OPA Advisory Committees Hit Quotas
Chicago area cows and hog raisers on OPA advisory committees urged cancellation of wartime slaughtering quotas. They claimed price controls failed, black market activity rose, and demanded removal of subsidies and controls from meat and livestock. Industry and union offered opposing views on new orders.
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Hicago
Office of Price Administration
Avral Erickson
OPA
Washington
Erickson
Reese van Vranken
Kalamazoo County
Mich
United Packing House Workers Union
CIO
Fence Drift Subsidy Totals and Agriculture Payments
Government subsidies to livestock producers totaled 1.283 billion dollars from 1943 to 1946 through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and USDA programs. May 1945 marked 50 cent per 100 pounds for cattle 800 pounds plus, with 14.25 per hundredweight threshold at Chicago. PMA records show 1945 direct cattle payments near 14.5 million on 2.8 million head, while January 1946 subsidies reached 2.8 million on 550,000 head. A sheep subsidy program began August 5 1945, replacing the slaughter subsidy, and is slated to run at least until next June 30, with nearly 10 million paid in 1945.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Usda Bureau of Agricutural Economics
CCC
Chicago
PMA
AAA
Davidson Succeeds Dodd in PMA Post
Washington AP reports the Agriculture Department appointed Dave Davidson to direct the field services branch of the Production and Marketing Administration. He succeeds N F E Dodd, who was recently named undersecretary of agriculture. Davidson is a former director of the California office of the agency.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Dave Davidson
Production and Marketing Administration
N. FE. Dodd
Davidson
California
Neighbors Plow Fifty Acres in Aid for Lininger Farm
Neighbors in North Liberty, nineteen men led by local workers plowed and harrowed fifty acres of the Ervin Lininger farm two miles west of town on Saturday. Lininger recently suffered an infected hand and the volunteers included White Laren Harold Laren Ford A Work Ray Cummings Lloyd L Rinehart Lloyd Myers Floyd Myers Ray Von Stein R P Stoner Arthur Hill Lloyd Bowman Robert Lininger Leonard Sentman John Bowman Homer Riggle Earl Walker Rev R M Hudson and Guy M Myers.
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North Liberty
Ervin Lininger
Mr. Lininger
White Laren
Harold Laren
Ford A. Work
Ray Cummings
Lloyd L. Rinehart
Lloyd Myers
Floyd Myers
Ray von Stein
R. P. Stoner
Arthur Hill
Lloyd Bowman
Robert Lininger
Leonard Sentman
John Bowman
Homer Riggle
Earl Walker
Rev
R. M. Hudson
Guy M. Myers
Neighbors Help Francis Monaghan Farm With Spring Work
Neighbors including Coggon residents with 10 tractors and eight manure loaders assisted last week at the Francis Monaghan farm near here. They helped with spring work such as building a fence and disking corn stalks. Mr. Monaghan was recently injured in a tractor accident. The ladies served dinner at noon.
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Francis Monaghan
Monaghan
Neighbors Help Clean Corn Land for Ill Local Resident
Neighbors in Alburnett aided Leslie Bardoner who has been ill for weeks. Milton Lyman used a manure loader and Malcolm Andrew and John Tritle operated spreaders to clean barns and lots on Monday. On Tuesday 35 acres were plowed with help from G. R. and Malcolm Andrew and numerous residents including Harold Clifford El va Kirk Don Jones Forest Keller Art Cameron Duane Simmons Eugene Cook W. J. Anderson Burgie Martin Darris Newman Charles edvina Milton Lyman and John Tritle.
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Alburnett
Leslie Bardoner
Milton Lyman
Malcolm Andrew
John Tritle
G. R
Harold
Clifford
Elva Kirk
Don Jones
Forest Keller
Art Cameron
Duane Simmons
Eugene Cook
W. J. Anderson
Burgie Martin
Darris Newman
Charles—edvina
Farm work ahead in Winneshiek county reports
Special to The Gazette notes farm work progressing in Winneshiek County ten days ahead of last year. Pastures improve slowly but show excellent condition. Fruit trees were not in bud, so the fruit crop avoided damage from early last week freezes.
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Decorah
Winneshiek
Airport planners urged to heed farmers needs in Iowa
Howard Hill of Minburn told a state airport planning clinic that farmers will be a planner’s best customer and urged airports be built near towns with good access and long enough strips for beginners. Iowa officials proposed an airport for every county as 76 planners attended to learn about municipal and registered fields.
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AMES
Howard Hill
Minburn
Hill
Iowa
Flying Farmers of Iowa
Guy C. Richardson
Jefferson
Iowa Aeronnautics Commission
Iowa State College
R. C. Boyd
Des Moines
Iowa Commission
Calmar Man Buys 120 Acre Farm North Of Calmar
Leonard Humpal purchased the Frank Frana 120 acre farm north of Calmar for $18,000. The Humpals own an adjoining farm tenanted by their son and will move onto the new property.
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Calmar
Leonard Humpal
Frank Frana
Humpals
Minnesota Fair to Get War Dept Settlement Over $1 Million
In Saint Paul officials of the Minnesota Agricultural Society expected a cash settlement exceeding one million dollars from the War Department for the use of Minnesota state fair grounds by the Army during the war. The agreement would compensate for wartime usage and related costs.
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St, Paul
War Department
Minnesota State Fair
Minnesota Agricultural Society
Army Occupies Grounds For Three Years At Omaha
A report notes the army reached agreement with the claims and real estate officer of the seventh service command at Omaha. The army occupied the grounds for three years.
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Seventh Service Command
Omaha
Plowing Demonstration Set At Berns Farm
A clean plowing demonstration will be staged on the A. H. Berns farm south of El dorado on Thursday, April 18. Harold Gunderson of the agricultural extension service, with years of corn borer control experience, will conduct the demonstration.
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Decorah
A. H. Berns
Eldorado
Harold Gunderson
The
Agricultural Extension Service
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