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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1957
Page
4
Harold Orth of Elgin offers a young Holstein cow with a heifer calf for sale. Buyer to contact Harold Orth in Elgin for details and pricing.
A note details Iowa funding with 14 610 000 dollars for general aid and 4 000 000 dollars for supplemental aid. A July 9 traffic safety conference in Des Moines will gather about 600 women, described as back seat drivers, to craft an action plan for statewide road safety. Governor Loveless and his wife support the effort. Lew Strauss of the VA and Atomic Energy Commission will speak at West Branch on June 20 at the Hoover birthplace dedication ceremony.
J L Jurgemeyer of Clinton, state GOP chair, told a Cedar Rapids Republican women’s meeting the governor might be a composite of Herschel Johnson and George O’Malley. He quipped about not knowing who the governor is and named Rep Remley to the state central committee. The legislature’s highway probe opens public hearings, with focus on contract padding, land purchases, and bribe offers. Herschel Loveless appoints five to the state banking board: Floetchinger, Nun, Pullman, Ronan, plus others.
Local notes from Volga report supper guests visits in Arlington and Wadena. 4-H Volga Pioneers and St Volga Bluebirds meet to select rally day participants for Elkader June 1 and plan songs and demonstrations.
The Iowa Farm Safety Council warns swine brucellosis costs farmers heavily and calls for eradicating the disease from swine herds as the main prevention. It urges a ready first aid kit in farm shops and notes sheep scabies are controlled only by benzene hexachloride dipping. Farm accidents average four deaths per county annually.
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