Farm Views by Charles Orcutt Extension Adviser
Demand for soybeans will stay strong in 1970 as crushers bid up prices. The 1969 crop mostly used, with exports via Common Market and East Asia to rise. U.S. price around 2.25 per bushel and edging higher in spring. Clark County grew 68,000 acres with yields 40-45 bu/acre. Also notes on cattle vaccination, calf management, pig nutrition, farm business management, and cash leases as a landlord shift toward renter control.
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Clark County
Farm Record Books Promoted With Tax Guides in Illinois
Illinois extension office offers 1970 Farm Record Book for one dollar along with a 1969 income tax guide and Illinois income tax pamphlet. The publication links final figures to Form 1040 and discusses Clark county 1969 corn yields at 98 bushels per acre, up 9 from last year, with soybeans at 33.5 bu per acre, and notes production costs around eighty cents per bushel. It urges cost planning, notes rising food costs due to labor and packaging, and mentions total farm product value shifting from farm gate to consumer. Wintering calves at Dixon Springs is also highlighted as part of Clark county cattle and sheep sales.
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Michigan
Indiana
Clark County
Dairy Farmers Gain as Milk Prices Rise
A 1960s era analysis notes dairy farming as the United States second-largest cash receiver after beef. It cites rising milk prices, higher price-support levels, and government purchases, with U.S. production and per-farm receipts increasing despite fewer farms. Illinois and SIU are discussed in state and university context.
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L. H. Simertl
United States
The Old Tenors Remember Chester Montana Boardwalks
Phyllis Swart recalls Chester Montana where wooden board walks once lined the main street and later gave way to cement sidewalks. She describes height, exposure, and the flood of the Great Northern reservoir washing them away, with boys chasing coins as workers labored.
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Phyllis Swart
Las Vegas
Nevada
Chester
Montana
Great Northern Reservoir
Tornio
Frankfort
Kentucky
Southern Illinois University Ranked Seventeenth Nationally
Southern Illinois University is identified as the seventeenth largest in the nation by a national survey. The ranking appears in the fiftieth annual School and Society magazine.
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Southern Illinois University
Bravest Soldier Returns Home After Troubling Acts
A terse, era voice notes a brave yet troublesome sniper in the army who faced consequences. as he returns home, the piece implies discipline followed his bold actions and the outcome is firm.
Ohio Chapel News Notes Departures and Visits
Local notes record the death of Thomas Joe Myle, friends and neighbors mourning. Junior John Wernz returns to school after vacation with family. Several visitors and family gatherings are listed among residents of Charleston and surrounding towns. An apparent editorial line comments that judges can be foolish when trying to impress youths.
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Tom Myle
Thomas Joe
John Wernz
Robert Wernz
Steve Thompson
Charleston
James Graham
Jean Bumpus Buckner
Germany
Indianapolis
Pleaste—Bartlett
New Years
Max Bartlett
Joan
Dorothy Wernz
Barbara
Mary Crumrin
Dorothy
Adah Gray
Fern Wernz
Dorothy Crumrin
Terre Haute
Neal Bumpus
Jean Buckner
Leo Wernz
Genry Krauc
Evansville
Indiana
F. J
Notice of Publication in Clark County Court
In the Circuit Court of Clark County Illinois Hobart Litteral d b a Litteral's Used Cars vs George O Dunham et al No 69 S 220 Notice by publication defendants George QO Dunham are notified that the case seeks 400 in damages and other relief unless an answer is filed by February 6 1970 in Marshall Illinois Judgment by default may be entered Dean V Burkybile Clerk of Court Adv 1 3
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Clark County
Ilinois
Hobart
Litteral
George O. Dunham
George QO. Dunham
Court House
Marshall, Ilinois
Dean V. Burkybile
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Paris
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Colonial Kitchen
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West Ot
Wayne Sweitzer Marshall
Ohio Chapel
lAdv
DR. RT
Optometrist
Marshall, Ill
the Central Lumber Co
L. E. Pearce
Marshall, Il
Marion JR
Pete Bartram
Don Gmelich
Ted Bruford Tiffin
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Hitch
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Bruford Tiffin
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