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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1948
Page
12
Mary Lou Moore urges readers to create a rich holiday table with bold autumn color and symbolic decorations. Use tall arrangements, beaded textures, and careful placement to enhance the feast atmosphere and seat guests comfortably.
John F. McGovern, first vice-president of the National Canners Association, warns canners and packers to monitor congressional activity as the 81st Congress nears. Speaking at the 47th Iowa Nebraska Canners meeting in Des Moines, he urges citizen engagement to protect the economy and free enterprise.
The remarks urge vigilance and informed citizens to prevent fixers and repair outfits from altering the nation’s traditional economy. Other speakers include John De Long of the Iowa-Des Moines National Bank, Harold Hoyt of the Iowa State Employment Service, and State Secretary of Agriculture Harry D. Linn.
Sen. George Aiken warned that continuing farm price supports at 90 percent of parity would wreck the national economy due to mounting federal costs amid abundant global harvests. He noted many Democrats back 90 percent parity on six basic crops while shifts to flexible supports face resistance from administration figures and incoming leaders.
Aiken reports farm groups in Indiana, Iowa and Illinois back a flexible containment program for X-disease. The National Grange supports it as protection for cattle. The illness, found in about 30 states, hits beef cattle harder than dairy in a 9 to 1 ratio and mainly affects calves. Signs include loss of condition, skin thickening, and weakness with eye and nose discharge lasting weeks to months.
Special to The Gazette Urbana Illinois reports a new cattle disease named hyper keratosis or X disease has struck at least five Illinois herds this year. Veterinarians note uncertain and possibly high death rates. Federal scientists in five southern states found in 26 infected herds one third affected and almost two thirds of affected cattle died. Quarantine of infected herds is advised?
In Des Moines a nationwide survey of 6 million farmers for Successful Farming finds 68 percent foresee no serious business downturn in the coming year. The poll also notes 13 percent expect a downturn within the same period.
A survey shows 19 percent could not say, 40 percent expect no serious depression in the next four years, 37 percent foresee a depression, and 23 percent had no opinion. The results reveal mixed expectations about future farming conditions.
Fourteen percent of farmers generalized that inflation should be curbed and prices lowered as the best ways to avoid another depression.
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