Tennessee Youth Named FFA 1985 Star Farmer
Joe Moore, 21, from central Tennessee near Granville, runs a 505 acre farm and operates a $46,000 business. He was named the 1955 Star Farmer of America at the Future Farmers of America convention, receiving a $1,000 award. Regional winners Lynnn Looshi, Richard Arnold, and Ross Smith earned $500 each. Stassen spoke on avoiding complacency, urging arms reduction as a path to peaceful energy exploration.
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Moore
Future Farmers of America
Tennessee
Granville
Joe
Lynnn Looshi
Ashton
Idaho
Richard K. Arnold
Painwell, Mich
Ross Edward Smith Jr
Monkton, Md
Kansas City Star
Weekly
Star Farmer
Future Farmers Convention
Harold E. Stassen
Eisenhower
Stassen
Bray Oil Company President 64 Dies in Canada
Earl Bray, president of Earl Bray, Inc., a major oil transport firm, died at 64 after a heart attack in Edmonton, Canada. The announcement was made by Sam Carpenter, vice president. The firm operates terminals in Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Ponca City, Buffalo, and Coffeyville and Augusta, Kansas.
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Cushing
Okla
Earl Bray
Bray
Edmonton
Canada
Sam Carpenter
Earl Bray, Inc
Tulsa
Oklahoma City
Ponca City
Buffalo
Coffeyville
Augusta
Kan
Capital Seeks Gadd To Face Rape Trial
Oklahoma County officials moved to extradite Gerald Wayne Gadd on rape and armed robbery counts tied to a Oct 3 drug store robbery in Oklahoma City plus the kidnapping of two teen sisters and rape of one. He is jailed in Decatur Georgia after a Saturday arrest following a gun battle with police. charges filed there too.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma County
Gerald Wayne Gadd
Okklahoma City
Decatur
Nehru Receives Gift Stallion From Soviet Ambassador
Soviet ambassador Mikhail Menshikov presented a chestnut stallion to Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in New Delhi. The gift followed Nehru’s visit to the Soviet Union where he admired Russian horses and their beauty.
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New Delhi
Mikhail Alexeevich Menshikov
Jawaharlal Nehru
Nehru
Soviet Union
Lenn Averitt Automobile Service Ad
Local shop at 521 F Ave offers lawn mower sharpening and motor repairs for any make. Authorized service on RPM with pickup and delivery available. Phone 3758.
Tulsa Grand Jury Recesses As Edmondson Probes County Purchases
Tulsa County grand jury recessed until October 19 at the request of County Attorney J Howard Edmondson to finish his inquiry into county buying procedures. Before recessing, the jury returned three criminal indictments including one against 17 year old Jerry Ward Davis for attempted rape. Davis escaped custody during a four hour police hunt and was captured near the city edge along railroad tracks.
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Tulsa
Okla
J. Howard Edmondson
Tulsa County Grand Jury
Edmondson
Jerry Ward Davis
Davis
Easy Way To Pay Fines For Parking In Burlington Wis
Burlington police adopt metal meter boxes with envelope payments to pay overtime parking fines. Motorists drop the envelope in the box, boosting collections per Police Chief Roy McCourt. The new method replaces the old options of paying at the police station or mailing the fine.
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Burlington
Wis
Roy McCourt
Ordinary bungalow halts work on OU instructor’s claim
Norman Oklahoma University of Oklahoma zoology professor Richard A. Goff won a temporary court order to stop construction of a two bedroom bungalow he says is too ordinary for the neighborhood. The house by Cecil Woods faced the halt as Goff, living in a nearby modernistic redwood home, objects to its bland design.
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Norman
Okla
University of Oklahoma
Richard A. Goff
Goff
Cecil Woods
Grandfield FFA Selects Officers for the Year
Grandfield FFA elected Ronnie Hoover as president with Joe Hudgins as vice president Bruce McLain secretary Phillip Corby treasurer Bob Kinzer reporter and Bobby Walker sentinel among 62 vocational agriculture students. William E Brown long time sponsor notes the chapter’s history and Donna Rinehart entered state FFA Queen Contest where Hollis won.
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Grandfield
Ronnie Hoover
Future Farmers of America
Joe Hudgins
Bruce McLain
Phillip Corby
Bob Kinzer
Bobby Walker
Sentinel
FFA
William E. Brown
Proclaimed Pulaski Day Lacks Public Notice
In Pulaski County Kentucky Governor Lawrence Wetherby proclaimed Pulaski Day, but only one person appeared to observe it. Circuit Judge Roscoe Tartar, delivering a bench eulogy, spoke of Count Casimir Pulaski the Polish patriot from the American Revolution, while the populace remained largely unaware. The judge, a historian, noted the lack of public awareness.
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Somerset
Pulaski County
Pulaski
Lawrence Wetherby
Roscoe Tartar
Casimir Pulaski
Record Farm Crops Forecast By Agriculture Dept
Washington reports the October crop production outlook by the Agriculture Department suggests this year’s harvest may reach or exceed the 1948 record, bolstering a seven billion dollar stockpile of surplus farm commodities. Rain in September improved seedbeds across the Midwest and Great Plains, boosting grain prospects and livestock feed, with overall output—especially in hay, cotton, tobacco, corn, and beans—near record levels and prices easing. Farm labor is down about 3.3 percent from last year, while wages rise around 3 percent as milk and egg production set September records.
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Ovid A. Martin Washington
Agricultue Department
Department
Midwest
Great Plains
Septem
Ber
South
Commerce Miner Rescued From His Burning Home
Miami Oklahoma firemen pulled zinc miner Carl Swartz from his smoke filled three room home yesterday. He was found on the kitchen floor and revived with oxygen at a local hospital. The blaze remained confined to one room of the single resident dwelling.
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Miami
Okla
Carl Swartz
Commerce
Swartz
Water covers one sixteenth of New Hampshire
A historical note states that one sixteenth of the area of New Hampshire is covered by water. This fact highlights the state’s notable presence of lakes rivers and coastal features within its geographic footprint.
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New Hampshire
Three White Students Enroll In Negro School
Oklahoma City officials report three white students have enrolled at Truman Elementary, a former Negro school that now has mixed classes, the only such school in the district with desegregation.
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Oklahoma City
Truman
Rivera to Undergo Surgery in Moscow
Mexican artist Diego Rivera receiving cancer treatment in Moscow will undergo surgery next week. The announcement notes Rivera will be operated on by doctors at a city hospital as part of his ongoing medical care.
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Otasco
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A. Perry Winkle
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Hollis
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North Addition
the McKee CO
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4Th & E
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