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Lawrence Journal World

Location

Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Date

Feb 07, 1940

Page

8

Dairy Herd An Aid To Farm Success

Elmer C Weibel operates 160 acres north of OsKaloosa Kansas with a 20 head Jersey herd and a diversified farming system. A Farm Security Administration tenant purchase loan supported improvements including a milk route, silo and new barn while soil conservation and Home-Farm plans boosted yields of 30 bushels of corn and steady milk and egg income. The family includes two sons and a daughter, and the operation plans to expand the dairy herd while maintaining a balanced, efficient farm.

Elmer C. Weibel Jefferson County Kansas Weibel Oskaloosa Farm Security Administration FSA Kansas City Weibels Norman Warren Marion

Tenant Purchase Program Reaches Kansas Farmers

Weibel, a long time farmer, plants 18 acres in wheat 28 in sweet clover five in timothy and 14 in alfalfa. He milks at 4 a m and makes route deliveries by 6 a m. The tenant program aims to curb tenancy while expanding ownership opportunities amid a list of designated Kansas counties including Norton Marshall Nemaha Rooks Ottawa Jefferson Johnson Saline Rice Morris Lyon Franklin Neosho Labette Sumner Harvey Stafford.

Weibel United States U. S. Secretary of Agriculture FSA Advisory Committee Kansas Norton Marshall Nemaha Rooks Ottawa Jefferson Johnson Saline Rice Morris Lyon Franklin Neosho Labette Sumner Harvey Stafford

You-Go-First Policy Captures Presidential Nomination Timing

Democrats and Republicans spar over who names a presidential candidate first as conventions loom. Farley delays決 decision until after the February 16 GOP meeting, while Hamill-ton may set a date to counter. Conventions require weeks of planning for crowds, meals, and lodging ahead of November election.

Washington White House Democratic National Committee Chicago James A. Farley Farley Republican National Committee John Hamilton

Classifieds Pulse Drives Local Market Demand

Readership floods the Journal-World classifieds daily as residents seek to rent buy sell or trade. Advertising space taps a large pool of potential customers through mass exposure and local reach.

Journal-World

Beloit Fire Destroys Curtis Drug Store

Fire destroyed the Curtis drug store and its stock in Beloit Kansas. The blaze was discovered at 4 30 a m and firefighters battled the flames for nearly five hours.

Beloit Kan Heb Curtis Drug

Lawrence School News Highlights From Woodlawn and McAllaster

District notes feature film showings by Fred Montgomery at Woodlawn PTA, student moves to the country, and a fifth grade museum trip. McAllaster pupils build a grocery store scene, study snowy flakes, and host a Kansas day assembly with grades contributing acts. Lincoln school reports sky study, punctuality, and a Child Guidance talk with Miss Encee. classroom drawings and sled demonstrations are also noted.

Fred Montgomery Woodlawn School Jimmy Kenneth Mary Arm Mahoney Harms Woodlawn Lowell Ashby Tim’s Ober McAllaster McAllaster School Kansas Day Assembly Billy Gene Hess Laurena Long Long Kangks Medicine Lodge Kansas Encee Pittsburg Teachers College Lincoln School

Junior high students explore health arts and sports

At Cordley and Junior high, fourth graders work on health themed books, clay modeling, and food studies while artwork collections sit in the library. New music teachers arrive and a panel on adolescence leads February PTA lectures. Students study Latin prayers and gym class shifts emphasize tumbling and basketball basics with midday and after lunch dancing sessions supervised by Miss Wilcutts.

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Junior High Council Adopts Five Day Week Schedule

The Junior High Student Council now operates on a five day schedule this semester. On Monday they host a speaker or visit a Lawrence business. this week they visited Jayhawk Creamery. Tuesday follows with another activity.

Lawrence Jayhawk Creamery

Junior High Semester Plans Outline Community Projects

The group outlines a Wednesday business meeting and Thursday community work for Junior High. They will present Friday reports on progress. The community study includes city health safety and governance with projects mapping junior high areas and local businesses and churches plus handbooks for sixth graders and new students.

Haskell Institute Debates Marquette and Kansas University

Haskell Institute hosts an evening debate in the auditorium at 7 30 p m between teams from Marquette and Kansas University Everett Renville former Haskell assistant engineer is promoted and transferred to the Cheyenne agency in South Dakota as general mechanic new drapes made by the leather crafts department with WPA sewing room are hung to show Visual Education Pictures in daytime Mrs Joseph S Basom of Athens Ohio visits her daughter in law Mrs Elizabeth Basom of Haskell Canfield entertaining at bridge with a large group of Haskell residents and Se D Conley drummer in a student dance orchestra last week

Marquette Kansas University Haskell Everett Renville Cheyenne Agency South Dakota Leather Crafts Department WPA Joseph S. Basom Athens Elizabeth Basom TS. Canfield Bridge Yazza Cato Faris Cooper Anderson Fowler Stewart Frazier Bowen Cleek Shepard Hansberry Brown Berg Hine Ted Conley H Ee

Estonian Freighter Anu Struck Mine Off English Coast

London reports the 1421 ton freighter Anu struck a mine off the east coast of England last night. Three crew died including the captain and his wife. Three are missing. Survivors, including two women, reached shore on a raft among the remaining crew of 19.

London England

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Elmer C. Weibel Lawrence School Jack Shirley Preston Pinckney Farmer Brown Lincoln Altho Miss Oliver Carolyn Holt Vernon Newman Carol Cline Edwin Duncan D.C Duncan Fischer Mass Fischer’s RED Cross Selby Selby Arch Preservers Otto Fischer Miss McQuey Cordley Jo Ann Lee Hessler Nancy F. Lindsey Dorothy Davidson Miss Peters Hurd Teagrarden Konanty Gibson Celia Ensman State Board of Vocational Education The Sir Walter Scott Willcats Cannady Miller Ralph Weir Glendale California Haskell Institute Hickey - Freeman Ferdie Clese Quality Sir James Barrie the Dramatic Club
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