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Newspaper
Oelwein Daily Register
Location
Oelwein, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1943
Page
3
The OPA changes rationing, easing long lines and shifting purchases toward substitutes as butter points tighten. Production gains in April contrast with cold Midwest weather and reduced creamery supplies. Dairy industry leaders push to remove butter from meat competition while June Dairy Month highlights patriotism and farm-processor cooperation.
A dairy industry outreach features a husking machine on display at the DeKalb plant. Leaflets and folders will highlight processor and musk distributor challenges and farm-front battles, stressing milk as a vital food. Charles W. Holman chairs the National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation Dairy Month panel with Milton Hult leading the National Dairy Council program committee.
Pioneer seed corn sales surged about 50 percent from 1942 to 1943 in Iowa Minnesota and South Dakota per local rep D T Day. The firm plans expansions including new and enlarged plants at Dysart Durant Reinbeck Algona Clarion and Coon Rapids. The Dysart and Durant sites add processing capacity while Reinbeck adds six drying bins and a 56 by 96 foot tie warehouse. Coon Rapids plant enlargement will handle 6300 acres and bag 250000 bushels this fall. This is the nation’s largest hybrid seed corn plant.
Ardith Hall drives the delivery truck while eight year old Marilyn Jane Hall helps in bottling and capping at Lakeview Dairy run by Mr and Mrs Farl Hall near Pine Lodge. Established by Joseph Hall in 1939, the dairy uses Jersey cattle and a McCormick refrigeration bottler and electric washer. Joseph Hall now serves overseas since May 1942 at a naval base in the Atlantic. Marilyn Jane attends Crewfoot school and vows to become foreman of bottle capping.
Every California community with 30 000 or more residents now has a city recreation department. San Jose the last to report has arranged for a budget to be furnished by city and school departments.
Mr and Mrs Ed Klug and family live on a farm four miles east and one half mile north of Oelwein. The 184 acre farm plus 30 acres rented pasture supports a Holstein herd with 18 milking cows and 22 winter milking, 21 head of heifers, and a chicken flock of 800 mostly White Leghorns with 85 to 90 spotted pigs. They have three boys and two girls at home, eldest employed at DeKalb Agricultural plant. They report good crops this year including 60 acres of corn 41 of hay and 38 of oats in an effort to step up production.
Observers reported irregular earth movement seeming to show a 36 second delay during a 1940 Mercury transit as the sun’s face was studied. The finding stems from transit observations and suggests unusual planetary motion behavior.
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