Ag Engineers Exhibit New Farm Machines at Field Day
Iowa State College agricultural engineering program will demonstrate two newly developed machines at the field day on June 27 at the research farm three miles south of Ames. The show includes a two way terracer and a corn cob crusher, plus a dynamometer and experimental sprayers, with testing and improvements planned for broader farm use.
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Ames
Iowa State College Agricultural Engineering
E. V. Collins
Stanhope
Everett Sandahl
Roger Yoerger
Voerger
Yoerger
Iowa State College
Republicans urged to define farm price supports stance
Democratic farm bloc leader Rep. Harold D. Cooley challenged Republicans to state whether they favor flexible or fixed price supports. He cited the Des Moines pledge by the Midwest Republican Farm Council and House GOP leaders, claiming it avoids the issue as he proposes 90 percent parity for three years.
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Washington
Harold D. Cooley
D-N. C
Republican Farm Council
G.O.P
Des Moines
Cooley
House Agriculture Committee
House
Clifford R. Hope
Agriculture Committee
Denver
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Paula Stone Show Teases Screen Stars On Weekday Mornings
On KORG listeners will meet favorite screen stars on the Paula Stone Show broadcasting weekday mornings at 9 15. The program promises lively chats with top performers and pop culture updates for daytime audiences.
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KORG
Paula Stone
Newton Duroc Breeders to Hold Maytag Park Picnic
The Iowa Duroc Breeders Association will hold its annual picnic at Maytag Park in Newton on June 29. President Hugh Louden Grinnell announced the event and a program of entertainment has been planned.
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Newton
Iowa Duroc Breeders Association
Maytag Park
Hugh Louden Grinnell
Farm life on the acres with Albert Fuessley
Albert Fuessley, 69, a 160 acre farmer near Troy Mills, describes long farming tenure since 1894, shifts to tractors, crops include 60 acres corn 18 oats 30 soybeans 30 hay, raises about 175 pigs yearly, and shares views on politics taxes and farm support programs. He recalls early soybean seed from Ames and notes sentiment for reform and Roosevelt era corruption cleanup.
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Albert Fuessley
Troy Mills
Center Point
Paul
Albert, Jr
Harlin Powell
Central City
Lloyd Butterfield
Ames
Albert
Taft
Eisenhower
Kefauver
Teddy Roosevelt
Congress Approves 90 Percent Parity Figure
A brief line notes that Congress approved a 90 percent parity figure, and observers say the figure seems about right given the context. The record records the approval and the general assessment of its adequacy.
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Congress
FHA Achievement Day Set At Ames Friday
The sixth annual Farmers Home Administration Achievement Day is at Iowa State College in Ames with a 10 30 a m start at the state gymnasium. Main speaker is Herb Plambeck of WHO Des Moines. Awards honor farm ownership master landlord soil conservation swine dairy food production and 100 bushel corn yield. After lunch visitors tour home economics agronomy and dairy farms. West Union reports six Fayette and Clayton county farmers among honorees for dairy soil conservation swine and food production.
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Farmers Home Administration
Iowa State College
State Gymnasium
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Division of Agriculture
Herb Plambeck
WHO
Des Moines
B. W. Lodwick
FHA
H. H. Kildee
Kenneth R. Bower
Lafe Young
Agronomy
West Union
Fayette and
Clayton County
Kermit Teig
Archie Schroeder
Clermont
Louie Zuercher
Volga
Walter Kruempel
Arlington
James Berns
Garber
Louis Bigler
Postville
Francis West
Elgin
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