Dairy honors crown Winneshiek dairy leaders at Decorah event
Peggy O'Hara, 18, crowned Winneshiek County dairy princess at Luther College Decorah. She will attend Hawkeye Institute of Technology and has served as Decorah FFA secretary. Runners up Barb Stockman and Karen Langland named. Robert Sersland, 43, named Distinguished Dairyman for his 28 Holsteins averaging 15,000 pounds milk and 525 butterfat over five years. Sersland active in school board 7 years, 4-H, extension council, and Holstein association. Most improved Holstein herd awarded to Howard Sersland and Sons. Pioneer dairyman William Wilkens cited for 39 years in dairying and leadership roles.
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Decorah
Peggy O’hara
Winneshiek County
Luther College
O’hara
John O’hara
Hawkeye Institute of Technology
FFA
Barb Stockman
Gene Stockman
Postville
Karen Langland
Walter Langland
Howard Sersland and Sons of
William Wilkens
Farm Bureau
Northeast Iowa Farm Service
Reserve price may be raised for grain reserves
Washington government officials weigh raising trigger levels for redeeming reserve wheat barley and oats as U S grain prices stay high. Strong foreign demand and inflation threaten reserve policy prompting talks of higher loan rates and adjusted trigger prices for 1980 crop loans to safeguard supplies and stabilize farm prices.
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Washington
UPI
U.S
Agriculture Department
Howard Hjort
Hjort
Coggon Dominates Linn County Dairy Awards 1979
Coggon wins top honors as 1979 Linn County dairy princess Sharon Sperfslage and alternate Lisa Becker hail from the town. Sperfslage, 19, a Kirkwood student and United Fire employee, heads the prize group with top cow Linea from Louis Holub and Sons of Monticello. Five other candidates and DHIA award winners from Center Point Alburnett Coggan and Monticello are recognized along with Happy Joe’s Golden Butterknife honor for dairy promotion. About 200 people attended the banquet in Cedar Rapids.
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Springville
Linn County
Sharon Sperfslage
Joe Sperfslage Jr
Coggon
Dona Jo Price
Sperfslage
North Linn High School
Troy Mills
New Linn County
Kirkwood Community College
Cedar Rapids
United Fire and Casualty Co
Lisa Becker
Louis Holub
Center Point
Victor Becker
Alburnett
Bob Bell
Coggan
Happy Joe’s Pizza and Ice Cream Parlor
Council Street
Linn County Dairy Promotion Committee
Nineteen cattlemen named Iowa Beef for Father's Day honorees
Nineteen fathers who are cattlemen were named district winners in an Iowa Cattlemen’s Association contest. The honorees include Ervin Birkland Cylinder Wiley Weaver Rockwell Bruce Pennington Rudd James Hurd Decorah Dennis Durruman Larrabee Marshall King Boone Merle Hamilton Williams George Hayek Sr Elberon Paul Vaassen Dubuque Bob Sullivan Dunlap Frantz Moore Senocker Dexter Dean McWilliams Deep River Ira Corey Ankeny Milford Heitman Williamsburg Donald Klindt Davenport Harold Eitzen Clarinda Gerald Maxwell Nodaway Paul Sheldon Chariton and Larry Holtkamp Salem.
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Waterloo
Iowa Cattlemen’s Association
Crossroads Center
Ervin Birkland
Cylinder
Wiley Weaver
Rockwell
Bruce Pennington
Rudd
James Hurd
Decorah
Dennis du
Rumman
Larrabee
Marshall King
Boone
Merle Hamilton
Williams
George Hayek Sr
Elberon
Paul Vaassen
Dubuque
Bob Sullivan
Dunlap
Frantz Moore Senocker
Dexter
Dean McWilliams
Deep River
Ira Corey
Ankeny
Milford Heitman
Williamsburg
Donald Klindt
Davenport
Harold Eitzen
Clarinda
Gerald Maxwell
Nodaway
Paul Sheldon
Chariton
Larry Holtkamp
Salem
Preston district crown goes to Lamotte teen pork queen
Sandy Sieverding 18 of Lamotte won District 8 pork queen at Preston High School. A high school leader active in speech drama and yearbook, she will compete against district queens in Des Moines at the January state pork convention. Runner up Jolene Hermiston, 19 of Blue Grass, a sophomore at Iowa State, attended by about 275.
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Preston
Sandy Sieverding
Lamotte
Jackson County
Thespian Club
National Honor Society
Anthony Sieverding
Des Moines
Jolene Hermiston
Blue Grass
John Hermiston
Iowa State University
Ames
Preston High School
Gifted students urged as future energy problem solvers
Ernest Boyer, outgoing U S education commissioner, warns U S schools neglect gifted students who could provide future solutions to energy shortages. He says imagination and creativity have not been seriously fostered in the past decade or two and cautions we may pay a terrible price if gains are not made.
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Washington
America
Ernest Boyer
U.S
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Boddicker School of Music
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Five Seasons Sporting Goods
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General Products Co
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la Femme
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