Best Corn Crop Since 1966 Could Be Ruined By Blight
Ohio farmers monitor the weather as Southern Corn Leaf Blight spreads across 65 of 88 counties. Dr. C Wayne Ellet says the south central area is hardest hit. Ellet notes cooler, cloudy conditions since July 9. Corn average height now 70 inches, soybeans 25 inches. alfalfa second cut 70 percent. clover timothy 40 percent. oats nearly ripe and 65 percent harvested. wheat 95 percent harvested. 10 percent of land for winter wheat has been plowed.
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C. Wayne Ellet
Ohio State University
Ohio
Marvin E. Miller
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Dr. Ellet
Agronomy Tobacco Tour Set At Research Center
The Southern Ohio Agronomy Tobacco Tour will be held August 11 from 6 to 9 PM at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center Southern Branch in Ripley. Wagon tours begin at 6 with demonstrations of fodder baler, cigar filler tobacco plots, and various farm innovations including cattle crossbreeding and fruit crops.
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Southern Ohio
Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center
Ripley
Ohio
Australia
Ohio grain storage 1971 down from year ago
Ohio Crop Reporting Service released a grain storage report showing total grain stocks as of July 1 down from last year. Off farm stocks reached 142 million bushels, 72 percent of the total, with corn 69.7 million and soybeans 19.8 million. on farm stocks declined across several crops.
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Ohio
Ohio Crop Reporting Service
Lakota District Voters Face 2.9 Mill Bond Issue
Lakota School District voters will decide on a 2.9 mill bond to fund renovations at Liberty and Union elementary schools and a Hopewell area middle school, with a duplicated junior high and new facilities at the high school. The measure follows a previously defeated bond and reflects adjustments for the 1972-73 year. The board also hired 11 teachers and accepted resignations of three staff members, naming church sites for kindergartens and expanding kindergarten sections at Liberty and Hopewell.
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Lakota
Westchester
Board of Education
Liberty
Union
Hopewell
Sue McNanns
Sylvia Greschel
Liberty Elementary
Howard Weiler
Earl Stumpf
Bethany Methodist Church
West Chester Presbyterian Church
Mason To Get New Plant
Mason will gain a bed spring plant on Mason Bethany Road near Ohio 741 to supply Stearns and Foster. Leggett and Platt Inc has an option on a 10 acre site but officials say there are no immediate plans for construction.
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Mason — the Stearns and Foster
Mason-Bethany Road
Ohio
Leggett and Platt Inc
Missouri
Cincinnati
Monroe Firemen Plan Annual Fish Fry at Station
Monroe volunteers announce their annual Fish Fry to be held Friday August 6 at the fire station. Cafeteria style meals will be served from 5 to 8 p.m. Those wishing to help with food should call Mrs Tom Howell Mrs Gordon Doty or Mrs Earl Hiteshue at listed numbers.
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Fish
Monroe
Tom Howell
Gordon Doty
Earl Hiteshue
Prisoner on wheels Judy the 500 pound bear
Patrolman Jose Trujillo in Fort Worth escorted a 500 pound Himalayan black bear named Judy from Arlington to the city jail after a traffic stop revealed the driver owed $70 in warrants. Arlington officers chipped in 38 cents to cover the total, sending the maneuvering driver home with Judy.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Jose Trujillo
Arlington
Trujillo
Man
Bear
Judy
Nixon Letter Praises Little Miami River Conservation Work
Little Miami Inc. director Ray Culter received a personal note of commendation from President Nixon praising LMI for cleaning and preserving the Little Miami river. Nixon highlighted 8,000 volunteers who recovered 500 tons of debris and urged federal support for land preservation and river designation.
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Nixon
LMI
Lebanon
Ray Culter
Little Miami, Inc
Pennsylvania Ave
Washington D.C
Little
Miami River
Custer
United States
Culter
Miami Valley Congressional Council
Washington
Franklin Waste Plant Open House this Sunday
Franklin city invites residents to tour the $2 million Solid Waste Disposal Facility on Farm Avenue from 2 to 5 p.m. This open house precedes the dedication set for August 11 and is praised by federal officials as a major step forward in waste disposal. City Manager Bernard Eichholz leads the invitation.
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Franklin
Bernard Eichholz
Farm Avenue
Blue men of the Moroccan desert nicknamed for indigo dyed lobes
Desert inhabitants known as blue men gain their name from indigo dyed lobe tips whose color stains hands faces and beards, a defining feature reported by a contemporary account.
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Garland Owens
Bill
Darrtown
Chappars
Renias
Garden & Pet Supplies
Mason
Monroe Firemen
Cashway
Pole Building Supplies
Fabral Corporation
R.L
East Fourth ST
Franklin, Ohio
Aun Wall
Miami Valley
Valley News
David Nor
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