Tydings Amendment Still Guards Farm Inductions
Washington AP report notes draft boards must continue to defer 18 to 25 year olds essential to farming under the 1942 Tydings amendment. Officials, including Rep Flannagan and the House Agriculture Committee, press careful screening to prevent abuse while upholding wartime farm needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Selective Service
Tydings
Lewis B Hershey
House
Senator Tydings
D-Md
Selective Service Board
War Boards Advised of Draft Role
A. J. Loveland chairman outlines in a memo issued last week the duties of Iowa county USDA war boards to aid selective service authorities. At a joint meeting with state officials the plan calls for providing information to reclassify agriculturally deferred men aged 18 to 25 upon request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Usda War Boards
A. J. Loveland
State War Board
Iowa Usda War Board
Selective Service
Loveland
Selective Service Board
FENCE DRIFT and Exotic Bits From Calcutta Paper
A brief note describes a Calcutta Sunday Statesman issue dated Dec 24 with small headlines seven columns wide. It mentions rupees and annas, Kipling date lines, tea gardens for sale, a Benares house for rent, and a Yorkshire lieutenant engaged to a South African girl, offering a taste of distant adventure for readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon Pine
Smith-Hughes
Olin
India
Calcutta Sunday Statesman
Kipling
Benares
Yorkshire
County War Boards Process Deferment Information
County war boards are instructed to collect factual data on a standard form from the county extension director and return it to the selective service board without any recommendation on deferment or essentiality. The board must verify all items are listed and then forward the form. No prior recommendations are to be made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County War Boards
County Extension Director
Selective Service Board
County Extension
County War Board
War Board
War Board Recommends Deferment for Registrant
The registrant is classified 1-A but the county war board, after reviewing all facts, believes induction would seriously affect food production. A deferment recommendation must come from the entire war board, not an individual, Loveland stressed. The board’s duty is to provide information when requested by selective service boards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County War Board
Entire
War Board
Loveland
Selective Service Boards
Farm Briefs from Wapello and Decorah Notes
Farm sale four and one half miles southwest of here reports horses aged five to eight years sold at 70 to 125 dollars. Colts up to 50 dollars. sows 55 to 68. shoats 15 to 20. cows 98 to 120. heifers 85 to 95. Timothy sold at 1450 dollars with 8000 bushels of corn at 97 cents. Decora dr J W Pirie and Arthur Porter to speak on dairy cow artificial insemination in Winnebago county. Brooklyn to host Poweshiek county Farm Bureau victory party January 30 with Herb Plambeck as speaker.
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C. A. Blanchard
Here
Poland
Jersey
Timothy
Decorah
J. W. Pirie
Cedar Rapids
Arthur Porter
Extension Dairyman
Ames
Winneshiek County
Fair Ground
Calmar
Brookyn
Poweshiek County Farm Bureau
Brooklyn
Herb Plambeck
Des Moines
Loveland Warns of Corn Shortage in Northwest Iowa
Des Moines AP reports A J Loveland chairman of the Iowa AAA committee warns of corn storage and shipping shortages in northwest Iowa. If not solved by spring, spoilage could reduce crops. He notes temporary cribs may be moved, but rail cars are scarce and some corn sits exposed on the ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
A. J. Loveland
Iowa Aaa
AAA
Warren County
Harry D. Linn
State Secretary of Agriculture
Loveland
Nebraska corn threatened by spoilage needs rail cars
Richard H. Larson of the Nebraska railway commission asked the federal government for a 60 day priority on railroad cars to move 100 million bushels of corn at risk of spoilage. He said about one third of Nebraska's 1944 crop is piled on the ground as cribs and elevators overflow. He urged Ward Food Administrator Marvin Jones and OD Transportation Director J Monroe Johnson to provide the cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Neb
Richard H. Larson
Nebraska Railway Commission
Nebraska
Larson
Ward
Marvin Jones
J. Monroe Johnson
Office of Defense Transportation
Coming Farm Auctions Near Alburnett and Cedar Rapids
A series of farm auctions in Iowa listed with dates from January 24 through February 21 in towns including Alburnett Vinton Marion Linn County home Linn County Cedar Rapids Solon Anamosa Marion and Center Point. Auctions cover closing out consignments land and animal sales featuring breeds such as Hereford Duroc Hampshire Poland China and more.
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Elmer F. Burr
Alburnett
M. A. Maxwell
Vinton
Joe Lenicek
Fairfax
W. J. Rupperle
E. Marion
J. C. Holbert
Iowa Fair Grounds
Cedar Rapids
William Vick
Linn
Baty & Dell
Troy Mills
A. T. Benn Estate
Bert E. Miller
Duroc
Lisbon
Hampshire Breeders Association
Hawkeye Downs
Smyth & Hodgeden
Iowa County Duroc Breeders
Homestead
Zack McArthur
Duroc Sale
Albert Martin Sons
Iampshire
Helgens Bros
Poland
Amber
John van Buren
Prairieburg
Owen & Kershner
Center Point
Marvin Topinka
Johm Strosahl
Anamosa
I. R. Drake
Marion
New Hormone Drug Makes Old Roosters Look Like Capons
DES MOINES A new sex hormone drug may transform roosters into capon like birds by stopping crowing increasing weight and altering comb growth Stilbestrol previously used to induce milk in virgin heifers has shown capon type effects in poultry research The American Foundation for Animal Health reports early promising results but full capabilities require further veterinary studies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
American Foundation For Animal Health
Johnston Resumes Ames Dairy Post
John Fitzsimmons named state supervisor of emergency farm labor programs in the extension service at Iowa State College. He succeeds Floyd Johnston and will oversee recruitment and placement, Victory Farm Volunteers, and other training programs across Iowa. Fitzsimmons also directs landscape architecture extension work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
John Fitzsimmons
Iowa State College
R. K. Bliss
Floyd Johnston
Johnson
Bliss
Scape Architecture
College
State
Victory Farm Volunteers
Women's Law Army
Jones County Master Corn Growers Banquet Date Set
The annual Jones County Master Corn Growers banquet will be held at the high school in Olin on January 27. Harlan Russell, county Farm Bureau president, will serve as toastmaster with Earl Elijah of Clarence as speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames Extension Service
J. Morris Christy
Tipton
Howard Hamilton
Alfred Meyer
REA
Ralph Johnston
Farm Bureau
H. J. Nilsson
Marion
Scs
Hy von Muenster
AAA
Roy Dyas
Maquoketa
LaMar Foster
Farmers Union
Earl Elijah
William Shrope
Robert Kelley
Arnold Meier
OLIN
Jones County
Harlan Russell
County Farm Bureau
Clarence
R. A. Naylor
Scotch Grove
Orris Randolph
C. B Jessen
Anamosa
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Flannagan
D-Va
House Agriculture Committee
House Military Committee
Lewis B. Hershey
War Boards
Rexconn
GMC
YMAC
Stone’s Truck Service
First
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Gimc Trucks
By Williams
Beverly Cattle Company
WMT
N.W
Baty & Deal
M. J. McCalley
Denver
1St St
A. C. Electric
E. Cohn & Sons
Lt. Ave
3Rd St. SW
the Gazette
Johnston
Horace Thompson
Tony Schmitz
Ileibsohn
Ist
Ave
Northwestern Bell
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