Farm Storage Loans Available At ASCS Office
Palo Alto county farmers can apply for loans to buy grain storage and drying gear year round per ASC Chair Joe Lynch Mallard. Apply now to have storage ready for fall crops. loans cover facilities storing up to two years of eligible commodities and require growing an eligible crop and need. Eligible crops include corn oats grain sorghum and soybeans. Loans amortize over five years with four annual installments and first payment after one year. current rate 7.3 percent. Contact Palo Alto ASCS Office Emmetsburg IA 852-3386 for applications. Vance W Jensen, son of Kenneth R Jensen of Graettinger, reports aboard USS White Plains in the Western Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palo Alto County
Joe Lynch Mallard
Lynch
Palo Alto
ASCS
Emmetsburg
Iowa
Uss White Plains
Vance W. Jensen
Kenneth R. Jensen
Graettinger
White Plains
Western
Pacific
Fleet
Great Lakes
Grain Show Class Results At Graettinger 1970
The Graettinger FFA grain show held on Labor Day at the school announced class winners across crops and flowers. Grand champions included Norman Nicol and Randy Nicol in Tallcom, with multiple top placings for Jim Graettinger and Barb Graettinger among vegetables and fruits, and several notes of favorites in the flower classes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Labor Day
Graettinger Ffa
Graettinger
Paul Forey
Gene Boblit
Tallcom
Norman Nicol
Randy Nicol
Jim Graettinger
Barb Graettinger
Roy Wikert
Roger Rustad
Richard Joyce
Ralph Graettinger
Harry Wikert
Kurt Hurd
John Graettinger
Diane Graettinger
Brian Westergard
Mike Elsenbast
Ronald Olson
Clifford Brighton
Dean Lammers
Ronnie Hankey
Janet Cox
Alvin Luke
Darrel Nicol
Rhonda Reutter
Henry Jensen
Pam Robinson
Clifford Blighton
Alfred Luke
Frank Beschorner
Candy Funk
Alfred Westergard
Verlae Nicol
Doris Schealler
Alfred Mccombs
Mary Ellen Craven Speck Wedding in Sioux Falls
Mrs. Lester Craven of Graettinger announces the marriage of her daughter Mary Ellen to James Speck of Sioux City. The ceremony occurred Friday August 28 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Mary Ellen, a Graettinger High and St Joseph's Nursing School grad, works at St Joseph's hospital. Mr. Speck runs a Sioux City truck dispatching firm and they reside there.
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Lester Craven
Graettinger
Mary Ellen
Sioux City
James Speck
Sioux Falls
South Dakota
Graettinger High School
St. Joseph's School of Nursing
St. Joseph's Hospital
Speck
Palo Alto County farm census shows 4,579 residents on county farms
The 1970 counts from Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service show 4,579 people living on Palo Alto county farms, 1,191 farms averaging 296 acres, and 62 percent of 352,626 acres farmed by renters. The report lists equipment, crops, livestock, and production figures for 1969 and early 1970 including corn grain yields, soybeans, oats, hogs, cattle, milk cows, and poultry.
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Palo Alto County
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Palo Alto
Production Credit Annual Meeting Today At Emmetsburg
The Emmetsburg Production Credit Association will hold its annual stockholders meeting in Emmetsburg at the Assumption Parish Center on September 10, 1970, with dinner and registration to begin at 6:30 p.m. Kenneth Patterson will preside over the business session. Association Manager Arthur Weiland will present the annual report to stockholders. Featured speaker will be John Acres, humorist and lecturer, on How to Raise Cain Kids and Cows. Two directors will be elected for three-year terms. Directors include Patterson, Robert W. Place, Armstrong, Donald Dodge, Milford, Stanley Quam, Emmetsburg, and Vernon Whittenburg, Linn Grove. The PCA makes one- to seven-year loans to farmers in Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Kossuth and Palo Alto Counties, and is owned by its member-borrowers.
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Emmetsburg
Weiland
Patterson
Robert W. Place
Armstrong
Donald Dodge
Milford
Stanley Quam
Vernon Whittenburg
Linn Grove
PCA
Clay
Dickinson
Emmet
Kossuth
Palo Alto
Squirrel Rabbit Hunting Seasons Open Saturday
Squirrel and rabbit hunting seasons begin Saturday September 12. Fox and gray squirrel season runs to December 31 1970. Squirrel bag limit six daily possession twelve. Cottontail and jackrabbit hunt ends February 28 1971 at 6 pm. Rabbits 6 am to 6 pm daily, bag limit ten, no possession limit. Iowa residents 16 and older need a hunting license in the field.
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State Conservation Commission
Iowa
Winners In Tractor Rodeo At FFA Event
About 20 competitors and a crowd attended the FFA sponsored tractor rodeo north of the swimming pool Monday morning. Events included restricted gate, serpentine and wagon hook-up. Top scorers: Boys Gary Boecker Greg Petersen Stan Westergard Steve Boecker Terry Wegener. Adults Martyn Gregersen Willard Herke Wayne Smith Norman Wegener LaVerne Petersen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FFA
Gary Boecker
Greg Petersen
Stan Westergard
Steve Boecker
Terry Wegener
Martyn Gregersen
Willard Herke
Wayne Smith
Norman Wegener
LaVerne Petersen
Luncheon Menu For September Weekdays
Monday through Friday listings show Beanie Weiners, lettuce salad, banana cake, plain and peanut butter sandwiches, milk on Sept 14. Sept 15 offers Meat loaf, mashed potatoes, string beans, sandwiches, white cake, milk and orange juice.
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Vance Jensen
USS
Wiley Mayne
Betty
Rockwell City
Harris
James Wirtz
Pocahontas Counties
Wirtz
Mayne
Mary Ellen Craven
High Lake
Shirley Baas
WSCS
Graettinger United Methodist Church
Susie Petersen
Crdell Mowry
Carolyn Watson
Pearl Rolfson
Gerda Luhman
Jan Reutter
Mildred Luke
Irene Anderson
Iowa Public Service
Lon Helgen
Margaret Pratt
Extension Home
Extension
Richard Clasing
Ruthven
Joe Dunn
West Bend
Wm. H. Stillman
Maurice Drew
Cylinder
Alden Wigdahl
SPACE
William Michael Kollasch
Bernard Kollasch
Estherville
U. S. Navy
Spencer
San Diego
Calif
William Kollasch
Adjacent Counties
Oleo
Well’s Blue Bunny Cottage Cheese
Nabisco
Morrell
Boy-Ar-Dee
Wilson
Hunt
King Catsup
Schwen’s Top Value
Arnie & Margie Masters
Gue
ABS
Graettinger Community Theatre
Clint
the Graettinger Times
Graettinger Times
Graettinger Businessmen’s Club
Graettinger Lumber Co
Chevrolet
Evi
Vega
Romaine Heidecker
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