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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1941
Page
16
At the annual convention leaders discuss implementing a pledge to support the President and war effort. The 13 recommendations cover expanded food production, price controls, taxation, anti profiteering, limiting non defense spending, monopoly regulation, postwar industry use, and stronger farm program administration. They aim to unite farm groups with allied nations and outline postwar employment and parity goals.
A 16 30 start announces a farm sale 8 miles west of Tipton and 34 miles north of the rock road. The catalog lists many horses cattle and shorthorns including Guernsey cows yearlings and a Jersey-Guernsey calf. Also farm machinery corn oats hay seed and harness plus a full line of household goods and a chicken stock. Glen Plattenberger hosts with W Reed er and W Challis coordinating. Lisbon Iowa.
Clayton county's first consignment of 1941 AAA checks totaling 45372 arrived here Monday. Distribution to farmers cooperating in the program began Wednesday. Special to The Gazette.
A mixed sale catalog lists items including a Diamond truck with stock rack, a McCormick Deering 2 row corn picker, and a thousand bushels ear corn. It covers horses and dairy cattle with multiple Holstein, Guernsey, and White Face cows, plus 15 head of dairy heifers and young calves. Hogs include Hampshire sows and gilts with feeder pigs and weaners. Fred Alba acts as auctioneer with Tipton State Bank as clerk.
The narrator gazes at routine farm life as she contemplates two world wars seen in her lifetime. She wonders if she has the strength to face her portion of hardship while noting neighbors and familiar scenes remain unchanged. Orson Welles is referenced as possibly broadcasting.
About 30 rural electrification representatives from Iowa met Vice President Henry Wallace in the Capitol for a half hour and dined with the Iowa delegation. The group said the war situation shifted priorities but felt the exchange of ideas with Wallace and senators and representatives was mutually productive.
Thirty one veterinarians from Black Hawk and surrounding counties attended the Cedar Valley Veterinary association dinner in Waterloo. Attorney Robert Buckmaster of Waterloo spoke on the Bill of Rights and Freedom of Speech in War-time America. Dr. Joe W. Giffee and Dr. E Hubbard addressed practice problems and Bangs disease questions. President C. L. Moses appointed Dr. Giffee to organize the January 12 program.
An old advertisement urges readers to take Carter's Little Liver Pills to stimulate bile production. It promises improved digestion and relief from constipation, touting a small price of 10¢ and a larger 54¢ option.
Department of Agriculture figures show November hog slaughter at 4,560,843 head down from October but up from September as packing season rises. Eleven month hog total reaches 40,753,093 head, with cattle 940,863 and sheep and lambs 1,424,318. calves 476,000.
SIGOURNEY Iowa City resident R Alan Williams has been hired as the new county club agent for Keokuk County He will graduate from the animal husbandry department at Iowa State College on December 20 and begin duties January 2.
Sand Springs John Batchelder, creamery operator at Farmers Mutual for 28 years, resigns effective January 1, 1942 due to ill health. No successor named.
Rex Beresford of Ames will discuss cattle feeders problems and market outlook at a Monday 7 30 p m meeting connected to the farmers evening school. The program is planned by County Agent Forrest H Bennett and Vocational Agriculture Instructor C J Gauger and is open to the public.
DES MOINES Iowa B O Gates was elected president of the Iowa Fair Managers association succeeding J H Peterson Spencer Henry I Rodman was chosen vice president and L W Hall reelected director for the Third congressional district L B Cunningham secretary reported the 1941 state fair had the fourth largest attendance and net profit of 78019 78 Total attendance 427363 near a record with cattle swine sheep horses and poultry entries breaking records Boys and girls 4 H show was the largest in history and 4702 individual 4 H entries were recorded including 1984 farm boys and 489 girls in eight day events.
Ric Bliss director of the Iowa State college agricultural extension service calls on county agents to lead the food for freedom campaign as Japan’s attack shifts the war effort. He urges veterinarians to expand sow breeding, maximize feed and equipment, and prioritize the program with county USDA defense boards.
At the annual meeting in Postville, all officers were reelected: E. C. Marston as president E. M. Gass as vice president A. S. Burdick as secretary and Victor Williams as treasurer. Lyle Zieman of Luana named director with three-year terms for M. C. Deering A. S. Burdick H. W. Schroeder and George W. Kohlman. Fair dates set for August 1942 last four days. Burdick and Williams to attend Iowa fair managers convention in Des Moines December 8-10.
Waterloo leader L. Hamer was reelected president of the Iowa State Holstein Breeders Association at the annual meeting with 100 members attending a dinner. Seven directors were reelected, and the group urged a stronger Holstein showing at Cedar Rapids fair, opposed butter substitutes legislation, backed dairy advertising law, and urged a hospital barn on fairgrounds. Certificates recognizing ten butterfat cows were awarded to 113 members across East Iowa, with numerous individuals and farms named. a dairying fellowship at Town State College went to Robert Adams of Lamont.
Baryard chatter notes J W Russell of Oxford with 46 mixed cattle kept by electric fence, Goughs of Iowa City with Duroc-Tam worth pigs and Aberdeen-Angus cows, Lampareck renting Beverly farm. Barn Yard Charter praises 4-H work as 300 calves shown by youth lead auction. Eastern Iowa All-Iowa Fair feeder project features five calf lot with steer heifer and yearling entries. Reach County Agent or 4-H leader to join.
A condensed list outlines farm auctions across Iowa towns from Dec 11 to Dec 23. Businesses and individuals such as Johnston, Clarence, Swisher, Mechanicsville, Walker, Lisbon, North Liberty, Springville, Fairfax, Marion, Center Point, Tipton, and Center Point host closing-out sales, public auctions, and Livestock Exchange events on specific dates with locations and directions noted.
Washington report shows October shipments of agricultural commodities to Britain under the lend lease act valued around 60 million dollars. Since April, deliveries through November 1 totaled over 2.2 billion pounds with shipments near 250 million dollars in value. SMA administrator Roy F. Hendrickson notes October’s flow rose to about two million dollars daily, roughly 20 million pounds of food per day.
Rowley farmers in the Rowley Farmer's Cooperative Creamery received butterfat payments for the first half of November. Grade one paid 41 cents, grade two 40 cents, and grade three 39 cents per pound, per secretary Jane McGrath. Samuel Goldwyn, the film producer, once worked in a glove factory in Gloversville New York.
Des Moines based United States Weather Bureau forecaster Charles D. Reed reports that more than one third of soybeans and substantial corn remain in fields across southern eastern and central Iowa. Throughout November the weather has been mild with scattered rain and high winds that damaged beans and halted some harvesting. Nine agencies note soft ground in afternoons. some corn husking and soybean combining occurred in cooler morning hours. Winter wheat shows heavy growth and pastures stay green as plowing of cornstalk fields continues.
Milo township feeder grower Lyle Sutton will be guest speaker at the adult farmers evening school here. The talk is scheduled next Monday at 8 o'clock in the evening.
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