Farm Certification Deadline Is July 1 For ASCS
Palo Alto County farmers must certify crops and program acres by July 1 at the ASCS county office. Farmers should have cropland measured and staked to avoid over or under planting. Certification involves signing papers after planting and reporting set aside land and productivity. Spot checks follow certification. noncompliance can jeopardize all or part of program payments.
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Palo Alto
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
ASCS
Joe A. Lynch
ASC
Lynch
Milk-Made Cooking Contest Set for June 21 in Emmetsburg
Palo Alto County Homemakers and cooking enthusiasts may enter a Milk-Made Cooking Contest for prizes. Sponsored by the Palo Alto County Dairy Association with the June Daily Month promotion and local banks and the Emmetsburg Chamber of Commerce. The event is slated for June 21 at 1:30 p.m. in the Iowa Public Service Company community room.
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Palo Alto County
Palo Alto County Dairy Association
Iowa Trust? and Savings Bank
Palo Alto County State Bank
Emmetsburg Chamber of Commerce
Iowa Public Service Company
Emmetsburg
Democrat
Brownies and Scouts Register for Annual Day Camp
Seventy three Brownies and Junior Girl Scouts have registered to attend the annual day camp next week at Dorweiler Park in West Bend. Scouts will attend daily Monday through Friday, returning home each afternoon. Camp activities include crafts meal preparation hikes and other camping experiences led by local Girl Scouts mothers and troupe leaders. Mrs Owain Hildebrand won 250 this week in the Emmetsburg merchants jackpot drawing, the fourth winner reported. three others have won 25 each.
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Dorweiler Park
West Bend
Ieaders
Emmetsburg Utility Department Summer Projects Start
Emmetsburg Municipal Utilities launches a summer construction program across water sanitation and gas. A new water filtration system near completion will remove iron and magnates from the supply within 60 days, with full mains cleanout over 12 to 19 months. Water main work includes 4000 feet of line and a 12 inch transmission line from the water tower while sewer work on North Superior Street lays plans for a cross-city tunnel toward the Des Moines River. The city advances a junk auto recycling drive in nine northwest Iowa counties with sites in Graettinger, Ruthven, and Emmetsburg, funded by voluntary participation. Gas service will expand with higher NG quotas and 2000 feet of six inch main on Highway 18, plus a cathodic protection program installing 100 anodes to curb rust. UTILITY Cont. Page Six.
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Emmetsburg Municipal Wilities Department
Harris
Emmetsburg
Water Department
North - Superior
North Superior Street
Iowa Lakes Community College
Des Moines
Harold Heykes
Pato Alto County
Iowa
Graettinger
Ruthven
Heykes
Superior Street
AML
Service Inc
Highway 18
Emmetsburg Summer Baseball Signup This Thursday and Friday
Emmetsburg announced signup for its summer junior baseball program for boys eight by August 3 or under 19 by August 1 within the Emmetsburg Community School district. Signup runs 1 to 3 30 p.m. in the Iowa Public Service Community Room on South Broadway with Homer Mileham Jr. in charge. Practice starts next Monday, continuing to June 13. teams formed June 13 and league play begins June 15 at Legion Park.
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Emmetsburg
Iowa Public Service
South Broadway
IPS
Homer Mileham Jr
Mileham
Legion Park
Public Asked How Should County Spend $289000
The Emmetsburg Democrat invites Palo Alto County residents to weigh in on how to use nearly 300000 in Federal Revenue Sharing funds received over the past year. The Board of Supervisors will decide allocation with taxpayer input via a published questionnaire. The piece notes the program was created by Congress to provide property tax relief as costs rise.
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Palo Alto County
County Board of Supervisors
Emmetsburg
Congress
America
Democrat
Board of Supervisors
Fulure
Palo Alto
Pato Alto County
Rich Johnson Becomes Red Owl Store Owner in Emmetsburg
Rich Johnson, 29, new owner of the Emmetsburg Red Owl, greets residents as he sets up the store. Married with two children, he has 15 years in groceries and earlier partnership in Sauk Center Minnesota. He and his wife Marlys belong to the Lutheran Church and he belongs to the Savk Center Jaycee chapter.
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Rich Johnson
Emmetsburg
Red Owl
Johnson
Sauk Center
Minn
Marlys
Ricky
Tara
Lutheran Church In
Rich
Savk Center
Jaycee
Emmetsburg Council Plans Street Repairs and Utilities
Emmetsburg city officials discussed budget limited street repairs with patches and sand mixtures as full hard surfacing remains unaffordable. The council approves CEO summer youths program funding, bids for a police car, waste management cooperation, traffic signal upgrades, lifeguard pool painting help, and cigarette permits for local outlets.
City Seeks Federal Grant for Emmetsburg Plant
Utilities report ranking seventh among grant applicants with a 1,179,876 federal cost sharing request for a new Emmetsburg sewage treatment plant. State Department of Health approved all but 29,000 of the Des Moines filed application. funds await regional approval in Kansas City for the 1974 fiscal year.
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Emmetsburg
Thhey
State Department of Health
State Department
Kansas City
Des Moines
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Russ Harris
Pato
Emmmetsburg
Palo Alto County Hospital
Bill Pica
Hiller
Broadway
Washington
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Palo Alto Co
Plagse
Council
John Turck
Turck
Ron Christensen
Superior
Jim Thompson
Sioux City
Office of Economic Opportunity
Pete Salisbury
Iowa Crime Commission
Palo Alto County Solid Waste Management Commission
Department of Environmental Quality
Nancy O'Connor
Highway 1B
Lawler Street
RosaLinda Argabright
Main
Broadway Streets
St. Thomas Church
Tenth
Lake Streets
Joyce's Foodland
Hughes Drug
Cook's Drug
Bruch Grocery
Berkley and Company
Holiday Erickson, Nauss Oil Company
Marian Lanes
Parks Skelly Oil Company
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