Setaside tops 80 percent in 1982 voluntary program
The USDA announced that farmers signed up 184.3 million acres, 81 percent of the 229 million base acreage for feed grain rice upland cotton and wheat. About 57 percent of farms participate with varying base crop percentages, agreeing to cut production by 10 percent in exchange for CCC loans target price protection and grain reserve access. Ed Curran, Farm Paper Letter.
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USDA
No parties in Clark building at Clark County fairgrounds
The new Clark County fairground multi purpose building will no longer be rented for wedding, anniversary and birthday parties. After its completion last summer it hosted social and meeting events but the public property committee voted to end these rentals due to pressure from Neillsville night clubs and other businesses claiming unfair competition. The facility will still host other non fair events such as cattle shows.
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Clark County Fairground
Wisconsin
County Board
Public Property Committee
Neillsville
Wisconsin crop and livestock survey starts in June
The Wisconsin Agriculture Reporting Service begins the 1982 June Enumerative Survey statewide through June 3 to collect planted acreages and cattle and hog numbers. Field enumerators will contact farmers. data will remain confidential and feed official state and national estimates with reports planned for June 29 July 12 June 22 and July 26.
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Wisconsin Agriculture Reporting Service
Dan Capstick
State Agriculture Department
Capstick
Marriage During War and Loss on Pearl Harbor Day
A Spooner family recalls Kenny and Marie Anderegg marrying in Miami on Pearl Harbor Day 1942 after a furlough. The plane mission and missing crew led to a long, haunting Christmas, with a survivor later found and a missing plane casualties tallying over 400,000 American deaths before the war ended.
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Spooner
Pearl Harbor
Kenny
Marie Anderegg
Miami
Marie
Uw-Madison
Adjutant General
White Lake
Con
Schools Recall Early Memorial Days and Patriotism in 1906
The reminiscence recalls 1906 classrooms with cloth covers, Leagues of literature and grammar books, and lessons aiming to foster patriotism through history, music, and readings. Students memorized patriotic poems and addresses, celebrated Memorial Day with flowers at cemeteries, aided by veterans, churches, and the high school.
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Potter, Jeschke and Gillett
Hamilton
Smith
Hart
Washington
Trenton
Lincoln
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