590 Farms Cooperate With AAA County Officers
Jones county farmers participated in 1946 soil building practices under the AAA program the largest participation in recent years. Limestone contouring tiling and fertilizers were commonly used with 61 098 tons limestone 13 699 acres contouring and 3 342 acres green manure. A special legume seed harvest earned $2893 32 from 64 participants. Additional county events include Home Economics previews and campus entertainment programs.
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Jones County
AAA
State Office
High School Day at Veishea at Iowa State College
May 16 marks High School Day during Veishea at Iowa State College. Students from Iowa attend campus events including open houses in Agriculture Engineering Home Economics Science and Veterinary Medicine and a display by the Atomic Institute. Visitors are invited to Radio Station WOIF and the campus homes.
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Veishea
Iowa State College
Iowa
Division of Agriculture, Engineering, Home Economics
Science and Veterinary Medicine
Iowa State Atomic Institute
WOIF
Stu
Property transfers and deeds listed for various Iowa parcels
The notice lists multiple land transactions across Iowa towns including Anamosa Monticello Oxford Junction and Onslow. It covers transfers among individuals and couples, with descriptions of parcels, lots, blocks and sections, plus deed dates and nominal sums. The long descriptions reference surveyed lines and specific deed records.
State Fair to Offer $25 000 in Junior Prizes
Iowa officials announce the 1947 State Fair at Des Moines will award nearly 25 000 in premiums for junior farm events. The total includes 20 649 for farm boys and 3 700 for farm girls with 21 228 for 4 H Club contests and 3 121 for FFA contests. The new sheep department is added with Lineweaver named Boys Club superintendent and Esther Whetstone named Girls Club superintendent.
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Iowa
Des Moines
L. B. Cunningham
Farmers of America
FFA
Cunningham
G. A. Lineweaver
Ames
Esther Whetstone
Electric burner miswiring causes street lights to flicker
In Strawberry Point at the Ray Kellogg home a faulty oil burner ran on late one night. A service man cut the ground wire and the burner stopped while street lights came on. Reattaching the ground wire restored lights and the burner ran again. Electricians concluded the street light current backfed into Kellogg’s ground wire.
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Ray Kellogg
Strawberry Point
Price Support: Farmers urged to plan substitutes
Geoffrey Shepherd of Iowa State College warns price supports may fail as 1948 end approaches. He says farmers should prepare substitute means to prevent prices from dropping below parity, noting peacetime shifts already push eggs to 90 percent parity, corn to 87 and potatoes to 80.
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Geoffrey Shepherd
Iowa State College
Shepherd
Potatoes and Parity: Farm Price Plans and a Waterloo Crash
Shepherd warns that current potato price supports failed as millions rotted after digging amid a boom. He proposes alternates including acreage based quotas and a national food stamp push to boost consumption. A Waterloo car collision near Plainfield injured two and broke a passenger’s pelvis, an egg found intact on the floor.
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Waterloo
Plainfield
Barbara Martin
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Our Town
Debate Club
Iowa State Fraternity and Sorority
Weishea Vodvil
Stars Over
Weishea Productions
Charles Guhl
Lloyd L. Chesmore
N. d
Cronkhite
Howard
Fern Coleman
Leonard Coleman
Scott & Skinner
Anamosa
John Kennedy
Agnes J
Harry D
Mary Moore
Town of
Onslow
Elsie A. Rohwedder
William
Freda Jamison
N.or
Halstead M. Carpenter
Lou D
John T. Kehoe
Clark's Heights
Monticello
Frank Kolarik
Mary
Otto
Johanna Koranda
Carter & Flanigan
Oxford Junction
George Behrends
Marie
William H
Emma G. Luedemann
W. Deed
Elizabeth Brackney
Lester E
Anthony Blizek
Louie
Ruth E. Balichek
James McKeone
Charles T. Foley
Public Highway
Edward Wirth
Eva
Newton H
Frances Thomas
Clark Brothers
Hygrade Food Products Corp
Monticello Express
United States
Steagall
Bagg
Kuriger Brothers N. Siam
Aas C
Monticello Greenhouse
Phillips 66
Egger Oil Company
Tank Wagon Service
Phillips “66
Schoon Motor CO
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