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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1964
Page
2
The Food-for-Peace program may become a central issue in the new congressional session as the Johnson administration seeks extended funding beyond December 31. Critics fear it drifts from its original surplus-disposal aim toward broad economic aid, while proponents urge broader scope and even inclusion of manufactured goods.
A dense list of farm auctions spans January to February with multiple sales each day. Entries name livestock and machinery, set times, and indicate auctioneers and location details across towns such as Tipton Amber Mt. Auburn Newhall Whittier Walker Ryan Palo Shellsburg Hopkinton Fairfax Keystone and Cedar Rapids.
David J. Kjome, Buchanan county extension assistant since March, resigns Feb 29 to join the American Guernsey Cattle Club as a fieldman. Stationed in Lafayette Indiana, he will assist Guernsey breeders across Indiana Illinois Kentucky Ohio and Michigan. He is son of Olaf J Kjome a noted Guernsey cattle judge and dairy farm manager in Minnesota and northern Iowa.
Mrs David Putman of Postville resigns as county extension home economist in Allamakee county. Her husband a veterinarian will move his business to Winfield. She has served since 1961 and her successor has not yet been named per county extension director Eugene J Carroll.
Vinton Benton county 4-H leaders will be recognized at a banquet starting at 7 p.m. January 15 in the American Legion hall in Vinton.
Arthur A. Martin of Tama runs a full time pigeon business handling 19 500 birds in 1962 and over twice that in the following year He operates 125 of his own traps and buys thousands of pigeons from locals for sale mainly in the South including trips to South Carolina New Orleans and Texas He says pigeons are a nuisance but are used for meat laboratories and dog trials and earned approval from the humane society with inspections he cites He trapped 3 286 pigeons at Cedar Rapids city hall and 1 300 at several sites last fall and sometimes catches birds by hand He plans to continue expanding traps to meet demand and clean up nuisance flocks around communities.
Eastern Iowa county extension councils elected leadership in the latest reorganizations. Kenneth Cuhel, Walter Rugg, and others were named or re elected as chairmen, vice chairs, secretaries, and treasurers in Linn, Cedar, Buchanan, and Decorah areas. Regular meetings set for last Mondays of each month.
Benton County hosts its annual spring market hog show on February 22 at Cedar Valley Livestock Exchange in Vinton sponsored by the Benton County Swine Producers Association. A new junior exhibitor class debuts under show chair Glen Kaiser with judging for 4-H and FFA at 10 a.m., junior hog judging at 11 a.m., and open show at 1 p.m. Awards follow at the February 27 swine producers banquet chaired by Charles Cottrell with co-chairman George Radeke.
Washington AP reports Iowa widened its lead in 1963 cattle slaughter with 3.2 billion pounds in the first 11 months, up from 2.8 billion, while hog slaughter reached 3.5 billion pounds from 3.2 billion. California trailed second with 2.5 billion cattle and Nebraska third with 2.2 billion.
Shuman of the American Farm Bureau denounces the Johnson administration wheat program as incredible and urges Congress to reject it. Agriculture Secretary Freeman testifies the plan would recover about 400 million of a 600 million dime drop in 1964 farm income, via voluntary participation with redeemable market certificates.
Gene McBride of Independence and a work unit conservationist for Buchanan County Soil Conservation District will lead a tiling class at the Stormont community schools adult farmer evening program in Lamont. The session starts at 8 p.m. in the vocational agriculture room of Lamont school.
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