Russian captain changes mind amid Iowa grain visit
Iowa grain producers visiting the Soviet freighter Ahtoh near New Orleans persuaded the captain to allow a brief explanation of their aims. The ship, loaded with soybeans, flies a Soviet flag and normally invites were refused. The article notes New Orleans grain elevators handle about 1.645 billion bushels yearly with 60 percent corn and 30 percent soybeans, and outlines sub lots for shipments and port traffic.
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New Orleans
Iowa
Gulf Port
Ahtoh
Joe Resner
Ama
Resner
John Yantis
Conrad
Melinda Hindman
Milo
David Fults
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Yellowport
Baton Rouge
Myrtle Grove
Mississippi
Fults
Morris A. Clyde
Port of
Farm Datebook highlights county 4 H and community events
Benton County hosts Maurice Van Nostrand speaking at a 6 p.m. parent member banquet in the Dysart Geneseo cafeteria. Cedar County clinics at Bennett School and Lowden Library at 3 p.m and 6 30 p.m. The F U N Fair for the Elderly runs 1 4 p.m. at Marengo Legion Hall. Iowa County features the Eulenspiegel Puppets in Iowa City 7 30 to 9 p.m. at Montgomery Hall fair ground. Jones County reports ASCS feed grain set aside meeting 7 30 p.m. in Monticello. Linn County Rural Development Committee meets 8 30 a.m. Marion. All Iowa Fair board 4 p.m. Cedar Rapids. Sunday events include lamb chain deadline and 4 H leaders meeting in Tipton, plus 4 H roller skating, Fashion Revue, and Hedging seminar in Cedar Rapids. Northeast Iowa hosts state 4 H officer candidate selection in Strawberry Point. Tuesday programs cover soil conservation meeting Williamsburg and county fair judges training in Iowa City, plus 4 H leader training in Marion.
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Benton County
Maurice van Nostrand
Dysart-Geneseo
Dysart
Cedar County
Bennett School
Lowden
Iowa County
F.U.N
Marengo Legion Hall
Johnson County
Eulenspiegel
Iowa City
Montgomery Hall
Fairground
Jones County
ASCS
City Hall
Monticello
Linn County
Rural Development Committee
Marion
Chamber of Commerce
Professional Park
Third Street
Cedar Rapids
Tipton
Longbranch
Blunt Ellis
Loewi
Second Ave
Iowa
Northeast Iowa
Strawberry Point
Iowa County Soil Conservation District
SCS
Williamsburg
Western Dubuque High School
Cascade
REC
Edgewood exhibitor tops open show at Delaware County hog event
Michelle Thurn of Edgewood displayed the top carcass hog in the open show at the Delaware County Spring Market Hog Show. Her hog weighed 210 pounds live with .97 inch backfat, 6.3 square inches loineye, 31.4 inch carcass length, and 62.5 percent muscling. Doug Schulte of Manchester led the derby contest, which ranks hogs by rate of gain and carcass data.
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Manchester
Michelle Thurn
Edgewood
Delaware County
Thurn
Doug Schulte
Rabbit Bertram Frank Bechcka tops Havana buck show
Bertram rabbit Bertram Frank Bechcka won best Havana in Sedalia Missouri with a senior buck after besting 105 entries at the All Havana Rabbit Show. The same rabbit earned best of breeds in an All Breeds Show the next day. On this date in 1963 the Thresher submarine failed to surface in the North Atlantic with 129 crewmen listed dead.
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Bertram
Frank Bechcka
Havana
Sedalia
U.S
Thresher
North Atlantic
Dialflan Money Center
Des Moines Veterinarian Sentenced Over Sale Barn Scandal
Dr. Paul Bessire Jr. a 47 year old veterinarian and former owner of an Anita livestock sale barn, was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to four counts of a 58 count federal indictment. The case charged conspiracy mail fraud and false bank statements for inflating cattle numbers and values to boost credit lines. His former secretary Mary Glynn, 33, received three years probation after pleading guilty to two counts of a 54 count indictment.
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Des Moines
Anita
Paul Bessire Jr
Mary Glynn
Bessire
Sale Barn
U.S
William C. Stuart
Glynn
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Holank
Selchow and Righter Co
Scrabble
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Cattlemen’s Association
Cedar County Fairground
Lake Iowa
Millersburg
Charles Seaton
Walter Reinhart
Clarence Husband
Iown
DialPlan Money Center
DialPlan Money
Algona
Bettendorf
Carroll
Clinton
Council Bluffs
Davenport
Dubuque
Fort Dodge
Mason City
Ottumwa
Sioux City
Waterloo
West Des Moines
DialPlan, Inc
Dial Corporation
New York Stock Exchange
Dial
Parade Magazine
Kent
America
Lorillard
U.S.A
FTC
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