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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1956
Page
3
Public notice from The Carthage Citizen lists telephone 247 as a post office entry in Carthage Indiana and shows subscription rates for one year 52 weeks at 2.00 and six months 26 weeks at an agreed price.
Dairymen from 29 states and Canada enter purebred cattle for the 4th International Dairy Show in Chicago. The event reports a 15 percent overall increase, Holsteins lead with 503 entries from 12 states and Canada, Jersey entries reach 841 a 31 percent rise, and Guernseys up 42 percent. Illinois tops exhibitor counts with 95 dairymen listing 402 animals, followed by Wisconsin Ohio and Indiana.
Fifteen state agricultural colleges send dairy cattle judging teams to the International contest while ten colleges enter the dairy products contest. Eleven state champions will compete in the 4 H Dairy Cattle Judging. Dairy queen contenders from 19 states arrive for the October 6 opening with a queen chosen by October 13. The Golden Spurs Rodeo runs October 5 to 14 with a Miss Rodeo America queen.
George A. Smith of the Indiana Heart Foundation urges housewives to act on health tips as recent statistics show over 7.6 million widows in the United States and widows outnumber widowers by a large margin.
Rafayette Indiana extension horticulturist W B Ward explains how to get red ripe tomatoes for Christmas. Pick green fruit before the first freeze and store in a ventilated cool dry place with little light. Keep tomatoes apart to allow air flow and awaken ripening in a warm room before serving. Some gardeners hang vines but this can dry fruit and cause shriveling.
Purdue University horticulturists say it is not too late to seed rye in the garden to control wind or water erosion. A cover crop also adds organic matter to the garden area.
Indiana State Medical Association honors fifty year practitioners at its October convention. The piece recalls medical practice milestones from 1906, patient care in homes, and the rise of hospital care and vaccines. Purdue University entomologists advise tree wrapping to prevent sunscald and borers, and swine specialists outline gilt management on pasture with legume forage and reduced corn.
Arthur McDuffey aged 80 died at his Carthage home Monday at 3 45 am He survived by Martha Irene Roscoe Freeland Carthage and Arthur Leonard Jackson Michigan plus four grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Social notes record several Sunday visits and a library donation from Kappa Kappa Sigma to Howard Henley library association of twenty five dollars for new books.
Miss Betty DeSchipper of Carthage is appointed to the sophomore business staff of Indiana University yearbook Arbutus. Mrs C E White Miss Ruth White and Verna S Hill spent last Thursday in Indianapolis visiting the General Motors parade of Progress on the War Memorial plaza.
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