Soil Conservation District News Terracing boosts ACP payments for McClain
McClain lands leveled and terraces built to ACP specifications with Soil Conservation Service help. He will receive $147 ACP payment, total project cost $336, net $189. W. D. Hart cut 300 bales of alfalfa from an 8 acre field, irrigation-based yield aided by 1954 planting and dry conditions.
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Soil Conservation Service
McClain
W. D. Hart
Boltie
Soil Conservation Service Works
Hart
Iowa 1955 corn yield tops 85.7 bu per acre
Iowa report shows the 1955 Corn Yield Test averaged 85.7 bushels per acre across harvested plots, five bushels above the 16 year hybrid corn testing average. Four of Iowa’s 12 districts exceeded 100 bushels.
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Ames
Iowa
Televised medical demonstrations at AMA meet in Chicago Navy Pier
Closed circuit color telecasts move surgical demonstrations to large audience halls. Doctors watch operations from distant hospitals via specially tuned receivers. The program aims to spread the latest medical advances to physicians across centers, with pay as you go ideas under consideration.
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American Medical Association
Chicago
Navy Pier
AMLA
County Medical Society
Federal
Change in Argentina shifts Eva Peron building
Buenos Aires reports the former Eva Peron social aid foundation building will be transferred to Argentina's university science and architecture schools. Officials say current facilities are crowded. Eva Peron, wife of ousted leader Juan Peron, created the foundation to aid the needy, a move with noted political impact. Eva Peron died July 26 1952. Juan Peron was overthrown last September. The revo
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Argentina
Buenos Aires
Eva Peron
Social Aid Foundation
Juan
Agronomy Tests Compare Hybrids In Acre Field Trials
In a series of field trials, researchers evaluate different hybrids grown on an acre plot. The tests measure yield, disease resistance, and vigor under typical growing conditions to identify superior performers for commercial release.
Estate of L B Cropper Deceased Probate Notice
Letters of Administration on the estate of L B Cropper were granted on June 12 1956 by Judge T Almon. All persons with claims against the estate must present them within the law’s time limit or be barred. Arried June 13 20 27.
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Probate Court
T. €. Almon
Morgan
Race Issue Used To Slow Souths Progress
Major General Walter J. Hanna accuses Northern interests of using race to hinder Southern industrial growth. Speaking to the Ensley Chamber of Commerce he cites gains in textiles chemicals paper and metals across Southern states and cites the Tennessee Coal and Iron strike as part of a broader conspiracy. He calls on Southern workers to resist carpetbagger leadership and support regional progress.
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Birmingham
Walter J. Hanna
Ensley Chamber of Commerce
Hanna
South
Phenix City
National Guard
South Carolina
Massachusetts
Louisiana
New York
Georgia
Wisconsin
Alabama
U.S. Steel
Tennessee Coal and Iron Division
Think Breaks and Daydream Breaks At Work
HAL BOYLE notes a UC psychologist suggesting think breaks to solve problems during work, but warns they may harm morale and invite cheating. He proposes a daydream break as a safer alternative and riffs on Thoreau and modern noisy desperation. The piece highlights 106 year old El Paso resident Mrs. Tirza Gonzalez as a lively aside.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Harrison Gouch
University of California
Iit
Henry
Tirza Gonzalez
el Paso
Tex
Gonzalez
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U. S
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John B. Sewell
Decatur
Lutionary
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