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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1963
Page
6
Extension notice urges late summer planting for snap and pole beans with 50 60 day harvest windows and notes cotton fiber substitution in insulation per National Cotton Council While promoting Louisiana Evergreen Shallots as year round crops and assigning seed sources via seedmen and the Weekly Market Bulletin for home and commercial gardeners.
New Orleans AP report notes 92 year old Miss Wilhelmina Bogard Conger, a direct descendant of Tufts and Rutgers founders, died after a long illness. daughter of Harriet Tufts and William Bogard Conger. Funeral services set for Monday. she left no immediate survivors.
New York report states Primatene tablets, an eight medicine formula, is now sold without prescription in most states. It claims to open bronchial tubes, reduce congestion, and ease asthma spasms for hours with safe use as directed.
Forty farm pond owners from Quachita Parish received 11,450 blue channel catfish fingerlings at the West Monroe Fair Grounds. Fish came from the Federal Fish Hatchery at Natchitoches and were allocated through the Soil Conservation Service.
T H McElroy Ranch near Calhoun begins a five to seven acre pond project funded by pulpwood sales. OuaChita Parish Soil Conservation Service aided planning. Plans include stock with white perch and bream for livestock water and recreation, with future catfish farming and camphouse near the pond.
Louisiana State University announces a new Specialists Group for Cotton led by A. G. Killgore with full time focus on production practices and weed control. The team includes soil fertility, machinery, ginning, entomology, farm management, marketing, and coordinated home economics cotton textile work to boost efficiency and quality amid foreign competition and synthetic fibers pressure.
Louisiana weekly markets report early ginning of cotton and classing plans for Opelousas, with spot New Orleans trading dull. Cattle marketings rose 20 percent last week but were below year ago, hogs and poultry margins mixed, with prices for hens and eggs noted and regional plant activity lagging slightly.
Louisiana broiler chick placements fall to 511000 in the week of July 21 27 from 529000 prior week and 457000 year ago. Shipments total 67000 vs 96000 prior week. Louisiana eggs set for broilers total 681000, down from 757000 prior week. Nationwide 22 states place 39040000 broiler chicks, down from 39421000 year ago. Eggs set total 50809000, below 51952000 last week.
The American Soybean Association will discuss transportation’s impact on profits at its Aug 22 23 convention in Columbus Ohio. Clifford M Roberts Jr of Cargill will speak on transportation as an economic factor in soybean marketing. The Deshler Hilton hosts the event with a banquet on Aug 22.
A Jordanian cabinet spokesperson said Jordan will sign the limited nuclear test ban agreement. Authorization to sign will be dispatched to ambassadors in London and Washington.
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