Anderson urges extended wartime food subsidies and price controls
Secretary Clinton Anderson backed President Truman's call to extend wartime food subsidies and price ceilings beyond June 30. He warned that inflation risk remains high due to strong buying power among workers and veterans, and said the department aims to end controls only after restoring economic balance. He also urged commodity exchanges to curb speculation to protect postwar food security.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
Anderson
Truman
Congress
Washington
Secretetary of
Clinton
America
Gilts Average $166 At Milo Wolrab Sale
Forty Berkshire gilts sold at the Wolrab sale near Mt Vernon averaging 166 dollars. Henry Pitstick of Ottawa Illinois paid 385 for a mated gilt. Top boar fetched 240 dollars bought by Jack Lannon of West Point Nebraska. The Wolrabs have won the Henkle trophy three times.
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MT. Vernon
Milo Wolrab
Henry Pitstick
Ottawa
Ill
Jack Lannon
West Point
Neb
Wolrabs
Henkle
Coming Farm Auctions in Gazette Listings
A sequence of farm auctions and sales scheduled from February 6 to February 18 across Iowa. Entries list date, type of sale, seller, and location near towns such as Cedar Rapids Cascade Monticello Solon Walker and Hawkeye Downs with multiple breed sales including Hampshire Poland China and Chester White.
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Hampshire
Fruehauf
Hawkeye Downs
G.L. Skvor
Cedar Rapids
George P. Rogers
Cascade
L. M. Randall
Central City
Ed Butler
Mt. Vernon
Poland
China
O. J. Hess
Worthington
H. G. Manuel
Center Point
Bert E. Miller
Lisbon
C. Wendell Peters
Keystone
F. J. Vondracek
Solon
Haeussler and Ellis
Coggan
C. L. van Alst
Walker
Howard van Alst
Linn REA Co op Adds 389 New Members in 1945
Linn County Rural Electric Cooperative expanded its distribution from 748 miles serving 1 927 members at start of 1945 to 855 miles serving 2 316 by year end. Manager R D Palmer and treasurer H A W Koch spoke at Marion meeting noting 115 4 kWh average monthly use and 5 36 average bill. President Glenn Stoner said 900 miles will be in service after D section and 40 more miles under construction. Directors election scheduled. office space remains tight with plans for a new office warehouse. Dinner served to members at high school gym.
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Linn County Rural Electric Cooperative
R. D. Palmer
Marion
Palmer
H. A. W. Koch
Central City
Glenn Stoner
Linn
Johnson
Benton
Jones
Cedar Counties
Tama County Increases Crop Goals for 1946
The Tama county AAA committee announced higher crop goals for 1946 except soybeans. A total of 339,300 acres are slated for soil depleting crops and less than 96,700 acres for soil building crops. Tama county is allotted 96,600 dollars for soil conservation practice payments for 1946.
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TRAER
Tama County
AAA Committee
AAA
Pillsbury Proposes Plan to Stretch Wheat Supplies
Pillsbury Mills president Philip Pillsbury proposes a five point program to conserve wheat by restricting uses and reallocating stocks. Measures include banning wheat for feed and alcohol, limiting mill stocks, exporting flour, and prioritizing distribution to mills and northern Europe if needed. He warns against longer flour extraction and outlines potential consequences. The article also notes county lime contracts and AAA payments affecting local farmers.
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Minneapolis
Philip Pillsbury
The
Pillsbury Mills
Pillsbury
Secretary of Agriculture
Clinton P. Anderson
Buffalo
CCC
Wheat
Allamakee County to Pay On 12 Practices
Twelve soil-building practices have been approved for payment under the 1946 AAA program in Allamakee county. The measures include contour farming of intertilled crops, contour strip-cropping, building open drainage ditches, tile drainage, and pasture reseeding.
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Allamakee County
Kelleher
R. J. Cooney
Waukon
Andrew Bresmnahan
L. J. Meyer
Castalia
Post Township
Triple-A
Ben Kelleher
Morrell and Co Earnings Fall in 1945
Morrell and Company meat packers reported 1945 net earnings of 881,360.47 dollars or 2.20 a share, down from 2,011,175.10 dollars or 5 a share in 1944. Dividends of 2.50 a share were paid both years. Sales and operating revenues dropped about 15 percent to 158,264,378 dollars from 187,477,599 dollars in 1944. G M Foster, president, cited lower livestock supplies and manpower shortages as key causes, though conditions are improving.
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Ottumwa (Ap
John Morrell and Company
Meat Packers
G. M. Foster
Aberdeen-Angus calves, cows sold in Postville sale
Postville Leon Chamber sold 12 purebred Aberdeen Angus heifer calves aged five to eight months and one cow to Leslie Oliver Williamsburg for 1250 dollars. One cow was sold to E Brenniman and Son Brooklyn for 200 dollars.
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Postville
Leon Chamberlain
Leslie Oliver
Williamsburg
E. Brenniman and Son
Brooklyn
New Manager Named by Butter Marketing Assn
J. R. Moses of Postville, a former Clayton county supervisor, was named manager of the Northeastern Iowa Cooperative Creameries to replace R. C. Huebner who resigned to start a business in Postville. The association markets butter for 14 member and 12 non member creameries and has a Froehlich warehouse. Officers are Willis Lamker president H J Numedahl vice president and Alving Thoreson secretary.
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Postville
J. R. Moses
Clayton County
Iowa
R. C. Huebner
Froehlich
Marketing Association
Willis Lamker
Monona
H. J. Numedahl
Calmar
Alving Thoreson
Proper Diet Would Boost Food Demand
Special Correspondent reports a U S program to ensure good nutrition would lift total food purchases by over two billion dollars and require major farm shifts. Cochrane of the Agriculture Department estimates a higher diet would cut illness and lift milk, vegetables, and citrus consumption while expanding meat and fish intake for low income groups.
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United States
William Cochrane
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Cochrane
Farm sale near here. Mills buys 86 acre Walton farm
Troy Mills has purchased the 86 acre Safe Walton farm two miles east of here. A group of hunters bagged two foxes Sunday east and south of here.
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Troy Mills
Charley McPike
Walton Farm
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