Spies Frick Cow Sets Production Record
The Holstein Friesian Association of America reports Spies Carnation Lady Vivian, a four year old Holstein cow owned by Spies & Prick of Grarttinger, produced 15 891 pounds of milk and 611 pounds of butterfat after milking twice daily for 309 days, with supervision from Iowa State College and the national Holstein organization.
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Holstein-Friesian Association of America
Spies & Prick
Grarttinger
Vivian
Towa State College
National Holstein Organization
Del's for Sale and Calves Feed Offer
Del's offers 90 pullets from June hatch now laying. Cross bred hens healthy and disease free available for viewing. Also selling a purebred Shire horse and a vacant dairy steer. Special Purina Beef Chow stock feed promoted for club and show calves to simplify feeding.
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Cal
Weighing and Testing of Production 482 Part of Registry Program
The report notes weighing and testing activities for production 482 under the Herd Improvement Registry program. The emphasis is on standard procedures and quality checks to ensure animal records reflect accurate data for breeding and performance tracking.
Eye injury at Dysart shop injures Leo Heckroth
Dysart mechanic Leo Heckroth sustained a severe injury to his left eye while repairing a car in his shop. A steel hearing broke as he attempted to remove it from the axle, a fragment about half an inch by one and a half inches struck his eye.
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Leo Heckroth
Dysart
Purina Poultry Insecticide Advice For Hen Health
Check hens for lice and mites to keep production high as egg prices rise. Purina Poultry Insecticide is easy to use on roosts, per Walt Bauman near Osgood. He also feeds Purina Beef Cnow to club calves and uses Purina Cattle and Sheep wormer, noting research showing up to $6 back per $1 invested.
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Purina
Walt Bauman
Osgood
Walt
Purina Cattle
Diet Makes Queen Bee Stand Out From Rest
Washington reports that a queen bee becomes distinct from workers by diet royal jelly. Nurse bees feed the larva royal jelly for two and a half days, then honey and pollen, yielding a queen that lays thousands of eggs daily and can live up to five years.
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Washington
Farm Problem Remains Despite Large Federal Aid
A Twentieth Century Fund study argues that farm problems persist despite twenty billion dollars in aid over twenty years. It criticizes wartime and recent legislation as anti depression, aimed at high demand and prices rather than preventing lows, and urges a forward looking farm program suited to non depression and non wartime conditions.
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Twentieth Century Fund
Hearing aid fitting and use essential for effectiveness
Chicago specialists warn that simply buying a hearing aid isn’t enough. Proper fitting and training dramatically boost value, as a nerve deaf patient improved from 58 to 48 percent with 20 hours of formal training, while many patients skip instruction and fail to ensure proper fit or follow up with their doctors for retesting.
Early Marine Life on Santa Catalina
UCLA anthropologist Dr. Clement Meighan reports evidence of a thriving marine civilization on Santa Catalina Island dating to about 4,000 years ago. Radioactive carbon dating of Indian relics from Little Harbor yields primitive bone fish hooks quartz spear points stone hammers mortars and pestles shell beads and abundant marine bones including dolphins and seals.
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Los Angeles
Santa Catalina Island
California
B.C
UCLA
Clement Meighan
Little Harbor
Island
Transmitters Licenses Reported in United States
Washington reports 342 licenses authorising about 1.2 million high speed mobile devices. In the past year, 26,000 licenses covered 410,090 transmitters and were embarked.
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Washington
United States
Christmas Day Dinner Guests Reach Across Several Homes
Local Christmas Day gatherings spread across multiple households with Oleson Sampson Vaughan Jonsen Jensen Millady Cornelius Payne and Wolfe families hosting and attending dinners. Notable visits include Patterson family from Roseburg Oregon and Marvin Leininger hospitalized after a crash near Graettinger.
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Oscar Oleson
Don Oleson
Lavon
Linda
Jimmy
Arnold Sampson
Shiney
Shirley
Bob Sampson
Meats and Groceries at Simonsen’s Grocery
Robert Simonsen, proprietor, advertises a large stock of fresh and cured meats plus ham and bacon at low prices. The store also offers cream milk bread fruits and vegetables and invites patronage with telephone contact 71.
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Robert Simonsen
Barringers Host Christmas Gathering Attendance
Alesch's mother Mrs. L. J. Kasa of LeMars joined family groups for Christmas at the Barringer home with Rev and Mrs Kenneth Barringer and family of Traverse City Michigan and James Barringer a student at Iowa University.
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Fred Wolfe
Lester Perkins
Cindy
Estherville
Ted Christianson
Herschel Perkins
Gerald Stueve
Arnold Alesch
Aluse
Gust Alesch
Remsen
Paul Cornelius
Fenton
Lloyd Cornrling
Ray Cornelius
Lloyd
Iowa City
Alesch
L. J. Kasa
LeMars
Kenneth Barringer
Traverse City, Mich
James Barringer
Iowa University
D. C. Barringer
Rabbit prospects look excellent across Iowa for hunting season
Iowa Conservation Commission officials report rabbit numbers the highest in two years as most major game closed. Hunting runs through January with a ten rabbit limit and daily hours from sunrise to sunset. a brief, unrelated incident notes a hunter injured in an accidental discharge while tending a trap.
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Iowa
Conservation Commission
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Checkerboard News
By del Gaker
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Aoky
Del’s Farmers Supply
Saaettinger, Iowa
Graettinger
Santa Catalina
Mrs. Oleson
Lena Vaughan
Rolfe
Ami
Albert Jonsen
Kennet
Jenern
Gerhart Jensen
Othet Christine de
Dts
Kenneth Millady
Newark
Ohio
Lloyd Cornelius
Moe
Cornelus
Ray Powers
Minneapolis
Minneanalis
Cornelius’ Mrother
Carrie Odin
Beverly Odin
Esthervile
Cornelius
Virgil Payne
Raymond Payne
Jackson
Minn
Patterson
Delores Jasperson
Mrs. Patterson
Mrs. Fred Wolfe
Marvin Leininger
Wallingford
Jack Patterson
Julie
Roseburg, Oreg
Loren Wolfe
Tweyeese Riald
Tommy Crona
Tenting
Tomy
RADIO
Fairbanks Morse
Phono Records
Grein Electric
Asm
Aris
Graettinger Block & Tile CO
Lowa
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