Senator Clark calls for agriculture fuel priority during energy crisis
Iowa senator Dick Clark urges top priority for agricultural fuel to safeguard food supplies amid a severe energy crunch. He warns fertilizer, planting, harvest operations need gas and diesel, propane for drying grain, and notes urban noise trends pose separate risks to heating.
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Iowa
Dick Clark
Farmers May Ask for Increase In Diesel Fuel
H K Russell ASCS chairman says farmers may apply to distributors for more diesel under a 60 day emergency fuel revision. The Office of Petroleum Allocation and USDA coordinated change, approved November 19 1973, makes fuel priority for farmers and mass transit. County ASCS offices monitor needs while urging conservation in Kossuth County amid tight supplies.
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H. K. Russell
State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation
ASCS
Russell
Office of Petroleum Alocation
OPA
Department of the Interior
Nicholas H. Smith
U. S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
Smith
Kossuth
Kossuth County
Bin Measuring Vital to Farmer Loan Checks
Winnebago County farmers must bring warehouse receipts or bin measurements to the ASCS Office in Thompson by December 27 1973 to ensure loan checks are ready on January 2 1974. Accurate bin and crib measurements are crucial under new certification rules, with 20 percent of loans spotchecked and a larger discrepancy triggering loan cancellation.
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Winnebago County
ASCS
Thompson
Dennis D. Castle
ASC
The Legend of Christmas Tinsel
According to an old legend a poor peasant woman with many children hung a Christmas tree with humble trimmings. She worked late into the night as spiders crawled and left lacey webs. The Christ Child blessed the tree and the webs turned to silver. Attend church this Sunday.
Timely Mission Nursing Home Christmas Activities
A long passage describes residents at Timely Mission Nursing Home enjoying carols and cookies last Monday. Various groups contributed, including 4-H Boosters Club, Maranatha Circle, and church circles from Lakota and Buffalo Center. Donations of food and wreaths, plus a Christmas program, are noted along with out of town visitors and staff gifts.
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Maranatha Circle
Conmmunity Chapel
La‘kota
Neligon
Gertrude
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Lakota
Emma Smith
Lena Smith
Mary Telkemp
Mary Estle
Butfalo Center Tribune
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the Baptist Young People of Buffalo Center
The
Bethany Lutheran Ladies of Thompson
Mission Band
Congregational Church of Buffalo Center
Don Teig
Sillum
al Adams
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