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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1957
Page
4
WANTED Several more applicants as Paragus pickers. Apply at Elgin Canning Company office. FOR SALE About 400 bales of good alfalfa hay. G H Falk phone 2531 Elgin 35 36 cents
Iowa veterans received 76.23 million dollars in VA cash benefits and services in 1956. 38,642 living veterans drew 30.82 million in compensation or pension, while 11,998 deceased veterans’ dependents got 9.81 million. Death benefits and GI indemnities totaled 5.89 million. The House rejected bringing the liquor by the drink bill to floor debate by 63 to 43. The executive council blocked air conditioner installation in the Iowa Commerce Commission’s building, though Ames state facilities and several state offices elsewhere are cooled. The state office building is conditioned. others, including the State House, largely are not.
Use tax collections on new motor vehicles and trailers eased last month versus the prior year with March totals of 525 865 compared to 526 405 in March 1956. The town’s only Democratic congressman Marwin Coad from Iowa's sixth district criticizes Ezra Taft Benson amid farmer dissatisfaction.
Ames maintenance engineer R C Boyd leads a special panel on a test road at Ottawa Illinois to assess concrete thickness under varied conditions. Gov Herschel Loveless contemplates naming a 100 member Iowa committee to chart a progressive state future, an idea from Loren Hickerson of the University of Iowa Alumni Association.
Wilfred Bond and others attended the county American Legion Auxiliary meeting in West Union Tuesday. Alta Bond hosted the Little Eight club with prizes to Mrs. Pearl Johnson, Mrs. Elmer Sturss, and Mrs. Aulden Wilson. Mrs. Dawson Clark is in St Luke's Hospital Cedar Rapids for surgery on April 25. room 317. Forrest Moore family of Minneapolis visited the Wm Moore home en route to Albuquerque to see Ivan Moore and family.
Iowa on farm and off farm corn stocks totaled 628.546 million bushels as of April 1, up 3 percent from a year earlier. Oats in storage stood at 63.389 million bushels, far below last year's 110.053 million. Wheat in storage reached 8.256 million bushels, down 34 percent from 12.599 million a year earlier. Rye stored data ends fragmentary.
U S grain stocks show 68 000 bushels total in all positions up from 50 000 a year earlier. Soybeans total 33 957 000 bushels in all storages on April 1 up 30 percent from a year earlier and second largest for this date in 12 years. Flaxseed in all positions 95 000 bushels, corn 2 587 million bushels, oats 473 million, with total soybean stock near 217 million bushels, the highest April 1 levels on record, surpassing last year by about 40 million bushels.
Parents discuss discipline goals and agree that discipline should help a child satisfy personal needs in socially acceptable ways. It emphasizes positive purpose, guiding growth, self control, and respecting others while allowing safe freedom.
The text argues discipline should guide parental evaluation of methods, prompting questions about aims and outcomes to decide about spanking or privilege removal. It notes a readable account about parental choices and a birth of triplets to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Van Zandt Schul of Orange City born April 15, with two boys and a girl weighing about 5 pounds each.
A fragmented notice recalls eight years since Easter when Mrs. Ruby Busch near Durant reported a missing diamond wrist watch. The clipping hints at a lost item and a local search or inquiry, reflecting a small community concern from historical records.
Alvin Roberts has retired from hauling in Audubon after fifty years in the business. He began as a youth working with his father, who owned Audubon county’s first truck, marking a long family tradition in local trucking.
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