Debate Over Minimum Farm Wage Bill Sparks Split Views
Rep. Charles E. Goodell supports general aims of a bill extending federal minimum wage to about 478 000 farm workers with a first year minimum of 1 per hour while Rep. E B C Gathings opposes applying wage standards to farm workers warning of job losses for unskilled labor on farms during a Newspaper Farm Editors of America meeting in Washington.
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Poultry Expert Forsythe Named U S Council Representative
Dr Forsythe head of Iowa State University poultry science was chosen as a United States representative on the World Poultry Association council. He fills the vacancy from Dr Carpenter and serves as vice chair of the participation committee for the thirteenth World Poultry Congress in Kiev next August.
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East Iowa Beekeepers Set Spring Meeting in Preston
DES MOINES The Eastern Iowa Beekeepers Association will hold its spring meeting Sunday in the American Legion Building at Preston. Registration starts 9 30 a m A full program includes lectures film and music A potluck dinner with dishes coffee and soft drinks provided Urged attendance by secretary Boyd Palmer Shoppers paradise Gazette want ads.
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Farmers Plow 59 Acres in Oats and Corn Near Postville
A group of 15 farmers plowed 59 acres of corn and seeded 56 acres of oats on the Herman Polfer farm, three miles northeast of Postville in Allamakee county. Polfer is hospitalized at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. The men worked 29 furrows each pass, making a swath 4 feet wide.
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Iowa hearing probes Bandstra bill to curb packer feeding
Hearing in the Iowa House chambers addressed a proposed Bandstra bill to ban cattle feeding by packers with over one million dollars in annual gross sales and by retail meat-packing chains. Testimony from Warren Overman and Glenwood Packing urged limits, while independent feeders warned of price depression and loss of farmers' income. changes and clarifications were discussed to apply the rules to large operations, not individual farmers.
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Free Enterprise
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Oxford
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Ray A. Rodeen
Sioux City
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Elton Berck
Omaha
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Nebraska Farmers Union
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Lawmaker argues against livestock industry control
The congressman notes passage of the bill is unlikely in this session but urges restraint. Dale R. warns that restricting one phase invites broader government control and opposition to free enterprise from his Omaha business allies.
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