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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1968
Page
6
Christmas tree safety guidance warns establishments to avoid pine trees and use aluminum with reflector lights. For green trees, keep them watered and use a sugar solution to slow drying. Fireproofing methods include crystalline sprays, flocking, and safe lighting checks with proper stands and fireproof decorations. Also urges gun safety training for children and proper handling rules.
A historic safety guide lists ten rules for firearm handling. It emphasizes treating every gun as loaded, keeping guns unloaded in transit, ensuring clear barrels, controlling muzzle direction, knowing targets, not pointing at what you don’t intend to shoot, unloading before leaving unattended, avoiding shooting at hard surfaces or water, not climbing with a loaded gun, and respecting farmers property.
Brenda Jean Mitchell, a Salisbury North Carolina sophomore, becomes the first woman enrolled in Louisiana Tech's vocational agriculture education program. She studies animal husbandry chemistry economics and education while preparing for a bachelor of science degree and a future as a teacher. Brenda aims to teach general sciences with a science option and will apprentice at a local high school.
Louisiana Farm Bureau elects voting delegates and alternates for the American Farm Bureau convention in Kansas City Missouri December 8 12 A delegation of about forty five from Louisiana is expected James D Graugnard serves as president and on the resolutions committee. Alternates include Paul S Ransom H P Wemple and several women committee delegates from Lettsworth Darnell Cheneyville Iowa Schriever and Jeanerette. The federation represents over 28 000 members in Louisiana and 1.7 million nationally.
Misses sizes 8 10 12 14 16 offered with easy sew instructions and six half sizes. Printed pattern details include pricing 65 cents each plus 15 cents mailing, with extra numbers 1644 1844 2042 22. Send orders to Marian Martin care News Star.
Real estate transfers list mortgage deeds and sales in Quachita Parish. Trend Homes Inc sold to David Jesse Tyler et ux for 16475.00 in East Park View Subdivision. Sallie Belle Tidwell sold to Houston Jefferson McElroy for 15000.00 Lot 13 Layton's Park. Curtis Dial and Terry sold to Louis G. Well for 16500.00 Lot 6 4A H M McGuire High land Park Unit 2. Eldridge sold to Dewey Jones for 10000.00 NW Quarter SW Quarter Section 2 Township 7 North Range 3 East. Delouche sold to P H Frost for 5000.00 Lots 5 and 6 Block 5 Honest John's Second Addition. Rimson sold to Bertha Smart for 4000.00 Lot 7 Miller's Dreyfus Tract Miller's Addition. K and G Builders sold to Gilley Construction Company Inc. Lots 73 and 74 Parkview Subdivision for 3750.00
Louisiana Agriculture Commissioner Dave L Pearce notes demand shifts as the Crop Reporting Service pegs 1968 U S cotton at 515000 bales up 20 percent from 1967. Trade missions to Europe and the Far East aim to expand markets while skip row planting and acreage shifts shape domestic output. Promotion of cotton use at home remains important.
Louisiana Forestry Commission plans to make 26 million pine seedlings available to state landowners for planting as a source of future income. Lonnie B. White and Roger Miller note small growers can order up to 5 000 seedlings for 50 cents per thousand with county agent signature, more at 5 per thousand. They cite Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service payments and advise protecting a woodlot from fire while planning long term gains and woodlot management with commission support.
Purdue University researcher Dr. A J Ohirogge explains nutrient balance especially potassium affects bean seed quality. Potash increases seed size and germination, reduces shrunken or moldy beans, lowers moisture, and boosts yields in greenhouse and field trials in North Carolina and Indiana.
Washington AP notes farm land offers 8.8 percent average annual return since 1950, split into 3.5 percent income and 5.3 percent value growth. Stock prices rise faster at 10.3 percent value, though both yield 3.5 percent income. Nonfarm buyers rise to 34 percent of transfers, with low down payment leverage in land deals.
Louisiana farm data show October egg production at 68 million, up 4 million from September and unchanged from last October. Layers on hand reached about 3.892 million, with a 17.36 eggs per layer rate. Prices: mid October 41.0 cents per dozen for eggs, 9 cents higher than last year. chicken price 9 cents per pound. feeds: laying feed 84 dollars a ton, broiler grower 86, chick starter 91.
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