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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1955
Page
9
Barington Illinois researchers report corn and hay fed steers given 10 mg daily of a female sex hormone gained 2.83 pounds per day versus 2.35 for controls. Fed cost per hundredweight rise fell from 24.25 to 22.34, with test steers averaging 1,172 pounds and controls 1,093. PMID: FDA approvals cited.
Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest, U S treasurer, spoke in Louisville on money matters. A man proposed printing currency with ads on one side. another asked why women’s portraits aren’t on money. Priest noted Washington’s portrait once appeared with Martha and quipped the decision kept money from coming between a man and his wife.
Walter Bergman left his car running and entered the Ashton Idaho post office. The car rolled into the lobby through the office window and followed him inside.
Corn loans on the 1954 crop total 1 09111310 dollars for 708515 bushels under 552 loans. ASC manager Miss Mildred Engen notes weather and moisture issues, resealing 1953 loans, and CCC sales while Mower County ships 51 cars of corn totaling 100234 bushels to foreign markets.
The Midwest Barrow Show at Mower County Fair on Aug 10 shifts to a 7 30 p m night program. Farmers enter pens of three barrows for cash prizes totaling 1000 with Iowa and Minnesota individual champions and a combined grand champion. First prize 30 for each state and 20 prize pigs. carcass contest to follow with 30 top prizes. Last year 110 farmers participated.
Corvallis Oregon Poultry expert Paul Bernier of Oregon State College describes a method to measure eggshell strength without breaking the egg by comparing density. Thick shells indicate stronger shells and can guide breeding for better laying strains. One tenth of all eggs cracked between nest and consumer, causing at least a 50 percent loss in price per dozen.
In Burlington Iowa a 14 foot motor boat overturned after being struck by another vessel in the Mississippi River Friday night. James Snider Jr. 35 Kewanee Illinois Culley Heubner 21 Sterling Illinois and Herman Bronston 43 Burlington were pulled from the water by the Coast Guard after clinging to the hull drifting about a half mile downstream under a bridge. They survived after about an hour in the water.
Five year old Paul Gallo was killed when a heavy upright piano toppled onto him during music hour in a Detroit kindergarten. Teacher Harriet Andrews, 26, was pushing the instrument. the accident was deemed blameless by Prosecutor Gerald O'Brien who called it the most pathetic case he ever handled.
Eleven year old Roger Beranek of Oxford Junction drowned while swimming with relatives in a gravel pit near Toronto Iowa. He stepped into a deep hole and disappeared before help could arrive. his body was recovered Friday night.
San Quentin inmate Caryl Chessman faces July 11 publication of his second book Trial by Ordeal and July 15 execution by lethal gas. The Red Light Bandit, jailed since 1957, has pursued legal avenues, with potential Supreme Court review and stays, amid years of legal battles and public controversy.
Mayor Eric Hoyer reappoints Police Chief Thomas R. Jones to a two year term. Jones has served as chief for six years in Minneapolis.
Mary Ann Klaaren a 16 year old from Sioux Center serves as governor of the 1955 Hawkeye Girls State held in Cedar Falls. The program gathers young women to simulate state government with Klaaren at the helm.
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