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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1956
Page
19
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture reports that the 1956 apple yield will be well below expectations after freezing on May 8 17 and 25. Red cherries suffered further frost damage and sweet cherry production is projected at about 700 tons, far below last year.
Waterbury Vermont reports 1955 maple sugar production at 43 000 pounds a new low signaling ongoing decline in output across the region.
Oslo reports the Skibladner steamboat on Lake Mjoesa in Norway marks its 100th birthday. The vessel claims 1.6 million passengers since 1856 and uses dog bark navigation, once nearly causing a shoreline mishap when a dog visited a farm. The White Swan of Mjoesa offers salmon and strawberries but Captain Haugland prefers ashore meals.
Hugh E. Sturdy age 20 and a New Castle native now based in Rochester N Y serves as advance agent for the Hiram College Show boat Majestic docking in Rochester Pennsylvania on July 28. A Hiram sophomore majoring in speech and 1954 New Castle High School graduate, Sturdy helps promote the riverine showboat traveling up the Ohio each summer as the nation’s last remaining showboat.
The article states that farms in the United States currently generate about one seventeenth of the total national product income, highlighting agriculture's contribution to the economy.
Ohio State University radio astronomer Dr. John D. Kraus reports receiving Class II radio signals that resemble terrestrial telegraph transmissions and seem to originate from Venus when the planet sits in the telescope beam. He discounts Earth reflection and notes the signals vary in number and strength, making terrestrial sources unlikely.
Oklahoma City population fell about 2.7 percent between the 1950 census and July 1 1954. The decline reflects shifts in urban growth patterns during the period.
New Castle group outlines its yearly picnic on Thursday June 28 at 6 p.m. at the McDowell farm with dinner and an original poetry program. An appreciation meeting is set for July 12 at 8 p.m. at Miss Frances Hayden's home with a concert reading theme and monthly meetings moving from twice a month to monthly.
Maudann Kipp Sturdy, 16, daughter of Mr and Mrs Hugh E Sturdy, former New Castle residents, sailed this morning for Istanbul to spend the summer with an English speaking family learning their customs and ways of life. The Sturdys now live in Rochester New York.
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