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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1973
Page
11
Kirkwood Community College will offer two new programs this fall, a seven quarter horse husbandry track and a four quarter agriculture builders services program. The farm building course includes portable and pole building construction and turnkey environment control facilities.
Peterborough New Hampshire dairy announces Guerngold Rolena a four year old Guernsey cow owned by Lester J Miller of Wellman Iowa has completed an official DHIR production record of 14610 pounds of milk and 793 pounds of butterfat in 305 days with twice daily milking according to the American Guernsey Cattle Club.
Dr. H. H. Kildee, 88, renowned livestock judge and ISU industry specialist, died after a long illness. A 1908 ISU graduate, he spent his career there aside from two years at the University of Minnesota. He served as ISU vice dean, then dean from 1933 to 1949, later dean emeritus. he led the International Livestock Exposition from 1957 to 1964.
Lynn Over Man, a veteran stage and screen actor, died at age 55 from a chronic heart ailment. His career spanned decades with appearances on stage and in films, earning recognition in theatre circles and among audiences nationwide.
Newton Iowa Farm Bureau president J Merrill Anderson writes to Secretary Earl Butz urging immediate action on Iowa grain marketing chaos. He notes grain piled in streets deteriorating in weather while elevators face insolvency without relief, demanding emergency financing and transportation fixes to prevent bankruptcies and protect exports.
A series of farm sales and closeout auctions scheduled from Thursday February 22 to Thursday March 8. Listings include dates, times, locations near Van Horne, Monticello, Hiawatha, Marion, Vinton, Springville, Cedar Rapids, Aveton, Olin, and Dysert, with items such as tractors machinery livestock hogs bulls and antiques. Names include Herman Kading Robert Eilers Clara Eilers Darrel Loan M J Buckner Maurice Gamble Hawkeye Polled Hereford Assn Richard Wilmott Robert Degner Lee Foster estate.
Linn County residents contributed 2379 to CROP in 1972 as part of the Community Hunger Appeal of Church World Service. Funds support disaster relief and food-for-work programs in countries such as Bangladesh, the Philippines and Peru. Mrs Mark Carter chaired Linn Dennis Dolan Prairieburg County CROP Committee with treasurer Mrs Mike O Donogh 1972 and a wide local committee including Joe Sayear Dick Mackey Ely Barvarino of Churches United gaining supervisor Dennis James Mollenhauer Farmers Dolan Prairieburg dairy chair State bank Lyle Kuehl pastor Dick Pike Prairieburg of Hope United Church chair Frank Fouloun Ralph Kinkead Whittier Central City meat chair Mrs Byron Hougan Dick Mackey meat chair Church Women United Robertibership chairman Harold Ellyson Whittier Donna Emig publicity chairman Den Jordan Farm Bureau Women.
Washington AP A farm policy watchdog questions President Nixon choice Robert W. Long a Bank of America executive for assistant secretary of agriculture duties Long 49 would oversee conservation forestry research and education The Agriculture Accountability Project funded by Field Foundation says a banker would favor agribusiness over small farmers and calls Long a financial technician with little sympathy for rural needs
Mike O Connell of Cedar Rapids was re elected president of the Linn county National Farmers Organization group last week in Cedar Rapids. Other officers elected include Vice president Harold Emig Marion, secretary Mrs
Iowa Agriculture Secretary Robert H. Lounsberry announced a public hearing for March 7 at 2 p.m. in Des Moines to consider changes in swine brucellosis control law. He seeks expanded blood testing at about 16 plants, with a $350,000 yearly cost funded from brucellosis and tuberculosis funds or authorized levies.
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