Olin teen crowned Jones County pork queen
Alison Zimmerman, 17, of Olin, was named Jones County pork queen at the Monticello event. Her performance featured a guitar solo and a vocal of The ABCs of Pork, stressing pork’s nutritional value. Attendants Laurie Stewart and Sheila Britt join her in a year of pork promotions across the county.
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Alison Zimmerman
Olin
Ken
Kathy Zimmerman
Maria
Amy
Central College
Pella
Erin
Iowa Wesleyan College
Mount Pleasant
National Honor Society
Kirkwood College
Cedar Rapids
Jones County
Monticello
Warren
Cheryl Hall
Oxford Junction Farm
Nancy Sluha
Cheryl
Porkettes
Iowa
Porkette
Sluha
Bell Ringer
Russell Brown
Anamosa
Pork Producers Association
David Lasley
Vic Robinson
Old cure still the best in farm stress era
Editor Doris Engstrom recalls a 23 below zero night with 33 piglets born and nine crates awaiting fill while criticizing modern stress management trends. She urges neighbors to share honest experience, support one another, and set priorities rather than rely on meetings and theories.
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Doris Engstrom
Woodbury County
Clayton County
Benton County
Hornick
Iowa
Free Lance
Grandma
Grandpa
Coup plays and squeezes in a bridge hand analysis
Oswald Jacoby and Alan Sontag dissect a bridge hand showing a coupe en passant and a Vienna squeeze. They explain how South ruffs, trumps, and discards force East into a loss, with South exploiting the distraction by dummy’s last heart. The column notes the defense two winners and the coup timing.
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Oswald Jacoby
Alan Sontag
Oswald
Vienna
Alan
West
East
South
Dummy
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Cedar Rapids Agencies Dominate Best of Iowa Advertising Awards
Two Cedar Rapids advertising agencies led the Best of Iowa show in Des Moines with 23 awards. Three Arts Inc. earned eight honors while Creswell Munsell Fultz and Zirbel collected 15. Awards honored Vigortone Ag Products Co. and Pioneer Hi-Bred International among others. The NAMA event will honor winners Feb. 18 in Moline, Illinois.
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Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Arts Inc
Creswell Munsell Fultz
Zirbel
National Agri-Marketing Association
Arts
Vigortone Ag Products Co
Creswell
Diamond/Syntex
Massey-Ferguson Inc
NAMA
Illinois
John Deere Center
Moline
Ill
Kirkwood trip to farm machinery show arranged
Kirkwood Community College schedules a three day charter bus tour starting February 12 to the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville and the National Tractor Pull. The fee is 98 dollars per person double occupancy motel or 107 dollars for four person occupancy, includes both event tickets. Gary Goodlove leads the group. registration ends February 5. Meals may cost up to 40 dollars extra. Contact Gary Goodlove at 398 5458 for details.
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Kirkwood Community College
Louisville
Accompan
Goodlove
Cedar Rapids
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Velma
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Mike Streit
Er Smith Agency. Inc
Oakland Road
Kirkwood
Gary Goodlove
Cedar Rapids-Marion
Midstate
Kansas City
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Wisconsin
Midstate Airlines
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Vin
Joyce
Reyne Mary Karen Pat
Universal Travel
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