Gladbrook Lions donate to Tama County Fair building fund
The Gladbrook Lions Club contributes 2000 to the 20000 addition at the Tama County Fair ground. The project will add showers restrooms and a cafeteria with meals served during the fair. The old Lions stand becomes a fair office with phones and secretarial space. A bulletin board display area will face the cafeteria line. 4-H clubs plan spring and summer fund drives. Washington assigns Weldon V. Barton to head a new Office of Energy in the Agriculture Department.
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Gladbrook
Gladbrook Lions Club
Klinefelter
Tama County Fairground
Lions
Washington (Ap
Agriculture
Bob Bergland
Weldon V. Barton
Office of Energy
Agriculture Department
Agriculture Department Reports Livestock Sales Rise
Sales of livestock reached about $29 billion last year, up from $27.1 billion in 1976. Cattle and calves receipts rose to $20.2 billion as prices averaged 34.40 per 100 pounds, while hogs and pigs totaled about $7.36 billion despite lower prices.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Keenesburg Entertainer Named for Dairy Congress
Waterloo Ray Cam Mack of Keenesburg Colorado will provide carnival midway entertainment at the National Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo from September 23 to October 1.
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Waterloo
Ray Cammack
Keenesburg
Colo
National Dairy Cattle Congress
Kirkwood Community College Offers Scandinavia Farm Tour
Kirkwood Community College will sponsor a summer farm tour from June 18 to July 2 visiting Denmark Sweden and Norway. The 14 day itinerary includes a Danish farm machinery factory a Swedish cattle farm using the DuoVac milking system and Norwegian agricultural colleges with Royal Agricultural Society cattle breeding farms. Cost is 1595 dollars per person with a 200 dollar deposit and April 30 deadline. Charles Body leads the program and will accompany the tour.
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Kirkwood Community College
Scandinavia
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Cedar Rapids
Bergen
Chicago
National Experimental Farms
United States
Norwegian Agricultural College
Royal Agricultural Society
Charles Body
Agriculture Continuing Education
Kirkwood Agribusiness and Natural Resources Department
Farmers oppose pipeline cuts through farmland
A Wallaces Farmer survey of 475 farm men and women in Des Moines finds 64 percent opposed to pipeline and utility companies cutting diagonally through farmsteads. The poll highlights farmer concern over loss of land and disruption to fields this week.
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Des Moines
UPI
Wallaces
Iowa Cattle Surveys Face Drop Says Clark ICA
Iowa Senator Dick Clark and the Iowa Cattlemen's Association oppose proposed cuts to USDA cattle on feed surveys. Clark notes Iowa is the third largest cattle state and warns removal would bias reports toward large feedlot operators. ICA met USDA market news director Paul Fuller and Iowa reporting service head Duane Show to discuss the proposal aimed at a $500000 budget cut.
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Ames
UPI
Iowa Cattlemen’s Association
Dick Clark
Iowa
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Agriculture
Bob Bergland
Clark
ICA
Paul Fuller
Usda Market News
Duane Show
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Bergland vows to veto farm aid bill if sent to president
Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland pauses at a Washington news conference and says the administration will contact every member of Congress to stop the grain and cotton farmers aid package. He warns that if the bill reaches the president, he will veto it.
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Agriculture
Bob Bergland
Washington
Congress
Bergland
Farm Auctions Set Across Jones and Linn Counties
Auctions scheduled with farm machinery on April 8 near Center Junction and April 15 near Alburnett. Aware buyers will find sales listing boars gifts at Fayette area auction and a close out sale April 12 near Ryan containing machines and household goods. Local organizers include A W Martin and Sons Donald Mangold James O Connor Forrest Mc Calle y.
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Jones County
Center Junction
A.W. Martin and Sons
Fayette
Mach
Donald Mangold
Ryan
James O’connor
Alburnett
Forrest McCalley
Father tosses daughter from window to save life
Chris Kemp saved his eight month old daughter Sonia by throwing her from a window as a heater explosion caused a blaze in their Weymouth home. Kemp and his wife Lynne were watching television when flames trapped them, forcing the dramatic rescue with Sonia landing safely in Lynne's arms.
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London
UPI
Chris Kemp
Kemp
Lynne
Weymouth
Sonia
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