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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1957
Page
4
Farm advisers report severe crop damage in Clark county with potential 50 percent reductions in corn and soybean harvests. Floods washed soil and trapped tractors, while forage yields were low and diseases hit wheat. Despite losses, no lives or hunger are reported, and farmers may pivot to soybeans or buckwheat.
Clark County ASC chairman Mr. Weaver reminds under planted corn producers they can gain credit by filing MQ-31 with the county office before August 1 1957. The form preserves farm corn history for future allotment programs and mainly benefits farms not yet planted to full allotments. Farmers are urged to visit the county office to complete the filing.
Dallas researchers report in the Journal of the AMA that hypnosis aided six cases where chemical anesthesia posed risks. They describe use during a polio patient’s delivery, dental work for a sensitive patient, and four other scenarios, noting hypnosis is not for general use but helpful when respiration, heart, or fear issues make standard anesthesia risky.
Washington notes a letter from 1776 by Benjamin Franklin to Gen. Charles Lee praising bows for speed and reliability. The remark appears in a study by Col. Berkeley R. Lewis at the Frankfort Arsenal, highlighting bows as effective weapons and easier to obtain than muskets during the era.
Washington report notes that spring arrives when children resume marble games. The piece traces the tradition across cultures from ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome to modern youths in T shirts and jeans, describing equipment and terms for shooting and knocking marbles.
The Smithsonian hosts an exhibit on the telephone told by its staff and Bell Laboratories with the telephone industries of the United States backing. It begins with Charles G Page’s 1837 Galvanic music and traces progress to modern electronic telephone applications.
Hawaiian territory Hawaii Island presents its own national anthem titled Hawaii Panel or My Own Hawaii a stately melody highlighted in Honolulu coverage detailing regional cultural expression within U S territorial context.
New York reports that Americans increased saving in 1956 marking the first $20 billion year since World War II. The rise reflects thrift campaigns, higher interest and stronger dividends, with 1956 about 20 percent above 1955’s $16.6 billion. Inflation pressures and rising capital needs drive the thrift push.
Nineteen UCLA Graduate School forecasters project 1957 to set a national record in business activity. They foresee GNP reaching 429 billion dollars, 16 billion above 1956. Consumer spending and industrial output rise, automobile production to 6.5 million, while residential construction falls further and prices rise on higher costs.
In Norman Oklahoma J Frank Dobie lauds James H Cook author of Fifty Years on the Old Frontier as the premier brush popper a bold rider who hacked through thickets to trap outlaw cattle. Cook recalls hitting the brush center and running tearing holes while enduring sore hands and skin as cost of skill.
In Dinkelsbuhl Bavaria an annual pageant remembers children who saved the town from a Swedish conqueror in 1632. A boy reportedly drew the conqueror’s attention to his son and the order was given to spare the town from looting and burning.
An American genetics expert warns that radioactive fallout from atomic tests and inadequate antibiotic therapy threaten present and future generations through cellular mutations and chronic illness. Dr Edwin J. Grace notes diffusion of antibiotics via detergent solvents may aid wound treatment, reduce procedures, and is being explored as an inhaled mist for lung diseases and sinusitis.
The University of Michigan predicts the coming year will be the biggest yet for television based teaching. Edward Stasherf associates professor of speech notes many elementary schools will test closed circuit TV with one or two groups to reduce linking distances. He cites Penn State and Cincinnati high school work as evidence TV can transmit factual material effectively and notes the challenge of preserving human contact and countering mechanical bias.
Berkeley researchers at the University of California report producing small quantities of methane gas from pond algae by managing natural growth and decay cycles. Algae, the ubiquitous pond plants, store solar energy via photosynthesis and may offer a future fuel pathway.
In Minneapolis a 1957 living cost index increase will cost a typical non farm family earning about $5,000 per year roughly $34 more per year for every full point rise in the index.
U S farm product exports are expected to decline in the first half of 1957 as the Suez crisis reduces foreign buyers. The Agriculture Department forecasts exports will stay high but not reach the $2.3 billion level seen in late 1956.
Clarence E. Brehm of Mt. Vernon was elected President of the Independent Oil Producers and Land Owners Association Tri State Inc. Officers named include Victor R. Gallagher Evansville First Vice President C E Brehm and George Ellison Third Vice President. Notable speakers included R W Lawton National Chairman IPAA Import Policy Committee Hugh Stewart National Director Oil and Gas and Congressman Charles W Wursell.
Farmers in Cumberland Clark Jasper and Crawford counties receive 3 621 60 in dividends on stock in the National Farm Loan Association of Robinson. The 4 percent dividend is payable to member stockholders of record at business close May 31 1957. The payment comes from a dividend the association received from the Federal Land Bank of St Louis and will fund reserves for the cooperative farm mortgage system.
The Committee for Economic Development calls for a fundamental shift in U S foreign aid toward underdeveloped regions. It argues aid should promote growth rather than relief, stressing national security, global trade potential, and humanitarian concern, with private investment as the eventual main driver.
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