Cliff Rogers Runs Farm North of Anamosa
Cliff Rogers operates a 230 acre farm two and a half miles north of Anamosa on the Old Cass road. He raises Angus cattle and Holsteins, hogs with about 20 sows, and crops including corn oats and hay on a rotation. The Rogers family has lived there 14 years with two daughters, Marlys 15 and Karen 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cliff Rogers
Anamosa
Cass Road
Alvin Ortgies
Herman Tapken
Rex Stoffers
Emil Oltmann
W. C. Hall
James Kraus
Monticello
J. H. Rickless
Rogers
Lena Remley
Marlys
Karen
Monticello man enters Poland China show in Cedar Rapids
Ed Helgens of Monticello has entered three boats and two gifts for the National Poland China Spotlight show and sale in Cedar Rapids on March 24 and 25. The event, sponsored by the Poland China Record Association of Galesburg Illinois, will include a Friday banquet. Show begins at 8 a.m. Saturday with prize winner sale at 1 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Helgens
Monticello
Poland
Cedar Rapids
China Record Association
Galesburg
NFO to Sponsor Sausage Supper in Cascade
The Jones, Jackson and Dubuque county chapters of the National Farmers Organization sponsor a free whole hog sausage supper at the American Legion Pavilion in Cascade on Tuesday, March 28. Serving starts at 6 p.m. with Oren Lee Staley, national president of NFC, as speaker. Committee heads include Francis Schmit as chair and Vence Henneberry as vice chair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones, Jackson
Dubuque County
National Farmers Organization
American Legion
Cascade
Oren Lee Staley
NFC
Francis Schmit
Vence Henneberry
More Funds Added For FHA Loans
The Farm Housing loan program of USDA’s Farmers Home Administration receives an extra 50 million dollars from Congress for a five year period ending June 30 1961. About 257 million remains of the original 450 million. Loans finance construction and repair of farm houses and essential farm buildings at four percent interest up to 33 years. Applicants apply at FHA county offices. Main demand is for new construction and modernizing farm houses with central heating pressure water bathrooms and kitchen updates. Farmers also use loans to adapt service buildings to farming needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
USDA
Farmers Home Administration
Congress
FHA
Farmers Have Choice of 1961 Oats Varieties
Jones county farmers can select among early mid and late oat varieties for 1961 with Cherokee Nemaha Bonham Newhawka Minhafer Burnett Newton Goodfield Clintland 60 Minton and Portage listed by experts. Minhafer leads with about 10 bushels per acre over five years, with certified seed urged for purity and germination. Taxes for first half of 1960 due by April 1 with a 0.75 percent penalty after that date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Joe E. Legg
Oliver Knott
Iowa State University
Minhafer
Knott
Burnett
Newton
Goodfield
Clintland
Minton
Portage
Births and social notes from Buck Creek area
Birth announcements describe Douglas Ray Orr born March 13 at Memorial hospital Manchester weighing 8 pounds 4 ounces. Also Glen Chip Dufoe daughter born March 18 at Mercy hospital Cedar Rapids. Numerous social calls, birthdays, parties, and visits span Buck Creek and nearby towns, with highlights including Knights of Columbus initiations, a Bay Grange birthday dinner, and attendance at church conventions and local tournaments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buck Creek
Frank Orr
Douglas Ray
Memorial Hospital
Manchester
Orr
Douglas
Lloyd Sheppard
Floyd Dufoe
Glen ‘‘Chip'’ Dufoe
Center Point
Mercy
Mary Ellen Olmstead
Carleton Olmstead
Bay Grange Hall
Carl DeWoody
Vern Houston
Roger Schrodemeier
Richard
Cedar Rapids
Arthur Houston
Monticello
Mike Saunders
Hazel Houston
Virgil
Houston
de Woody
East Hall
University of Iowa
DeWoodys
Barry Smith
Knights of Columbus
Albert McVay
Paul Britt
Junior DeShaw
Pam Benter
Luther League of the Lutheran Church Convention
First Lutheran Church
Bonnie
Terry Crowley
Pat Supple
Jimmy Wickman
Masonville
Charles Short
Winthrop
Lewie Gaddie
Kenneth Zangerle
Walter Kraus
Peggy Leytem
Betty Smith
al Lahr and Sons
Jones County Implements Modern Milking Parlor and Barn
The county advances farm modernization with a new milking parlor and loafing barn. The FHA office serves Jones County from Tipton and offers help Tuesdays 1 to 3 p.m. at the SCS office in Anamosa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
FHA
Tipton
SCS
Anamosa
ASC Announces Grain Reseal loan Program
Gerald C. Randleman announces a broad reseal program for 1960 crop grains in Iowa. The plan allows reseal loans for 1960 corn and grain sorghum for two years after maturity, oats for one extra year, and conversion of purchase agreements, with extensions for earlier crops. County ASC offices in Monticello handle construction storage loans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Gerald C. Randleman
State Agricultural Stabiization and Conservation Committee
Randjeman
ASC
Monticello
Junior High Music Ratings At Northeast Iowa Festival
Ray Stumbaugh Monticello high school instrumental teacher announced ratings from the Northeast Iowa Junior High Music Festival in Marion. Monticello earned 22 superior 15 excellent and two good ratings with numerous soloists named for superior blue ribbons and groups receiving red and white ribbons for excellent and good ratings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Stumbaugh
Monticello High School
Northeast Iowa
Marion
Monticello
Ron Hendricks
James Perkins
Layerle Lehmann
Marilyn Wahl
Mary Gerdes
Sharly Eden
Paul Specht
Sara Paulsen
Robbie Jo Marston
Ted Krouse
Evelyn Rogers
Trudy Dickman
Linda Paulsen
Carole Schoon
Patricia Adams
Nancy Baresel
Sherry Paulsen
Rose Egger
Barbara Stumbaugh
Susan Balster
Mary Hanken
Ruth Bossard
Richard Krein
June Smith
Susan Paulsen
Everette Tobiason
Tom Yeoman
Steve Maurice
Dick White
Sue Helgens
Lucinda Shelley
Susan Bone
Jan Goettsch
Mike Jacobs
Lani Morf
John Savage
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Mystery Farm
the Express
Gene E. Taylor
China
Rambler March Sales
Rambler
Rambler Excellence
America
McLaughlin Motorco
NFO
Gene Taylor
B. A. Smith
Howard Smith
Muscatine
Freeman Smith Sr
Smiths
Freeman Smith Jr
C. C. Bacon
Maurice Thompson
Howard
Kitty Myers
Lone Pine
Min Dufoe
Ben
Gordon Keith
Everett Beitz
Galen Beitz
Paul Green
Joe Pederson
George Coberly
Walker
Bob Hunt
C. B. Verrimont
Gary
Lloyd Oswald
Lyle Flannagan
Donna
Barbara Casteel
Patty Kelly
Bill Blanchard
Dennis
Clarke Thompson
Clarence Bacon
Grace Blount
Graden
Bill Schort
Diane and
Duane
Janesville
Wis
Blounts
Schotts
Wilfred Kenny
Robert Nelson
Farmersburg
Martin Green
Garnaville
Harold Nelson
Max Nelson
Chris Strief
James Kane
LeRoy Beau
Dubuque
Striefs
Peter Strief
Farley
Archie Miles
Franc Flannagan
Frank West
Jimmy
Roy Dighton
Clark Dighton
Alfred Lahey
B. B. Peck
Milwaukee
Peck
Bernard Thompson
Charlotte Beitz
Suzanne
Gary Mardoff
Maynard
Mick
Gary Wilson
Lester Kehoe
Des Moines
Ivan Wilson
Jack Larson
Walter Westhoff
Pat
Clyde Thompson
Roger Wilson
Diane
John Wilson
Dean Carr
Gayle
Gene Moulton
Ray Saunders
Lyle Saunders
County Extension Service
DAVCO
Plant Pioneer
Junior High Music Ratings
Wirechrane
Maquoreta Valley
Ana
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