Feed Grain Supports For 1960 Announced
Federal plans set 1960 price supports for barley oats and rye at 1959 levels with rates barley 0.77 per bushel oats 0.50 and rye 0.90. Non recourse price supports cap $50 000 per producer per commodity unless acreage falls 20 percent from 1959. Corn support drops to 1.06 per bushel and loans run through January 1961.
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Leo S. Kolstad
State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Administrative Office
CCC
Kolstad
Nickel content alters magnetism in iron alloys
A cast alloy with about 20 percent nickel remains non magnetic though nickel and cast iron are individually magnetic. The effect shows how varying nickel concentration changes magnetic properties in iron based materials.
Montana Falls Near Bottom for State School Support
Montana ranks 48th nationwide in state funded school support. State aid is 22 percent, local taxes cover 74 percent, federal aid about 4 percent. Montana needs 4 million to raise teacher salaries to national average and enrollment growth adds 1.5 million more next year. The state also sits 46th in ten year per pupil expenditure growth.
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Montana
The
United States
Colorado
North Dakota
South Dakota
Girl Scout News Intermediate Meeting Focuses on Year Second
The Intermediate Girl Scouts held their second meeting of the year on Tuesday February 23. The session opened with a program and activities for members.
Girl Scouts and Brownies Schedule Dinners and Events
Money totaling 2.25 was raised for the Juliette Low Friendship Fund. Margaret Rosholt will attend a May 27 event at the Congregational Church basement in Great Falls wearing full dress with white gloves. A Brownie Father Daughter dinner was held at the Lutheran Church in Dutton with Sheena Wilson as MC. Meetings moved to Wednesdays, dues set at 0.10 weekly. A church service on March 6 includes Brownies and Girl Scouts in uniform. A Brownie Dad dinner is set for March 6 at 4 p.m. in the Methodist Church. A Scout display will run March 6-12 in Penney’s window for the 48th scouting anniversary. Leaders should bring display material to the store by 1:30 Monday, March 7.
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Juliette Low
Margaret Rosholt
Congregational
Great Falls
Margaret
Will
Dutton
Sheena Wilson
Penney’s
Wisconsin
Tennessee
Congress
Antitrust
Pricing Policies of Drug Industry Hearings Review
Senator Dirksen contends the antitrust subcommittee misrepresented drug profit margins during December 1959 hearings. He cites Schering Corp. cost accounting omissions and asserts actual after tax profits run 12–16 percent, not 1000+ percent, urging correction and noting press editorials across the country.
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Dirksen
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
U.S. Senate
Subcommittee On Antitrust and Monopoly
Francis C. Brown
Schering Corp
Brown
Schering
Internal Revenue Service
Econo
John Connor
Merck
E. Gifford Upjohn
Upjohn Co
Blackman
Premo Co
Kefauver
Merck Co
Wiley
Kefauver probes prescription drug pricing trends
A Senate subcommittee investigates drug prices amid concerns of gouging and antitrust enforcement. The piece highlights the cost of new medicines, the value of research, and quotes John T. Connor of Merck on pharmaceutical progress and a U.S. capitalism versus Soviet critique.
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Senate
Kefauver
John T. Connor
Merck & Co
Chicago
American Association of Medical Clinics
U.S
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Readable fragments indicate a brief notice or item in a 4 percent range related to a historic report. The text preserves no clear event, names, or places due to OCR damage.
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