County outlines supports for 1959 crops in Wilson County
Wilson County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation announces price supports for 1959 crops. Wheat at 1.89 per bushel and sorghum at 1.50 per hundredweight with loans and purchase agreements available through Jan 31 1960.
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Wilson County
Leon Choate
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee
Choate
Federal Food and Drug Administration
ASC
Sorghum loan rates grip fall prices say Kansas expert
Kansas State University agricul tural economist Orlo Sorenson says grain sorghum loan rates will shape prices this fall due to ample storage and a cut in the price support rate. The national minimum average loan rate drops from 1.82 to 1.52 dollars per hundredweight, with Kansas ranges from 1.52 in eastern counties to 1.30-1.32 in western areas.
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Manhattan
Orlo Sorenson
Kansas State University
Kansas
Soil Bank Points Listed For Farmers
Wilson County official Leon Choate outlines eight key duties for farmers in Soil Bank Conservation Reserve contracts. Rules cover no harvest or grazing, maintaining vegetation, timely practice establishment, and respecting permitted soil bank base acreages.
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Fredonia
Leon Choate
Wilson Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County
Seoil Bank
Wool Support Vote Planned
Omar C. Browning, chairman of the Kansas ASC committee, announced a September nationwide referendum on continuing to finance a market development program for wool and lambs. Approval requires two thirds of production represented. a one cent per pound deduction for shorn wool and five cents per hundredweight for lambs. Ballots mailed before Sept 1 and due by Sept 30. referendum covers only the wool and lamb market development program.
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Manhattan
Omar C. Browning
Kansas Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee
Browning
ASC
Stock Sale To Highlight County Fair
Neosho County 4H and FFA members hold the Junior Fat Stock Sale at the county fair in the hog and sheep barn August 12 at 8 p.m. About 50 fat steers 3 pigs and 10 lambs will be bid by Parsons Stockyards packers with option to take base bid or keep the animal. Judging updates include beef sheep and swine by Cecil Eyestone Ralph Bonewitz John Davis Norman Haigh Mrs Faye Vice and others.
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Erie
Neosho County
FFA
Gale Mullen
Mullen
Parsons Stockyards
Cecil Eyestone
Kansas State University
Ralph Bonewitz
Extension Dairyman
John Davis
Vocational Agriculture Department
Altoona
Norman Haigh
Altamont
Faye Vice
Labette County
Jack Works
Humboldt
Juanita Johnson
Crawford County
Keith Donelson
Parsons
Mail Election To Determine ASC Delegates
An Erie area mail election will select ASC community committeemen and delegates to the county convention from all ASC communities in Neosho county. Ballots have been mailed to eligible voters and must be postmarked or returned by Aug 11. Nominations are listed for each township including Big Creek, Danville, Centerville, Chetopa, Eric, Grant, Lahore, Lincoln, Mission, Shiloh, and Tioga with numerous candidates named.
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ERIE
ASC
Neosho County
James L. Norris
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee
Community Election Boards
Local names listed for community figures and residents
A readable fragment lists individuals including Nelson, Fred Hansen, Raymond Kelley, Joe McMillen, Roy McMillen, Glen Pilgrim, Harley Roberts, Homer Stitt, Britton Thompson, Walnut Grove, Cecil Earnhardt, Allen Coover, Kenneth Dutton, John R. Eggen, Francis Grosdidier, Don Hull, John McDaniel, Wilbur McDaniel, Floyd Rubie, and William Wheeler as part of the community notices.
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Nelson
Fred Hansen
Raymond Kelley
Joe McMillen
Roy McMillen
Glen Pilgrim
Harley Roberts
Homer Stitt
Britton Thompson
Walnut Grove
Cecil Earnhardt
Allen Coover
Kenneth Dutton
John R. Eggen
Francis Grosdidier
Don Hull
John McDaniel
Wilbur McDaniel
Floyd Rubie
William Wheeler
Wheat Loss From Disease
Kansas wheat farmers faced up to eighty million dollars in losses from wheat streak mosaic this year with fields 8 to 90 percent infected. Kansas State University scientist Webster H. Sill Jr. urges prevention by removing volunteer wheat near fields, planting by area recommended dates, and using resistant varieties. Reprints available from county agents.
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Manhattan
Kansas
Kansas State University
Kansas Agricultural Situation
Webster H. Sill Jr
Sill
Visit to Kansas Requested for Mr. K
A collection of brief AP items reports diverse events. Carol Hudson, 7, freed her tongue from a scout canteen after firemen and life savers worked an hour. Two girl scouts died in a camp tent fire in Ohio. Khrushchev invitation to visit the U S drew a protest from Dr Clyde J Kennedy. An American Airlines pilot was killed in a takeoff crash in New York. A mansion linked to Thomas Edison shows in Kan.
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Charlotte, N.C
Carol Hudson
Charlotte Life Saving Crew
Carol
Akron, Ohio
Sally Parker
Cleveland Heights
June Gambie
Media
Los Angeles
Eisenhower
Nikita Khrushchev
United States
American Council of Christian Churches
Clyde J. Kennedy
Bible Presbyterian Church
Tacoma
Wash
Hungary
Dillinger
Ronkonkoma
N_Y
American Airlines
Harry Seavey
Commack
Krushchev dedicates national menu during governors meeting
The report notes Nikita Khrushchev's dedication at a national menu event while midwestern officials including Gov. Charles Edison and Olin K. Petefish, president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, attend a governors conference in Puerto Rico. Also mentioned is a home filled with inventor memorabilia and the transfer of keys to the Interior Department. Albany tax officials report a former employee sent a 25 cent postage meter note to the state.
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Russia
Nikita Krushchev
Lawrence
Edison
New Cities
Olin K. Petefish
Pres- Jersey
Charles Edison
Lawrence Chamber of
Commerce
George Docking
Interior Department
Governors
Puerto
Rico
Albany
N.Y
State Tax Department
Gunsmoke Street Change Foes Arcade Showdown in Winston-Salem
Tension rises as Bible Missionary Church on Gunsmoke Street urges renaming to Joylight while Maverick Street residents defend Gunsmoke. County Board will study the issue. In Los Angeles a jackhammer operator struck off in the civic center.
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Winston-Salem
N. C
Bible Missionary Church
Maverick Street
Los Angeles
Civic Center
Discovery of oil pocket halts Hall of Records site work
In Chanute on the Hall of Records Building excavation a four foot deep seam of asphaltic oil was found in shale. The pocket proved insufficient for production, and workers sealed the discovery with the concrete footing of a steel column.
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Hall of Records
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Stanley Harding
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Danville
Wayne Brant
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Wayne Gibson
Verne Heilman
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Mr. K
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Glenmont
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Humboldt Co-Op
L. P. Gas
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Carent
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Farm Credit
Arthur Solomon
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Singer & Sons
Kohler
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