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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1969
Page
12
The writer contemplates the New Year mood, noting TV commentators on campus radicalism and the aging shift toward conservatism. He recalls college life, quotes grand jury opinions on Iowa State, and argues more calculus and chemistry could curb youthful radicalism while predicting a future establishment role for today’s students. He contrasts dime novels with modern TV violence and laments perceived generational change.
Rex Conn reflects on dime novels about Wild West outlaws and the James and Younger gangs. He recalls Jesse James death, Younger fates, and a granddaughter taking up mandolin amid nostalgic mentions of Gay Nineties clubs. Rural sale notices close the piece with livestock and machinery auctions across towns.
In 1912 George, a talented mandolin player with a British accent and cheerful demeanor, was visiting England to see his ill mother. He could not book passage on the ship he wished to sail and missed the Titanic, leaving his friends to recall his songs and stories.
Iowa State University extension poultry staff veteran Wallace J. Ross rejoined the poultry extension team on Thursday after a break since 1965 He had worked with an integrated poultry production and processing firm in Sleepy Eye Minnesota Ross is a native of Michigan and earned degrees from Oklahoma State University and an MS from Iowa State
Dr. Lauren Christian of Iowa State University animal science will address the Jones County pork producers banquet at 6 45 p m in the Monticello Youth Center on January 16. Two directors will be elected to succeed Denzel Ehresman and William Hintz as their terms expire. The buffet will start before the meeting.
Iowa State University extension service will run a feeder pig production school at the Kalona sale barn on January 21 and 28. Andy Boston notes ISU specialists Dr. Harold Hodson Dr. John Anderson and Dr. Emmitt Stevermer will speak with programs starting at 9 45 a m each day.
Valley View Jewel's Jo, a registered Milking Shorthorn owned by W. C. and Don Crawley of Gravette, Arkansas, established a breed butterfat record with 23,700 pounds of milk and 913 pounds of fat in 365 days. In four lactations she has yielded 75,120 pounds of milk and 2,791 pounds of butterfat.
Washington AP reports farmers paid more for production items in the month ended Dec 15, with the price received index unchanged at 262 percent of the 1910 14 base. The price paid index rose to 360 percent, cattle and eggs up while cotton and oranges declined.
The National Lamb Show will be held June 3 to 5 at Hawkeye Downs Cedar Rapids. An insurance company statistics claim Americans are getting taller at about two inches per fifty years.
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