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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1960
Page
18
Iowa January meat production reached 342 106 000 pounds the highest for January in 14 years. Beef up 18 percent pork 6 veal 19 while mutton and lamb fell 11 percent from the prior year.
Most farm moves are completed in the Lowden community. Dallas Jurgens relocates to the Schneckloth farm east of Lowden while Schneckloth moves to a Florida ranch. Other transfers include Jensen at the William Kahl farm, Tank to the Art Ibsen farm, Conrad farms, and several family moves among the Lund Rickles Mayerhofer Rixe Esbaum Giebelstein and Kleppe households.
The Central Iowa Power Cooperative schedules its annual meeting for March 15 at the Sheraton Montrose in Cedar Rapids with a 12:15 dinner. Speaker will be Herb Plambeck farm director for station WHO Des Moines. CIPCO comprises eight rural electric cooperatives owning the Prairie Creek plant south of Cedar Rapids operated by Iowa Electric Light and Power.
The annual meeting will be held March 12 in Postville High School. Earl King, general manager of the Iowa Rural Electric Cooperative Association, will speak.
At Central City the annual FFA market hog show crowned champions in junior and adult divisions. Gary Petrak exhibited the junior reserve champion pen, Steve Kula the reserve champion, and Duane Powell of Alburnett held the adult reserve barrow. John Nagel and Dave Whiting claimed first and second in the adult trucklot, with Kula Sehl Parker leading showmanship. The Central City FFA team won swine judging with Alburnett, Monticello, Olin, and Coggan following.
Webster area families relocate in March moving patterns. Dwight Zepf sold out and will herd for an Angus operation in Missouri. Dick Miller and family move from Morris Johnson farm to Zepf farm near Pekin, 114 miles southwest. Norman Peiffer moves from Sigourney to Johnson farm. Charles McMillen to Frank Brown farm south of Webster. Zern Fry buys Wayne Yoakam farm north of Webster and remodels. Alfred Pope moves from Yoakam to George Wheeldon farm near Sigourney. Wheeldons relocate to a farm near Sigourney.
The Edman Vernon family left the Mrs Verne Embree farm southwest of Morley for the Mrs Rose Schoff farm northwest of Morley near Highland cemetery. Richard Steenhoek and his family moved from the Schoff farm to Cedar Rapids where he is employed.
In Des Moines this week the Iowa Shorthorn Lassies elected new officers. President is Mrs. Warren Cowman of Prairie City. vice president Mrs. Loyd Beecher Union. secretary Mrs. John Dewar Cherokee. treasurer Mrs. Clyde Wasson Dexter. publicity chairman Mrs. Earl Gibson Aurora.
A sequence of auctions lists closing out sales and public auctions across eastern Iowa from March 5 to April 12. Items include livestock, machinery, grain, hay, dairy equipment, furniture, portable buildings, and a farm estate with household goods. Named locations include Lisbon, Cedar Bluffs, Anamosa, Manchester, Greeley, Central City, Marion, Alburnett, and Fairfax with organizers Roy Light Frank Stepanel and others.
Iowa farmers are expected to more than double their monthly electricity use over ten years. Wallaces Farmer reports 219 kWh in 1949 rising to 540 kWh in 1959 with 67 percent satisfied using electricity as desired. Half say more outlets needed in homes barns hog houses granaries and poultry houses.
The Walter Steger family of Worthington has moved to the Philipps Cummings farm near Earlville, marking a rural relocation within the region.
The Linn County Board of Supervisors on January 12 1960 approved a satellite tracking station special permit for Collins Radio Company to operate with Project ho on farm parcels described by section and acreage. It also authorized the County Engineer to sign completion certificates for farm to market projects and requested Iowa Highway Commission to let Linn County farm to market projects at Ames with federal participation. The board approved releasing liens on one estate and authorized transfers and bonds and accepted annual 1960 salaries for courthouse staff.
Three Illinois farmers testified before the House Agriculture Committee on a payment in kind land retirement program. The plan, supported by the Illinois Agriculture Association and a Farm Bureau unit but rejected by the national Farm Bureau, would require farmers to retire part of their acreage into a reserve, signaling rising Midwest interest in land retirement schemes.
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