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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1968
Page
6
Extension notes advise seeding cool season grasses in early September for best stand. Recommend bluegrass mixtures with Kentucky bluegrass Windsor bluegrass and Newport bluegrass or perennial rye, with rates per 1000 square feet. Emphasizes thorough seedbed prep, even distribution, proper soil cover, moisture, and rolling.
Kansas will receive 6.314 million dollars for the Agricultural Conservation Program in 1969. The national program total is 195.5 million, with about 20 000 farms in Kansas expected to benefit. Focus remains on aiding low income farmers, erosion control, home gardens, and soil and water conservation to improve environment.
Extension Marketing Information Economist Jack A. Richards assesses 1968 69 farm income outlook. Net gains likely under 0.5 billion despite higher receipts from livestock and government payments. Crop marketings may rise 2 3 percent. prices soften. Exports total 6.3 billion in 1967 68. 1968 volumes uncertain.
The 1968 feed grain program delivers final payments to Wilson County growers in Fredonia. Total estimated at 520 171 dollars for about 850 participants, covering unpaid diversion and price support, with options for advance partial payments at signup.
Five district screening sessions on September 24 in Topeka Manhattan Dodge City Hoxie and Yates Center start the state 4-H record book awards process for over 50 projects. Kansas State University official John Hanna notes county trips and a state committee will finalize selections September 25 to 28 at KSU. Awards include scholarships watches educational trips and a National 4-H Congress trip in Chicago December 15.
Mrs. James Peters and Mrs. David David presented a program at the Kiwanis meeting at the Tioga Hotel. They described with pictures a new mutual aid organization called The Fish being organized here. Guests included Don Shively, C. D. Flagg, and junior Kiwanian Nick Alonzo. Wilbur Allison presided as president.
Dr J Alfred Cannon of UCLA announces a $3 7 million seven story mental health center to open in 1969 on the old Wrigley Park site in predominantly Negro downtown Los Angeles The city leases 4 3 acres for 1 year The center will reject Freudian white middle class therapy and address poverty and chronic crisis with state federal and bank loans funding.
Police in Plymouth Township rounded up an escaped menagerie from the Petting Zoo after its trailer opened. A giraffe remained at large until located in a state police repair lot, while ostrich, goats, ducklings, goslings, chicks, rabbits, and bantam roosters were taken into custody.
A fall feed grain and livestock outlook meeting will be held in the courthouse Thursday at p.m. William Guy, rural Cha nute farm management fieldman, will lead. He just returned from a Bozeman Montana session on Plains livestock and grain outlooks. Questions include Why such low cash wheat prices and How much can you pay for replacement cattle this fall. Vernon Lohmann Neosho county agricultural agent notes the session aims to provide facts to aid intelligent farming decisions.
The Federal State Crop and Livestock Reporting Service notes the Kansas turkey crop at 371 000 birds for mid August, down 38 percent from last year and about half the 1962 66 average. Egg prices averaged 22.9 cents per dozen, chickens 6.4 cents per pound, with the August index at 117 percent of the 1910 14 base, the highest since March 1967.
Neosho County Community Junior College announces adult evening courses open for enrollment, led by director Al Jones. Available offerings include Accounting, Aeronautics, Anthropology, Creative Art, English, Office Practice, Psychology, Sociology, shorthand, typing, German, drapery, expectant parents, furniture refinishing, shop math, structural steel, plate layout, and welding. Some start early next week, others later. dressmaking and driver's education are closed. several courses are canceled for low enrollment including world affairs and GED prep.
A note directs readers to contact the Tribune via phone and provides an after hours number HE 1-3400 for reach after 6 p.m. The message emphasizes using the stated line if the usual carrier cannot be reached.
Cpl. Marlen L. Phillips from Dodge City is named among 55 servicemen killed in action on the Defense Department’s Vietnam casualty list released Monday. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Clyde A. Phillips Sr.
Judging contests and events run September 14 to 19 at the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson. 4-H youths from every county compete in public revue, sheep shearing, tractor operators, and county judging teams across dairy meats clothing home improvement poultry livestock crops and foods with finals Thursday.
Woodson county ASCS ballots mailed to eligible voters with Sept. 18 deadline to return. Public ballot counting set for Sept. 23 at 8 a.m. in the county office. County convention to elect one member on Oct. 7 at 9 a.m. Nominees listed for communities A through E including Beine Erker Louderbaugh Reynolds Smith Steele Weston and others.
County ASC offices issue voting instructions for agricultural stabilization and conservation committees. Voters receive two envelopes per county, one plain and one printed on the back with a signature statement. The ballot must stay inside the plain envelope, unmarked, then placed inside the outer envelope with the signed statement and mailed to the ASC office. If the back-statement is unsigned the ballot will not be counted.
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