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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 21, 1979

Page

7

Pork Council selects Orville Sweet as new executive VP

Orville Sweet the 16 year president of the American Polled Hereford Association becomes executive vice president of the National Pork Producers Council succeeding Marvin Garner who resigned. Sweet will take full time duties mid April and led the Hereford group to adopt computer beef records and air transport of cattle.

DES Moines UPI National Pork Producers Council Orville Sweet American Polled Hereford Association Sweet Marvin Garner West Des Moines United States Wichita Falls Texas

Keppy Litscher top carcass winners in Swine Expo derby show

Jolene Keppy of Wilton won the live grand champion derby hog and the WMT pork chop award with a hog gaining 1.146 pounds of muscle per day on test. Her second hog gained 1.132 pounds per day and placed first in the junior middleweight class. D and D Litscher of Stanwood led central test with a hog gaining .986 pounds daily and a 6 square inch loineye. Other top finishers include Ken Weber, Don Gingerich, Dale Thompson, and multiple exhibitors across Iowa towns. 30 years ago the Hoover Commission urged overhauling the State Department.

Jolene Keppy Wilton WMT Keppy Allan Keppy Tina D Litscher Stanwood Lisbon Ken Weber Sigourney Don Gingerich Parnell Gingerich Dale Thompson Riverside Todd Cheever Waterloo Roger Bottema

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