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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1968
Page
4
Fall 1968 news notes knitwear as the year’s main ready to wear influence for men women and children. fibers like wool cashmere nylon and Dacron drive washable textures patterns and new fabric effects. designers spotlight Italian Intarsia patterns and modern cardigan ensembles with midi hemlines.
Knits move from last season to a north woods style with jumbo stitches rough yarns and new double knit jackets often with Nehru collars. Children mirror dad's fashion, dresses for girls boast washability, and care labels guide washing and drying. Look for unfinished stitches indicating full fashioned garments and labels to pick easy care knits for fall.
Kansas farmers should act now to curb streak mosaic and soil borne mosaic in 1969 wheat crops says Extension plant pathologist Claude King. Destroy volunteer wheat weeks before seeding to stop virus and mites, plant resistant varieties like Bison Triumph Scout and Comanche, and consider late feeding. seek the 1967 wheat variety test publication for local data and ask county offices. In Los Angeles, UC engineers urge front seats raised six inches to reduce whiplash in year end crashes.
Western Kansas sorghum aphid outbreak reaches fifth week. Dr. H L Brooks Kansas State U says pale green aphids may be a new strain feeding from lower leaves upward, causing leaf death and threatened yields where upper leaves are attacked. Beneficial insects exist but slow to establish, so many fields require chemical control. ground malathion diazinon mixes and aerial options like parathion mevinphos demeton are noted with waiting intervals. Dimethoate and several other chemicals are not cleared for sorghum. avoid spray drift near farmsteads.
Five Future Farmers of America members from Garden City and Holcomb chapters attended the 40th annual American Institute of Cooperation at Virginia Polytechnic Institute Blacksburg Va August 47. Winners were chosen by a coop test. delegates heard talks by Governor Mills Godwin Peace Corps director Jack Vaughn and others. The group included Jerry Brown Tom Gillan Robin McLinn Steve Guy and Paul Martinez with Brown giving a 3 to 5 minute talk on cooperatives.
SHERLOCK STRIVERS 4-H Club met in Holcomb School cafeteria in August. Members reviewed last meeting, planned fair entries, and discussed 4 H rules. The club approved funds for the fair food booth and set Aug 31 as record book deadline. Camp reports and hog project talks were shared. Next meeting Sept 11. Go Getters 4-H Club August meeting featured pledge, window display planning, judging schools, project talks, and a musical chairs recreation session.
A four member Kansas 4-H horse judging team will likely represent the state at the first Regional 4-H Horse Judging Contest during the Pennsylvania Livestock Exposition in Harrisburg on November 14. Readiness came from Johnson County and other county youth who placed in the first State 4-H Horse Judging Contest in Johnson County on August 5.
Kansas 4H exhibits from crops livestock wood working clothing electric and entomology will highlight the Mid America Fair in Topeka September 6 to 11. Dr. Glenn M. Busset Kansas State University notes judging contests demonstrations illustrated talks and club booths. Swine judged Sept 6 with other livestock Sept 7. clothing foods home economics crops and garden Sept 6. club booths Sept 7. livestock and dairy judging Sept 10. 4-H livestock sale Sept 11.
Finney County extension 4H agent offers parental guidance from a religious perspective. The column emphasizes respect without fear, letting children grow freely, and teaching honor through consistent action. It urges understanding, non recrimination, and open encouragement while acknowledging right and wrong and a divine yardstick.
Albert Maddux notes all four H steers sold at the Finney County Fair entered a carcass show with white ribbon placement. Champion steer owned by Jack Berry, a Hereford with a 14 inch rib eye and high choice grade, scored top in cutability at 52 percent. Reserve champion Angus owned by Jerry Huschka showed a 12.7 inch loin eye and top choice grade. The fair prohibits selling premiums. judges emphasized meatiness, balance, and conformation while urging fair premiums for white ribbon stock.
Garst and Thomas Pioneer Seeds hold an open house field day Friday and Saturday led by Don Williams the local rep. Events start 9 a.m. at Harry Lightner farm on US 3 south of the sandhills with a noon sack lunch then an afternoon tour at Anstaett farm 45 miles north. Attendees will view 5,000 acres of corn and sorghum and hear about new methods fertilization via water injection and irrigation types. The program repeats both days for those unable to attend one day.
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