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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1954
Page
14
An archival reflection traces the European corn borer from its 1942 Midwest entry to a multi state invasion costing Iowa farmers billions. It recalls early calls for policy barriers, mug wort experiments, and efforts like DDT spraying and resistant corn breeding, concluding the pest is here to stay.
A newly enlarged 44 page booklet titled Rheumatism offers non-surgical, non-medical treatment insights. It claims drugs provide only temporary relief and invites readers to request the free book from The Ball Clinic in Excelsior Springs Missouri with no obligation.
Delta Delhi Grange installs new officers led by Ray Lanning as master and Dean Smith as overseer. Other roles include Mrs. George Hodgkin lecturer and Harold Wilson steward with a long list of officers and committees. Installation set for December 9.
Stewart Baker, a current Winneshiek county fair board member and 25 year 4-H club leader, was named an honorary 4-H member at the Winneshiek county rally night. Clover leaf medals were awarded to five leaders and new girls and boys 4-H officers were installed, including Helen Auen as president and David Lomen as president of the boys club.
The Harvey Kesselring 120 acre estate farm eight miles north of Wellman has been sold to son Carrol Kesselring who has been operating the place. The reported price is 246 dollars per acre. The farm is well improved and on a surfaced road.
Clayton White of near Wellman purchased the 120 acre Ora Slead farm in the Kinross neighborhood for 300 dollars per acre. Slead held a closing out sale last week.
A USDA official urges expanding world trade and capital free movement to benefit U S agriculture. Ralph S Roberts administrative assistant to the agriculture secretary states that policy should expand international trade with coordinated currency convertibility and freer exchange of commodities and information. He warns against reckless dumping and favors gradual liquidation of surpluses through balanced pricing and production adjustments.
McGREGOR The annual district conference for Dairy Herd Improvement Association board members and supervisors will be held Thursday at the Farm Bureau building in Fayette. Clayton county extension director Max Sauerbry says town state college extension dairymen will discuss production testing methods and facts about the new social security law affecting the associations and supervisors.
Four hundred fifty Linn county 4-H members and families gathered for the annual county rally at Alburnett school. Arlene Barta of Fairfax was elected county girls club president for the new year with officers including Joan Drenkhahn Marion vice-president Carol Hoppe Center Point secretary treasurer Bernita Kopecky Marion historian. In the boys club election Joe Kwapil Palo was named president Donald Rawson Troy Mills vice-president Jerry Bullis Marion secretary treasurer Norman Wassmer Central City historian. Also honored were Betty Rinderknecht past county girls president Leo Copporan past county boys president and Maurice Van Note past boys vice-president presiding at the joint session.
Last week in the Wellman area neighbors staged three acts of assistance. Fourteen pickers harvested 47 acres of corn on the Lloyd Brenneman farm with women providing the noon meals. Five pickers aided Emerson Swartzendruber after his broken arm. Additional neighbors picked and cribbed 30 acres at Mrs. Mabel Wagamon’s farm following the death of her husband.
Two corn harvest accidents occurred near Aurora over the weekend. Vernon Renwick nearly lost his left hand on Friday while freeing a stalk from a picker agitator and was treated at Mercy hospital in Osceola. Kenneth Johnson of Aurora Supply Company sustained head injuries when a hydraulic unloading jack slipped during work on the Max Seedorff farm and was treated then released.
Friends and neighbors gathered at the Arthur Stadtmueller farm Friday to pick and crib the corn crop. Mr Stadtmueller is ill with pneumonia in John McDonald hospital at Monticello. Twenty one men helped with the operation and eight women prepared and served dinner.
Eighty five acres of corn were harvested Friday by friends and neighbors on the George D. Ranshaw farm near North Liberty. Ranshaw is recovering from a back injury. About forty men worked the bee arranged by Mr. and Mrs. Edgar L. Colony with twelve women assisting at the North Liberty Methodist church. Food was supplied by thirty neighborhood families.
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