strikers Ordered to Court Over Mass Picketing
Six teen union workers from United Packinghouse Workers Local 721 were ordered to appear in District Court in Sioux City to show cause why they should not be held in contempt for mass picketing and intimidation related to the strike at Sioux City Dressed Beef Co. The plant kept operating with new workers and two union men were arrested for allegedly forcing a car carrying non-strikers into the Floyd River. Don ald Howard and Adolph Ollison, both 34 and 20, were arraigned on assault with intent to do great bodily harm and released on bond for a July 30 hearing.
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Sioux City
Iowa
United Packinghouse Workers Local 721
Floyd River
Donald Howard
Adolph Ollison
Newsman Cornelius Lee Kelliher Dies in St Louis
Cornelius Lee Kelliher, 51, a veteran St Louis newspaper man, died Tuesday of a heart attack. He served on the St Louis Post-Dispatch staff since 1956 after 19 years as a Globe-Democrat feature writer. Born in Moberly, Missouri.
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Ius Lee Kelliher
St. Louis
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Globe-Democrat
Moberly
Lions award Water jug to Waterloo mayor at Iowa convention
The Iowa Lions clubs annual state convention in Cedar Rapids ended with Waterloo Mayor Ed Jochumsen receiving a humorous jug of Cedar Rapids tap water. Six district governors were elected: Les Thiel Dysart Ted Hunter Iowa City Ivan Rutherford Guthrie Center Ralph Maddox Ruthven William Doerr Stratford and Neil E Kelley Winterset. Cedar Rapids officials argue Cedar Rapids water tastes off due to Cedar River sewage concerns.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Lions Clubs
Waterloo
Ed Jochumsen
Les Thiel
Dysart
Ted Hunter
Iowa City
Ivan Rutherford
Guthrie Center
Ralph Maddox
Ruthven
William Doerr
Stratford
Neil E. Kelley
Winterset
Lions Club
Cedar Rapids Club
Cedar River
Iowa Dem to Quit State Tax Board
Ellsworth C. Hays of Hamlin resigns as appraisal engineer for the State Tax Commission. He is under consideration for an ASC Committee western Iowa fieldman post. The Tax Commission shifts to Republican control July 1. Hays held a $6,000 yearly position.
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Des Moines
Western Iowa
Ellsworth C. Hays
Hamlin
State Tax Commission
Hays
Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Asc Committee
Tax Commission
St Cloud Flier Killed in Wreck Near Stratford Texas
The body of David E. Meagher 28 of St Cloud Minnesota was found in a private plane wreck on a ranch two miles southeast of Stratford Texas. Investigators say the light plane crashed during turbulent weather Monday night and rancher Wendell Flores located the wreckage.
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Stratford
Tex
St. Cloud
Woman's Logic Still Amazing
Tucson deputy recalls a traffic stop where a woman said the red light changed before she arrived, insisting the fault was not hers. The officer noted the claim as a new excuse he had not heard before.
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Tucson
Ariz
Prvil Skeen
Skeen
Nationalists Control at Iowa Boys State
Des Moines report says the Nationalist party held most offices at the 1961 Hawkeye Boys State encampment with Ed Bastian of Cedar Rapids serving as governor. About 763 boys split into Nationalist and Federalist groups and Bastion's Nationalists filled most posts in Tuesday's vote.
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Tionalist Party
Hawkeye
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